Still, Yahoo has more AI plans in the works, including for its Yahoo News property on the web.
However, while the Yahoo News app is taking learnings from Artifact when it comes to offering AI features, the AI summaries feature found on its Yahoo News is not related to its acquisition of the well-liked AI news app that had been created by Instagram’s founders, but had shut down after failing to reach a wider audience.
That would explain why most visitors to the Yahoo News website would not have likely encountered these AI summaries as of yet.
The code doesn’t reveal much about the underlying technology Yahoo is using for the AI summaries, only how they would appear to site visitors — in a lightbox, a type of web component used for displaying content.
Combined with the Artifact-inspired revamp of Yahoo News and the AI features that arrived on Yahoo Mail, it’s clear that Yahoo is betting on AI to give its older web products and services a push.
A bug in an Irish government website that exposed COVID-19 vaccination records took two years to publicly discloseThe Irish government fixed a vulnerability two years ago in its national COVID-19 vaccination portal that exposed the vaccination records of around a million residents.
But details of the vulnerability weren’t revealed until this week after attempts to coordinate public disclosure with the government agency stalled and ended.
Security researcher Aaron Costello said he discovered the vulnerability in the COVID-19 vaccination portal run by the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) in December 2021, a year after mass vaccinations against COVID-19 began in Ireland.
Costello’s public disclosure marks more than two years since first reporting the vulnerability.
His blog post included a multi-year timeline revealing a back and forth between various government departments that were unwilling to take claim to public disclosure.
MyHeritage announced today that it’s launching OldNews.com, a new website that offers access to thousands of historical newspapers, mainly from the 1800s and 1900s.
The website allows genealogists, educators, researchers, and history enthusiasts to search for articles about people and events throughout history.
At launch, the website includes newspapers from publications across the U.S., Canada, U.K., Austria, the Netherlands, and Australia.
“Historical newspapers contain a wealth of information and provide an unparalleled level of detail about the past,” said MyHeritage CEO and founder Gilad Japhet in a press release.
“We are launching OldNews.com to serve as our focal point for historical newspapers, with a robust content offering.
Generative AI has done an impressive job in improving productivity in a wide range of areas, including website building.
10web, a company based out of Armenia, is entering the race and believes it has an edge.
10web allows users to quickly generate websites built with WordPress, the widely-used content management system that is notoriously hard to use for beginners, using text prompts.
WordPress still powers around 40% of all the websites on the internet, thanks to its customization options, according to estimates by w3techs.
“We have AI talent, which is probably four times cheaper in Armenia than in the U.S. And here, we can access the best AI talent possible,” the founder suggested.
An Indian state government has fixed security issues impacting its website that exposed the sensitive documents and personal information of millions of residents.
The bugs existed on the Rajasthan government website related to Jan Aadhaar, a state program to provide a single identifier to families and individuals in the state to access welfare schemes.
One of the bugs allowed anyone to access personal documents and information with knowledge of a registrant’s phone number.
The state’s Jan Aadhaar portal, which launched in 2019, says it has more than 78 million individual registrants and 20 million families.
The portal aims to offer “One Number, One Card, One Identity” to residents in the northern state of Rajasthan for accessing state government welfare schemes.
Beijing has quietly pulled the proposed curbs on the video game industry from the official website, weeks after the draft guidelines wiped tens of billions of dollars off the market value of local titans.
The link to the draft rules was no longer accessible as of this morning, as first reported by Reuters.
The move follows Beijing also removing a key official – the head of the publication bureau of Communist Party’s Propaganda Department – over the handling of the release of the draft rules, which caught investors and gaming giants by surprise.
Local media reported in recent weeks — after the wipeout — that authorities may be open to walking back on some of the proposed rules.
Last month, China’s video game regulator proposed new measures to curb excessive time and money spent on computer and smartphone games.
The ousted founder of bankrupt EV startup Lordstown Motors has launched a new company called LandX Motors, that prominently displays the same electric pickup truck he once promised would beat Tesla, Ford and General Motors to market.
While LandX Motors doesn’t explicitly refer to the trucks as the Endurance, a video on the website shows EV trucks that have the Lordstown badge.
A LandX Motors spokesperson responded to an email, but didn’t provide any further information and declined to answer questions.
He founded Lordstown Motors in 2019 after leaving a different struggling EV startup, Workhorse.
Of the 16 employees who list LandX Motors as their employer on LinkedIn, 13 of them used to work at Lordstown Motors.
Clients using Deco.cx see, on average, a 5x increase in PageSpeed score and a 30% increase in conversion rates, Crespo said.
Deco.cx signed over 65 clients, including Brazilian retail brands Grupo Reserva, Osklen and Zee.Dog.
It also amassed a community of more than 2,400 web developers and 36 system integration partner agencies.
He also wants to grow the company by bringing on additional engineers so Deco.cx can go into new markets, particularly the United States.
“We want to be the first choice for the next 10 million web developers who don’t want to spend our time connecting pipes.”
Here, a fractional short-term vacation rental marketplace, has shut down after just over two years of operation.
In a statement on its website, the company said its goal was to sell all of the properties that it holds within the next six months.
According to the publication ShortTermRentalz, the marketplace gave investors a way to acquire partial ownership of vacation rentals.
Just last week, TechCrunch broke the news that Frontdesk, a short-term rental provider, had laid off its entire staff and was on the verge of shutting down.
Last November, we reported on Zeus Living reportedly shutting down after raising $150 million in debt and equity.
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