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After a year of frenzied trading and rumors of an upcoming IPO, financial scrutiny of OpenAI has intensified. Leaked documents obtained by technology blogger Ed Zitron shed more light on OpenAI’s financials, specifically its revenue and computing costs over the past few years. Zitron reported this week that Microsoft will receive $493.8 million in revenue sharing from OpenAI in 2024. In the first three quarters of 2025, that number jumped to $865.8 million, according to documents he reviewed. OpenAI is reportedly sharing 20% of its revenue with Microsoft as part of a previous deal in which the software giant invested…
Tesla has released its most detailed study yet on the performance and relative safety of its advanced driver assistance software, just weeks after Waymo co-CEO Tekdra Mawakana called on companies to release more data at TechCrunch Disrupt. In a new section of its website, Tesla claims that in North America, owners using the company’s fully self-driving (supervised) software drive about 5 million miles before a major crash and about 1.5 million miles before a minor crash. This is a much lower rate than the national average based on statistics provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). According to…
Let’s be honest: Most tech wearables are bulky and not exactly beautiful. But when you wear something on a regular basis, you probably want it to look good and even match your other jewelry. That’s the idea behind Oura’s latest smart ring, Oura Ring 4 Ceramic. Ring 4 Ceramic is Oura’s first collection of smart rings without a metal finish. Instead, it’s made from a more wear-resistant zirconia ceramic, which Oura says provides both style and comfort. I’ve been testing the Oura Ring 4 Ceramic over the past three weeks. My impressions are shown below. But before we get into…
November 14, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/Threat Intelligence The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have once again tweaked their tactics by using JSON storage services to stage their malicious payloads. NVISO researchers Bart Parys, Stef Collart, and Efstratios Lontzetidis said in a Thursday report that “attackers have recently been using JSON storage services such as JSON Keeper, JSONsilo, and npoint.io to host and distribute malware from trojanized code projects.” The campaign essentially approaches potential targets on professional networking sites such as LinkedIn under the pretext of conducting a job evaluation or collaborating on a project, and as part of…
A New Jersey man has died in the first recorded death from alpha-gal syndrome, a meat allergy caused by tick bites.In September 2024, a 47-year-old man collapsed and lost consciousness about four hours after eating a hamburger at a barbecue, doctors wrote in a case report. Despite attempts by the man’s son and paramedics to resuscitate him, he was pronounced dead later that night after being taken to hospital.The authors of the case report, who published details of the case in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in Practice on Thursday (Nov. 13), write that it is important to…
According to OpenAI, ChatGPT will remove all dashes when directed to do so. These signs, which appear to signal text written by AI, have popped up everywhere in recent months, including school newspapers, emails, comments, customer service chats, LinkedIn posts, online forums, and ad copy. The inclusion of the em dash led people to criticize these writers for being lazy and relying on AI chatbots to do their work. Of course, there are many people who argue for the em dash, saying it was part of the sentence long before LLM adopted the punctuation mark. But the fact that chatbots…
An astrophotographer has captured a stunning shot of a falling skydiver matching perfectly with the sun’s fiery surface. A flying adventurer appears to be rolling through the vacuum of space in front of our home planet.Andrew McCarthy, an Arizona-based astrophotographer who specializes in photographing the sun, snapped the unlikely photo around 9 a.m. MST (11 a.m. ET) on Saturday (November 8). The photo, dubbed “The Fall of Icarus,” required an “absolutely ridiculous” level of planning and “may be the first of its kind in existence,” McCarthy wrote in a post on social platform X.The skydiver in the image is YouTuber…
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that five North Koreans have pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting fraud from U.S. companies by posing as remote IT employees. The five are suspected of working as “middlemen” who helped North Koreans find jobs by providing their real identities or the false and stolen identities of more than a dozen Americans. The intermediaries also placed company-issued laptops in homes across the United States to make it appear that the North Korean workers lived locally, according to a Justice Department press release. These measures affected 136 U.S. companies and generated $2.2 million…
Scientists have successfully sequenced the RNA of a woolly mammoth for the first time, dispelling the assumption that this fragile genetic molecule cannot survive from time immemorial.RNA, or ribonucleic acid, acts as a messenger that carries instructions between DNA and an organism’s protein-building machinery, converting genetic information into proteins. RNA can reveal which genes are active in a cell at a given moment and how patterns of gene activity within a cell change over time. Therefore, ancient RNA can tell scientists about the state of cells in extinct species.Although the technology behind ancient DNA research has advanced rapidly over the…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting major artificial intelligence (AI) inference engines, including Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and open source PyTorch projects such as vLLM and SGLang. “These vulnerabilities all trace back to the same root cause: the overlooked and dangerous use of ZeroMQ (ZMQ) and Python’s pickle deserialization,” Oligo Security researcher Avi Lumelsky said in a report published Thursday. The core of this problem stems from a pattern called ShadowMQ. This pattern propagates unsafe deserialization logic across multiple projects as a result of code reuse. The root cause is a vulnerability in Meta’s Llama Large…