Victoria’s Secret Website Is Still Down After Massive ‘Security Incident’ — Here’s What We Know
The retailer’s website is completely dark (well, more like a shade of pink) with online operations in the U.S. shuttered.
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Your AI Assistant is Now a Salesperson — Why Conversational Commerce is the Future of Shopping
Voice and chat technologies driven by AI are revolutionizing the shopping experience, making it more seamless and personalized.
YouTube will soon let viewers use Google Lens to search what they see while watching Shorts
YouTube announced on Thursday that it’s bringing Google Lens to YouTube Shorts in the coming weeks. With this integration, viewers will soon be able to use Google Lens to search what they see while watching Shorts. For example, if you’re watching a Short filmed in a location that you’re interested in visiting, you can select […]
DeepSeek’s distilled new R1 AI model can run on a single GPU
DeepSeek’s updated R1 reasoning AI model might be getting the bulk of the AI community’s attention this week. But the Chinese AI lab also released a smaller, “distilled” version of its new R1, DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B, that DeepSeek claims beats comparably-sized models on certain benchmarks. The smaller updated R1, which was built using the Qwen3-8B model Alibaba […]
US government sanctions tech company involved in cyber scams
The Treasury said FUNNULL was involved in providing infrastructure for pig butchering crypto scams.
Is This the Most Important Skill Modern Entrepreneurs Need to Master?
AI can teach you how to connect with the world.
‘Original White Collar Displacements’: Mark Cuban Compares AI Taking Jobs to When There Was ‘2 [Million] Secretaries’
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban says AI might take your job, but it will lead to more “total” employment.
Everyone’s Burned Out, So ‘Burnout’ Means Nothing — Here’s How Leaders Can Support Wellness Outside the Office
As the word “burnout” loses meaning through overuse, leaders must shift their focus from in-office fixes to creating a culture of wellness outside the workplace.
Apple Is Making a Major Change to Its Operating Systems Across All Products. Here’s What We Know.
Apple is following the examples of Samsung and Microsoft with a new naming strategy.
Tesla pleads for Senate to spare its booming energy business
If the Senate were to pass it with those repeals in tact, it could have a devastating impact on Tesla’s energy division.