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Richard Lawler

Richard Lawler

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    CDK Global is starting to recover from the cyberattacks causing outages at car dealerships.

    Systems that support sales, service, and inventory for more than 15,000 dealerships have been shut off since June 19th in the wake of two separate cyberattacks.

    After some dealers resorted to pen and paper to keep going amid reported negotiations between CDK and the BlackSuit ransomware group, Reuters reports restoration work has begun but that it may take “several days.”

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    Richard Lawler
    Nvidia is the world’s most valuable company at the moment.

    Riding a valuation pumped up by generative AI and its chips that power many of the tools, Nvidia’s market cap has passed not only Apple but now Microsoft, too, at more than $3.3 trillion, as reported by Bloomberg.

    The markets are still open, but the rise has been fast — Nvidia shares are up 160 percent in 2024, passing $2 trillion in February.

    Graph showing the market cap of Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia since 2019.
    Image: Bloomberg
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    Richard Lawler
    Netflix’s next sports docuseries goes inside the helmet of wide receivers.

    What will we find there? NBC Sports writer Denny Carter might have the best guess, from this 2017 tweet:

    Typical QB tweet: love my teammates god is good!

    RB tweet: keep grindin

    TE tweet: derp

    WR tweet: the enemy speaks kindly & holds a knife

    Following last year’s Quarterback series, Receiver premieres on Netflix on July 10th.

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    Richard Lawler
    Netflix’s gaming boss is moving to another role at Netflix in gaming.

    About three years after becoming VP of Netflix Games, Mike Verdu gave this statement to GamesIndustry.biz:

    I am so proud of what we’ve accomplished, and excited to start a new team at Netflix on the cutting edge of game innovation.

    He will apparently stay on as VP until a replacement is found and then work on “new technologies” (maybe something in the cloud?) in game development.

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    Richard Lawler
    Using AI to find elephant “names.”

    Research published in Nature today used machine learning to try to find “a name-like component” in the rumbles of elephants. The AI model identified which elephant was being addressed 27.5 percent of the time, and they could use those calls to get a reaction from that elephant.

    “Our finding that elephants are not simply mimicking the sound associated with the individual they are calling was the most intriguing,” Fristrup said. “The capacity to utilize arbitrary sonic labels for other individuals suggests that other kinds of labels or descriptors may exist in elephant calls.”

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    Richard Lawler
    All of Apple’s big AI news from WWDC 2024.

    Siri meets generative AI, genmoji, image generation, and some big upgrades for Apple Photos. If you just want the Cliff’s Notes on Apple’s artificial intelligence plans, we’ve got you covered.