Pinterest updates visual search with more AI-powered features

Pinterest updates visual search with more AI-powered features

Pinterest is upgrading its visual search feature with a handful of new capabilities. On Monday, the company announced it’s rolling out new functionality to improve its feature that allows users to search using an image instead of text. This includes new tools to more precisely narrow and refine searches, as well as those that make … Read more

This Windows 11-like Linux distribution is aimed squarely at developers

This Windows 11-like Linux distribution is aimed squarely at developers

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET If you’re looking for a Linux distribution to wean you from Windows, there are a lot of options. Even distributions that don’t look and feel like Windows 10 or 11 can be tweaked to resemble Microsoft’s OS. And then there are some Linux distributions that resemble Windows … Read more

Security Researchers Warn a Widely Used Open Source Tool Poses a ‘Persistent’ Risk to the US

Security Researchers Warn a Widely Used Open Source Tool Poses a ‘Persistent’ Risk to the US

“Nation states take on a strategic positioning,” says George Barnes, a former deputy director at the National Security Agency, who spent 36 years at the NSA and now acts as a senior advisor and investor in Hunted Labs. Barnes says that hackers within Russia’s intelligence agencies could see easyjson as a potential opportunity for abuse … Read more

Anysphere, which makes Cursor, has reportedly raised $900M at $9B valuation

Anysphere, which makes Cursor, has reportedly raised 0M at B valuation

Anysphere, the maker of AI-powered coding tool Cursor, has attracted $900 million in a fresh round of funding led by Thrive Capital, The Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources familiar with the deal. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Accel are also participating in the round, which values Anysphere at about $9 billion, the report said. Cursor … Read more