Meta is the latest tech company to warm to geothermal energy, announcing on Thursday a deal with startup XGS Energy to develop a 150 megawatt geothermal power plant in New Mexico. XGS Energy has yet to say where it’ll be building the power plant, and Meta wouldn’t disclose specifics about the deal other than to say it’s not yet a contract to purchase power, but rather an agreement “to advance geothermal energy development” in the state, a Meta spokesperson told TechCrunch. Recently, tech companies, data ce ...

特斯拉起诉前工程师涉嫌窃取商业机密 - 特斯拉起诉前工程师Zhongjie "Jay" Li涉嫌从其人形机器人项目Optimus窃取商业机密，并用于创办竞争对手初创公司Proception [1] - 诉讼指控Li盗取了关于"先进机器人手传感器"的机密信息，用于创办Y Combinator支持的机器人手制造公司Proception [1] - Li在2022年8月至2024年9月任职特斯拉期间，使用两部个人手机下载Optimus机密信息 [2] 涉嫌侵权行为细节 - Li在特斯拉工作期间，使用工作电脑研究"人形机器人手"并搜索风险投资和其他创业资金来源相关信息 [2] - Li离职后不到一周即注册成立Proception公司，五个月内就宣称成功建造了与特斯拉设计极为相似的先进人形机器人手 [3] - Proception公司网站宣称其目标是"通过建造世界最先进的人形机器人手来革新人机交互" [3] Optimus机器人项目进展 - 特斯拉自2021年宣布建造人形机器人Tesla Bot以来，Optimus项目进展坎坷 [6] - 2022年公司曾表示该机器人将于2023年推出，但一直处于开发阶段 [6] - 2024年7月马斯克宣布将于2026年开始销售该机器人 [7] - 2024年10月特斯拉"We, Robot"活动上展示的Optimus机器人主要由场外人员远程控制 [7]

新功能发布 - 公司推出"Timeline Editor"功能 允许用户在平台上直接按时间线编辑视频 包括剪辑 移动片段 添加镜头和音乐等 减少对第三方编辑工具的依赖 [1][2] - 新增"Create a Video"模板功能 用户可选择记忆片段 配乐和模板自动生成定制视频 该功能已在iOS平台全球上线 [1][3] - 推出公开故事自动保存至个人资料功能 帮助创作者建立持久内容合集 但弱化了故事原本的短暂性特点 [1][5] 数据分析工具升级 - 为创作者提供更详细的内容表现数据 包括过去28天内观看超过12天的回头观众数量 [6][7] - 展示过去28天最受欢迎的Spotlight帖子和公开故事 以及所有内容的总观看时长 [7] - 新增流量来源分析功能 显示来自发现页 关注列表 搜索等不同渠道的观看量 [8] - 提供Spotlight帖子的平均观看时长和完整观看比例数据 [8]

苹果安全漏洞事件 - 研究人员发现两名欧洲记者的iPhone被Paragon制造的间谍软件入侵 苹果已修复相关漏洞 [1] - 漏洞利用方式为通过iCloud链接分享的恶意照片或视频 攻击针对特定目标个体 [3] - 该漏洞在iOS 18.3.1更新中已修复 但苹果延迟4个月才披露此漏洞 [5] 漏洞修复细节 - 2月10日发布的iOS更新最初仅提及一个无关漏洞 后更新公告加入该漏洞详情 [2] - 漏洞涉及逻辑问题 可绕过iPhone安全机制 [2][3] - 苹果未解释为何延迟披露已修复漏洞 [5] Paragon间谍软件事件 - Paragon间谍软件名为Graphite 1月曾通过WhatsApp攻击约90名用户 [5] - 4月底苹果向100个国家的用户发送间谍软件攻击警报 [7] - 确认两名收到警报的记者遭Paragon软件入侵 [6] 受影响群体 - 确认受害者包括意大利记者Ciro Pellegrino和另一名欧洲知名记者 [3][6] - 尚不清楚所有收到苹果警报的用户是否都遭Graphite攻击 [7]

Snapchat on Wednesday announced the launch of a new Snapchat+ tier called “Lens+.” The new tier costs $8.99 per month and, as its name suggests, is centered around giving users access to exclusive Lenses and AR experiences.In addition to giving users access to the perks unlocked with the standard $3.99 per month Snapchat+ tier, Lens+ gives users the ability to use hundreds of Lenses that let you “play, create, and share Snaps” with others, the company says. “We’re starting with Lenses built by Snapchat an ...

In Brief Disney and Universal have sued generative AI platform Midjourney for allegedly training its art-generating and -editing models on their content with permission. Disney and Universal filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming that Midjourney ignored their earlier requests to cease violating their intellectual property rights, according to The Wall Street Journal. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, includes dozens of examples of images generated by Midjourney t ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said his company will start offering public rides in driverless vehicles in Austin, Texas on June 22, which would mark the beginning of his long-promised robotaxi service. That date could shift because Musk claimed Tesla is “being super paranoid about safety.” Tesla Model Y SUVs have been spotted in recent days and weeks being tested around Austin with no drivers in the seat. Bloomberg News previously reported that Tesla was eyeing a June 12 launch of the service. Musk has spent years ...

Meta’s head of public policy in India, Shivnath Thukral, is leaving the social networking company, nearly three and a half years after joining, and just months after his counterpart at Google stepped down.Thukral spent over seven and a half years at Meta and took over as public policy lead for the South Asian market — the company’s largest user base — in November 2022, after his predecessor Rajiv Aggarwal left. “Having helped build some of the systems and processes, I do feel it is a good time to let the e ...

YouTube released a report on Tuesday that shows just how influential the creator economy has become.YouTube says that its creative ecosystem contributed over $55 billion to the US GDP and supported more than 490,000 full-time jobs, according to research by Oxford Economics. When YouTube talks about its creative ecosystem, it’s not just talking about creators. This includes anyone who works with YouTube creators (video editors, assistants, publicists), as well as people who work for creator-oriented compani ...

At the end of the WWDC 2025 keynote address on Monday, the company literally sang its praises to app developers, as singer-songwriter Allen Stone humorously turned customers’ positive App Store reviews into song lyrics for a tune titled “6 out of 5 stars.”“Best app I’ve ever set my sorry eyes upon,” he crooned. “This is not an app. It’s a piece of art.” Image Credits:Apple (screenshot)What Apple didn’t mention, however, was anything related to the tumultuous past few years for its developer community, or mo ...