Brittany Hainzinger

Ultra Engine 0.9.3 is here, with usability improvements, bug fixes, and new AI-powered features to make game development easier. You can get a discount now in the Ultra Engine store or on Steam all week.

Anima announced AI Code Personalization which leverages generative AI in their code-generation engine. This feature empowers developers to automatically customize the code they produce so it resembles their coding style, significantly saving editing time. Anima’s code personalization is now available in the Anima Figma Plugin and in Figma’s Dev Mode.

DISCOVER-US, is a 30-month project set to initiate a new era in EU-US edge AI research around the computing continuum, distributed computing, and swarm intelligence, and promote research contributions that improve human understanding and control of the complex applications running on the continuum.

At AppWorld, we are introducing and opening "early access" for NGINX One: a global SaaS offering for deploying, securing, monitoring, scaling, and managing all NGINX instances (whether they are on-prem, in the cloud, or at the edge), and all from a single management interface. It supports all our data plane components - NGINX Plus, NGINX Open Source, NGINX Unit, NGINX Gateway Fabric, and Kubernetes Ingress Controller - under a single enterprise license.

SXSW 2024 will take place March 8-16 in Austin, and the keynotes and featured speakers have been revealed, including WNBA Legend Sue Bird, Jessica Robertson from TOGETHXR, AI expert Dr. Joy Buolamwini, Gaspard Auge, Julie Bowen, Candice DeLong, Mark Duplass, Jeronimo Folgueira and many others. South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference and Festivals has announced the addition of new Keynotes and a fifth round of Featured Speakers for the 38th edition of its annual Conference, which celebrates the convergence of technology, film, television, and music. SXSW takes place March 8-16, 2024 in Austin, Texas. The Keynotes announced include five-time Olympic gold medalist, four-time FIBA Basketball World Cup gold medalist, four-time WNBA champion, two-time NCAA champion,13-time WNBA All-Star, co-founder of A Touch More, and co-founder of TOGETHXR Sue Bird, co-founder and Chief Content Officer of TOGETHXR Jessica Robertson, and author of national bestseller Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines and founder of the Algorithmic Justice League Dr. Joy Buolamwini.

A recent survey from Media, revealed that 70 percent of social media users fear that misinformation will impact the 2024 election, with a slim majority (51%) favoring increased regulation and 62% calling for legal action for social platforms that allow misinformation to spread.

According to Stocklytics, Gemini AI's App debut month saw 633k installs, 1 million behind ChatGPT.

Apple Inc. is strategically advancing its position in the artificial intelligence (AI) domain, signifying a pivotal shift in the company's approach to integrating AI into its core operations and product ecosystem. The recent innovations and acquisitions underscore the Cupertino-based tech giant’s focus on bringing AI to its offerings while prioritizing user privacy and ethical AI, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

DLC.Link has launched its key offering, dlcBTC. The dlcBTC token is a safer wrapped Bitcoin alternative, utilizing Discreet Log Contracts (DLC), a Bitcoin scaling technology enabled in Bitcoin’s Taproot upgrade two years ago. dlcBTC represents a significant advancement in decentralized finance (DeFi), allowing users to seamlessly utilize Bitcoin across the Ethereum ecosystem while retaining full ownership of their assets.

OpenSSF and the OpenJS Foundation are alerting open source project maintainers of social engineering takeover attacks, following new attack attempts they’ve witnessed similar to the XZ Utils incident.