Open source foundations unite on common standards for EU’s Cybersecurity Resilience Act

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Seven open source foundations are coming together to create common specifications and standards for Europe’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), regulation adopted by the European Parliament last month. The Apache Software Foundation, Blender Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, OpenSSL Software Foundation, PHP Foundation, Python Software Foundation, and Rust Foundation  revealed their intentions to pool their collective resources and join … Read more

Y Combinator’s Garry Tan chastises a San Francisco lawmaker again — this time about an email bill

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Y Combinator president Garry Tan took to the social platform X Tuesday to again express his displeasure at elected officials representing San Francisco, where the storied accelerator is based. This time, he was lambasting California state assembly member Matt Haney over a proposed late-night email bill he authored. Haney represents San Francisco in California’s State … Read more

AWS unveils new service for cloud-based rendering projects

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In an announcement timed for the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, which kicks off later this month, Amazon today announced Deadline Cloud, a new service that lets customers set up, deploy and scale up graphics and visual effects rendering pipelines on AWS cloud infrastructure. Using Deadline Cloud, customers in media and entertainment … Read more

Spotify brings its free audiobooks perk for Premium users to Canada, Ireland and New Zealand

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Spotify announced on Tuesday that it’s bringing its free audiobooks perk to Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand. Users in these markets will be able to access 15 hours of free monthly audiobook listening time. Spotify also announced that it’s expanding its audiobooks catalog from 200,000 to 250,000 titles. The perk is already available in the … Read more

Women in AI: Kristine Gloria of the Aspen Institute tells women to enter the field and ‘follow your curiosity’

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To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Read more profiles here. … Read more