How a network of repair ships helps maintain the estimated 800,000 miles of undersea internet cables; of the 77 cable ships, only 22 are designated for repair
Field's crew caught the cable on the first try and nearly had it aboard when the rope snapped and slipped back into the sea.
Mandiant links hacktivist group Cyber Army of Russia, which claimed to target utilities in France, the US, and Poland, to Russia-linked hacking group Sandworm
Cyber Army of Russia Reborn, a group with ties to the Kremlin's Sandworm unit, is crossing lines even that notorious cyberwarfare unit wouldn't dare to.
Filing: Take-Two plans to lay off 5% of its workforce, expecting to incur up to $200M in charges as part of the downsizing, including $140M from canceled titles
The company sees expenses of up to $200 million as part of the effort, including as much as $140 million from canceled projects …
Current and former T-Mobile and Verizon employees say they are receiving texts offering up to $300 to perform a SIM swap; T-Mobile says it is investigating
Criminals are now texting T-Mobile and Verizon employees on their personal and work phones, trying to tempt them with cash to perform SIM swaps.
ASML reports Q1 net sales down 21.6% YoY to €5.29B, vs. €5.39B est., net income down 37.4% YoY to €1.22B, vs. €1.07B est., and net bookings down 4% YoY to €3.6B
A logo on the exterior of the ASML Holding NV headquarters in Veldhoven, Netherlands, on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024.
US Senators Cynthia Lummis and Kirsten Gillibrand propose a bill to regulate stablecoins; House and Senate lawmakers are pushing to pass a bill as soon as May
- Lummis, Gillibrand say their measure would protect consumers — Brown wants combo with marijuana banking, executive clawbacks
Activision drops team entry fees for its professional Call of Duty League, and will return prior collected fees, as the esports industry faces profit challenges
The teams, including ones owned by sports-business billionaires Robert Kraft and Stan Kroenke, will no longer be required to pay …
ASML reports China represented 49% of its system sales in Q1, while sales from Taiwan more than halved QoQ and the US dropped five percentage points QoQ to 6%
Bloomberg :
Stability AI makes Stable Diffusion 3 available to developers via an API and a new Stable Assistant Beta content creation platform; the models remain in preview
The next generation of the text-to-image AI model Stable Diffusion is still in preview, but Stability AI is making it available …
A look at Spy Pet, a Discord scraping service that claims to get data from 14K+ servers and 600M users, available for ~$5 in crypto; Discord is investigating
An online service is scraping Discord servers en masse, archiving and tracking users' messages and activity across servers including …
Snap plans to add watermarks to AI-generated images exported from Snapchat; the watermarks appear as a translucent version of the Snap logo with a sparkle emoji
Social media company Snap said Tuesday that it plans to add watermarks to AI-generated images on its platform.
How video games with immersive storylines and powerful, emotive writing offer some of the most thrilling fiction out there, overtaking books for some readers
With immersive storylines and powerful, emotive writing, some of the most thrilling fiction out there is being created in game form X: @hiyalauren , @madquills , and @imogenwk X: Lauren O'Neill / @hiy...
How Amazon developed Just Walk Out since the early 2010s, driven by Jeff Bezos, as the company removes the tech from stores while expanding third-party sales
The company is cutting back on the “Just Walk Out” tech in its own grocery locations. … The company outfitted it with technology that …
CIRP: Amazon Prime hit a new high of 180M US shoppers in March 2024, up 8% YoY, despite greater online competition; 75% of US shoppers have a Prime membership
Amazon.com Inc.'s Prime subscription service hit a new high of 180 million US shoppers in March, an increase of 8% from a year earlier …
Canada plans to introduce a digital services tax on large tech companies, which could raise CA$5.9B over five years starting in FY 2024-2025
Canada will press ahead with introduction of a digital services tax on large technology companies, which would raise C$5.9 billion ($4.3 billion) …
YouTube strengthens its “enforcement on third-party apps” violating its ToS, “specifically ad-blocking apps”, leading to error messages and “buffering issues”
this time blocking third-party apps Vallari Sanzgiri / MediaNama : Buffering Ahead: YouTube to Limit Video Access via Ad-Blocking Apps Codrut Nistor / Notebookcheck : Google renews its assault on YouT...
The US Senate is set to vote on RISAA, which reauthorizes FISA's Section 702 and could force new types of businesses to eavesdrop on Americans without a warrant
Critics on Capitol Hill are calling it the “Stasi provision” … X: @savingprivacy : 1/ 🚨🚨🚨WATCH: Senator @RonWyden's floor speech on a terrifying provision in the FISA Section 702 bill (RISAA) that wil...
The UK proposes legislation to outlaw creating sexually explicit deepfake photos without consent, regardless of whether creators intended to share the images
How GitHub Copilot became responsible for a significant percentage of coding, despite its limitations; Stack Overflow: 54.8% of developers used Copilot in 2023
The assistant is saving engineers hundreds of hours a month and is helping GitHub retain its edge over rivals including Amazon and Google.
Source: Mistral is talking to investors about raising a few hundred million dollars at a $5B valuation, after raising $415M at a $2B valuation in December 2023
Mistral, a Paris-based startup developing artificial intelligence that is open source, has been speaking to investors …
Emails: SpaceX cracks down on users who are connecting to its Starlink internet service from unauthorized countries, including Sudan, South Africa, and Zimbabwe
Elon Musk's SpaceX has begun a crackdown on users who are connecting to its Starlink high-speed internet service from countries …
Microsoft invests $1.5B in Abu Dhabi-based AI startup G42 for a minority stake, after G42 severed ties with Chinese suppliers; Brad Smith will join G42's board
The Emirati AI Giant That Just Got A $1.5 Billion Investment From Microsoft Chris McKay / Maginative : Microsoft Invests $1.5 Billion in UAE's G42 Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : Microsoft invests $1...
Bellwether, a new group inside Alphabet's X innovation lab, plans to offer AI tools to the US National Guard to analyze images of disaster areas in summer 2024
The National Guard will soon use the tech giant's image-recognition AI to scan images of disaster zones and help prioritize its response
The Linux Foundation launches the Open Platform for Enterprise AI, to foster the development of open, multi-provider, and composable generative AI systems
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How Humane's attempt to build its Ai Pin “The Apple Way” led to disastrous results, after taking six years to build it and raising $230M
The new A.I. Pin from Humane is, according to those who have used one, bad. Martin Peers / The Information : Goldman Sachs Sees Gold Mine in Financing AI John Gruber / Daring Fireball : ‘MKBHDs for Ev...
UnitedHealth says the February ransomware attack on Change Healthcare cost the company $872M in Q1; another ransomware group appears to be extorting the company
https://www.constellationr.com/ ... Dan Hon / @danhon@dan.mastohon.com : Excited to see a new $100/mo surcharge on US healthcare insurance premiums next year to cover cybersecurity! — https://mastod...
Foxconn Chair Young Liu says the company implemented a rotating CEO system this month, aiming to nurture successors, choosing a leader from its six businesses
Yimou Lee / Reuters :
Andreessen Horowitz raised $7.2B, including $600M for American Dynamism, $3.75B for late-stage startups, and $600M for gaming, exceeding its target by ~4%
I am pleased to announce that we have just raised $7.2B … TechCrunch : Andreessen Horowitz's $7.2B new funds for a ‘new era’ Giuseppe Ciccomascolo / CCN.com : AI Investment from Andreessen Horowitz to...
Amazon confirms that HQ2 in Arlington lost 200 jobs in 2023, missing Amazon's goal of adding 2,500 jobs; HQ2 has ~8,000 employees and plans to reach ~25,000
Apple debuts iOS app web distribution to EU users, letting qualifying developers who opt in to its Core Technology Fee offer direct downloads via their sites
Sensor Tower: Naval Ravikant and Brian Norgard's invitation-only audio social network app Airchat has been downloaded 30K+ times since relaunching five days ago
Released quietly late last week, Airchat didn't stay under wraps long, thanks in large part to founder Naval Ravikant's influence. …
Herlev, Denmark-based Flatpay, which offers payment services to retail shops, restaurants, salons, and more, raised a €45 Series B led by Dawn Capital
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The Open Source Security Foundation and the OpenJS Foundation say the attempt to insert a secret backdoor into XZ Utils “may not be an isolated incident”
Tel Aviv-based Cynomi, which offers an AI-powered virtual CISO service for managed service providers, raised a $20M Series A led by Canaan
Cloudflare says its network saw DNS-based DDoS attacks increase by 80% YoY in Q1 2024, with attacks on Sweden surging by 466% after its acceptance into NATO
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IAB and PwC report on US digital ad sales in 2023: total revenue grew 7.3% YoY to $225B, digital video grew 10.6% to $52.1B, and digital audio grew 18.9% to $7B
Hana Yoo / AdExchanger :
Kontakt.io, whose software and Bluetooth devices help hospital managers make decisions about patients, beds, and equipment, raised $47.5M from Goldman Sachs
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg :
Sources: HR tech startup Rippling plans to close a Series F at a valuation as high as $13.4B, after a $200M injection plus $670M in shares sold by stockholders
TechCrunch :
Loft Labs, which helps businesses spin up virtual Kubernetes clusters, raised a $24M Series A and says its open source project vCluster has had 40M downloads
I am so incredibly excited to share this news with my network … Dan Miller : 🎉 Big News! 🚀 Loft Labs has just closed a $24M Series A funding round from Khosla Ventures! …
Resecurity: malicious cyber activities targeting the Philippines, like cyberattacks and misinformation campaigns, grew 300%+ YoY in Q1, as China tensions rise
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