Europol says police in Germany, the UK, the US, and others took down botnets spreading ransomware via infected emails, arrested four, and seized 2,000+ domains
Police coordinated by the European Union's justice and police agencies have taken down computer networks responsible …
Ticketmaster appears to have been breached by hacking group ShinyHunters, which claims to have stolen 560M users' data and is trying to sell the data for $500K
Emails, phone numbers, addresses, and even financial details have allegedly been exposed by a notorious hacker group.
Sources: Sam Altman and Satya Nadella recently met to discuss Microsoft's concerns about how OpenAI's deal with Apple might affect Microsoft's product ambitions
When OpenAI's board of directors ousted Sam Altman as CEO last year, it looked like a shocking derailment of a fast-rising career.
The Atlantic and Vox Media sign multiyear licensing and product deals with OpenAI; The Atlantic plans an experimental Atlantic Labs with OpenAI's and other tech
- The Atlantic has been publishing content since 1857. … - Both agreements also allow OpenAI to tap into the respective …
Google confirms the authenticity of the 2,500 pages of leaked Search documents detailing data the company collects, which may be used in its ranking algorithm
A collection of 2,500 leaked internal documents from Google filled with details about data the company collects is authentic, the company confirmed today.
An image showing tents in a camp spelling out “All Eyes on Rafah” hits 44M+ shares on Instagram in <48 hours, likely one of the first viral activist AI images
The image, which appears to be AI-generated, was shared more than 29 million times in less than 24 hours.
A US federal court awards Activision $14.46M+ in its 2022 civil lawsuit accusing EngineOwning of violating the DMCA by selling Call of Duty cheating software
Owned. — A high-profile video game cheat maker has been ordered to pay Activision over $14 million in damages and hand over its domain name.
The US and global partners dismantle the 911 S5 proxy botnet, “likely the world's largest botnet ever”, linked to 19M+ IPs, and arrest its alleged administrator
US government seizes 911 S5 operation and takes it offline Associated Press : International Authorities Arrest Man Allegedly Behind 'Likely the World's Largest Botnet Ever' Xinghui Kok / Reuters : US ...
Mastercard pilots a P2P network for crypto transactions on Bit2Me, Lirium, and Mercado Bitcoin exchanges in 13 European and Latin American countries
- Mastercard is launching a peer-to-peer network for sending and receiving digital assets across borders.
Source: Microsoft pushed OpenAI to prioritize commercial products after the attempted coup against Sam Altman in November 2023, amplifying tensions at OpenAI
Financial Times :
Modular laptop maker Framework unveils a $269 drop-in 120Hz display, improved $39 webcam, and swappable mainboard to add Intel Core Ultra chips to its laptops
I know, I absolutely stuffed this story's headline — but I'm just so excited to see the future of modular computing unfolding before my eyes.
Verizon and satellite provider AST SpaceMobile partner to provide space-based broadband direct to phones; Verizon committed $65M in prepayments and $35m in debt
Satellite-to-phones service provider AST SpaceMobile stock surged after announcing a partnership with Verizon on Wednesday …
Salesforce reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to $9.13B, vs. $9.15B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and earnings below expectations; CRM drops 20%+
Larry Dignan / Constellation Research :
Amazon extends partnership with Grubhub to let US customers order food delivery inside Amazon's app through Grubhub and makes Grubhub+ a permanent Prime perk
- Any Amazon customer can search for “Grubhub” in the product search bar of Amazon's app to order, track and manage their food, like they would through the Grubhub app.
Hands-on with Fire TV's Alexa voice search, rolling out now: powered by a custom LLM to take conversational requests, but the results are largely disappointing
Navigating the sheer volume of streaming content available today can be a full-time job. Recommendations from friends …
A report details how malware bricked 600K+ routers connected to an autonomous system number belonging to a US ISP in October 2023; ISP seems to be Windstream
An unknown threat actor with equally unknown motives forces ISP to replace routers. — One day last October …
The FAA approves Amazon's Prime Air program to fly drones beyond a pilot's line of sight, letting Amazon expand its delivery area in College Station, Texas
Amazon.com Inc.'s Prime Air drone program has been cleared by US regulators to fly devices beyond the visual line of sight of pilots …
In a risk assessment, the US Treasury says NFTs are “highly susceptible to use in fraud and scams” and NFT platforms lack controls to combat money laundering
“Illicit actors can use NFTs to launder proceeds from predicate crimes, often in combination with other methods …
Researchers: an ex-Florida deputy sheriff who received asylum in Russia has built a network of 160+ fake news sites with the help of ChatGPT and other AI tools
In 2016, Russia used an army of trolls to interfere in the U.S. presidential election. This year, an American given asylum …
Source: Elon Musk and Donald Trump are discussing crypto policy, as Trump increasingly highlights bitcoin and other digital assets as a way to reach new voters
- Trump campaign discusses having Musk speak at convention — Billionaires talk about Musk business interests, including EVs
Intel, Google, Microsoft, Meta and others form the Ultra Accelerator Link Promoter Group to promote an industry standard to connect AI accelerator server chips
Intel, Google, Microsoft, Meta and other tech heavyweights are establishing a new industry group, the Ultra Accelerator Link …
Google announces the $230 Fitbit Ace LTE, a smartwatch for kids aged 7 and up, with games, messaging, and features for parents like location sharing
Apple is seeking a senior engineer to help build a TV and sports app for Android, a sign the company is bringing its TV+ service to the rival platform
will Apple reveal more at WWDC 2024? David Joseppi / The Apple Post : Apple working on Apple TV+ app for Android, according to new job listing Tyler Lee / Phandroid : Apple TV could finally be coming ...
Colorado governor Jared Polis signs a right-to-repair bill that includes a strong ban on parts pairing and takes effect on January 1, 2026
Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register :
SEC filing: Salesforce paid $419M, including $374M in cash, to buy commission management tool Spiff in a deal announced in December 2023; Spiff had raised $110M
Salespeople live and die by commissions, which typically form a big chunk of how they are paid.
Six AI and ML experts detail what they learned from building real-world applications on top of LLMs over the past year, including common prompting pitfalls
‘What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part I)’ — https://www.oreilly.com/... Hallucinations are still a big problem; RAGs are better than fine-tuning; long context models don't help m...
Babylon, which builds infrastructure to let proof-of-stake systems obtain staking capital from bitcoin, raised $70M led by Paradigm, after raising $18M in 2023
- The Bitcoin staking protocol Babylon raised $70 million in fresh financing led by Paradigm.
Sources: Elon Musk and Trump talk many times a month on topics like a government role, action on “voter fraud”, and X; Musk is organizing friends against Biden
Instagram expands its Limits tool for teens to let them restrict unwanted interactions and limit comments, messages, story replies, and more to Close Friends
In a bid to combat harassment on its platform, Instagram said on Thursday it is expanding the scope of its “Limits” …
Mistral AI releases 22B-parameter Codestral, its first generative AI model for coding, trained on 80+ programming languages and prohibited for commercial use
You need to agree to share your contact information to access this model Deepti Pathak / Fossbytes : Mistral AI Launches Codestral: AI Code Generation Across 80 Programming Languages Luke Jones / WinB...
Google announces plans to invest $2B in Malaysia, including building its first data center, a new Google Cloud region, and further developing AI
Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal :
Google and Magic Leap partner to work on building immersive experiences that blend the physical and digital worlds, but offer few details
Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google and augmented reality startup Magic Leap are forming a strategic technology partnership and working on building immersive experiences …
Tel Aviv-based Firefly, which provides cloud asset management with an infrastructure-as-code solution, raised a $23M Series A led by Vertex
A startup called Firefly that's tackling the thorny and growing issue of cloud asset management with an “infrastructure as code” solution has raised $23 million in funding.
Hands-on with Sightful's Spacetop G1, an AR laptop that pairs with XREAL glasses to offer a 100-inch virtual display, shipping in October 2024 for $1,900
Julian Chokkattu / Wired :
Sources: to preserve privacy, Apple plans to process data from AI apps in a virtual black box in data centers, making the data impossible for staff to access
Meta removed hundreds of Facebook accounts linked to influence campaigns from China, Israel, Iran, and others, some of which used AI to generate disinformation
Aisha Counts / Bloomberg :
Boston-based Maven AGI, which offers AI agents for customer support, comes out of stealth after raising $28M, including a $20M Series A led by M13
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat :
Romanian startup FintechOS, a low-code platform to help banks and insurance companies compete with neobanks, raised a $60M Series B+, after raising $60M in 2021
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch :
AI training data provider Scale AI releases SEAL Leaderboards, which uses private datasets to rank LLMs in domains like coding, instruction following, and math
A profile of Anthropic and its CEO Dario Amodei; the startup prioritizes AI safety over profit, hoping to spark a “race to the top” on safety in the AI industry
In the summer of 2022, Dario Amodei had a difficult decision to make. Anthropic, the AI company where he is co-founder and CEO … X: @billyperrigo X: Billy Perrigo / @billyperrigo : My latest TIME cov...
UiPath CEO Rob Enslin is resigning on June 1, to be replaced by co-founder Daniel Dines, who stepped down as co-CEO on January 31; PATH drops 30%+
Policymakers and experts: lidar maker Hesai and others listed as Chinese military entities are rebranding and using US-domiciled businesses to evade sanctions
Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal : X: @jamesofphillips , @jchengwsj , @danjames357 , and @chinabeigebook LinkedIn: Gordon Friedrich and Fred Huh Forums: r/MVIS and Slashdot X: @jamesofphillip...
After a Cruise car hit and dragged a pedestrian, executives say they're in no rush to get back on the road, as Cruise slows its breakneck development to a crawl
Yiwen Lu / New York Times :
Fidelity raised the value of its X position by 4.4% to $5.51M in April; since Elon Musk's October 2022 Twitter takeover, the position has been marked down ~72%
Dana Wollman / Bloomberg :
California Governor Gavin Newsom warns against perils of over-regulating AI, sending a signal to the state's lawmakers who are advancing dozens of AI bills
Jeremy B. White / Politico :
How the Integrity Institute, a nonprofit founded by two ex-Facebook staff to help tech companies create more welcoming spaces, lost control of its own culture
Paresh Dave / Wired : X: @peard33 X: Paresh Dave / @peard33 : Two ex-Facebook employees founded the nonprofit Integrity Institute to clean up tech platforms. Now it's reeling amid fights on Slack and...
Natural Cycles, an FDA-cleared birth control app with ~3M users, raised a $55M Series C led by Lauxera Capital Partners, bringing its total funding to $95M+
Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu :
The US Army awards Palantir a $480M contract for work on Maven Smart System, which uses AI and computer vision to help soldiers identify targets, through 2029
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