Progress Software discloses a critical vulnerability in MOVEit's SFTP module; hackers exploited a similar flaw in MOVEit in 2023 to breach almost 1,800 networks
A similar flaw last year left 1,800 networks breached. Will the latest one be as potent? — A critical vulnerability …
Microsoft plans to launch its Xbox TV app on Amazon's Fire TV Sticks in July in 25+ countries, letting Game Pass Ultimate subscribers access Xbox Cloud Gaming
Microsoft is launching its Xbox TV app on Amazon's Fire TV Sticks in July. The Xbox app will provide access to Xbox Cloud Gaming …
Google adds support for 110 new languages in Translate, up from 133 languages, in its largest expansion ever, aided by the company's PaLM 2 AI language model
Google is adding support for 110 new languages to Google Translate, the company announced on Thursday.
Google announces faster Google Sheets calculations in Chrome and Edge browsers on desktop, doubling speeds for running formulas, creating pivot tables, and more
Google is touting significant speed improvements when performing calculations in Sheets on desktop Chrome and Edge.
The US DOJ indicts a Russian national, who remains at large, for his alleged involvement in the WhisperGate malware attack on Ukrainian systems in January 2022
A federal grand jury indicted Russian national Amin Stigal this week on allegations that he conspired with the Russian military …
Coinbase files two lawsuits against the US SEC and the FDIC for not complying with FOIA requests; one of the FOIA requests is about how the SEC views ether
- Coinbase, which retained consultant firm History Associates Inc. to file the FOIA requests, took aim at the SEC and FDIC …
Apple touts its device longevity in a white paper and says True Tone and battery health data will be available for third-party replacement parts later in 2024
Apple's putting renewed focus on its repairability efforts today. … But perhaps more interesting is the fact that Apple …
Slides shown to Chinese sellers: Amazon plans to launch a Temu-like section featuring cheap items that ship directly from China to overseas consumers
Amazon plans to launch a section on its shopping site featuring cheap items that ship directly to overseas consumers from warehouses in China …
Meta's Oversight Board issued 53 decisions in 2023 and says Meta has fully or partially implemented 75 out of 266 recommendations from January 2021 to May 2024
The board says it wants to weigh in on “demoted content” on Facebook and Instagram. — The Oversight Board has published …
Arkham: a wallet tagged to the US government moved ~3,940 BTC, worth ~$240M and originally seized from a Silk Road narcotics vendor, to a Coinbase Prime address
About 4k bitcoin had been seized from narcotics trafficker Banmeet Singh at his January 2024 trial.
An interview with Netflix's VP of external games, Leanne Loombe, on its push into gaming, focusing on narrative games without ads or in-app purchases, and more
I told my dentist that I was interviewing someone at Netflix later, and she got really excited. “Ooo, what about? Which show?”
Naver-owned online comics platform Webtoon raised $315M in its Nasdaq IPO at $21 per share, the top of its $18-$21 marketed range, valuing the company at $2.7B
Online comics platform prices IPO at top of range for $2.7bn valuation — Webtoon Entertainment, an online comics platform …
Researchers in Rabbit R1's jailbreaking community say Rabbit left critical API keys hardcoded in its code, which would let hackers use Rabbit's internal systems
Members of a community focused on jailbreaking and reverse engineering the Rabbit R1 AI assistant device say that Rabbit left …
OpenAI's move to cut off API access to Chinese developers sets the stage for a Chinese industry shakeup and will accentuate the divide between China and the US
- Local AI services from Baidu to 01.AI tout discount offers — The abrupt move sets the stage for a Chinese industry shakeup
SCOTUS declines to impose limits on the way the Biden administration may communicate with social media platforms, overturning a lower court's 2023 decision
How landlords are using AI tools to communicate with tenants, track the use of common areas, monitor energy use, aid construction management, and more
Artificial intelligence is doing everything from helping landlords communicate with tenants to managing energy use.
Orby AI, which is building generative AI agents to automate business workflows, raised a $30M Series A, sources say at a post-money valuation of $100M+
AI “agents” are generative AI models that can perform actions autonomously, like copying info from an email and pasting it into a spreadsheet …
The chair of the India Cellular and Electronics Association says thousands of Chinese engineers and technicians are struggling to obtain Indian work visas
Modi's ambitions to create a manufacturing power come up against souring diplomatic relations with Beijing
Testing ChatGPT, Vacay, and Mindtrip to plan a Norway trip shows none were perfect, but the chatbots streamlined travel decisions and complemented one another
Can artificial intelligence devise a bucket-list vacation that checks all the boxes: culture, nature, hotels and transportation? LinkedIn: Hege Vibeke Barnes LinkedIn: Hege Vibeke Barnes : Very intere...
Clay, which develops AI tools focused on sales and marketing for businesses, raised $46M at a $500M valuation, bringing its total funding to $66M
Company was valued at $500 million in its latest funding round. — An artificial intelligence startup focused on sales and marketing … LinkedIn: Puneet Sabharwal , Jessica Pelaez , and Varun Anand Li...
Researchers: polyfill.io, which offers JavaScript polyfills, is being used to infect 100K+ websites with malware, after a Chinese CDN bought the domain in 2024
NBCU says an AI-generated voice of legendary sportscaster Al Michaels is going to give daily, personalized recaps of the Paris Olympics on its streamer Peacock
Character.AI now lets users talk to AI characters over calls in multiple languages, including English and Chinese, says 3M users made 20M+ calls during testing
a16z-backed Character.AI said today that it is now allowing users to talk to AI characters over calls.
As tech companies grapple with the limited availability of Nvidia chips globally, Chinese companies like Alibaba face a tougher situation due to US restrictions
U.S. rules curbing the export of artificial intelligence chips to China are beginning to squeeze the country's AI industry.
Figma debuts a major UI redesign, new generative AI tools, and a built-in slideshow feature, which is free while in beta but will become paid at official launch
https://www.theverge.com/... that isn't how this works … Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken@mastodon.social : For this week's Plugged In newsletter, I talked to Figma CEO Dylan Field about the company...
PortSwigger, the startup behind the Burp Suite of security testing tools founded by security expert “Daf”, raised $112M, its first outside investment
Sometimes the most successful startup ideas come from people building tools to solve their own needs.
Google Cloud announces deals, including with Moody's, Thomson Reuters, and ZoomInfo, to “ground” responses from its enterprise AI chatbots in real-world facts
- Now, Google is offering an additional option: using third-party data to help ground AI results.
Many key apps are now native for Windows on Arm, like Photoshop, Dropbox, Zoom, Chrome, and Spotify; Prism emulation is good but struggles with heavyweight apps
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Micron reports Q3 revenue up 82% YoY to $6.81B, vs. $6.67B est., a $332M net income, and forecasts Q4 revenue in line with est.; MU drops 6%+
but the stock slides Wajeeh Khan / Bitcoin Insider : Micron beats Street estimates in Q3 on continued AI demand Proactive : Micron 3Q earnings beat but shares tumble as revenue guidance fails to meet ...
Amazon reaches a $2T market valuation for the first time; its shares have whipsawed since the company's Q1 2024 earnings and have gained 29% so far in 2024
Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg :
A look at YouTube's growing dominance as Nielsen says it had ~10% of all viewership on connected and traditional TVs in the US in May, ahead of Netflix's 7.6%
Odaseva, which provides data protection services for large Salesforce customers, raised a $54M Series C, bringing its total funding to $90M
Cloud services continue to be a weak point for enterprises when it comes to security, so companies providing effective solutions to address this continue …
Netherlands-based Innatera Nanosystems, which unveiled an energy-efficient AI chip for sensor-edge applications in January, raised a $21M Series A
Netherlands-based microprocessor maker Innatera Nanosystems B.V. said it closed an oversubscribed $21 million Series A funding round …
A look at the pro-crypto Fairshake super PAC, which raised $169M from Coinbase, Ripple, a16z, and more, and has backed 20+ US congressional primary wins in 2024
Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk :
SoftBank debuts AI health care joint venture SB TEMPUS with Tempus AI, which listed on the Nasdaq in June; Softbank invested ~$200M in Tempus' Series G in April
Anton Bridge / Reuters :
Citizen Lab: Microsoft censors its Bing translation service more extensively in China than its competitors, like Baidu Translate and Tencent Machine Translation
New Citizen Lab study comes as U.S. lawmakers scrutinize Microsoft's willingness to comply with demands from Beijing.
Telegram, used by half of Russia's 140M residents, has become a refuge for LGBTQ+ citizens, who routinely create new channels to avoid government surveillance
Sassafras Lowrey / Wired : X: @fredpagesf X: Fred Page / @fredpagesf : Life for LGBTQ+ Russians is harrowing. Over the past decade, building on anti-"gay propaganda" laws, President Vladimir Putin ha...
KarmaCheck, which uses AI to do background checks and was founded by LinkedIn's Eric Ly in 2019, raised a $45M Series B, bringing its total funding to ~$60M
Background checks, credentialing and compliance software company KarmaCheck Inc. today announced that it has raised $45 million …
An overview of China's Dragonbridge multiyear disinformation campaign that uses AI-generated content and spans social networks to target geopolitical rivals
Zak Butler / The Keyword :
Crypto investment app Abra and CEO William Barhydt settle with 25 US states for operating without proper licenses and plan to return up to $82.1M to US clients
Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk :
Intel shows off a fully integrated bidirectional optical compute interconnect chiplet, which enables higher-bandwidth data transfers for AI workloads
Hands-on with Ray-Ban Meta's new AI translation feature, which is too rudimentary and buggy to be anything more than a novelty
Google Translate at least changed it to “Cinema Love.")" ~@Knibbs https://www.wired.com/... Kevin Dominik Korte / @kedkorte : We ask drone operators to wear orange vests to make them visible due to th...
Top German antitrust official Andreas Mundt says AI is a “first-class fire accelerator” for anticompetitive tactics and “will make all the problems only worse”
Karin Matussek / Bloomberg :
New evidence suggests that Gery Shalon, mastermind of the 2014 JPMorgan hack, built a massive new fraud empire in Europe while he was cooperating with the FBI
what's known in Justice Department parlance as a “proactive cooperator,” according to filings regarding his criminal case
At Nvidia's first shareholder meeting since the recent stock surge, CEO Jensen Huang laid out Nvidia's strategy to maintain its position amid rising competition
Former CEO of digital pharma ad company Outcome Health is sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, after being found guilty of a ~$1B fraud in April 2023
Wall Street Journal :
ORA, a blockchain project to incorporate AI into decentralized apps, raised a $20M Series A from Polychain, HF0, HashKey Capital, and others
Bradley Keoun / CoinDesk :
Activist investor Jana Partners announces a stake in Rapid7; sources say Jana plans to push the cybersecurity company to sell itself to Cannae and a PE firm
Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal :
Q&A with Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence's Zhang Hongjiang on becoming one of China's leading advocates for AI regulation, US export curbs, and more
Financial Times :
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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