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PSN has been experiencing a multi-hour outage. You might have trouble loading purchased digital games or seeing which friends are online.
Chat logs reveal DOGE member Edward Coristine's ties to cybercrime community The Com, and a Telegram handle linked to him sought a DDoS-for-hire service in 2022
Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) …
Elon Musk says he will rehire a DOGE staffer who resigned following the exposure of his posts advocating for racism and eugenics, after Trump endorsed the idea
“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.” — “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.” — “Normalize Indian hate.” — www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st... [embedded post] Ryan ...
Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old DOGE member, was fired by cybersecurity firm Path Network from an internship in June 2022 for allegedly leaking info to rivals
(Bloomberg) - Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of Elon Musk's squad that's criss-crossing US government agencies, was fired from an internship after he was accused of sharing information with a ...
Sources: President Donald Trump has tasked Vice President JD Vance and National Security Adviser Michael Waltz with overseeing a potential sale of TikTok US
Vance is in charge of “quarterbacking a deal to save TikTok,” according to a source familiar with the matter.
TikTok advises its US Android users to sideload the app through APKs made available for download on its official website
The social media app is still not available on Apple App Store and Google Play. — If you need to download and install TikTok in the US, you can do so on Android …
Filing: Kash Patel, Trump's nominee to head FBI, was allotted Shein shares of $1M to $5M in exchange for consulting services; he has no plans to divest them
Donald Trump's pick for FBI director told senators he has no plans to divest his shares, which his financial disclosure form …
Sources: the UK used Snoopers' Charter to send a “technical capability notice” to Apple; notice recipients aren't allowed to warn users of weakened security
Bid to tap customers' accounts could weaken security for iPhone users all over the world
A look at the daunting task for Google and others of mapping roads and maintaining accurate maps in India, amid growing reports of misdirections in the country
Maintaining accurate maps is a daunting task in a country where road names and addresses are not standardized.
Sources: Anduril is in talks to raise up to $2.5B, led by Founders Fund with a $1B commitment, at a $28B valuation; Anduril's revenue in 2024 doubled to ~$1B
WATCH NOW — Anduril, the defense-tech startup founded by Palmer Luckey, has signed a term sheet to raise capital at a $28 billion valuation …
How Sam Altman outflanked Elon Musk to win over Donald Trump, including by telling Trump in a phone call that the tech industry will achieve AGI during his term
After helping President Trump get elected, Elon Musk was poised to dominate the country's A.I. policies. Then Mr. Altman sneaked into the White House.
Three fundamental principles for the future of AI policymaking: have a clear view of reality, be pragmatic instead of ideological, and empower the AI ecosystem
It is possible to develop a model with the best intentions, and for that model to be misused later on
Google edited Gemini's response in a Super Bowl commercial to remove an incorrect statistic about Gouda cheese, regurgitated from seeming SEO-optimized blogs
I'm saying the actual content of Google's ads *show* hallucinations on screen, that YOU can go find live on the web There are 50 of these A cornucopia of embarrassing Nate Hake / @natejhake : @Goog_En...
MediaTek reports sales up 22.4% YoY to ~$16.2B in 2024 and net profit up 38.2% YoY to ~$3.24B, posting its first sales and profit growth in two fiscal years
Hideaki Ryugen / Nikkei Asia :
Nikkei: Japan's financial regulator asks Apple and Google to remove apps from Bybit, MEXC Global, LBank Exchange, KuCoin, and Bitget; Apple has removed the apps
James Hunt / The Block :
Microsoft warns that attackers are using static ASP.NET machine keys found online to inject malware into ViewState, which controls web form state during reloads
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ security/blog/2025/02/06/code-injection - attacks-using-publicly-disclosed-asp- net-machine-keys/ @youranonriots : Microsoft warns that attackers are deploying malware...
Tests show DeepSeek's chatbot sometimes hallucinates cited URLs and often admits that sharing news articles' content could violate copyright and skirt paywalls
The DeepSeek hype cycle is in full force, but can the chatbot attribute sources more accurately than its competitors?
Court filing: President Trump ends legal fight over his Twitter ban after the January 6, 2021 riot; the filing doesn't specify how the case was resolved
- Details about how case resolved weren't immediately available — Musk has become a key figure in Trump's administration
Investors worry about EU satellite operators Eutelsat and SES amid soaring debt and rise of Starlink, which now has 6,000+ satellites and serves ~130 countries
Euan Healy / Financial Times :
An Adalytics report shows how ad systems run by Google, Amazon, Microsoft and others inadvertently placed ads on a website that hosts CSAM
Thomas Germain / BBC :
DeepMind says its AlphaGeometry2 model solved 84% of International Math Olympiad's geometry problems from the last 25 years, surpassing average gold medalists
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Sources: TSMC is informing Chinese customers using its 16nm or better tech that it cannot ship orders unless they use a US “white list” chip packaging supplier
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia :
CoinMarketCap: Circle's USDC market cap reached a new high of $56.2B on February 9, after dropping to $24.5B in 2023 in the months following FTX's collapse
Monique Mulima / Bloomberg :
SolarWinds says it will go private in a $4.4B deal with buyout firm Turn/River Capital; SWI closes up 21.8%
https://www.reuters.com/... https://investors.solarwinds.com/ ...
Sources: Anthropic's funding round is oversubscribed and expected to raise $2B+, with Lightspeed set to invest ~$1B; Menlo, MGX, and others are in talks to join
Bloomberg :
Hugging Face researchers release “Open Deep Research” an open-source AI agent created in 24 hours, aiming to match OpenAI's Deep Research performance
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica :
Sources: Klarna is targeting an IPO in the US in April with a valuation of up to $15B and is preparing to unveil its listing plans as soon as next month
Financial Times :
Docs: Palantir has won $2.7B+ in US contracts since 2009, including $1.3B+ in Pentagon contracts, and spent $5.8M in lobbying in 2024, up from ~$1M in 2015
Financial Times :
Sources: Stripe competitor Rapyd is in talks to raise $300M from investors at a $3.5B valuation, a dramatic decline from its valuation of around $9B in 2021
Bloomberg :
Sources: Island, which makes secure browsers for businesses, is raising money at a $4.5B valuation in a round led by Coatue; it was valued at $3B in April 2024
Bloomberg :
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