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Microsoft says hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan' DDoS attacks “temporarily impacted availability” of Azure, Teams, Outlook, and more services in early June 2023 — In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsoft's flagship office suite …
More: Microsoft Security …, Reuters, The Guardian, Tech Monitor, The Verge, TechRadar, TechCircle, Techlusive, The Hacker News, BleepingComputer, CyberCX, Digital Trends, The Register, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, Security Affairs, Neowin, GovInfoSecurity.com, Cybersecurity Dive, and The Record
Twitter: @uk_daniel_card, @fbajak, @uk_daniel_card, @gossithedog, @cyberknow20, @aejleslie, @fbajak, and @hackinglz
| Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: |
Intel agrees in principle to build a $25B chip manufacturing plant in Israel, which is slated to begin operations by 2027 and remain active until at least 2035 — Intel Corp. has agreed in principle to build a new manufacturing plant in Israel, part of a push by the US semiconductor giant … | Boone Ashworth / Wired: |
Reddit's management risks putting the company in a death spiral as users revolt, dedicated moderators quit, and its vibrant discussions move to other platforms — When the user revolt ends—if it ever does—Reddit's community won't ever be the same. — It's pretty easy to piss people off on Reddit.
More: The Verge, The Guardian, Beyond Search, Forbes, Insider, Financial Times, Techdirt, Reuters, gHacks Technology News, Beehaw, Android Police, NBC News, Tech Xplore, and Social Media Today
Bluesky: @ronmiller.bsky.social and @mikalfm.bsky.social
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @halfcocked@mstdn.social
Twitter: @jeffnolan, @jonerp, @mukund, @happyroadkill, @davemcclure, @nicholasadeleon, and @merrittk
Forums: r/ModCoord, r/CryptoCurrency, r/neoliberal, and Slashdot
| The Guardian: |
Meta faces pressure from UK MPs, consumer groups, and banks over its failure to prevent fraud on its platforms, estimated to cost UK households £250M in 2023 — Exclusive: Calls for Meta to curb rise in scams on its platforms, which will cost UK households £250m this year| Michael Holden / Reuters: |
The UK names Ian Hogarth to lead its AI Foundation Model Taskforce; Hogarth co-founded concert discovery service Songkick, which Warner Music acquired in 2017 — The British government said on Sunday that tech entrepreneur Ian Hogarth would head its new taskforce to look at the safety risks posed by artificial intelligence.
More: Tech Monitor, GOV.UK, and UKTN
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Investors in Bengaluru-based Mojocare say they found “financial irregularities” at the health care startup, which has raised ~$23M from Sequoia India and others — Mojocare investors have found “financial irregularities” at the Indian health and wellness startup and are moving … | John Carreyrou / New York Times: |
A look at the orchestrated downfall of Kyle Roche, co-founder of Roche Freedman LLP, known for suing crypto companies and getting a verdict against Craig Wright — Kyle Roche was a rising star in the field of cryptocurrency law — until his career imploded. Who orchestrated his downfall?
LinkedIn: Roderick Mann. Twitter: @silvermanjacob, @nxthompson, @moorehn, @yonettejo, and @nytimes
Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and Slashdot
| Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal: |
Duolingo says the company significantly scaled back TV ads and that growing DAUs 62% YoY to 20.3M in Q1 2023 is due in part to efficient social media marketing — The language-learning app now relies more on memes—helping it climb to 20 million daily active users
Twitter: @trengriffin and @wsj
| Lisa Bannon / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at US hospitals using sometimes flawed AI-based diagnosis tools, as some clinicians say they feel pressure from administrations to defer to the algorithm — Artificial intelligence raises difficult questions about who makes the call in a health crisis: the human or the machine?
More: The Hill. LinkedIn: Srinivasan Iyengar. Bluesky: @hypervisible.bsky.social. Twitter: @nationalnurses and @calnurses. Forums: r/singularity
| Bloomberg: |
How Huawei lost a ~$200M contract to build Danish telecom TDC's 5G network in 2019, after TDC opened a probe suspecting Huawei of unethical business practices — At a hastily scheduled meeting on March 5, 2019, the bidding to upgrade Denmark's cellular network crossed over into something strange.| Washington Post: |
Hands-on with an Adobe Photoshop beta's Generative Fill AI feature, which lets users add objects to, remove content from, and expand images using text prompts — A new ‘generative fill’ AI capability can create joyful Photoshop edits — and frightening deepfakes
More: Nikon Rumors. Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social. Twitter: @washingtonpost, @cpassariello, @damianpaletta, and @yunheekim22
| Marah Eakin / Wired: |
How Pixar used neural style transfer, a type of AI used to make photos look like popular artworks, to animate Ember, a lead character in its movie Elemental — It's harder to make fire than you might think. But the Pixar team was determined to do the impossible. — Pixar had a problem.Sponsor Posts
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