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February 20, 2024, 9:55 AM
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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Law enforcement agencies arrest two LockBit operators in Poland and Ukraine, issue three arrest warrants, offer a decryption tool, and seize 200+ crypto wallets  —  Law enforcement arrested two operators of the LockBit ransomware gang in Poland and Ukraine, created a decryption tool …
Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg:
Law enforcement agencies from 11 countries, including the FBI and UK National Crime Agency, disrupt the LockBit group and seize 11K domains used for ransomware  —  - Law enforcement from 11 agencies joined in cyber operation  — Ransomware websites used by hackers seized to thwart attacks
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Walmart agrees to buy TV maker Vizio for $2.3B, or $11.50/share, to boost its ad business via Vizio's SmartCast OS, which lets users stream ad-supported content  —  - Walmart is buying TV maker Vizio for $2.3 billion in cash.  — The move is a bid to boost the big-box retailer's high-margin ad business.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Google engineers hacked a Sony PlayStation Portal to run games locally via a PPSSPP emulator in a “software based” exploit; the Portal can only stream PS5 games  —  Sony's new PlayStation Portal has been hacked by Google engineers to run emulated games locally.
Bloomberg:
A look at a16z's growing DC lobbying operation, which spent almost $1M in 2023, easily the most among VCs, and aims to help its defense-focused startups  —  Breaking with industry custom, the VC firm has begun lobbying to help the defense-focused startups it invests in.
New York Times:
How Anthropic raised $7.3B in the past year, including using unusual deal structures; sources say its valuation tripled to $15B and its monthly revenue hit $8M  —  The company raised $7.3 billion over the last year, as the lure of artificial intelligence changes Silicon Valley deal-making.

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David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR receives two of its largest ever gifts: $80M for innovation in use of digital tech and $33M to build and buy tools to be shared with US public media orgs

Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
Memo: Condé Nast is shuttering Self magazine, folding its content into other brands, and winding down Glamour's publishing arms in Mexico, Spain, and Germany

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
The UK CMA tells Getty Images to sell Shutterstock's editorial business, which includes Backgrid and Splash, to secure approval for the $3.7B merger of the two

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Reuters:
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company plans to invest $2.1B in Spain in the next two years to expand its AI and cloud infrastructure in the country

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The Economic Times:
The Misinformation Combat Alliance and Meta plan to launch a dedicated fact-checking helpline on WhatsApp in India so users can flag deepfakes for analysis
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
MariaDB, which went public via SPAC in December 2022, gets an offer from K1 to go private in a $37M deal, or $0.55/share, far below its $672M Series D valuation
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Wyze says ~13,000 customers could briefly see others' camera feeds, after a similar issue in 2023; Wyze blames glitches in rebooting systems after an AWS outage
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The European Commission opens an investigation into whether TikTok breached DSA rules meant to protect children, the second DSA investigation after one into X
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