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| Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: |
Law enforcement from 11 countries, including the FBI and UK National Crime Agency, disrupt the LockBit gang and seize 11K domains used to facilitate ransomware — - Law enforcement from 11 agencies joined in cyber operation — Ransomware websites used by hackers seized to thwart attacks
More: BleepingComputer, TechCrunch, Silicon Republic, CNN, Financial Times, Tech Monitor, Sky News, Axios, ITPro, TechSpot, Reuters, DeviceSecurity.io, CyberScoop, Malwarebytes, Security Affairs, The Register, ComputerWeekly.com, Cybernews.com, WAGA-TV, Hackread, DataBreaches.net, and Benzinga
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Law enforcement arrests two LockBit operators in Poland and Ukraine, issues three arrest warrants, releases a decryption tool, and seizes 200+ crypto wallets — Law enforcement arrested two operators of the LockBit ransomware gang in Poland and Ukraine, created a decryption tool … | 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 — It's, unfortunately, increasingly common for security cameras to have a glitch that exposes data from one user's system …
More: The Verge, ZDNet, Silicon Republic, BleepingComputer, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, Wyze Forum, Mashable, BetaNews, Ars Technica, Android Police, KnowTechie, Tom's Hardware, TechSpot, GeekWire, Wccftech, Android Authority, Neowin, PCMag, HotHardware, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Notebookcheck
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Forums: Hacker News, r/wyzecam, r/wyzecam, r/wyzecam, r/technology, and Slashdot
| 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.
More: Thurrott, VideoCardz.com, Video Games Chronicle, Tom's Guide, KitGuru, Wccftech, Wololo.net, Liliputing, and OC3D
| 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 — The European Commission has opened formal proceedings against ByteDance's TikTok under the Digital Services Act (DSA) …
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X: @thierrybreton, @lisdittmer, @verajourova, @5rightsfound, @vestager, @carnage4life, @davekeating, @stokel, and @eucyprus. LinkedIn: Veronique Ciminà
Forums: Hacker News, r/neoliberal, r/technews, and r/technology
| 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 — MariaDB is the subject of another potential takeover bid, as the company behind the eponymous open source relational database management system …
More: Silicon Republic, Business Wire, SiliconANGLE, and K1 Investment Management
Mastodon: @blogdiva@mastodon.social, @carnage4life@mas.to, and @andymoose@mastodon.social. X: @levie
| Wall Street Journal: |
Tech investors and founders are flocking back to San Francisco, which is undergoing an AI boom, after leaving during the pandemic for Miami and other US cities — In 2020, venture capitalist Keith Rabois urged startup founders to join him in ditching San Francisco for Miami …
More: PYMNTS.com, Daily Mail, and Business Insider
Threads: @richardlawler and @anildash
Mastodon: @jay@cuthrell.com, @KarlBode@masto.ai, and @carnage4life@mas.to
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LinkedIn: Allan Thygesen, Pat Kinsel, Lili Balfour, Jeff Frick, Amar Aswatha, and Rob Kumer
Forums: Hacker News, r/sanfrancisco, and Slashdot
| Will Knight / Wired: |
Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on needing more than scale to get to AGI, developing AI agents, Gemini Pro 1.5, the UK AI Safety Institute, and more — In an interview with WIRED, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says the biggest breakthroughs in AI are yet to come—and will take more than just chips.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Samsung details its Auracast, 360 Audio, and Auto Switch features, rolling out to Buds 2, Buds FE, the S24 series, Neo QLED and OLED TVs, Book laptops, and more — None are appearing on Samsung's devices for the first time, but we now know how broadly they'll be supported across the lineup.
More: Samsung Newsroom, Android Police, Android Authority, Sam Lover, SamNews 24, and PhoneArena
| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
The US awards $1.5B to GlobalFoundries from the $52B CHIPS Act, plus $1.6B in loans, to build a fab at its HQ in Malta, New York, and to expand its Fab 8 plant — The massive grant, part of the Chips Act, will help the U.S. establish a homegrown supply for some of the most critical components of modern life.
More: Tom's Hardware, Engadget, GlobalFoundries, New York Times, Semiconductor Industry …, Syracuse Post-Standard, New York Times, The White House, SiliconANGLE, HPCwire, U.S. Department of Commerce, Benzinga, Reuters, Investor's Business Daily, SamMobile, Livemint, and Bloomberg
X: @sengillibrand, @donal888, @mackhawk, @govkathyhochul, @globalfoundries, and @senschumer. Forums: Hacker News
| South China Morning Post: |
Meizu, which was acquired by Chinese automaker Geely in 2022, will no longer make smartphones, to pursue an “all in AI” strategy over the next three years — - Meizu said it is terminating all traditional smartphone projects to focus on developing artificial intelligence-enabled handsets
More: GSMArena.com, Gizmochina, Liliputing, 9to5Google, Phandroid, Android Headlines, Gizchina, DigiTimes, and Sparrows News
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft fixes a bug that caused Edge to automatically import Chrome tabs and browsing data without consent, following months of complaints from some users — Microsoft has fixed an issue where its Edge browser was again misbehaving, this time by automatically importing browsing data and tabs from Chrome without consent.Sponsor Posts
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