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Mandiant links hacktivist group Cyber Army of Russia, which claimed to target utilities in France, the US, and Poland, to Russia-linked hacking group Sandworm — Cyber Army of Russia Reborn, a group with ties to the Kremlin's Sandworm unit, is crossing lines even that notorious cyberwarfare unit wouldn't dare to.
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| Rob Golum / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Take-Two plans to lay off 5% of its workforce, expecting to incur up to $200M in charges as part of the downsizing, including $140M from canceled titles — The company sees expenses of up to $200 million as part of the effort, including as much as $140 million from canceled projects …
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| Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
How a network of repair ships helps maintain the estimated 800,000 miles of undersea internet cables; of the 77 cable ships, only 22 are designated for repair — Field's crew caught the cable on the first try and nearly had it aboard when the rope snapped and slipped back into the sea.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Current and former T-Mobile and Verizon employees say they are receiving texts offering up to $300 to perform a SIM swap; T-Mobile says it is investigating — Criminals are now texting T-Mobile and Verizon employees on their personal and work phones, trying to tempt them with cash to perform SIM swaps.| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
ASML reports Q1 net sales down 21.6% YoY to €5.29B, vs. €5.39B est., net income down 37.4% YoY to €1.22B, vs. €1.07B est., and net bookings down 4% YoY to €3.6B — A logo on the exterior of the ASML Holding NV headquarters in Veldhoven, Netherlands, on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024.
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
A look at Spy Pet, a Discord scraping service that claims to get data from 14K+ servers and 600M users, available for as little as $5; Discord is investigating — An online service is scraping Discord servers en masse, archiving and tracking users' messages and activity across servers including …
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| The Verge: |
Stability AI makes Stable Diffusion 3 available to developers via an API and a new Stable Assistant Beta content creation platform; the model remains in preview — The next generation of the text-to-image AI model Stable Diffusion is still in preview, but Stability AI is making it available … | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Activision drops team entry fees for its professional Call of Duty League, and will return prior collected fees, as the esports industry faces profit challenges — The teams, including ones owned by sports-business billionaires Robert Kraft and Stan Kroenke, will no longer be required to pay …
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
CIRP: Amazon Prime hit a new high of 180M US shoppers in March 2024, up 8% YoY, despite greater online competition; 75% of US shoppers have a Prime membership — Amazon.com Inc.'s Prime subscription service hit a new high of 180 million US shoppers in March, an increase of 8% from a year earlier …
More: TechSpot and CIRP - Amazon Report
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Snap plans to add watermarks to AI-generated images exported from Snapchat; the watermarks appear as a translucent version of the Snap logo with a sparkle emoji — Social media company Snap said Tuesday that it plans to add watermarks to AI-generated images on its platform.
More: Snap, Engadget, and Social Media Today
| Kate Clark / The Information: |
Source: Mistral is talking to investors about raising a few hundred million dollars at a $5B valuation, after raising $415M at a $2B valuation in December 2023 — Mistral, a Paris-based startup developing artificial intelligence that is open source, has been speaking to investors …
More: PYMNTS.com, The French Tech Journal, Tech Startups, and Reuters
| Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg: |
US Senators Cynthia Lummis and Kirsten Gillibrand propose a bill to regulate stablecoins; House and Senate lawmakers are pushing to pass a bill as soon as May — - Lummis, Gillibrand say their measure would protect consumers — Brown wants combo with marijuana banking, executive clawbacks| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
The Linux Foundation launches the Open Platform for Enterprise AI, to foster the development of open, multi-provider, and composable generative AI systems — Can generative AI designed for the enterprise (for example, AI that autocompletes reports, spreadsheet formulas and so on) ever be interoperable?
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Herlev, Denmark-based Flatpay, which offers payment services to retail shops, restaurants, salons, and more, raised a €45 Series B led by Dawn Capital — As the world waits for $65 billion payments tech giant Stripe to go public, a wave of smaller startups continues to roll into the market to pick up more payments business.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Emails: SpaceX cracks down on users who are connecting to its Starlink internet service from unauthorized countries, including Sudan, South Africa, and Zimbabwe — Elon Musk's SpaceX has begun a crackdown on users who are connecting to its Starlink high-speed internet service from countries …
More: ComputerWeekly.com, Notebookcheck, PCMag, and Techpoint Africa
| Bloomberg: |
How GitHub Copilot became responsible for a significant percentage of coding, despite its limitations; Stack Overflow: 54.8% of developers used Copilot in 2023 — The assistant is saving engineers hundreds of hours a month and is helping GitHub retain its edge over rivals including Amazon and Google.
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| Imogen West-Knights / Financial Times: |
How video games with immersive storylines and powerful, emotive writing offer some of the most thrilling fiction out there, overtaking books for some readers — With immersive storylines and powerful, emotive writing, some of the most thrilling fiction out there is being created in game form
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| Yimou Lee / Reuters: |
Foxconn Chair Young Liu says the company implemented a rotating CEO system this month, aiming to nurture successors, choosing a leader from its six businesses — Taiwan's Foxconn (2317.TW) has this month started a rotating chief executive system in an overhaul of its management designed …
More: Benzinga and Nikkei Asia
| Priya Anand / Bloomberg: |
Sensor Tower: Naval Ravikant and Brian Norgard's audio-focused invitation-only social app Airchat has been downloaded 30K+ times since its relaunch this month — - The app feels like a combination of voice notes and Twitter — Invite-only Airchat has won over VCs and early adopters
More: Wired, TechRadar, Social Media Today, and Platformer
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| David Ljunggren / Reuters: |
Canada plans to introduce a digital services tax on large tech companies, which could raise CA$5.9B over five years starting in FY 2024-2025 — Canada will press ahead with introduction of a digital services tax on large technology companies, which would raise C$5.9 billion ($4.3 billion) … Sponsor Posts
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