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May 29, 2024, 3:35 PM

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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The US and global partners dismantle the 911 S5 proxy botnet, “likely the world's largest botnet ever” affecting 19M+ unique IPs, and arrest its administrator  —  The U.S. Justice Department and international partners dismantled the 911 S5 proxy botnet and arrested 35-year-old Chinese national YunHe Wang, its administrator.
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Joanna Nelius / The Verge:
Arm announces its next-generation CPU and GPU designs for flagship smartphones: the Cortex-X925 CPU and Immortalis G925 GPU, likely in smartphones in late 2024  —  On Wednesday, IP core designer Arm announced its next-generation CPU and GPU designs for flagship smartphones: the Cortex-X925 CPU and Immortalis G925 GPU.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google announces the $230 Fitbit Ace LTE, a smartwatch for kids ages 7+, with games, messaging, and features for parents like location sharing  —  The Fitbit Ace LTE is Google's newest Wear OS device and meant to encourage kids (ages 7+) to be healthy through games, while also serving …
Hannah Miller / Bloomberg:
PayPal adds its PayPal USD stablecoin, launched on Ethereum in August 2023 and issued by Paxos, to Solana; PYUSD currently has a nearly $400M market cap  —  - The payments company launched PYUSD on Ethereum in August  — PayPal chose Solana for speed and low cost, despite outages
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Mistral AI releases 22B-parameter Codestral, its first generative AI model for coding, trained on 80+ programming languages and prohibited for commercial use  —  Mistral, the French AI startup backed by Microsoft and valued at $6 billion, has released its first generative AI model for coding, dubbed Codestral.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Musk and Trump talk many times/month, on topics like a role in a Trump admin, action on “voter fraud”, and X; Musk is organizing friends against Biden  —  Donald Trump and Elon Musk have discussed a possible advisory role for the Tesla leader should the presumptive …
Kate Irwin / PCMag:
The Internet Archive says it has been under a DDoS attack for the past three days, making access to its services inconsistent, but “the data is not affected”  —  The California-based nonprofit that archives books and webpages online experiences distributed denial-of-service attacks …
Sarah Wynn / The Block:
Crypto exchange Gemini says Gemini Earn users will get $2.18B in crypto back in kind within the next year, after the lending program folded in November 2022  —  - Those funds will be distributed in kind, meaning Gemini Earn customers who lent one bitcoin will receive one bitcoin back.
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
The National Samsung Electronics Union, representing ~28K workers, plans its first ever strike after wage negotiations, ongoing since the start of 2024, stalled  —  - The union is largest among several at the Korean company  — Samsung has been playing catchup in memory chips for AI
Cory Weinberg / The Information:
Source: cloud GPU provider CoreWeave, which was last valued at $19B and raised ~$10B in equity and debt over the past year, plans an IPO in H1 2025  —  Cloud computing startup CoreWeave, one of the biggest beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence boom, has been on a fundraising spree …
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
PwC plans to roll out ChatGPT Enterprise to its 75K US staff and 26K UK staff, becoming the largest customer and first reseller of OpenAI's enterprise product  —  The Big Four accounting firm signs a new license and sales deal as the maker of ChatGPT ramps up its enterprise sales efforts
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google plans to shut down Google Business Profile chat and call history, which let customers contact businesses in Maps and Search, on July 31, 2024  —  Google will be shutting down the Google Business Profile chat and call history feature on July 31, 2024.
Rand Fishkin / SparkToro:
A leak purports to show thousands of pages of internal Google Search API documentation, including many claims that seem to contradict Google's public statements  —  On Sunday, May 5th, I received an email from a person claiming to have access to a massive leak of API documentation from inside Google's Search division.
Emilia David / The Verge:
Microsoft launches Copilot for Telegram in beta on mobile and desktop; the chatbot lets users search, ask questions, and converse, but cannot generate images  —  Microsoft has added an official Copilot bot within the messaging app Telegram, which lets users search, ask questions, and converse with the AI chatbot.
Kim Zetter / Wired:
How researchers recovered access to ~$2M worth of bitcoin stored in a software wallet, using a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager  —  Thanks to a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager and a bit of luck, researchers were able to unearth …
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
AI training data provider Scale AI releases SEAL Leaderboards, which uses private datasets to rank LLMs in domains like coding, instruction following, and math  —  Artificial intelligence training data provider Scale AI Inc., which serves the likes of OpenAI and Nvidia Corp. …

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