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Europol says police in Germany, the UK, the US, and others took down botnets spreading ransomware via infected emails, arrested four, and seized 2,000+ domains — Police coordinated by the European Union's justice and police agencies have taken down computer networks responsible …
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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”, linked to 19M+ IPs, and arrest its alleged administrator — The U.S. Justice Department and international partners dismantled the 911 S5 proxy botnet and arrested 35-year-old …
More: US Department of Justice, The Verge, The Hill, BBC, Security Affairs, The Crypto Times, Flashpoint, Tech Times, CSO, TechRadar, Associated Press, Reuters, Krebs on Security, Interesting Engineering, SecurityWeek, Infosecurity, Proactive, Neowin, SiliconANGLE, The Hacker News, PCMag, and BleepingComputer
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| The Information: |
Sources: Sam Altman and Satya Nadella recently met to discuss Microsoft's concerns about how OpenAI's deal with Apple might affect Microsoft's product ambitions — When OpenAI's board of directors ousted Sam Altman as CEO last year, it looked like a shocking derailment of a fast-rising career.
More: 9to5Mac, Fortune, AppleInsider, Thurrott, The Decoder, The Verge, Android Authority, New York Post, iMore, Spyglass, TechRadar, BGR, WinBuzzer, Cybernews.com, Android Headlines, Phandroid, Benzinga, and Marcus on AI
LinkedIn: Enam Hoque and Abubakar Idris
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Google confirms the authenticity of the 2,500 pages of leaked Search documents detailing data the company collects, which may be used in its ranking algorithm — A collection of 2,500 leaked internal documents from Google filled with details about data the company collects is authentic, the company confirmed today.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Lumen details how malware bricked 600K+ routers connected to an autonomous system number belonging to a US ISP in October 2023; the ISP seems to be Windstream — An unknown threat actor with equally unknown motives forces ISP to replace routers. — One day last October …
More: Lumen and Reuters
Mastodon: @neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org and @dangoodin@infosec.exchange
Forums: Hacker News and Ars OpenForum
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Modular laptop maker Framework unveils a $269 drop-in 120Hz display, improved $39 webcam, and swappable mainboard to add Intel Core Ultra chips to its laptops — I know, I absolutely stuffed this story's headline — but I'm just so excited to see the future of modular computing unfolding before my eyes.
More: Framework on YouTube, How-To Geek, Tom's Hardware, TechSpot, Windows Central, BetaNews, Framework, PC Guide, and Laptop Mag
| Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: |
The FAA approves Amazon's Prime Air program to fly drones beyond a pilot's line of sight, letting Amazon expand its delivery area in College Station, Texas — Amazon.com Inc.'s Prime Air drone program has been cleared by US regulators to fly devices beyond the visual line of sight of pilots …
More: The Hill, About Amazon, The Verge, Engadget, PCMag, TechCrunch, GeekWire, CNBC, TechEBlog, and Axios
| Jef Feeley / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk agrees to testify in the SEC's probe of his 2022 Twitter acquisition, after dropping his plan to appeal a court order that he comply with a subpoena — - Billionaire will sit for five-hour deposition with regulator — Agency probing Musk's disclosure of initial Twitter stake| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
The Atlantic and Vox Media sign multiyear licensing and product deals with OpenAI; The Atlantic plans an experimental Atlantic Labs with OpenAI's and other tech — - The Atlantic has been publishing content since 1857. … - Both agreements also allow OpenAI to tap into the respective …
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Fire TV's Alexa voice search, rolling out now: powered by a custom LLM to take conversational requests, but the results are largely disappointing — Navigating the sheer volume of streaming content available today can be a full-time job. Recommendations from friends … | Elizabeth Napolitano / The Block: |
Mastercard pilots a P2P network for crypto transactions on Bit2Me, Lirium, and Mercado Bitcoin exchanges in 13 European and Latin American countries — - Mastercard is launching a peer-to-peer network for sending and receiving digital assets across borders.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Intel, Google, Microsoft, Meta and others form the Ultra Accelerator Link Promoter Group to promote an industry standard to connect AI accelerator server chips — Intel, Google, Microsoft, Meta and other tech heavyweights are establishing a new industry group, the Ultra Accelerator Link … | Bloomberg: |
Source: Elon Musk and Donald Trump are discussing crypto policy, as Trump increasingly highlights bitcoin and other digital assets as a way to reach new voters — - Trump campaign discusses having Musk speak at convention — Billionaires talk about Musk business interests, including EVs
More: Financial Times, Watcher Guru, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Reuters, The Hill, and Crypto Briefing
X: @autismcapital, @elonmusk, @autismcapital, and @elonmusk
| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
Anthropic releases a new feature called “tool use” to let users create AI assistants, available via Anthropic Messages API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI — Anthropic is releasing a new feature for its AI chatbot Claude that will let anyone create an email assistant …
More: ZDNet and VentureBeat
| Kat Tenbarge / NBC News: |
An image showing tents in a camp spelling out “All Eyes on Rafah” hits 44M+ shares on Instagram in <48 hours, likely one of the first viral activist AI images — The image, which appears to be AI-generated, was shared more than 29 million times in less than 24 hours.| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
Ticketmaster appears to have been breached by hacking group ShinyHunters, which claims to have stolen 560M users' data and is trying to sell the data for $500K — Emails, phone numbers, addresses, and even financial details have allegedly been exposed by a notorious hacker group.
More: Bloomberg Law, Hackread, ABC, Irish Independent, RTÉ, Music Ally, Protos, Gizmodo, Cyber Daily, Tech Xplore, Cybernews.com, Newser, SiliconANGLE, Billboard, The Register, WRIC-TV, Security Boulevard, Cyber Daily, Brisbane Times, The Canberra Times, Daily Mail, Newsweek, Tom's Guide, Sydney Morning Herald, and TechRadar
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Forums: Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, r/deadandcompany, r/worldnews, and r/australia
| Wesley Yin-Poole / IGN: |
A US federal court awards Activision $14.46M+ in its 2022 civil lawsuit accusing EngineOwning of violating the DMCA by selling Call of Duty cheating software — Owned. — A high-profile video game cheat maker has been ordered to pay Activision over $14 million in damages and hand over its domain name.
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X: @codupdates, @charlieintel, @engineowningto, @modernwarzone, @ggs_ai, @charlieintel, @modernwarzone, and @charlieintel. Forums: r/CODWarzone
| Hope King / Axios: |
Amazon expands its Grubhub partnership to let US customers order food delivery inside Amazon's app through Grubhub and makes Grubhub+ a permanent Prime perk — - Any Amazon customer can search for “Grubhub” in the product search bar of Amazon's app to order, track and manage their food, like they would through the Grubhub app.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
SEC filing: Salesforce paid $419M, including $374M in cash, to buy commission management tool Spiff in a deal announced in December 2023; Spiff had raised $110M — Salespeople live and die by commissions, which typically form a big chunk of how they are paid.
More: CNBC
| Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: |
| Michael Sheetz / CNBC: |
Verizon and satellite provider AST SpaceMobile partner to provide space-based broadband direct to phones; Verizon committed $65M in prepayments and $35m in debt — Satellite-to-phones service provider AST SpaceMobile stock surged after announcing a partnership with Verizon on Wednesday … | Jody Godoy / Reuters: |
Filing: Terraform Labs and founder Do Kwon reach a tentative settlement with the SEC in its case alleging they misled investors before the collapse of TerraUSD — Singapore-based Terraform Labs and its founder Do Kwon have reached a tentative settlement with the U.S. Securities …
More: CoinDesk, Bitcoinist.com, and Cryptonews
| Billy Perrigo / TIME: |
A profile of Anthropic and its CEO Dario Amodei; the startup prioritizes AI safety over profit, hoping to spark a “race to the top” on safety in the AI industry — In the summer of 2022, Dario Amodei had a difficult decision to make. Anthropic, the AI company where he is co-founder and CEO … | Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
The US Treasury says NFTs are “highly susceptible to use in fraud and scams” and NFT platforms lack controls to combat money laundering and sanctions evasion — “Illicit actors can use NFTs to launder proceeds from predicate crimes, often in combination with other methods … Sponsor Posts
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