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| Mike Corder / Associated Press: |
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 …
More: Operation Endgame, Europol, Ars Technica, Eurojust, The Guardian, The Register, Forbes, CyberScoop, BleepingComputer, nltimes.nl, Security Affairs, Cybernews.com, Infosecurity, TNW, The Hacker News, ComputerWeekly.com, Tech Xplore, Hackread, Le Monde.fr, Reuters, and BleepingComputer
Mastodon: @abuse_ch@ioc.exchange and @haveibeenpwned@infosec …
| 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.| Financial Times: |
More: Business Insider, The Economist, Laptop Mag, MEDIANAMA, and The TED AI Show
| Reuters: |
Sources: TikTok is working on a clone of its recommendation algorithm for its US users that may result in a version that operates independently of ByteDance — TikTok is working on a clone of its recommendation algorithm for its 170 million U.S. users that may result in a version … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta begins rolling out TweetDeck-style customizable feeds on Threads globally, following a test that started earlier this month — Threads is widely rolling out a desktop site redesign that lets you customize your homepage with a series of feeds, similar to TweetDeck.
More: Engadget, 9to5Mac, and Social Media Today
Threads: @mosseri, @firstadopter, @rsgnl, @daveleebbg, @richardlawler, @crumbler, @daveleebbg, @heinendevon, @techcrunch, @tomwarrenuk, @joannastern, @threads, and @keithedwards
| 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, BleepingComputer, Reuters, and CircleID
Mastodon: @dangoodin@infosec.exchange and @neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org
Forums: r/technology and Ars OpenForum
| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
OpenAI disrupted five influence operations in the past three months that accessed its products to covertly manipulate public opinion or shape political outcomes — Covert propagandists have already begun using generative artificial intelligence to boost their influence operations.
More: New York Times, OpenAI, NPR, South China Morning Post, and Tech Xplore
X: @krishnanrohit, @miles_brundage, @benimmo, @mikeisaac, and @mikeisaac. LinkedIn: Katrina Mulligan. Forums: r/ActiveMeasures
| 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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to overhaul Siri with more advanced AI, a move that will allow Siri to take command of all the features within apps for the first time — - The feature will be at the heart of renewed Apple push into AI — Idea is to operate features within individual apps using voice
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Macworld, Supercharged, Digital Trends, Mashable, and Tom's Guide
| 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 is the latest company to gain approval from the FAA — Company will integrate drones into same-day delivery network
More: About Amazon, The Register, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, Associated Press, Engadget, TechEBlog, TechCrunch, Axios, CNBC, PCMag, Chain Store Age, GeekWire, and The Verge
| Katie Paul / Reuters: |
Google and Magic Leap partner to build immersive experiences that blend the physical and digital worlds, but offer few details; Google is a Magic Leap investor — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google and augmented reality startup Magic Leap are forming a strategic technology partnership and working …
More: Magic Leap, UploadVR, Road to VR, 9to5Google, SiliconANGLE, Digital Trends, Refresh Miami, Patently Apple, Benzinga, MSPoweruser, Tech Startups, Quartz, and Mobile World Live
Threads: @benedictevans and @documentingmeta
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google rolls out new features to Android, including editing sent messages in Google Messages, improvements to instant hotspot, a Google Home widget, and more — Google is releasing seven new updates and features to make Android devices and services more useful.| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
Anthropic releases “tool use” for Claude, letting users create AI assistants, available via Anthropic's Messages API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google's Vertex AI — Anthropic is releasing a new feature for its AI chatbot Claude that will let anyone create an email assistant …
More: Wired, ZDNet, New.blicio.us, VentureBeat, Anthropic, and Maginative
X: @minimaxir, @anthropicai, @alexalbert__, @anthropicai, and @anthropicai
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Fire TV's Alexa voice search, rolling out now: powered by a custom LLM to be more conversational, but the suggestions are largely disappointing — Navigating the sheer volume of streaming content available today can be a full-time job. Recommendations from friends, blog posts … | 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, The Register, Ars Technica, TechSpot, Framework, New.blicio.us, BetaNews, PC Gamer, Windows Central, PC Guide, Tom's Hardware, How-To Geek, Laptop Mag, PCMag, PCWorld, XDA Developers, Engadget, and Phoronix. Forums: r/LinusTechTips
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
On X, Paul Graham says claims about YC firing Sam Altman are “not true”, and Altman left because he wanted to work full-time on OpenAI as its CEO — In a series of posts on X on Thursday, Paul Graham, the co-founder of startup accelerator Y Combinator, brushed off claims …
More: Marcus on AI, Forbes, and Benzinga
X: @paulg, @1010towncrier, @myprasanna, @krishnanrohit, @paulg, @paulg, @edzitron, and @esyudkowsky
| 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.| 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 …
More: Phoronix, Tom's Hardware, Fierce Electronics, TechPowerUp, Tech Monitor, VentureBeat, and WinBuzzer
| Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
Dell reports Q1 revenue up 6% YoY to $22.24B, vs. 21.64B est., Client revenue flat YoY at $11.97B, and Infrastructure revenue up 22% YoY to $9.23B — Dell Technologies (DELL.N) beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter revenue on Thursday, ending a streak of six-quarters of decline … | Jody Godoy / Reuters: |
Filing: Terraform Labs and founder Do Kwon reach a tentative settlement with the US SEC in its case alleging they misled investors before TerraUSD's collapse — Singapore-based Terraform Labs and its founder Do Kwon have reached a tentative settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission …
More: The Block, Decrypt, The Crypto Times, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph, Bitcoin Insider, and CoinGape
| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Babylon, which builds infrastructure to let proof-of-stake systems obtain staking capital from bitcoin, raised $70M led by Paradigm, after raising $18M in 2023 — - The Bitcoin staking protocol Babylon raised $70 million in fresh financing led by Paradigm.
More: PRWeb, FinSMEs, CoinDesk, Decrypt, Bloomberg, VC News Daily, CoinGape, NFTgators, and The Crypto Times
X: @babylon_chain and @arjunblj
| 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.
More: About Amazon, About Amazon, CNET, PYMNTS.com, How-To Geek, Investor's Business Daily, The Hill, Lifewire, Chain Store Age, Engadget, Reuters, Tom's Guide, Bloomberg, Cord Cutters News, Quartz, Android Authority, Nation's Restaurant News, Just Eat Takeaway.com newsroom, USA Today, GeekWire, The Verge, and CNBC. X: @justeattakeaway
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Sources and docs: Twitch terminates its Safety Advisory Council, which consisted of experts, streamers and moderators who consulted on trust and safety issues — Twitch on Friday will terminate all members of its Safety Advisory Council, according to sources familiar with the situation and documents viewed by CNBC.
Threads: @haydenfield
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: US has delayed license requests from chipmakers for AI accelerator shipments to the Middle East and is worried about the tech getting diverted to China — - License requests from chipmakers delayed for policy review — US is worried about the technology getting diverted to China| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta account for 30% of the S&P 500 Index, up from ~26% at the start of the year, after a surge driven by Nvidia — - The six companies had a weighting of 26% at the start of 2024 — Surge has been driven by Nvidia, which is up 130% this year| 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.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Instagram expands its Limits tool for teens to let them restrict unwanted interactions and limit comments, messages, story replies, and more to Close Friends — In a bid to combat harassment on its platform, Instagram said on Thursday it is expanding the scope of its “Limits” …
More: Engadget, The Verge, Phandroid, PhoneArena, GSMArena.com, Mashable, 9to5Mac, Benzinga, and NewsBytes
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Firefly, which provides cloud asset management with an infrastructure-as-code solution, raised a $23M Series A led by Vertex — A startup called Firefly that's tackling the thorny and growing issue of cloud asset management with an “infrastructure as code” solution has raised $23 million in funding.Sponsor Posts
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