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A US judge sentences Ukrainian Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov, who helped lead the prolific Zeus malware gang, to 18 years in jail and orders payment of $73M+ — The cybercrime boss, who helped lead the prolific Zeus malware gang and was on the FBI's “most wanted” list for years … | Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Arm unveils Accuracy Super Resolution, an upscaler for mobile games based on AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution 2, available under the MIT open-source license — Arm “Accuracy Super Resolution” is optimized for power use and integrated GPUs. — Some of the best Arm processors come …
More: Arm Community, The Verge, TweakTown, Digital Trends, OC3D, TechSpot, VideoCardz.com, Tom's Hardware, and PC Gamer
| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
The US SEC drops its investigation into Paxos over its BUSD stablecoin issued in partnership with Binance, after sending Paxos a Wells notice in February 2023 — As the crypto industry continues its calls for regulatory clarity, a glaring question has been whether stablecoins …
More: Paxos, Unchained, CryptoSlate, Bloomberg, The Block, Crypto Briefing, CryptoPotato, The Daily Hodl, Protos, Decrypt, The Information, Coinpedia Fintech News, Bitcoin Insider, CoinGape, The Crypto Times, Cryptopolitan, Watcher Guru, Milk Road, crypto.news, Cryptonews, and Cointelegraph
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI creates five levels to track its progress toward AGI: Chatbots, Reasoners, Agents, Innovators, and Organizations, and says it's nearly at level two — The company believes its technology is approaching the second level of five on the path to artificial general intelligence
More: Benzinga, PYMNTS.com, The Information, The Crypto Times, The Verge, and Quartz
Forums: r/artificial and r/singularity
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Signal plans to roll out a beta version of its desktop apps that tightens the security of how it stores plain text encryption keys, after downplaying the issue — Signal is finally tightening its desktop client's security by changing how it stores plain text encryption keys for the data store after downplaying the issue since 2018.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Chainalysis: more than half of all illicit transaction volume in crypto now winds up on centralized exchanges — - Chainalysis finds record stablecoin usage in suspect activity — Over half of illegal funds wind up on centralized exchanges — Suspect digital wallets have distributed close …
More: Unchained, crypto.news, Chainalysis, The Crypto Times, The Block, Cointelegraph, and CryptoPotato. Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social
| Financial Times: |
SoftBank buys struggling UK-based chipmaker Graphcore with regulatory approval; sources: the deal is valued at ~$600M, less than the ~$700M Graphcore had raised — Deal will give Bristol-based company a resource boost while advancing the ‘next big bet’ of Masayoshi Son's group
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| Wired: |
Arab and Muslim workers at Meta detail frustrations over Meta's handling of internal discussions on the Israel-Hamas war, worrying it led to bad product choices — Arab and Muslim workers at Meta allege that its response to the crisis in Gaza is one-sided and out of hand.| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
IDC estimates that Apple will sell under 500K Vision Pro units in 2024, and the headset's international launch will offset a 75% QoQ drop in US sales in Q3 2024 — - The pricey headset's US sales are expected to plummet — A more affordable model in a year's time should help momentum
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| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Asia-based startups raised only $14.6B in Q2 2024, down 24% from Q1 and 32% YoY, with only 1,511 funding deals announced in Q2, down 15% from Q1 and 27% YoY — Despite a slight resurgence across the global venture funding landscape, Asia seems to be left behind.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A May 2024 data breach at mobile spyware company mSpy leaked millions of customer support tickets, including personal data, its third known breach since 2010 — Customer service emails dating back to 2014 exposed in May breach — A data breach at the phone surveillance operation mSpy …
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| Sean Lyngaas / CNN: |
Sources: US car dealership software provider CDK Global appears to have paid ~$25M to hackers on June 21, after a ransomware attack shut down its systems — CDK Global, a software firm serving car dealerships across the US that was roiled by a cyberattack last month, appears to have paid … | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
A Google DeepMind research paper details how Gemini 1.5 Pro's 1M-token context window lets Google's robots navigate and complete tasks using simple instructions — Google is training its robots with Gemini AI so they can get better at navigation and completing tasks.
More: arXiv, TechRadar, Maginative, Digital Trends, and Wired
| Bloomberg: |
Apple settles with the EU over Apple Pay and avoids potential fines by agreeing to open NFC access on iOS to third-party wallet developers for free for a decade — - EU accepts Apple pledge to open up payment tech to rivals — Firm still faces mounting EU antitrust scrutiny in other areas
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Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Two Republican US House Committee chairs call for an intelligence assessment of Microsoft's deal with Abu Dhabi's G42, including a focus on G42's China ties — - GOP officials concerned China could access sensitive US tech — Lawmakers have had ‘productive’ conversations with Microsoft
More: Reuters, PYMNTS.com, Cryptopolitan, Rest of World, and Dark Reading
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
YouTube announces new Shorts features, including TikTok-like text-to-speech video narration, in-app auto-generated captions, and a set of Minecraft effects — YouTube has announced a set of new features for YouTube Shorts, some of which are available now, like a new text-to-speech video narration … | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Regard, which saves physicians time by analyzing patients' health data using AI, raised a $61M Series B led by Oak HC/FT, a source says at a $350M valuation — People in tech often say that data is the new oil. That phrase, coined by British mathematician Clive Humby, of course implies that data is valuable.
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