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A profile of CrowdStrike, founded in 2011 and used by 300 companies in the Fortune 500; Gartner: CrowdStrike has ~15% of the global security software market — The little-known company is very popular in Corporate America, contributing to the severity of the global IT outage| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
The outage appears to have been caused by CrowdStrike pushing a faulty update to its Falcon software that causes Windows machines to get stuck in a boot loop — On Friday morning, some of the biggest airlines, TV broadcasters, banks, and other essential services came to a standstill as a massive outage rippled across the globe.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Over 200 Bethesda Game Studios workers unionize with the CWA, forming the first “wall-to-wall” union at a Microsoft game studio; Microsoft recognized the union — Bethesda Game Studios workers have voted to join the Communications Workers of America, forming the first wall-to-wall union at a Microsoft video game studio.
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
The UK and US announce the arrest of a 17-year-old boy from Walsall, UK, suspected of being connected to the ransomware attack against MGM Resorts in 2023 — On Friday U.K. police announced, in a joint operation with the country's National Crime Agency (NCA) and the U.S. FBI … | Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Xiaomi unveils the Mix Fold 4, starting at ~$1,237, and the Mix Flip, its first flip foldable, with a 4.01" cover display, starting at ~$825, available in China — Xiaomi has officially launched two brand new foldables, including the firm's first ever flip device.| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Google recently approached EssilorLuxottica's leadership about putting its Gemini AI assistant in future smart glasses — Meta is planning to spend billions to buy roughly 5 percent of EssilorLuxottica, the €88 billion European eyewear giant it has collaborated with on two generations of Ray-Ban smart glasses.
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| New York Times: |
Michael Moritz urges Biden to drop out, joining other tech leaders such as Reed Hastings and the Zynga co-founder Mark Pincus in calling for Biden to step aside — Mr. Moritz became one of the party's top contributors to go public with his fears about the president's candidacy, saying that Mr. Biden had a choice: “vanity or virtue.”
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| Reuters: |
Nigeria fines Meta $220M after investigations showed data sharing on Facebook and WhatsApp violated local consumer, data protection, and privacy laws — Nigeria has fined Meta Platforms (META.O) $220 million after investigations showed data-sharing on its Facebook and WhatsApp platforms … | Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Oracle agrees to pay $115M to settle a lawsuit accusing it of invading people's privacy by collecting their personal information and selling it to third parties — Oracle (ORCL.N) agreed to pay $115 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the database software and cloud computing company …
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| Tim Culpan / Bloomberg: |
Trump's comments on Taiwan hollowing out the US chip industry are incorrect, and risks opening up a fissure for China to exploit and push its own tech sector — Viewing the US-Taiwan relationship as contentious, instead of cooperative, risks opening up a fissure for China to exploit.| Emma Beavins / FierceHealthcare: |
Healthcare payments infrastructure provider Commure plans to acquire and take private Augmedix, which develops AI ambient clinical documentation tech, for $139M — Healthcare technology company Commure plans to buy Augmedix, a healthcare artificial intelligence company founded in 2013, the companies announced Friday.
More: Benzinga, Commure, Augmedix, Inc., and HIT Consultant
| Kelsey Piper / Vox: |
Q&A with California state Senator Scott Wiener on his AI safety bill, addressing AI risks and liability concerns, critiques from the open source community, more — California legislator Scott Wiener on why the home of the AI industry is the right place to regulate it.
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
OpenAI launches GPT-4o mini, a smaller, cheaper offshoot of GPT-4o, replacing GPT-3.5 Turbo, with support for all multimodal inputs and outputs coming soon — OpenAI on Thursday launched a new AI model, “GPT-4o mini,” the artificial intelligence startup's latest effort to expand use of its popular chatbot.
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| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
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