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A profile of Brain Krebs, who in the past 20 years has probed and outed some of the worst cybercriminals, including the alleged hackers of Snowflake clients — In the increasingly dangerous world of cybercrime, Brian Krebs faces threats, manipulation and the odd chess challenge
Mastodon: @nixonnixoff@infosec.exchange and @briankrebs@infosec.exchange. X: @eastdakota. Forums: Hacker News
| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Broadcom shelves plans to work directly with the top 2,000 VMware customers, focusing on just 500 and giving 1,500 back to partners as a way to stem migrations — Now wants to work with 500 and lean more on partners to defend against migrations - which Dell says are on the cards
More: Ars Technica, TechRadar, Constellation Research, and TechSpot
LinkedIn: Alastair Edwards and Paul Echelmeyer
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
X adds Aurora, an AI image generator that appears to excel at photorealistic images; Aurora has disappeared for some users after going live for a few hours — X, the Elon Musk-owned social network previously known as Twitter, has added a new image generator to its Grok assistant.
More: PCMag, Neowin, Business Insider, UPI, Cryptopolitan, The Verge, and The Decoder
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| Axios: |
Sources: the US has approved the export of advanced AI chips to a Microsoft-operated facility in the UAE as part of the company's partnership with G42 — - Lawmakers have raised concerns over the partnership, saying there is a risk it could open up a back door for China to access the advanced technology.
More: Reuters, Tech in Asia, Reuters, and eWeek
| The Guardian: |
An analysis of US FEC data: Trump received $273.2M in donations from tech executives and VCs, including $242.6M from Elon Musk, while Harris received $120.9M — FEC filings offer only a glimpse of the money tech is pouring into Washington as it seeks to influence government
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
The Intel Foundry Technology Research team announces breakthroughs in interconnect scaling, gate-all-around transistors, and packaging — Smaller, faster, better. — Today, the Intel Foundry Technology Research team announced technology breakthroughs in 2D transistor technology using … | Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a planned project aiming to make Chicago a quantum computing hub with PsiQuantum as the anchor tenant — An industrial park taking shape on an old steel mill site provides a glimpse into the quantum future| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Chatbot Arena, which now ranks over 170 AI models and was launched in 2023 by two UCB researchers who hope to grow the project into a Wikipedia of AI — Ranking AI is tricky, so two students developed a way to make the best bots battle — BERKELEY, Calif.—Record labels have the Billboard Hot 100.| Gillian Tett / Financial Times: |
As digital assets go more mainstream, memecoins like PNUT, named after a euthanised pet squirrel, show how the information ecosystem is changing in finance — Ordinary investors need to pay attention to new information flows online — Dead squirrels normally do not feature in financial history.
More: New York Post
| Yongchang Chin / Bloomberg: |
Ant President Cyril Han will succeed Eric Jing as CEO on March 1; Jing will remain company chairman and Han, who is also the CFO, will continue reporting to him — Han will succeed Eric Jing as CEO on March 1 and be responsible for all business segments and daily management …
More: South China Morning Post, Reuters, and Tech in Asia
| Financial Times: |
Sources: ByteDance has taken an early lead in the generative AI race in China by poaching top talent from rivals and becoming Nvidia's biggest buyer in China — Beijing-based company has lured top AI talent from local rivals while becoming China's biggest buyer of Nvidia chips
More: TechRadar
| Financial Times: |
Meta says there are no plans to release its AI-powered coding tool Metamate externally; Metamate lacks the more autonomous, agent-like features of rivals' tools — Social media group targets burgeoning artificial intelligence sector as it develops ‘Metamate’ workplace assistant
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