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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Chat logs reveal DOGE member Edward Coristine's ties to cybercrime community The Com, and a Telegram handle linked to him sought a DDoS-for-hire service in 2022 — Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) …
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Bluesky: @lizthegrey.com, @timmarchman, @malwaretech.com, @pfish.zone, @morecoffeeplz, and @jsweetli. Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange. X: @awinston
Forums: r/cybersecurity and r/Intelligence
| CNBC: |
More: Vox, NBC News, Mediaite, RedState, New York Post, ProPublica, Washington Post, Mercury News, Politico, New Republic, The Register, Raw Story, Mashable, American Greatness, The Wrap, NBC Bay Area, Axios, Axios, Business Insider, OutsideTheBeltway, HuffPost, Scripps News, Gizmodo, Townhall, Forbes, Truthout, The National Pulse, PinkNews, WGN-TV, Bloomberg, Daily Kos, and Futurism
Bluesky: @normative, @trenchdiggr, @jj-bristol, @oxcub311, @stephenblackmoore.com, @refocused-24, @glynmoody, @yair-rosenberg, @pkwsj, @rmac, @philinvestigates.com, @rimaanabtawi, @dell, @evacide, @emptywheel, @mmasnick, @michaelianblack, and @alexeheath.com. Threads: @chrislhayes
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Forums: r/TheSecondTerm, r/Destiny, r/RepublicanValues, r/nottheonion, r/Fuckthealtright, and r/politics
| Bloomberg: |
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Bluesky: @malwarejake and @carlquintanilla
| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Filing: Kash Patel, Trump's nominee to head FBI, was allotted Shein shares of $1M to $5M in exchange for consulting services; he has no plans to divest them — Donald Trump's pick for FBI director told senators he has no plans to divest his shares, which his financial disclosure form …
More: The Information, Associated Press, Reuters, and Raw Story
Bluesky: @zeyiyang, @coachfinstock, @dell, and @lmatsakis
X: @sollenbergerrc, @senatordurbin, @rhcm123, @sollenbergerrc, @tysonbrody, @sollenbergerrc, @rushdoshi, and @sollenbergerrc
Forums: r/news, r/Conservative, r/economicCollapse, r/FBI, r/StockMarket, r/neoliberal, r/NewColdWar, r/China, and r/politics
| Financial Times: |
Sources: the UK used Snoopers' Charter to send a “technical capability notice” to Apple; notice recipients aren't allowed to warn users of weakened security — Bid to tap customers' accounts could weaken security for iPhone users all over the world
More: The Verge, BBC, Techdirt, Ars Technica, The Guardian, MacRumors, Metro.co.uk, TechCrunch, Forbes, Reuters, Daily Mail, ComputerWeekly.com, MobileSyrup, PCMag, Pixel Envy, Macworld, TechSpot, Newser, Tech.co, iClarified, The Independent, CyberInsider, MacDailyNews, Sky News, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, TechRadar, The Apple Post, New Scientist, WebProNews, Gizmodo, The Sun, Metacurity, DeviceSecurity.io, The Standard, BGR, Cyber Security News, The Stack, MacStories, CNBC, Engadget, PhoneArena, NWAonline, and U.Today. Mastodon: @kayeluvian@the.voiceover.bar
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
PlayStation Network has been experiencing a multi-hour outage, affecting account management, gaming and social, and PlayStation Video, Store, and Direct website — PSN has been experiencing a multi-hour outage. You might have trouble loading purchased digital games or seeing which friends are online.
More: PlayStation, Forbes, The Sun, Comic Book, Video Games Chronicle, Dexerto, Insider Gaming, Gizchina.com, PlayStation LifeStyle, Push Square, The Mirror, Metro.co.uk, Kotaku, Engadget, Game Rant, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Authority, WUSA, Press Start, Insider Gaming, IGN, Push Square, Stevivor, and KFMB
| Punchbowl News: |
Sources: Trump has tasked JD Vance and National Security Adviser Michael Waltz with overseeing a potential sale of TikTok — Vance is in charge of “quarterbacking a deal to save TikTok,” according to a source familiar with the matter. Waltz and the National Security Council are in charge … | CNBC: |
Sources: Anduril is in talks to raise up to $2.5B, led by Founders Fund with a $1B commitment, at a $28B valuation; Anduril's revenue in 2024 doubled to ~$1B — WATCH NOW — Anduril, the defense-tech startup founded by Palmer Luckey, has signed a term sheet to raise capital at a $28 billion valuation …
More: CNBC, The Information, TechCrunch, New York Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, and Forbes
X: @duderichy, @packym, @ceoondas, and @palmerluckey
Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/PLTR
| Reuters: |
SolarWinds says it will go private in a $4.4B deal with buyout firm Turn/River Capital; SWI closes up 21.8% — SolarWinds (SWI.N) said on Friday it would go private in a $4.4 billion deal with buyout firm Turn/River Capital, the latest sign debt-funded deals were set to rebound this year as borrowing costs decline.
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Stripe competitor Rapyd is in talks to raise $300M from investors at a $3.5B valuation, a dramatic decline from its valuation of around $9B in 2021 — The high-profile startup is in talks for a funding round that would shave billions off its value.| Ananya Bhattacharya / Rest of World: |
A look at the daunting task for Google and others of mapping roads and maintaining accurate maps in India, amid growing reports of misdirections in the country — Maintaining accurate maps is a daunting task in a country where road names and addresses are not standardized.| Fei-Fei Li / Financial Times: |
Three fundamental principles for the future of AI policymaking: have a clear view of reality, be pragmatic instead of ideological, and empower the AI ecosystem — It is possible to develop a model with the best intentions, and for that model to be misused later on| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Trump issues an EO pausing the removal of the de minimis exemption on goods from China until systems are in place to “process and collect tariff revenue” — President Donald Trump has paused the removal of the de minimis exemption on goods from China.
More: Wired, The White House, Benzinga, TechCrunch, Business Insider, RetailWire, Forbes, Liliputing, Reuters, Breitbart, CNBC, Bloomberg, FreightWaves, Compact, The Information, and ZeroHedge News
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
DeepMind says its AlphaGeometry2 model solved 84% of International Math Olympiad's geometry problems from the last 25 years, surpassing average gold medalists — An AI system developed by Google DeepMind, Google's leading AI research lab, appears to have surpassed the average gold medalist …
More: Nature, arXiv.org, and The Decoder
Bluesky: @daytontalk. X: @umesh_ai, @deedydas, @bennpeifert, @deryatr_, @hindookissinger, and @deedydas
Forums: r/singularity and r/technology
| Thomas Germain / BBC: |
An Adalytics report shows how ad systems run by Google, Amazon, Microsoft and others inadvertently placed ads on a website that hosts CSAM — Some of the biggest tech companies in the world served ads on a website featuring images of child abuse, helping to fund its operations.| Hideaki Ryugen / Nikkei Asia: |
MediaTek reports sales up 22.4% YoY to ~$16.2B in 2024 and net profit up 38.2% YoY to ~$3.24B, posting its first sales and profit growth in two fiscal years — TAIPEI — Major Taiwanese chip designer MediaTek looks to apply its low-power design know-how to products geared toward artificial intelligence …
More: Reuters, PhoneArena, MediaTek, Taipei Times, Taipei Times, and Android Headlines
| Euan Healy / Financial Times: |
Investors worry about EU satellite operators Eutelsat and SES amid soaring debt and rise of Starlink, which now has 6,000+ satellites and serves ~130 countries — Growing competition from US rivals weighs on indebted European satellite operators — Investors are growing increasingly concerned …
More: iPhone in Canada Blog, Total Telecom, and Telecoms Tech News
| Financial Times: |
Docs: Palantir has won $2.7B+ in US contracts since 2009, including $1.3B+ in Pentagon contracts, and spent $5.8M in lobbying in 2024, up from ~$1M in 2015 — Peter Thiel-chaired group has Washington and Westminster network that helped secure around $3bn in official contracts
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