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Microsoft releases a patch for a SharePoint 0-day RCE flaw exploited globally on thousands of on-prem servers and says SharePoint 2016 updates are in the works — - National governments in Europe, the Middle East impacted — Attackers have stolen sign-in credentials, sensitive data
More: Eye Research, Microsoft Security …, CISA, Reuters, Computerworld, Krebs on Security, BleepingComputer, Security Affairs, The Record, Forbes, Microsoft Security …, TechCrunch, The Verge, Engadget, Axios, The Boston Globe, Silicon UK, iPhone in Canada, PCMag, Help Net Security, Rapid7, The Hacker News, Associated Press, Tom's Guide, Fast Company, 9to5Mac, Mashable, ZDNET, TechCrunch, Moneycontrol, Cyber Security News, implicator.ai, The Information, Notebookcheck, UPI, CBS News, WPXI-TV, PCWorld, Business Today, Cryptopolitan, Livemint, BleepingComputer, The Register, iTnews, NewsMax.com, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg Law, SANS Internet Storm Center …, Forbes, The Stack, Cyber Security News, and Washington Post
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LinkedIn: Brian Krebs, Stefano Demiliani, Shane Morris, Bryan Law, Job Kuijpers, Ann Johnson, and Steve Faehl
Forums: Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, and r/blueteamsec
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Google says an advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think won gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad, solving 5 of 6 “exceptionally difficult” problems — The International Mathematical Olympiad ("IMO") is the world's most prestigious competition for young mathematicians, and has been held annually since 1959.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/MachineLearning, r/mlscaling, r/slatestarcodex, r/math, and Slashdot
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google reveals the design of the Pixel 10 a few weeks ahead of the launch event; it strongly resembles the Pixel 9 but has a third back camera — A few weeks ahead of the Pixel 10 launch event, Google is showing off exactly what it looks like. … Google's Pixel 10 launch event is just under …
More: Android Headlines, PCMag, CNET, Engadget, TalkAndroid.com, Neowin, Droid Life, NDTV Profit, Notebookcheck, and Android Police
| Financial Times: |
X says France's criminal probe over algorithmic “manipulation” and “fraudulent” data extraction is “distorting French law in order to serve a political agenda” — Lawmaker reported allegations over moderation and rightwing content on social media platform
More: CNBC, Politico, Ars Technica, Euractiv, Le Monde, Engadget, Mercury News, Reuters, Cryptopolitan, Reclaim The Net, UPI, TechSpot, Moneycontrol, Variety, and Türkiye Today
Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz and @justinhendrix
X: @globalaffairs, @erratarob, @prestonjbyrne, @yacinemtb, @dhh, @jasonmiller, and @defiantls
Forums: Hacker News, r/EnoughMuskSpam, and r/musked
| Mike Allen / Axios: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT users send more than 2.5B prompts globally each day, more than 330M of those are in US, and the platform has 500M weekly active users — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will use a swing through Washington this week to argue that AI is already making Americans more productive … | Alan Suderman / Associated Press: |
Critics say tokenization, led by Robinhood, could undermine securities law and investor protections that have made the US financial system the envy of the world — As cryptocurrencies become more intertwined with the traditional financial system, industry heavyweights are racing … | Bloomberg: |
Polymarket says it is buying little-known derivatives exchange QCX, in a move to legally re-enter the US market; a source says Polymarket will pay $112M — Polymarket, the crypto-betting platform that was kicked offshore by federal regulators, has struck a deal to return to the US market …
More: Polymarket, Decrypt, Inc.com, Financial Times, CryptoSlate, Sportico, ZeroHedge News, The Crypto Times, Front Office Sports, Cryptopolitan, CoinGape, Axios, The Block, TheStreet, and The Defiant. LinkedIn: Anna Irrera
| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
At the 2025 RISC-V Summit in China, Nvidia says CUDA will now be compatible with RISC-V's instruction set architecture, making RISC-V a viable x86 and Arm rival — Yet another alternative. — At the 2025 RISC-V Summit in China, Nvidia announced that its CUDA software platform …
More: The Register, VideoCardz.com, WinBuzzer, How-To Geek, TechPowerUp, Phoronix, The Decoder, and InsideHPC
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
T-Mobile plans to expand support for the L4S network standard in the coming weeks, helping high-priority internet packets move faster, a first for a US network — Latency hitches that can interrupt video calls or slow down browsing could be reduced with L4S, and T-Mobile is the first wireless company using it in the US.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers: at least 750 US hospitals faced disruptions on the day of last year's big CrowdStrike outage, and 200+ had outages related to patient care services — Of those, more than 200 appear to have had outages of services related to patient care following CrowdStrike's disastrous crash, researchers have revealed.
More: ComputerWeekly.com, Forbes, Becker's Hospital Review, TVBEurope, and IJR
| Emilio Parodi / Reuters: |
Sources: Meta, X, and LinkedIn appeal an unprecedented ~€1.04B VAT claim by Italy, which is seeking €887.6M from Meta, €12.5M from X, and ~€140M from LinkedIn — U.S. tech giants Meta (META.O), X and LinkedIn have lodged an appeal against an unprecedented VAT claim … | Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Source: Netflix is using Runway AI's video generation tools for production; Disney is testing out the tools and talked with Runway about possible uses for them — Netflix Inc. has begun using artificial intelligence video generation software from startup Runway AI, testing the waters … | Kylie Robison / Wired: |
In her first note to staff, OpenAI's incoming CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, lays out an optimistic vision for how AI will change the world — Soon-to-be former Instacart CEO Fidji Simo sent a memo to OpenAI staff Monday laying out her vision for how AI will change the world.
More: The Verge, Bloomberg, and OpenAI
Bluesky: @katie-drummond and @kylierobison.com
X: @inafried, @fidjissimo, @shuweiyang1, @fidjissimo, @gdb, @natlungfy, and @rohanpaul_ai
| Niket Nishant / Reuters: |
Figma plans to sell nearly 37M shares to raise up to $1.03B, pricing its shares between $25 and $28 each, giving it an up to $16.4B valuation in its NYSE debut — Figma is targeting a fully-diluted valuation of up to $16.4 billion in its initial public offering, as the cloud-based design …
More: Figma, Financial Times, SiliconANGLE, San Francisco Business Times, Bloomberg, Renaissance Capital, MarketWatch, CNBC, Proactive, The Information, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Axios, and PitchBook. Forums: r/FigmaDesign
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