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A US judge bars NSO Group from targeting WhatsApp users and cuts the ~$168M damages verdict awarded to Meta by a jury in May to $4M, ruling it was excessive — Meta previously won $168 million in damages over claims spyware compromised WhatsApp users, but a judge reduced the damages down to $4 million.
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Google says North Korea hackers are using “EtherHiding” to embed malware on blockchains, the first time it has seen a nation-state threat actor using the method — North Korean hackers have adopted the ‘EtherHiding’ technique that leverages smart contracts to host and deliver malware … | Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
An interview with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on the company's new Content Signals Policy, which lets sites fine tune how their data can be used by crawlers — It could be a consequential act of quiet regulation. Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company, has updated millions … | Andy Newman / New York Times: |
Two Wikipedia contributors disarmed a gunman who threatened to kill himself at WikiConference to protest a policy banning editors who identify as pedophiles — After the man walked onto the stage at the “Wiki World's Fair” event and threatened to kill himself, witnesses said, two members of the audience jumped in to stop him.
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| Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Inside the discussions between OpenAI and talent agencies about the video app Sora; some agents say studios have been too reluctant to challenge tech giants — OpenAI's CEO brazenly regurgitated major studios' characters to allow video app Sora 2 to spit out clips tailor-made for users.
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The AI boom has pushed SF's residential rents up by the most in the US over the past year, as AI companies lease apartments and offer rent stipends to employees — The artificial intelligence gold rush has pushed San Francisco's residential rents up by the most in the nation …
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Marc Benioff apologizes for saying Trump should send the National Guard to SF, says the comments were made out of “an abundance of caution” around Dreamforce — Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff apologized on Friday for making comments in support of President Donald Trump sending federal troops …
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Nexperia's China unit asserts its operational independence and compliance with Chinese laws amid escalating tensions with Nexperia Netherlands — Nexperia's China unit has respected Chinese laws and has the right to operate independently, it said on Saturday, a day after the Netherlands … | John Kang / Forbes: |
Shares of ISU Petasys, a South Korea-based multi-layer PCB supplier for AI servers used by Alphabet, Nvidia, Microsoft, and others, are up 215% so far this year — Based in Daegu, a city in southeastern South Korea, ISU Petasys makes multi-layer printed circuit boards that hold chips and other components for AI servers.| Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
Inside Hyperliquid, a booming DEX for perpetual crypto futures still controlled by a small insider group, raising questions about how decentralized it really is — In just two years, a little-known decentralized exchange built by a small group of engineers has drawn heavyweight investors and billions in trading volume.| Kendra Barnett / Adweek: |
Google is phasing out its Privacy Sandbox technologies; the initiative was launched in 2019 to develop privacy-protecting tech to replace third-party cookies — The elimination of many remaining Privacy Sandbox APIs come six months after third-party cookies got a reprieve in Chrome.
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Senate Republicans share an AI-generated video falsely depicting Chuck Schumer saying on camera comments he made in a print interview on the government shutdown — Add AP News to Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share
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| Christian Davies / Financial Times: |
South Korea restricts travel to Cambodia over online scam center kidnappings; the UK and US sanction Cambodia's Prince Group for allegedly running scam centers — Seoul says 330 of its nationals detained or abducted in the first eight months of this year — South Korea has prohibited …
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| Bloomberg: |
Mexico-based fintech Plata, approved for a banking license in December 2024, raised $250M at a $3.1B valuation, as it seeks to transition to a full-fledged bank — Mexico-based Plata raised $250 million through a new equity funding round valuing the company at $3.1 billion … Sponsor Posts
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