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Europol arrests seven people suspected of helping with 7K+ cyberattacks since early 2019 while working with REvil and GandCrab, in a Romanian-led investigation — Europol has announced today the arrests of seven suspects who worked as “affiliates” (partners) for a major ransomware cartel …
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| CNN: |
Source: US seized $6M in ransom payments and is expected to announce charges today against a Ukrainian suspect arrested in Poland last month over REvil attacks — (CNN)Law enforcement officials have seized an estimated $6 million in ransom payments, and the US Justice Department is expected …
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Bloomberg, Associated Press, CyberScoop, NBC News, SecurityWeek, and DataBreaches.net
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AMD touts Meta as a data center chip customer, as it targets Nvidia with new chips like MI200, a family of server accelerators to boost ML and other workloads — Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.O) on Monday said it has won Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) as a data center chip customer … | Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
AMD says chips with new 3D-stacked L3 cache tech, allowing up to 768MB of total L3 cache per chip, will arrive in Q1 2022 and are in preview now on Azure — AMD CEO Lisa Su unveiled the first details about the company's EPYC Milan-X processors, which come with a 3D-stacked L3 cache called 3D V-Cache … | Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
AMD unveils Zen 4 CPU roadmap, including a 96-core Genoa chip in 2022 and a 128-core chip in 2023, both using a 5nm TSMC process that doubles power efficiency — AMD CEO Lisa Su shared the company's Zen 4 CPU roadmap today at its AMD Accelerated Data Center event, adding yet more excitement …
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Even minor actions in an NFT game can be taxable events, an inconvenient reality exacerbated by the lack of raw transaction records from many NFT games — In a matter of months, NFT gaming became a multibillion-dollar industry by combining two things people already loved: video games and getting rich from crypto.| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Several chipmakers, including TSMC, Micron, and Western Digital, responded to a US request and provided supply chain info to help address global chip shortages — - TSMC withheld customer-specific information in its response — South Korean peers will submit some data, government says| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Matter Labs, which offers an Ethereum “rollup” service that offloads transaction processing to secondary chains, raises a $50M Series B led by a16z Crypto — As some of the most popular cryptocurrencies reach all-time-highs, plenty of new users and decentralized app developers …
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Andreessen Horowitz, CoinDesk, and Crowdfund Insider
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Advent International agrees to take McAfee private in a deal worth $14B, including about $4B in debt — An investor group led by buyout firms Advent International Corp., Permira Advisers and others agreed to take McAfee Corp. private in a deal that values the cybersecurity software maker at more than $14 billion including debt.
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ZDNet, TechCrunch, Barron's Online, Financial Times, San Francisco Business Journal, Reuters, RTÉ, The Verge, Business Wire, MarketWatch, TechRadar, and SecurityWeek. Tweets: @business
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Drata, which uses automation to help companies obtain SOC compliance, raises a $100M Series B led by Iconiq Growth at a $1B valuation — Security and compliance automation platform Drata has raised $100 million in a series B round of funding, valuing the one-year-old company at a cool $1 billion.
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SecurityWeek, Drata, and Crunchbase News
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Finland-based AR display maker Dispelix raises a $33M Series B led by Atlantic Bridge, bringing its total raised to $50M — Finnish waveguide design technology company Dispelix has raised $33 million in a Series B funding round. The company makes single-layer waveguides and see-through displays …
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Andrew Ng's Landing AI, which is developing tools for manufacturers to build and deploy AI systems in factories, raises a $57M Series A led by McRock Capital — Just over a year after launching, Landing AI secured a $57 million round of Series A funding to continue building tools …
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BetaKit, VentureBeat, and CNBC
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BrightChamps, an Indian startup teaching programming and other skills to over 100K students in 10 markets including the US, raises $51M, valuing it at ~$500M — BrightChamps, an Indian edtech startup that is attempting to bridge the learning gap left by K12 schools, said on Monday …
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