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| Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: |
Law enforcement from 11 countries, including the FBI and UK National Crime Agency, disrupt the LockBit gang and seize 11K domains used to facilitate ransomware — - Law enforcement from 11 agencies joined in cyber operation — Ransomware websites used by hackers seized to thwart attacks
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Wyze says ~13,000 customers could briefly see others' camera feeds, after a similar issue in 2023; Wyze blames glitches in rebooting systems after an AWS outage — It's, unfortunately, increasingly common for security cameras to have a glitch that exposes data from one user's system …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The European Commission opens an investigation into whether TikTok breached DSA rules meant to protect children, the second DSA investigation after one into X — The European Commission has opened formal proceedings against ByteDance's TikTok under the Digital Services Act (DSA) …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google engineers hacked a Sony PlayStation Portal to run games locally via a PPSSPP emulator in a “software based” exploit; the Portal can only stream PS5 games — Sony's new PlayStation Portal has been hacked by Google engineers to run emulated games locally.
More: VideoCardz.com, Video Games Chronicle, Wccftech, Wololo.net, and Liliputing
| Wall Street Journal: |
Tech investors and founders are flocking back to San Francisco, which is undergoing an AI boom, after leaving during the pandemic for Miami and other US cities — In 2020, venture capitalist Keith Rabois urged startup founders to join him in ditching San Francisco for Miami …
More: PYMNTS.com, Daily Mail, and Business Insider
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
MariaDB, which went public via SPAC in December 2022, gets an offer from K1 to go private in a $37M deal, or $0.55/share, far below its $672M Series D valuation — MariaDB is the subject of another potential takeover bid, as the company behind the eponymous open source relational database management system …
More: Silicon Republic, Business Wire, K1 Investment Management, and SiliconANGLE
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on needing more than scale to get to AGI, developing AI agents, Gemini Pro 1.5, the UK AI Safety Institute, and more — In an interview with WIRED, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says the biggest breakthroughs in AI are yet to come—and will take more than just chips.| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
The US awards $1.5B to GlobalFoundries from the $52B CHIPS Act, plus $1.6B in loans, to build a fab at its HQ in Malta, New York, and to expand its Fab 8 plant — The massive grant, part of the Chips Act, will help the U.S. establish a homegrown supply for some of the most critical components of modern life.
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X: @sengillibrand, @donal888, @mackhawk, @govkathyhochul, @globalfoundries, and @senschumer. Forums: Hacker News
| South China Morning Post: |
Meizu, which was acquired by Chinese automaker Geely in 2022, will no longer make smartphones, to pursue an “all in AI” strategy over the next three years — - Meizu said it is terminating all traditional smartphone projects to focus on developing artificial intelligence-enabled handsets
More: Gizmochina, GSMArena.com, Liliputing, 9to5Google, Phandroid, Android Headlines, Gizchina, DigiTimes, and Sparrows News
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft fixes a bug that caused Edge to automatically import Chrome tabs and browsing data without consent, following months of complaints from some users — Microsoft has fixed an issue where its Edge browser was again misbehaving, this time by automatically importing browsing data and tabs from Chrome without consent.| HouseFresh: |
How some big outlets are inundating the web with bad product recommendations without testing the products, and how Google is helping them through inaction — And why you shouldn't trust product recommendations from big media publishers ranking at the top of Google
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/google
| Chris Kerr / Game Developer: |
Steam Annual Summary for 2023: more than 500 games earned $3M+ in gross revenue for the first time ever, concurrent users reached a record 33M, and more — More than 500 games earned over $3 million in gross revenue on Steam in 2023 for the first time ever.
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