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Revolut's 2023 revenue almost doubled to £1.8B after interest income grew from £83M in 2022 to £500M; auditor BDO gave Revolut's accounts a clean bill of health — - UK fintech's interest income jumps sixfold to £500 million — Auditor BDO gives financial accounts a clean bill of health| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Wise, Affirm, Mercury, and other companies say they're investigating how a recent ransomware attack by LockBit on Evolve Bank and Trust impacted their customers — The money transfer and fintech company Wise announced on Friday that some of its customers' personal data may have been stolen …
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| Lucian Constantin / CSO: |
Qualys researchers say an OpenSSH flaw can let attackers remotely compromise servers and allow unauthenticated RCE as root; over 14M servers may be vulnerable — Researchers from Qualys say regreSSHion allows attackers to take over servers with 14 million potentially vulnerable OpenSSH instances identified.
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| Kamila Wojciechowska / Android Authority: |
Source: Google plans AI features for Pixel 9 under the brand Google AI, including Pixel Screenshots, which lets users search their screenshots with on-device AI — Google's implementation of the feature means good news for those concerned with privacy. — •| Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Tubi launches in the UK with over 20K movies and TV episodes, featuring content from distributors including Disney, Lionsgate, NBCUniversal, and Sony Pictures — The ad-supported streamer now has more than 80 million monthly active users. — Tubi, the free advertising-supported streaming service owned …
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| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Sentient, an open-source AI development platform being built on Polygon, raised a $85M seed led by Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, and Framework Ventures — The project aims to address concerns about the proliferation of AI whereby the underlying code is concentrated in the hands of a few superpowers like Google or Meta.
More: Decrypt, The Block, Cointelegraph, and CryptoPotato
| Alicia Haddick / GamesIndustry.biz: |
A look at why Japan, due to its culture and employment laws, is not undergoing mass layoffs in the gaming industry, as Microsoft-owned Tango Gameworks closes — After Microsoft shut down Tango Gameworks, we look at the reasons why Japan has otherwise been sheltered (but not immune) to many of the layoffs and trends seen further afield| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Some YouTube employees detail internal deliberations about content relating to the Israel-Hamas war and accuse the company of inconsistent moderation — Insiders have shared YouTube's playbook for handling the Gaza crisis. They argue that it shows inconsistent enforcement.| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
The US SEC charges the parent company of Silvergate Bank and executives with misleading investors about its AML compliance strength; Silvergate settles for $50M — Silvergate Bank, once a cornerstone of the crypto financial world until its collapse in early 2023, defrauded its investors …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Northern Data is weighing a US IPO of its combined AI cloud computing and data center businesses at a ~$10B to $16B valuation as early as in H1 2025 — - Combined cloud, data center business could list on Nasdaq — Company secured financing from Tether Group to buy chips| Melanie Goodfellow / Deadline: |
VFX company DNEG raised $200M from Abu Dhabi's UASG at a $2B valuation, to expand its division Brahma, which is developing an AI-powered, photo-real CGI creator — London-based The DNEG Group has secured a $200M capital injection from Abu Dhabi investment firm United Al Saqer Group (UASG).
More: The Hollywood Reporter, Business Standard, Financial Times, Proactive, and DNEG
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| Bloomberg: |
The Biden administration awards $504M in funding for 12 regional tech hubs, including in New York and Florida, to expand research in AI, chip making, and more — - Effort aims to draw private investment around more of the US — Awards cover twelve centers, including in New York and Florida
More: Benzinga, The White House, PCMag, and Associated Press
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