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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
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: |
US charges a Ukrainian suspect, arrested in Poland last month, and a Russian citizen over REvil attacks, and says it seized $6M in ransom payments — (CNN)Law enforcement officials have seized an estimated $6 million in ransom payments, and the US Justice Department is expected to announce Monday …
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NBC News, U.S. Department of Justice, Gizmodo, The Hill, Protocol, Bloomberg, Associated Press, CyberScoop, SecurityWeek, and DataBreaches.net. Tweets: @kylegriffin1
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
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 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, including a 96-core Genoa model and a 128-core Bergamo chip.
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AnandTech, Engadget, ServeTheHome, Wccftech, and Phoronix
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
AMD says chips with new 3D-stacked L3 cache tech, allowing up to 768MB of 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 … | Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Niantic launches Lightship, a platform to build “real-world metaverse” AR iOS and Android apps, and commits $20M to fund companies building AR apps — The maker of Pokémon Go wants to power future AR glasses. — Niantic is releasing a platform for building what it calls “real-world metaverse” apps.
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Wired, SiliconANGLE, Niantic, TechCrunch, and The Information
Tweets: @msquinn, @kevinmarks, @technacity, @alexeheath, and @msquinn
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple will continue accepting App Store submissions throughout the holidays for the first time, though reviews may take longer from Nov. 24-28 and Dec. 23-27 — Apple today announced that developers will be able to submit new and updated app submissions via App Store Connect throughout the upcoming holiday season.
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Apple Developer, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, and The Mac Observer
Tweets: @martinsfp, @macrumors, and @9to5mac
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft launches Visual Studio 2022, its first 64-bit version, with Hot Reload for making code changes while an app is running, and .NET 6, with Arm64 support — It's a big week for developers using Microsoft's Visual Studio and .NET platforms. — On November 8, Microsoft …
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.NET Blog, Thurrott, Windows Central, XDA Developers, and OnMSFT.com
| Hirsh Chitkara / Protocol: |
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.| 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, Crypto Briefing, Crowdfund Insider, and CoinDesk
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Drata, which uses automation to help companies obtain ISO and 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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FinSMEs, SecurityWeek, and Crunchbase News
| Bloomberg: |
Advent International agrees to take McAfee private in a $14B+ deal that includes ~$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, SiliconANGLE, Barron's Online, San Francisco Business Journal, Reuters, Business Wire, MarketWatch, TechRadar, and SecurityWeek. Tweets: @business
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