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Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa says the company plans to announce its Switch successor in the coming year; the Switch has sold 141M+ units since 2017 — - Company missed profit estimates for the March quarter — Outlook falls shy of expectations as flagship console ages
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Forums: r/Genshin_Impact, r/NintendoPH, r/nintendo, r/NintendoSwitch, and r/Games
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Sources: Apple has been working on its own chip designed to run AI software in data center servers; the project is internally codenamed Project ACDC — The company is leaning on its long history of chip development in the effort, code-named Project ACDC — Apple has been working …
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| Sky News: |
Sources: China has hacked a payroll system used by the UK's Ministry of Defence, targeting service personnel; names and bank details have been exposed — MPs will be told on Tuesday of a massive data breach involving the Ministry of Defence, targeting service personnel.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail an attack against many VPN apps that force them to send some or all traffic outside of the VPN encrypted tunnel; Android mitigates the flaw — TunnelVision vulnerability has existed since 2002 and may already be known to attackers. — Researchers have devised an attack …
More: Leviathan Security Group and Krebs on Security
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| Kyle Alspach / CRN: |
Google Cloud unveils Google Threat Intelligence, which uses Gemini and combines insights from Mandiant, VirusTotal, and Google to provide faster protection — Launched at RSAC 2024, the new Google Threat Intelligence offering provides faster protection against threats by combining insights from Mandiant …
More: Google Cloud Blog, The Verge, Hindustan Times, TechRadar, VirusTotal Blog, SiliconANGLE, Quartz, SecurityWeek, VentureBeat, and ZDNet
| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Sources: Microsoft is training MAI-1, a new, in-house AI model with ~500B parameters, large enough to compete with top models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI — For the first time since it invested more than $10 billion into OpenAI in exchange for the rights to reuse the startup's AI models …
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LinkedIn: Kevin Scott and Aaron Holmes
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| Ben Dickson / VentureBeat: |
A study by Meta researchers suggests that training LLMs to predict multiple tokens at once, instead of just the next token, results in better and faster models — In a recent study, researchers at Meta, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech and Université Paris-Saclay suggest improving the accuracy …
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| Rick Claypool / Public Citizen: |
OpenSecrets: crypto sector-backed super PACs have raised $102M+ so far, the third-most of 2024 election PACs, including $54M from companies like Coinbase — Key Findings — Super PACs backed by the cryptocurrency sector have raised more than $102 million, the third-most of all super PACs engaged …
More: Politico, CryptoSlate, Reuters, PYMNTS.com, CoinGape, Cointelegraph, and The Crypto Times
| David E. Sanger / New York Times: |
US and Chinese diplomats plan to meet later in May to find common ground on AI usage and situations where AI should be banned, like controlling nuclear arsenals — The new U.S. approach to cyberthreats comes as early optimism about a “global internet” connecting the world has been shattered.
More: United States Department …, Cybernews.com, and Infosecurity
X: @secblinken, @secblinken, @ericgeller, and @ravirockks
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
UK-based Wayve, which is developing a self-learning system for autonomous driving, raised a $1.05B Series C led by SoftBank, the UK's largest AI fundraise ever — Wayve, a U.K.-born startup developing a self-learning rather than rule-based system for autonomous driving … | Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: |
Amazon announces plans to double its cloud infrastructure investment in Singapore to $9B over the next four years, to meet the cloud and AI demand — - Cloud operator is latest global tech company to target region — Firms grow in Southeast Asia as they diversify away from China
More: Nikkei Asia, Silicon Republic, Tech in Asia, Benzinga, Tech Xplore, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, and CNBC
| Reuters: |
Synopsys agrees to sell its Software Integrity Group business to a private equity consortium led by Clearlake and Francisco Partners, in a deal valued at $2.1B — Synopsys (SNPS.O) will sell its software integrity (SIG) unit to a private equity consortium led by Clearlake Capital …
More: FinTech Global, SecurityWeek, Synopsys, Inc., FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, PitchBook, Pulse 2.0, and Bloomberg
X: @synopsysappsec, @iancutress, and @synopsys
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