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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The US and global partners dismantle the 911 S5 proxy botnet, “likely the world's largest botnet ever” affecting 19M+ IPs, and arrest its alleged administrator — The U.S. Justice Department and international partners dismantled the 911 S5 proxy botnet and arrested 35-year-old …
More: US Department of Justice, Krebs on Security, BBC, The Verge, IC3.gov News, Associated Press, Neowin, Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, Quartz, Chainalysis, and PCMag
Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange and @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
More: U.S. Department …, Wired, Reuters, Krebs on Security, The Register, PYMNTS.com, CyberScoop, Nextgov/FCW, and The Record
Mastodon: @BrideOfLinux@mastodon …. Forums: r/worldnews, r/law, r/cybersecurity, r/hacking, and r/technology
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Google confirms the authenticity of the 2,500 pages of leaked Search documents filled with details about data the company collects — A collection of 2,500 leaked internal documents from Google filled with details about data the company collects is authentic, the company confirmed today.| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
The Atlantic and Vox Media sign multi-year licensing and product deals with OpenAI; The Atlantic plans an experimental Atlantic Labs with OpenAI tech — - The Atlantic has been publishing content since 1857. … - Both agreements also allow OpenAI to tap into the respective publishers' current content …
More: The Atlantic, The Verge, Business Standard, Vox Media, SiliconANGLE, WAN-IFRA, The Hill, Aftermath, The Wrap, The Decoder, Voicebot.ai, The Crypto Times, VentureBeat, Maginative, Washington Post, The Information, Bloomberg, Engadget, The Hollywood Reporter, VentureBeat, and Variety
Threads: @quillmatiq, @reckless1280, @reckless1280, @kylie.robison, @daveleebbg, and @jbillinson
Mastodon: @joesteel@duck.haus, @mttaggart@infosec.town, and @WarnerCrocker@mastodon.social
Bluesky: @waxmonkey.bsky.social and @chrismvasq.bsky.social
X: @vox_union, @lukewgoldstein, @xpangler, @emilybell, @hermida, @vox_union, @jeffjarvis, @tsuvik, @edmundlee, @tomwarren, @stephentotilo, @edmundlee, @rafat, @openai, @nkulw, @nxthompson, and @pranavdixit. LinkedIn: Vincent Peyrègne. Forums: r/technology
| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
Ticketmaster appears to have been breached by hacker group ShinyHunters, which claims it stole 560M customers' sensitive data and is trying to sell it for $500K — Emails, phone numbers, addresses, and even financial details have allegedly been exposed by a notorious hacker group.
More: Hackread, ABC, Tom's Guide, Daily Mail, How-To Geek, The Register, Billboard, Brisbane Times, WRIC-TV, Security Boulevard, Newsweek, Quartz, SiliconANGLE, The Canberra Times, Cyber Daily, Sydney Morning Herald, and TechRadar
Threads: @crumbler and @jbillinson
Forums: Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, r/deadandcompany, r/worldnews, and r/australia
| Financial Times: |
Source: Microsoft pushed OpenAI to prioritize commercial products after the attempted coup against Sam Altman in November 2023, amplifying tensions at OpenAI — Arguments over safety and Sam Altman's leadership spill back into public domain as AI start-up hit by resignations
More: The TED AI Show and Business Insider
| The Information: |
More: 9to5Mac, Benzinga, AppleInsider, The Verge, and Marcus on AI
X: @iatalkspace, @appleinsider, @amir, and @theinformation
LinkedIn: Enam Hoque, César Beltrán Miralles, Abubakar Idris, and Matt Fleissner
| Elizabeth Napolitano / The Block: |
Mastercard pilots a P2P network for crypto transactions on Bit2Me, Lirium, and Mercado Bitcoin exchanges in 13 European and Latin American countries — - Mastercard is launching a peer-to-peer network for sending and receiving digital assets across borders.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Mistral AI releases 22B-parameter Codestral, its first generative AI model for coding, trained on 80+ programming languages and prohibited for commercial use — Mistral, the French AI startup backed by Microsoft and valued at $6 billion, has released its first generative AI model for coding, dubbed Codestral.
More: Mistral AI, Forbes, MarkTechPost, Hugging Face, Neowin, PYMNTS.com, Maginative, SiliconANGLE, Dow Jones Newswires, and VentureBeat
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LinkedIn: Mateusz Wróbel and Marjorie Janiewicz
Forums: Hacker News and r/artificial
| Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register: |
Colorado governor Jared Polis signs a right-to-repair bill that includes a strong ban on parts pairing and takes effect on January 1, 2026 — But the repairability war isn't over, says iFixit's Kyle Wiens — A right to repair rule just signed into law in Colorado is earning praise …
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X: @benlovejoy. LinkedIn: Gay Gordon-Byrne. Forums: Hacker News, r/Colorado, r/UpliftingNews, and Slashdot
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple is seeking a senior engineer to help build a TV and sports app for Android, a sign the company is bringing its TV+ service to the rival platform — - Company is seeking Android engineer to help build new app — It's rare for Apple to develop software for rival platform
More: Financial Express, Benzinga, The Apple Post, 9to5Google, Gizmodo Australia, MobileSyrup, Trusted Reviews, iClarified, Android Headlines, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Police, Cult of Mac, Android Authority, TechRadar, AppleInsider, BGR, Tom's Guide, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Lifewire, iDrop News, The Verge, and TalkAndroid.com
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Forums: r/Android, r/television, and MacRumors Forums
| Wesley Yin-Poole / IGN: |
A US federal court awards Activision $14.4M in a judgment for its 2022 lawsuit accusing EngineOwning of DMCA violation by selling Call of Duty cheat software — Owned. — A high-profile video game cheat maker has been ordered to pay Activision over $14 million in damages and hand over its domain name.
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X: @codupdates, @charlieintel, @engineowningto, @modernwarzone, @modernwarzone, @charlieintel, @ggs_ai, and @charlieintel. Forums: r/CODWarzone
| Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: |
Salesforce reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to $9.13B, vs. $9.15B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue below expectations; CRM drops 17%+ after hours — Salesforce's second quarter outlook missed expectations, but the company said it is still early innings for generative AI demand.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces the $230 Fitbit Ace LTE, a smartwatch for kids ages 7+, with games, messaging, and features for parents like location sharing — The Fitbit Ace LTE is Google's newest Wear OS device and meant to encourage kids (ages 7+) to be healthy through games, while also serving …
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| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
In a risk assessment, the US Treasury says NFTs are “highly susceptible to use in fraud and scams” and NFT platforms lack controls to combat money laundering — “Illicit actors can use NFTs to launder proceeds from predicate crimes, often in combination with other methods … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Musk and Trump talk many times/month, on topics like a role in a Trump admin, action on “voter fraud”, and X; Musk is organizing friends against Biden — Donald Trump and Elon Musk have discussed a possible advisory role for the Tesla leader should the presumptive …
More: Gizmodo, The Information, Crypto Briefing, The Hill, Bloomberg, and Rolling Stone
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Mastodon: @fj@mastodon.social and @KimPerales@toad.social
X: @jyarow, @mattgertz, @silvermanjacob, @chafkin, @silvermanjacob, @rebeccaballhaus, and @emilyglazer. Forums: r/RealTesla
| CNBC: |
UiPath CEO Rob Enslin is resigning on June 1, to be replaced by co-founder Daniel Dines, who stepped down as co-CEO on January 31; PATH drops 30%+ after hours — - CNBC Councils — CNBC on Peacock — Join the CNBC Panel — Supply Chain Values — Select Shopping — Ad Choices| Steven Lee Myers / New York Times: |
Researchers: an ex-Florida deputy sheriff who received asylum in Russia has built a network of 160+ fake news sites with the help of ChatGPT and other AI tools — In 2016, Russia used an army of trolls to interfere in the U.S. presidential election. This year, an American given asylum …
More: The Verge, The Overspill, NewsGuard, and NBC News
Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange and @WarnerCrocker@mastodon.social
X: @davidcorndc and @spaceyg
LinkedIn: Sarah Brandt and Daniel Volker
Forums: r/neutralnews, r/ActiveMeasures, and r/AnythingGoesNews
| Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: |
Meta removed hundreds of Facebook accounts linked to influence campaigns from China, Israel, Iran, and more, some of which used AI to generate disinformation — Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has seen threat actors rely on AI to produce fake images, videos and text in an effort to influence users on its sites.
More: Benzinga, Engadget, CTech, Wall Street Journal, Quartz, Meta, Futurism, The Verge, Bloomberg Law, Euronews, The Record, CyberScoop, and WinBuzzer
X: @sal19 and @jason_kint
| Hope King / Axios: |
Amazon partners with Grubhub to let US customers order food delivery inside Amazon's app through Grubhub and makes Grubhub+ memberships a permanent Prime perk — - Any Amazon customer can search for “Grubhub” in the product search bar of Amazon's app to order, track and manage their food, like they would through the Grubhub app.
More: GeekWire, The Verge, USA Today, About Amazon, and CNBC
| Jeremy B. White / Politico: |
California Governor Gavin Newsom warns against perils of over-regulating AI, sending a signal to the state's lawmakers who are advancing dozens of AI bills — The Democratic governor of California is a longtime ally of the tech industry. — SAN FRANCISCO — Gov. Gavin Newsom warned …
Forums: r/singularity
| Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
Policymakers and experts say Hesai and other firms listed as Chinese military entities are rebranding and creating US-domiciled businesses to evade sanctions — Firms tagged as military entities use new names and licensing deals to try to keep their businesses going in U.S.
X: @danjames357, @chinabeigebook, @jamesofphillips, and @jchengwsj
LinkedIn: Fred Huh, Steven Hill, and Gordon Friedrich
| Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: |
Natural Cycles, an FDA-cleared birth control app with ~3M users, raised a $55M Series C led by Lauxera Capital Partners, bringing its total funding to $95M+ — Natural Cycles developed the first direct-to-consumer contraceptive app that has been used by more than three million users worldwide.
More: Tech Funding News and Axios
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