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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, Associated Press, The Verge, IC3.gov News, Bloomberg, Krebs on Security, The Record, Quartz, SC Media, NBC Bay Area, and Chainalysis
Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange and @briankrebs@infosec.exchange. X: @thejusticedept. Forums: Slashdot
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
| 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, OSnews, VentureBeat, The Hill, Reuters, The Wrap, WAN-IFRA, Vox Media, Voicebot.ai, The Decoder, Maginative, Bloomberg, Variety, The Crypto Times, VentureBeat, The Hollywood Reporter, The Information, Washington Post, and Engadget
Threads: @reckless1280, @daveleebbg, @reckless1280, @jbillinson, @quillmatiq, and @kylie.robison
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| 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, The Register, How-To Geek, WRIC-TV, Quartz, Security Boulevard, Cyber Daily, Daily Mail, Tom's Guide, Brisbane Times, The Canberra Times, Newsweek, Tech Times, Sydney Morning Herald, Digital Music News, TechRadar, and HackerNoon
Threads: @jbillinson and @crumbler
Forums: Hacker News, r/worldnews, and r/australia
| 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 …
More: The Keyword, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Thurrott, GSMArena.com, Android Headlines, Google Help on YouTube, Gizmochina, Phandroid, Fitbit on YouTube, Tom's Guide, Tech Startups, CNET, Android Central, Android Central, Fitbit on YouTube, Engadget, PhoneArena, Android Central, Mashable, 9to5Google, BetaNews, Digital Trends, The Verge, DC Rainmaker, Inverse, TechEBlog, Google Help on YouTube, Wareable, TechRadar, PCMag, Wired, AndroidGuys, 9to5Google on YouTube, Android Authority, UrbanGeekz, CNET, Android Police, and CNET
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Google confirms the authenticity of the 2,500 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.
More: iPullRank, Search Engine Land, Android Central, PC Gamer, MediaPost, TechSpot, and SparkToro. Bluesky: @ernie.tedium.co
| 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: Android Authority, Android Police, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Tom's Guide, MobileSyrup, iClarified, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechRadar, Android Headlines, Cult of Mac, BGR, Trusted Reviews, TalkAndroid.com, Windows Central, and Apple
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| 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, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, Hugging Face, VentureBeat, Dow Jones Newswires, The Decoder, and Maginative
| 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 … | Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: to preserve privacy, Apple plans to process data from AI apps in a virtual black box in data centers, making the data impossible for staff to access — When Apple executives appear at its annual developer conference in mid-June, they are expected to unveil details of how it will integrate AI …
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Apple Must, The Verge, MobileSyrup, Laptop Mag, iMore, Tom's Guide, and AppleInsider. X: @waynema
| 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, Bloomberg, The Hill, Rolling Stone, Crypto Briefing, Axios, and New York Post
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| Joanna Nelius / The Verge: |
Arm announces its next-generation CPU and GPU designs for flagship smartphones: the Cortex-X925 CPU and Immortalis G925 GPU, likely in smartphones in late 2024 — On Wednesday, IP core designer Arm announced its next-generation CPU and GPU designs for flagship smartphones: the Cortex-X925 CPU and Immortalis G925 GPU.| 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| 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.| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
Crypto exchange Gemini says Gemini Earn users will get $2.18B in crypto back in kind within the next year, after the lending program folded in November 2022 — - Those funds will be distributed in kind, meaning Gemini Earn customers who lent one bitcoin will receive one bitcoin back.| Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: |
PayPal adds its PayPal USD stablecoin, launched on Ethereum in August 2023 and issued by Paxos, to Solana; PYUSD currently has a nearly $400M market cap — - The payments company launched PYUSD on Ethereum in August — PayPal chose Solana for speed and low cost, despite outages| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
AI training data provider Scale AI releases SEAL Leaderboards, which uses private datasets to rank LLMs in domains like coding, instruction following, and math — Artificial intelligence training data provider Scale AI Inc., which serves the likes of OpenAI and Nvidia Corp. …
More: EnterpriseAI and Scale AI
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Sensor Tower: Tencent's Dungeon & Fighter Mobile generated $140M+ in player spending in its first week in China, and 2.6M downloads from iPhone users in China — - ‘DnF Mobile’ topped download and sales charts in China — Annual revenue could surpass $1 billion, Niko estimates
More: Game World Observer, Reuters, and South China Morning Post
| Richard Milne / Financial Times: |
More: Squad Busters on YouTube, Pocket Gamer.biz, Reuters, Pocket Gamer, Supercell, and Pocket Gamer.biz. X: @squadbustersx
| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
How the Biden administration passed on TikTok's Project Texas, a proposal to let the US pick its board, veto hires, and more, opting instead for a sale or a ban — TikTok offered the Biden administration control over its U.S. operations and a kill switch if things went south. The Biden administration took a pass.
More: The Independent, Tubefilter, and Fortune
| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
PwC plans to roll out ChatGPT Enterprise to its 75K US staff and 26K UK staff, becoming the largest customer and first reseller of OpenAI's enterprise product — The Big Four accounting firm signs a new license and sales deal as the maker of ChatGPT ramps up its enterprise sales efforts
More: PwC, iTnews, TechRepublic, Tech Brew, CIO Dive, TechCrunch, Maginative, Forbes, WinBuzzer, MSPoweruser, Proactive, CNBC, and Inc.com
LinkedIn: Paul Griggs, Joe Atkinson, Mads Nørgaard Madsen, and Christopher Licata. Forums: r/Accounting
| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google plans to shut down Google Business Profile chat and call history, which let customers contact businesses in Maps and Search, on July 31, 2024 — Google will be shutting down the Google Business Profile chat and call history feature on July 31, 2024.| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
HP reports Q2 revenue down 0.8% YoY to $12.8B, vs. $12.6B est., Personal Systems revenue up 3% to $8.43B, vs. $8.28B est., Printing revenue down 8% to $4.37B — - AI PCs to be 10% of shipments in second half of year, CEO says — Industry has been in a post-pandemic slump the past two years
More: Reuters, CRN, Barron's Online, HP Inc., and HP - Investor Relations
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