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Sources: Sam Altman and Satya Nadella recently met to discuss Microsoft's concerns about how OpenAI's deal with Apple might affect Microsoft's product ambitions — When OpenAI's board of directors ousted Sam Altman as CEO last year, it looked like a shocking derailment of a fast-rising career.
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Europol says police in Germany, the UK, the US, and others took down botnets spreading ransomware via infected emails, arrested four, and seized 2,000+ domains — Police coordinated by the European Union's justice and police agencies have taken down computer networks responsible …
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More: US Department of Justice, The Verge, The Hill, BBC, Security Affairs, CSO, The Crypto Times, Tech Times, Flashpoint, TechRadar, Associated Press, Krebs on Security, Reuters, Infosecurity, Proactive, Interesting Engineering, SecurityWeek, SiliconANGLE, Neowin, The Hacker News, PCMag, and BleepingComputer
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Google confirms the authenticity of the 2,500 pages of leaked Search documents detailing data the company collects, which may be used in its ranking algorithm — A collection of 2,500 leaked internal documents from Google filled with details about data the company collects is authentic, the company confirmed today.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Modular laptop maker Framework unveils a $269 drop-in 120Hz display, improved $39 webcam, and swappable mainboard to add Intel Core Ultra chips to its laptops — I know, I absolutely stuffed this story's headline — but I'm just so excited to see the future of modular computing unfolding before my eyes.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
The Atlantic and Vox Media sign multiyear licensing and product deals with OpenAI; The Atlantic plans an experimental Atlantic Labs with OpenAI's and other tech — - The Atlantic has been publishing content since 1857. … - Both agreements also allow OpenAI to tap into the respective …
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| Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: |
The FAA approves Amazon's Prime Air program to fly drones beyond a pilot's line of sight, letting Amazon expand its delivery area in College Station, Texas — Amazon.com Inc.'s Prime Air drone program has been cleared by US regulators to fly devices beyond the visual line of sight of pilots …
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Intel, Google, Microsoft, Meta and others form the Ultra Accelerator Link Promoter Group to promote an industry standard to connect AI accelerator server chips — Intel, Google, Microsoft, Meta and other tech heavyweights are establishing a new industry group, the Ultra Accelerator Link …
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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.| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
Ticketmaster appears to have been breached by hacking group ShinyHunters, which claims to have stolen 560M users' data and is trying to sell the data for $500K — Emails, phone numbers, addresses, and even financial details have allegedly been exposed by a notorious hacker group.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
A report details how malware bricked 600K+ routers connected to an autonomous system number belonging to a US ISP in October 2023; ISP seems to be Windstream — An unknown threat actor with equally unknown motives forces ISP to replace routers. — One day last October … | Kat Tenbarge / NBC News: |
An image showing tents in a camp spelling out “All Eyes on Rafah” hits 44M+ shares on Instagram in <48 hours, likely one of the first viral activist AI images — The image, which appears to be AI-generated, was shared more than 29 million times in less than 24 hours.| Wesley Yin-Poole / IGN: |
A US federal court awards Activision $14.46M+ in its 2022 civil lawsuit accusing EngineOwning of violating the DMCA by selling Call of Duty cheating 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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
SEC filing: Salesforce paid $419M, including $374M in cash, to buy commission management tool Spiff in a deal announced in December 2023; Spiff had raised $110M — Salespeople live and die by commissions, which typically form a big chunk of how they are paid.
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Verizon and satellite provider AST SpaceMobile partner to provide space-based broadband service direct to phones; Verizon committed $100M as part of the deal — Satellite-to-phones service provider AST SpaceMobile stock surged after announcing a partnership with Verizon on Wednesday … | Billy Perrigo / TIME: |
Profile of Anthropic and its CEO Dario Amodei; the company prioritizes AI safety over profit, hoping it can spark a “race to the top” on safety in the industry — In the summer of 2022, Dario Amodei had a difficult decision to make. Anthropic, the AI company where he is co-founder and CEO … | Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Fire TV's Alexa voice search, rolling out now: powered by a custom LLM to take conversational requests, but the results are largely disappointing — Navigating the sheer volume of streaming content available today can be a full-time job. Recommendations from friends …
More: Lowpass, GeekWire, TechCrunch, The Streamable, Spyglass, About Amazon, Tom's Guide, Digital Trends, and Cord Cutters News
| 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 … | Hope King / Axios: |
Amazon extends partnership with Grubhub to let US customers order food delivery inside Amazon's app through Grubhub and makes Grubhub+ 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.| Katie Paul / Reuters: |
Google and Magic Leap partner to work on building immersive experiences that blend the physical and digital worlds, but offer few details — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google and augmented reality startup Magic Leap are forming a strategic technology partnership and working on building immersive experiences …
More: Magic Leap, MSPoweruser, Quartz, Tech Startups, and Mobile World Live
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Firefly, which provides cloud asset management with an infrastructure-as-code solution, raised a $23M Series A led by Vertex — A startup called Firefly that's tackling the thorny and growing issue of cloud asset management with an “infrastructure as code” solution has raised $23 million in funding.| 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: Sun-Sentinel, The Verge, The Overspill, NewsGuard, and NBC News
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LinkedIn: Daniel Volker and Sarah Brandt
Forums: r/florida, r/neutralnews, r/ActiveMeasures, and r/AnythingGoesNews
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Babylon, which builds infrastructure to let proof-of-stake systems obtain staking capital from bitcoin, raised $70M led by Paradigm, after raising $18M in 2023 — - The Bitcoin staking protocol Babylon raised $70 million in fresh financing led by Paradigm.| Dana Wollman / Bloomberg: |
Fidelity raised the value of its X position by 4.4% to $5.51M in April; since Elon Musk's October 2022 Twitter takeover, the position has been marked down ~72% — Fidelity's Blue Chip Growth Fund raised the value of its position in Elon Musk's X by 4.4% in April.Sponsor Posts
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