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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, Security Affairs, Krebs on Security, The Verge, Infosecurity, Proactive, WHDH-TV, IC3.gov News, Associated Press, SecurityWeek, Interesting Engineering, The Hacker News, Neowin, BBC, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, PCMag, and BleepingComputer
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| Mike Corder / Associated Press: |
Europol says police in Germany, the UK, the US, and others took down botnets that spread ransomware via infected emails, arrested four, and seized 2K+ domains — Police coordinated by the European Union's justice and police agencies have taken down computer networks responsible …
More: Europol, Operation Endgame, BleepingComputer, Le Monde.fr, Cybernews.com, and Reuters
Mastodon: @haveibeenpwned@infosec … and @abuse_ch@ioc.exchange
| 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.
More: Tom's Guide, Converge, Benzinga, Mashable, Livemint, Hindustan Times, Business Today, Search Engine Land, iPullRank, and SparkToro
| 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| The Information: |
More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, Cybernews.com, Phandroid, Marcus on AI, AppleInsider, and Benzinga
X: @appleinsider, @amir, @theinformation, and @iatalkspace
LinkedIn: Enam Hoque and Abubakar Idris
| 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, Silicon Republic, Reuters, The Rundown AI, Vox Media, Aftermath, SiliconANGLE, WAN-IFRA, The Hill, Voicebot.ai, OSnews, The Wrap, VentureBeat, The Decoder, Washington Post, The Information, Bloomberg, Engadget, The Hollywood Reporter, VentureBeat, and Variety
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Mastodon: @mttaggart@infosec.town, @joesteel@duck.haus, and @WarnerCrocker@mastodon.social
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| 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.
More: Hackread, RTÉ, ABC, Cybernews.com, Billboard, SiliconANGLE, The Register, WRIC-TV, Security Boulevard, How-To Geek, Quartz, Brisbane Times, The Canberra Times, Daily Mail, Newsweek, Tom's Guide, Cyber Daily, Sydney Morning Herald, and TechRadar
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Forums: Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, r/deadandcompany, r/worldnews, and r/australia
| 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.
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LinkedIn: Mateusz Wróbel and Marjorie Janiewicz
Forums: Hacker News and r/artificial
| 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, @ggs_ai, @charlieintel, @modernwarzone, and @charlieintel. Forums: r/CODWarzone
| 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: Business Today, T3, iMore, Phandroid, MySmartPrice, Financial Express, 9to5Google, The Apple Post, iDrop News, iClarified, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tom's Guide, MobileSyrup, Android Headlines, Android Authority, Android Police, TechRadar, Cult of Mac, BGR, and Benzinga
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Forums: r/MLS, r/Android, r/television, and MacRumors Forums
| 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
| Michael Sheetz / CNBC: |
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 …
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Forums: r/wallstreetbets, r/ASTSpaceMobile, and Slashdot
| 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 … | 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%+ — Salesforce's second quarter outlook missed expectations, but the company said it is still early innings for generative AI demand.| 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
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X: @davidcorndc and @spaceyg
LinkedIn: Daniel Volker and Sarah Brandt
Forums: r/neutralnews, r/ActiveMeasures, and r/AnythingGoesNews
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces the $230 Fitbit Ace LTE, a smartwatch for kids aged 7 and up, 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 …
More: The Keyword, MSPoweruser, Neowin, TechCrunch, NewsBytes, MyHealthyApple, GSMArena.com, Google Help on YouTube, Android Headlines, Gizmochina, Phandroid, DC Rainmaker, Google Help on YouTube, Fitbit on YouTube, Fitbit on YouTube, 9to5Google on YouTube, Android Central, CNET, Android Central, Inverse, CNET, CNET, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, Mashable, 9to5Google, Wired, Android Authority, Android Central, The Verge, Engadget, and Digital Trends
| 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%+ — - CNBC Councils — CNBC on Peacock — Join the CNBC Panel — Supply Chain Values — Select Shopping — Ad Choices| 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.| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Romanian startup FintechOS, a low-code platform to help banks and insurance companies compete with neobanks, raised a $60M Series B+, after raising $60M in 2021 — Over the years, fintech startups, particularly neobanks, have thrown a cat among the pigeons in banking and finance by building whole new banking software stacks.
More: Sifted, Tech.eu, EU-Startups, AIN.Capital, and FintechOS
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Elon Musk and Trump talk many times a month on topics like a government role, 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, Reuters, The Information, The Hill, Crypto Briefing, Rolling Stone, and Bloomberg
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X: @jyarow, @silvermanjacob, @chafkin, @mattgertz, @silvermanjacob, @rebeccaballhaus, and @emilyglazer. Forums: r/RealTesla
| Yiwen Lu / New York Times: |
After a Cruise car hit and dragged a pedestrian, executives say they're in no rush to get back on the road, as Cruise slows its breakneck development to a crawl — An incident that seriously injured a pedestrian in San Francisco led Cruise to take all of its cars off the road.Sponsor Posts
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