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Memo: Microsoft lays off 650 staff from its gaming business, bringing the cuts in its gaming business to 2,550 jobs since acquiring Activision Blizzard in 2023 — No games canceled or studios closed this time. — Microsoft is laying off a further 650 staff from its gaming business …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail gaining the ability to generate counterfeit HTTPS certificates and more after buying an expired WHOIS server domain for the .mobi TLD for $20 — .mobi top-level-domain managers changed the location of its WHOIS server. No one got the memo.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI is in talks to raise $6.5B in equity financing at a $150B valuation, plus, a source says, $5B in debt from banks as a revolving credit facility — - Company set to raise $6.5 billion in equity financing — Banks also in talks to issue startup $5 billion in debt
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase launches its wrapped bitcoin, cbBTC, on the Ethereum and Base networks, supported by various DeFi services for trading, lending, and as collateral — The token will initially be offered on Ethereum and Coinbase's Base networks, with plans to expand to more blockchains in the coming months.
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| Sarah Emerson / Forbes: |
Sources: Adam Neumann's Flowcarbon, which raised $70M in 2022 from a16z and others, is refunding investors after failing to launch its Goddess Nature Token — Flowcarbon secured millions of dollars in funding from investors like Andreessen Horowitz to merge carbon credits with the blockchain …
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| Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: |
Mastercard agrees to buy Recorded Future, which uses AI-powered analytics to identify potential threats, from PE firm Insight Partners for $2.65B — Mastercard (MA.N) has agreed to buy threat intelligence company Recorded Future from private equity firm Insight Partners for $2.65 billion, the payments company said on Thursday.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
The UK gives data centers Critical National Infrastructure designation, enabling the government to coordinate better against hackers and unexpected cyber events — LONDON — The U.K. on Thursday said it now classes data centers as critical infrastructure, in a move that is expected …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Ireland's DPC opens an investigation into Google's GDPR compliance over using the personal information of EU and EEA users for training foundation AI models — Google's lead privacy regulator in the European Union has opened an investigation into whether or not it has complied … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google adds Audio Overview to NotebookLM, letting users turn documents into audio discussions with two AI hosts that summarize and explain the source material — Google announced on Wednesday that its AI note-taking and research app, NotebookLM, is adding a new “audio conversations” feature.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
A look at Apple's Private Cloud Compute for Apple Intelligence that Craig Federighi says allows user data to be “hermetically sealed inside of a privacy bubble” — Private Cloud Compute is an entirely new kind of infrastructure that, Apple's Craig Federighi tells WIRED … | Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Infineon says it has developed 300mm gallium nitride wafers, which can produce 2.3x more chips than 200mm wafers and speed their adoption for AI applications — - Chipmaker announces breakthrough in gallium nitride production — Compound semiconductors can be more efficient than silicon| TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp brings Meta Verified badges to small businesses in India, starting at ~$8/month, and gives them the ability to send customized messages to customers — WhatsApp is now letting small businesses in India sign up for a Meta Verified badge and giving them the ability to send customized messages to customers.Sponsor Posts
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UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
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