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FBI warns Business Email Compromise attacks are now targeting commodities

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 02:18:40 +0200

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned that criminal actors are using Business Email Compromise schemes to facilitate the acquisition of a wide range of commodities. BEC attacks, an attack method that involves fraud enabled by social engineering, are not new, with a report in September finding that one-third of all cyberattacks now involved […]

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Biden bans government use of commercial spyware that may pose a security risk

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 01:47:58 +0200

President Joe Biden signed an executive order today banning government agencies from using commercial spyware deemed to present a national security risk to the United States. The order imposes a ban on agencies using such commercial tools “when they determine, based on credible information, that such use poses significant counterintelligence or security risks to the […]

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Twitter hunts for suspected former employee who leaked source code on GitHub

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 01:04:33 +0200

Twitter Inc. is attempting to identify the person who leaked parts of its proprietary source code after it was discovered to have been shared on GitHub for at least three months. The news that the source code had been leaked came after Twitter filed a Digital Millenium Copyright Act with GitHub on Friday, demanding that […]

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CFTC sues cryptocurrency exchange Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 23:05:19 +0200

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission today sued Binance and its founding Chief Executive Officer Changpeng Zhao, as well as former Chief Compliance Officer Samuel Lim. The CFTC is the agency responsible for regulating the derivatives market. Its newly filed lawsuit, which is structured as a civil complaint, charges Binance, Zhao and Lim with “numerous […]

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‘There’s Nothing Like It’: SF Giants now has a Wi-Fi 6E network to match its brand campaign

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 22:38:08 +0200

Last week I attended the San Francisco Giants baseball team media day at Oracle Park, where the team unveiled its new brand campaign – “There’s Nothing Like It” — as a way of describing the unique experience baseball can bring. It’s particularly germane at a ballpark that has attributes such as a secret bowling alley, a […]

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After strong earnings, Elliot won’t nominate new directors to Salesforce’s board

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 21:15:42 +0200

Elliott Investment Management LP is scrapping its plan to nominate new directors to Salesforce Inc.’s board, the activist investor announced today. The development comes a few weeks after Salesforce posted better-than-expected quarterly earnings. Elliot first signaled it may change its stance the day the earnings report was released. At the time, the firm stated that […]

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What to expect at the ‘Data-Driven Begins With Intelligent Infrastructure’ event: Join theCUBE March 30

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 20:50:04 +0200

Today’s businesses are under constant pressure to drive greater value for customers, shareholders and employees, and this inevitably requires an ability to access, share and manage data. Information must be available all the time, every time. This demands an agile, intelligent approach to data infrastructure, which often makes the difference between success and failure in […]

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Fortinet’s Threat Report finds attackers are retooling and leveraging more wiper malware

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 19:14:32 +0200

One of the outcomes of war in the modern age is that it can lead to a new class of destructive tools in the hands of cyber threat actors. This result has been documented most recently by Fortinet Inc. in its key findings from its 2H 2022 FortiGuard Labs “Threat Landscape Report”. The cybersecurity firm […]

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First Citizens Bank to buy Silicon Valley Bridge Bank

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 19:09:12 +0200

First Citizens Bank, a major financial institution with more than $100 billion in assets under management, has agreed to acquire Silicon Valley Bridge Bank. The transaction was announced this morning. Silicon Valley Bridge Bank is the entity to which regulators moved the assets of Silicon Valley Bank following the latter company’s collapse this month. After […]

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Web3 middleware platform Particle Network raises $7M

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 18:35:02 +0200

Particle Network, a middleware platform for Web3 applications, announced Friday that it raised $7 million in seed funding to support the easy development of blockchain-based decentralized applications. The round was led by ABCDE Capital and was joined by other well known crypto investors including Animoca Brands, Hashkey Capital, Longhash Ventures, GSR Ventures and OP Crypto. […]

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AWS brings real-time call analytics to Amazon Chime software development kit

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 17:00:43 +0200

Amazon Web Services Inc. announced today that it’s enabling call analytics for the Amazon Chime software development kit, making it easier and more cost-effective to generate insights on real-time audio calls. Amazon Chime SDK call analytics enables developers to create transcriptions of real-time calls, perform voice tone analysis and search for specific speakers, the company […]

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Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder and creator of ‘Moore’s Law’, dies at 94

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 01:51:25 +0200

Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore, the man credited with creating “Moore’s Law”, which served as a measuring stick for the entire semiconductor industry for decades, passed away Friday at his home in Hawaii. He was 94 years old. News of his passing was first announced by Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which […]

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Which tech firms are most exposed to the banking crisis?

Sat, 25 Mar 2023 21:57:55 +0200

The financial services industry has always been a leading consumer of tech with big information technology budgets. The recent banking crisis will add even more headwinds to the already challenging IT spending climate and several tech firms are exposed. In particular, we believe those companies with a higher-than-average mix of business in financial sectors, combined […]

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UK narrows antitrust probe into Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 22:14:50 +0200

The U.K.’s antitrust regulator will narrow the focus of its probe into Microsoft Corp.’s plan to buy Activision Blizzard Inc. for $68.7 billion. The Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA, disclosed the development today. Microsoft announced its plans to acquire Activision Blizzard early last year. If approved, the deal would establish the technology giant as […]

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Dylibso raises $6.6M to help teams take WebAssembly to production

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 15:00:14 +0200

WebAssembly startup Dylibso Inc. today announced that it has raised $6.6 million in new funding to help teams take WebAssembly to production. WebAssembly is a binary instruction format and a virtual machine that brings high performance to web browser applications, enabling developers to build high-speed web apps in whatever language they choose. Founded in 2022, Dylibso is the […]

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Databricks open-sources an AI it says is as good as ChatGPT, but much easier to train

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 14:00:21 +0200

Big-data analytics firm Databricks Inc. has emerged as an unlikely player in the generative artificial intelligence space, open-sourcing a new AI model that it claims is “as magical as ChatGPT,” despite being trained on far less data in less than three hours using a single machine. Databricks announced in a blog post today that it’s […]

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Utah governor just signed a bill that will make it difficult for teenagers to get on social media

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 03:15:23 +0200

Utah Governor Spencer Cox today signed two pieces of social media regulation that will annoy the hell out of many young folks. In the midst of a mental health crisis for the young, with social media having a starring role in this crisis, the regulation will make it so people under the age of 18 […]

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Twitter to revoke ‘legacy’ verified badges as Twitter Blue rolls out globally

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 02:48:37 +0200

Twitter Inc. has announced that it would revoke “legacy” verified badges in April as it today made its Twitter Blue paid verification service available globally. Twitter Blue initially launched in November 2021 but underwent a shakeup a year later under the ownership of Elon Musk. Musk shifted what was originally meant to be a service […]

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Tech consulting firm Accenture announces 19,000 layoffs

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 02:35:47 +0200

Technology consultancy giant Accenture Plc. said today it is planning to cut 19,000 jobs, or about 2.5% of its workforce, over the next 18 months. It will be the largest round of dismissals so far in a consultancy sector that is struggling against strong economic headwinds. Accenture said in a filing it will incur employee […]

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TikTok CEO grilled on China links and data protection efforts

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 02:12:28 +0200

TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew met with the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce today and the five hours of questioning went as well as expected in that most, if not all, participants had already made their minds up on the future of the highly popular service. Chew faced a range of questions […]

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