Tech

Sources: a US official told Samsung, SK Hynix, and TSMC that the US may revoke waivers that let them ship US chipmaking equipment to their factories in China (www.wsj.com)
24 days ago China Samsung

Cloudflare says it mitigated a record-breaking 7.3Tbps DDoS attack in mid-May, which delivered 37.4TB of junk traffic to the target in just 45 seconds (arstechnica.com)
24 days ago

Insurance giant Aflac says a cybercrime group breached its systems and may have stolen data; source: the attack bears the hallmarks of Scattered Spider (therecord.media)
24 days ago Insurance

BBC Threatens Legal Action Against Perplexity AI Over Content Scraping (news.slashdot.org)
24 days ago AI

Meta Discussed Buying Perplexity Before Investing In Scale AI (meta.slashdot.org)
24 days ago AI

Circle shares jumped over 20% on Friday as investors cheered the US Senate approval of the GENIUS Act, and have surged ~675% since the company's IPO on June 5 (www.cnbc.com)
24 days ago IPO Senate

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg recently discussed buying Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab, but the talks didn't progress to the formal offer stage (www.theverge.com)
24 days ago Zuckerberg

Applebee's and IHOP Plan To Introduce AI in Restaurants (slashdot.org)
24 days ago AI

Q&A with Yoshua Bengio on his nonprofit LawZero focusing on AI safety, its research direction, risks of increasingly capable and autonomous AI systems, and more (www.vox.com)
24 days ago AI

Record DDoS Pummels Site With Once-Unimaginable 7.3Tbps of Junk Traffic (yro.slashdot.org)
24 days ago

Congestion Pricing in Manhattan is a Predictable Success (news.slashdot.org)
24 days ago

Apple Sued By Shareholders For Allegedly Overstating AI Progress (yro.slashdot.org)
24 days ago AI Apple

Sources: Apple executives have held discussions about bidding for, or partnering with, Perplexity, seeking to address the need for more AI talent and tech (www.bloomberg.com)
24 days ago AI Apple

Cluely, which wants to help users “cheat on everything”, including job interviews and exams, raised a $15M Series A led by a16z, two months after a $5.3M seed (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago

Banning Plastic Bags Works To Limit Shoreline Litter, Study Finds (science.slashdot.org)
24 days ago

DHS Warns of Sharp Rise in Chinese-Made Signal Jammers (news.slashdot.org)
24 days ago China

Amazon ends an experiment started in 2023 to make same-day deliveries with drivers in Kia Souls and will rely on Amazon Flex drivers who use their own cars (www.bloomberg.com)
24 days ago Amazon

Anthropic's test of 16 top AI models from OpenAI and others found that, in some cases, they resorted to malicious behavior to avoid replacement or achieve goals (www.axios.com)
24 days ago AI

AI Models From Major Companies Resort To Blackmail in Stress Tests (slashdot.org)
24 days ago AI

NYC Sets Smaller Driver Pay Bump After Uber, Lyft Pushback (news.slashdot.org)
24 days ago Uber

Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab raised $2B led by a16z at a $10B valuation; Murati will hold board voting rights that outweigh all other directors (t.co)
24 days ago

NYC announces new minimum-pay rules for rideshare drivers, settling on a 5% increase after Uber and Lyft strongly opposed a proposed 6.1% pay hike (www.bloomberg.com)
24 days ago Uber

Uber expands its data-labeling platform Uber AI Solutions to 30 countries, and adds new offerings like tools for developing AI agents and ready-to-use datasets (www.forbes.com)
24 days ago Uber AI

Windows Parental Controls Are Blocking Chrome (it.slashdot.org)
24 days ago Chrome

Snap acquires Saturn, a calendar app for high school and college students, and says 80% of US high schoolers attend schools that support Saturn (www.engadget.com)
24 days ago

BitoPro exchange links Lazarus hackers to $11 million crypto heist (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
24 days ago

Character.AI hires Karandeep Anand, former Meta VP of Business Products, as CEO, 10 months after Google hired away the startup's co-founder and CEO Noam Shazeer (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago Google Startup AI

Coinbase says it has secured a MiCA license from Luxembourg to offer crypto services across the EU, and will shift its European base from Ireland to Luxembourg (www.cnbc.com)
24 days ago Europe Ireland Coinbase

Sources: Meta held discussions with Perplexity about a possible takeover before moving ahead with a $14.3B investment in Scale AI (www.bloomberg.com)
24 days ago AI

Can users reset their own passwords without sacrificing security? (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
24 days ago

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