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Sources: OpenAI owned a 23% stake in io from a 2024 deal so is now paying ~$5B to fully acquire it; separately, OpenAI's Start-up Fund invested in io last year (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-22

Sources: Sam Altman and LoveFrom have been working for two years on a new device to move consumers beyond screens, including headphones and devices with cameras (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-22

In a video and letter signed “Sam & Jony”, Altman and Ive announce io, founded last year by Ive, Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey, and Tang Tan to create new products (openai.com)
2025-5-22

OpenAI Acquires Jony Ive's Startup in $6.5 Billion Deal To Create AI Devices (slashdot.org)
2025-5-22 Startup AI

3AM ransomware uses spoofed IT calls, email bombing to breach networks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-5-22

In a joint statement, the US, France, Germany, and eight other countries say Russia has stepped up cyber attacks on firms aiding Ukraine, often via Fancy Bear (www.cybersecuritydive.com)
2025-5-22 Russia Germany France Ukraine

Windows 11 To Get Apple-Style App Continuity (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-5-22 Apple

Google tests bringing ads to AI Mode, both below responses as well as “integrated into” them, and expands ads in AI Overviews to desktop in the US (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-22 Google AI

OpenAI is buying io, Jony Ive's secretive AI startup, for ~$6.5B in stock; Ive and LoveFrom will remain independent but take over design for all of OpenAI (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-22 Startup AI

In April ChatGPT started to, by default, reference all past chats for more personalized responses, but this means users lose control of their prompts' context (simonwillison.net)
2025-5-22

AI videos from Google's Veo 3, which features synchronized audio as well as crisper, more detailed video, are both impressive and terrifying (9to5google.com)
2025-5-22 Google AI

Meta Targets More 'Underperformers' in Mid-Year Reviews (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-5-22

Lumma infostealer malware operation disrupted, 2,300 domains seized (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-5-22

Sources and docs: a “major lapse” at Thoma Bravo's Opexus, which helps US agencies manage investigations and FOIA, let two convicted hackers delete databases (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-22

Investigation: for two years, New Orleans police secretly scanned city streets using 200+ facial recognition cameras, seemingly violating a 2022 city ordinance (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-5-22 Facial Recognition

AI model ranking project LMArena spins off from UC Berkeley and raises a $100M seed led by a16z and UC Investments, sources say at a $600M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-22 AI

Mistral partners with All Hands AI to release Devstral, a model to help with coding, in “research preview” under Apache 2.0, and says it outperforms Gemma 3 27B (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-22 AI

Google's Brin: 'I Made a Lot of Mistakes With Google Glass' (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-5-22 Google

Data-stealing Chrome extensions impersonate Fortinet, YouTube, VPNs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-5-22 YouTube Chrome

People are searching more because of AI Overviews: Head of Google Search (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-22 Google AI

Amazon Gives Refunds for Years-Old Returns (slashdot.org)
2025-5-22 Amazon

Brazilian researchers scraped 2B+ Discord messages from 3,167 public servers using Discord's public API, covering 2015 to 2024, and publish the messages online (www.404media.co)
2025-5-22 Brazil

Microsoft Blames Apple for Xbox Mobile Store Delay (games.slashdot.org)
2025-5-22 Microsoft Mobile Apple Xbox

₹39,000 setup cost, monthly plans at ₹2,990: Starlink launches in Bangladesh (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-22 Bangladesh

Trojanized RVTools push Bumblebee malware in SEO poisoning campaign (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-5-22

European Union sanctions Stark Industries for enabling cyberattacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-5-22 Europe

ThreatLocker Patch Management: A Security-First Approach to Closing Vulnerability Windows (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-5-22

Filed, which uses AI to automate tax professionals' low-value tasks, raised $17.2M across seed and preseed led by Northzone, Day One Ventures, and others (siliconangle.com)
2025-5-21 Tax AI

Google Is Baking Gemini AI Into Chrome (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-5-21 Google AI Chrome

10 Clever Ways People Have Cheated at Casinos (listverse.com)
2025-5-21

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