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Hacks leveraging Progress' MOVEit flaws have hit hundreds of organizations, now including TomTom, hotel chain Radisson, and real estate giant Jones Lang LaSalle (Carly Page/TechCrunch) 11-07-2023

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Hacks leveraging Progress’ MOVEit flaws have hit hundreds of organizations, now including TomTom, hotel chain Radisson, and real estate giant Jones Lang LaSalle  —  The MOVEit mass-hack has claimed yet more victims, including hotel chain Radisson, U.S.-based 1st Source Bank … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tel Aviv-based Savvy, which helps secure SaaS apps from supply chain threats, data leaks via AI tools, and more, launches out of stealth with $30M led by Canaan (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) 11-07-2023

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Tel Aviv-based Savvy, which helps secure SaaS apps from supply chain threats, data leaks via AI tools, and more, launches out of stealth with $30M led by Canaan  —  Software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps are an essential part of how many companies do business.  But when the number of apps grows beyond … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Llion Jones, who co-authored the pioneering “Attention Is All You Need” paper on LLMs at Google, plans to depart Google Japan later in July to launch a startup (Julia Love/Bloomberg) 11-07-2023

Julia Love / Bloomberg: Llion Jones, who co-authored the pioneering “Attention Is All You Need” paper on LLMs at Google, plans to depart Google Japan later in July to launch a startup  —  An artificial intelligence researcher who co-authored one of Google’s most influential papers in the field is leaving the company to launch a startup. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: the EU Commission will say on July 12 that its regulators accept Broadcom's concessions in its $69B VMware deal; the US and UK need to approve the deal (Financial Times) 11-07-2023

Financial Times: Sources: the EU Commission will say on July 12 that its regulators accept Broadcom’s concessions in its $69B VMware deal; the US and UK need to approve the deal  —  UK and US remain among holdouts to one of the biggest tech acquisitions as they continue to probe competition concerns Lees verder op Tech Meme

Microsoft and the UK CMA agree to a “stay of the litigation” to negotiate restructuring the Activision deal, after a US court rejected the FTC's arguments (Tom Warren/The Verge) 11-07-2023

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft and the UK CMA agree to a “stay of the litigation” to negotiate restructuring the Activision deal, after a US court rejected the FTC’s arguments  —  Microsoft and the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) have both agreed to pause their legal battle … Lees verder op Tech Meme

UK prosecutors accuse two teenagers of being key members of Lapsus$, which hacked Nvidia, Rockstar, and Uber in 2021 and 2022; one was found unfit for trial (Katharine Gemmell/Bloomberg) 11-07-2023

Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: UK prosecutors accuse two teenagers of being key members of Lapsus$, which hacked Nvidia, Rockstar, and Uber in 2021 and 2022; one was found unfit for trial  —  Two UK teenagers were accused of being key members of the notorious hacking group Lapsus$, with prosecutors alleging that the pair … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nothing plans to launch the Phone (2) for $599+ in the US, Europe, and the UK on July 17; the device's rear “glyph” lights have been segmented into zones (Kyle Barr/Gizmodo) 11-07-2023

Kyle Barr / Gizmodo: Nothing plans to launch the Phone (2) for $599+ in the US, Europe, and the UK on July 17; the device’s rear “glyph” lights have been segmented into zones  —  The new device is an upgrade from the Phone (1)—a better processor, improved camera, and even more signature LED glyphs—with a $599 price tag. Lees verder op Tech Meme

LLNL begins installing its El Capitan supercomputer for US national security research, promising 2+ FP64 exaflops, and plans the smaller Tuolumne supercomputer (Anton Shilov/AnandTech) 11-07-2023

Anton Shilov / AnandTech: LLNL begins installing its El Capitan supercomputer for US national security research, promising 2+ FP64 exaflops, and plans the smaller Tuolumne supercomputer  —  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) started to install its El Capitan supercomputer that promises to achieve computational performance … Lees verder op Tech Meme

A look at Nvidia's AI chip rivals, including AMD, Intel, startups, and Amazon's and Google's cloud units; analysts estimate Nvidia controls 80%+ of the market (Wall Street Journal) 11-07-2023

Wall Street Journal: A look at Nvidia’s AI chip rivals, including AMD, Intel, startups, and Amazon’s and Google’s cloud units; analysts estimate Nvidia controls 80%+ of the market  —  AMD, startups and cloud companies are looking to tap in to the rise of tools such as ChatGPT  —  Nvidia has emerged as the leader … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Discord finally debuts parental supervision tools after feedback from parents and experts; parents can't see message contents, cannot add time limits, and more (Julie Jargon/Wall Street Journal) 11-07-2023

Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: Discord finally debuts parental supervision tools after feedback from parents and experts; parents can’t see message contents, cannot add time limits, and more  —  Freewheeling platform popular with gamers now offers child-monitoring tools—but not time limits Lees verder op Tech Meme