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NetBlocks: Afghanistan is experiencing a "total internet blackout" as the Taliban imposes a telecom shutdown; an official says it will last until further notice (Anbarasan Ethirajan/BBC)
Anbarasan Ethirajan / BBC: NetBlocks: Afghanistan is experiencing a “total internet blackout” as the Taliban imposes a telecom shutdown; an official says it will last until further notice — Anbarasan Ethirajan, Global Affairs Reporter and — The Taliban government in Afghanistan has imposed … Source link
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A look at MrBeast's entertainment company, which has ~$450M in annual sales but faced three years of losses due to high production costs of $3M-$4M per video (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: A look at MrBeast’s entertainment company, which has ~$450M in annual sales but faced three years of losses due to high production costs of $3M-$4M per video — The master of viral videos now has a CEO to rein in spending on Lambos—and give his “banger content” an even wider reach. Source link
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A study finds that six major AI chatbots can be easily tricked into creating phishing emails targeting elderly people, despite being trained not to (Reuters)
Reuters: A study finds that six major AI chatbots can be easily tricked into creating phishing emails targeting elderly people, despite being trained not to — Major AI chatbots were happy to help. — Reuters and a Harvard University researcher used top chatbots to plot a simulated phishing scam … Source link
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The Nepalese government lifts its social media ban after local media reported 19+ deaths in clashes over anti-government demonstrations sparked by the ban (Gopal Sharma/Reuters)
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Interview with Lovable CEO Anton Osika on competition, staying in Europe, and more; the company now has 2.3M+ active users, including 180K paying subscribers (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
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Q&A with Harsh Jain, CEO of Dream11 parent Dream Sports, on India’s real-money gaming law, which he says erased 95% of the group’s revenue and all its profits (Moneycontrol)
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US DNI Tulsi Gabbard says the UK has agreed to drop its mandate requiring Apple to provide a backdoor for accessing users' encrypted data (Kanishka Singh/Reuters)
Kanishka Singh / Reuters: US DNI Tulsi Gabbard says the UK has agreed to drop its mandate requiring Apple to provide a backdoor for accessing users’ encrypted data — U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said on Monday the UK had agreed to drop its mandate for iPhone maker Apple (AAPL.O) to provide a … Source link
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ESET says a high-severity WinRAR zero-day is being exploited by two Russian cybercrime groups, enabling persistent backdoors when malicious files are opened (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: ESET says a high-severity WinRAR zero-day is being exploited by two Russian cybercrime groups, enabling persistent backdoors when malicious files are opened — A high-severity zero-day in the widely used WinRAR file compressor is under active exploitation by two Russian cybercrime groups. Source link
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Internal email: Cognition offers buyouts to the ~200 newly acquired Windsurf staff, with Cognition CEO Scott Wu writing "we don't believe in work-life balance" (The Information)
The Information: Internal email: Cognition offers buyouts to the ~200 newly acquired Windsurf staff, with Cognition CEO Scott Wu writing “we don’t believe in work-life balance” — Cognition, a two-year-old artificial intelligence coding startup last valued at $4 billion, has offered buyouts … Source link
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Julius AI, which acts like a data scientist by analyzing data and running predictive models from natural language prompts, raised a $10M seed led by Bessemer (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
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