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The U.S. Treasury Department today issued sanctions against Integrity Technology Group, a Beijing-based cybersecurity company, over its ties to a Chinese state-backed hacking group tracked as Flax Typhoon. The sanctions were rolled out by the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, or …
Swave raises €27M to develop displays for AR glasses
Swave Photonics NV, a Belgian startup developing displays for augmented reality glasses, today announced that it has secured €27 million in early-stage funding. The Series A round was jointly led by SFPIM Relaunch and imec.xpand, a fund affiliated with the IMEC nanotechnology …
IBM, GlobalFoundries settle legal dispute over chip technology
IBM Corp. and GlobalFoundries Inc. announced today that they’ve agreed to end a years-long legal dispute that focused on their respective chip development efforts. For nearly five decades, IBM manufactured semiconductors using a network of in-house fabs. It produced the first mass-market …
Apple will pay $95M to settle privacy lawsuit over unintentional Siri activations
Apple Inc. has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a privacy lawsuit filed over its Siri voice assistant, Reuters reported today. The company filed the proposed settlement late Tuesday with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, which …
Apheris raises $8.25M for its healthcare-focused federated AI platform
Apheris AI GmbH, a startup with a platform for analyzing healthcare data, today disclosed that it has raised $8.25 million in funding. OTB Ventures and eCAPITAL led the Series A round. The investment brings Berlin-based Apheris’ total outside funding to $20.8 million. …
US sanctions Iranian, Russian entities over election interference efforts
The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday sanctioned two Iranian and Russian organizations that attempted to interfere in the 2024 election. The move is the latest in a series of recent steps taken by U.S. officials to combat disinformation from foreign adversaries. The …
LG debuts new Gram laptop series with onboard small language model
LG Electronics Inc. today previewed a series of lightweight laptops that will ship with an onboard small language model. The company plans to reveal the Gram series, as it’s called, at the CES consumer electronics conference next week. The flagship device in the …
WWT to acquire Softchoice in $1.25B technology services deal
World Wide Technology Holding Co. Ltd today announced plans to acquire rival Softchoice Corp. for $1.8 billion Canadian dollars, or about $1.25 billion. The all-cash offer values Toronto-based Softchoice at C$24.5 per share. That’s a premium of more than 10% to the …
US Army soldier arrested in connection with AT&T, Verizon data breaches
Federal authorities have reportedly arrested a U.S. Army soldier in connection with a series of cyberattacks that compromised AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. customers’ data. Prominent cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs broke the news on Monday. Cameron Wagenius was reportedly apprehended on …
Location data from 800,000 Volkswagen vehicles exposed by cloud misconfiguration
A misconfiguration in a cloud environment made data from hundreds of thousands of Volkswagen AG vehicles available online, multiple publications reported today. The issue was brought to the attention of German newspaper Der Spiegel by a whistleblower. Researchers from Chaos Computer Club, …