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Data center operator Arkon Energy nabs $110M in fresh funding
Arkon Energy Pty Ltd., a company that operates data centers powered by renewable energy, has raised $110 million in funding to expand its infrastructure footprint. TechCrunch reported the investment today. It was led by Bluesky Capital Management with participation from Kestrel 0x1 and Nural Capital. The raise brings Arkon’s total outside funding to more than ...
Report: Justice Department expanding Apple antitrust probe over Beeper Mini shutdown
The U.S. Justice Department is expanding its antitrust probe into Apple Inc. over the recent shutdown of an Android messaging app, the New York Times reported today. The app in question, Beeper Mini, launched earlier this month. It enabled Android users to send messages to iPhones without creating an Apple ID account. On the recipient’s iPhone, ...
Cisco acquires eBPF networking startup Isovalent
Cisco Systems Inc. is acquiring Isovalent Inc., a startup that develops networking software based on the open-source eBPF tool. Cisco announced the deal today without disclosing the financial terms. The acquisition comes about two years after the networking giant backed a $29 million funding round for Isovalent alongside Google LLC and Andreessen Horowitz. A server’s ...
Commerce Department to launch review of U.S. chip supply chain
The Department of Commerce is launching a review into the supply chain through which U.S. companies source chips for their hardware products. The review, which was announced today, will be carried out by the department’s Bureau of Industry and Security. Work on the project is set to begin next month. The review is a response ...
Consumer AI startup Rabbit raises $10M from Khosla Ventures
Startup Rabbit Inc. today announced that it has raised $10 million in funding to build a mobile device with an artificial intelligence-powered operating system. The Series A investment, which was led by Khosla Ventures, comes a few months after Rabbit received $20 million from the venture capital firm and other backers. That earlier round reportedly ...
UK Supreme Court rules AI systems can’t patent their inventions
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom today ruled that an artificial intelligence can’t receive a patient for an invention it has created without human assistance. The judgment concludes a legal case launched in 2019 by Stephen Thaler, a Missouri-based computer scientist. Thaler has filed similar AI patent applications in the U.S., European Union and Australia ...
ALPHV claims to reactivate ransomware data leak website after FBI-led takedown
ALPHV, one of the most active ransomware-as-a-service gangs in the world, on Tuesday claimed to have regained control of a malicious website that the FBI took down earlier that day. ALPHV sells ransomware that other hacking groups use to launch cyberattacks. According to the FBI, those cyberattacks have incurred hundreds of millions of dollars in ...
Researchers find child sexual abuse images in LAION-5B AI training dataset
Researchers have found child sexual abuse material in LAION-5B, an open-source artificial intelligence training dataset used to build image generation models. The discovery was made by the Stanford Internet Observatory, or SIO, which detailed its findings in a Tuesday report. SIO researchers have identified more than 1,000 exploitative images of children in LAION-5B. They detailed in ...
Okta acquires identity security startup Spera in reported $100M+ deal
Okta Inc. today announced that it will acquire Spera Cybersecurity Inc., a startup helping enterprises secure employee accounts across services such as Salesforce and GitHub. CTech reported that the deal will be worth between $100 million and $130 million depending on whether certain performance milestones are met. According to Okta, the acquisition is on track ...
Law enforcement agencies led by FBI disrupt ALPHV ransomware gang
A group of law enforcement agencies led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation has disrupted the infrastructure of the world’s second most prolific ransomware gang. The FBI announced the development this morning. The ransomware gang it disrupted is tracked as ALPHV, BlackCat and Noberus. Authorities shut down several of ALPHV’s technical assets, including multiple malicious ...