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Google details series of Russian hacking campaigns targeting Ukraine
Google LLC on Tuesday shared new details about a series of Russian state-sponsored hacking campaigns targeting Ukraine. The hacking campaigns were detected by the search giant’s Threat Analysis Group. Billy Leonard, a security engineer with the Threat Analysis Group, detailed the cyberattacks in a blog post. Google researchers have identified a hacking campaign in which Turla, ...
Zesty.ai raises $33M for its AI-powered climate risk platform
Zesty.ai Inc., a startup with a climate risk platform that provides data about wildfires, storms and other severe weather events, has raised $33 million in new financing. The company announced the investment this morning. It describes the investment as a Series B round that included a mix of equity and debt financing. Growth equity fund Centana ...
Push Security nabs $4M in funding to secure companies’ cloud applications
Push Security Ltd. today disclosed that it has raised a $4 million seed funding round to help companies secure cloud applications deployed by their employees. Decibel Partners led the round. It was joined by several other investors, including Duo Security Inc. co-founder Jon Oberheide and Haroon Meer, the founding chief executive of cybersecurity company Thinkst ...
Amazon sues administrators of 10,000 Facebook groups that spread fake product reviews
Amazon.com Inc. today said that it’s taking legal action to combat fake product reviews posted to its e-commerce platform. The company is suing the administrators of 10,000 Facebook groups that encourage users to post fake reviews on the Amazon Marketplace. According to the company, the groups focus on its e-commerce storefronts in the U.S., the ...
Apple reportedly set to slow hiring and spending next year, sending stocks down
Apple Inc. will slow spending in some areas next year and scale back hiring initiatives, Bloomberg reported today. The report didn’t go into much detail about how Apple plans to implement the cost reductions. However, Bloomberg’s sources did specify that the initiative won’t be implemented as a companywide policy. Only some business units will be ...
Report: Some chip firms may oppose current version of CHIPS Act
Multiple chip companies could reportedly oppose proposed legislation currently being considered by Congress that would provide funding and investment tax credits for the semiconductor industry. The news was reported today by Reuters, which attributed the information to sources familiar with the matter. Lawmakers are currently considering the CHIPS Act, a bill that would allocate $52 ...
UK antitrust regulator will reevaluate decision to unwind Meta’s Giphy acquisition
The U.K.’s antitrust regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority, will reevaluate an order that it issued last year to unwind Meta Platforms Inc.’s acquisition of Giphy. The CMA announced the move today. The regulator expects to complete its review of the order within three months. Giphy is a popular GIF sharing platform that Meta acquired ...
Report: Amazon is scaling back its private-label product lineup
Amazon.com Inc. has started reducing the number of private-label products that it sells through its e-commerce marketplace, the Wall Street Journal reported today. Amazon’s e-commerce marketplace offers access to goods sold by third-party merchants. There are also items that are sold by the e-commerce and cloud computing giant itself, which are known as private-label products. ...
Amazon to provide drone deliveries in College Station, Texas
Amazon.com Inc. will make its Prime Air drone delivery service available to consumers in College Station, Texas later this year, the company announced today. College Station is the second location where Amazon plans to make Prime Air available in 2022. The city has a population of about 115,000 people and is home to the main ...
Samsung debuts new high-speed memory chips for graphics cards
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today debuted new DRAM memory chips that promise to provide significantly higher performance than the company’s previous-generation silicon. Dynamic random-access memory is a common type of memory that is widely used in both consumer devices and data center hardware. There are several versions of the technology on the market. Samsung’s new ...