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Matt Burgess / Wired: A US judge sentences Ukrainian Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov, who helped lead the prolific Zeus malware gang, to 18 years in jail and orders payment of $73M+ -
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: Arm unveils Accuracy Super Resolution, an upscaler for mobile games based on AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution 2, available under the MIT open-source license -
Leo Schwartz / Fortune: The US SEC drops its investigation into Paxos over its BUSD stablecoin issued in partnership with Binance, after sending Paxos a Wells notice in February 2023 -
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI creates five levels to track its progress toward AGI: Chatbots, Reasoners, Agents, Innovators, and Organizations, and says it's nearly at level two -
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Signal plans to roll out a beta version of its desktop apps that tightens the security of how it stores plain text encryption keys, after downplaying the issue -
Financial Times: SoftBank buys struggling UK-based chipmaker Graphcore with regulatory approval; sources: the deal is valued at ~$600M, less than the ~$700M Graphcore had raised -
Wired: Arab and Muslim workers at Meta detail frustrations over Meta's handling of internal discussions on the Israel-Hamas war, worrying it led to bad product choices -
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: A May 2024 data breach at mobile spyware company mSpy leaked millions of customer support tickets, including personal data, its third known breach since 2010 -
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: IDC estimates that Apple will sell under 500K Vision Pro units in 2024, and the headset's international launch will offset a 75% QoQ drop in US sales in Q3 2024 -
Sean Lyngaas / CNN: Sources: US car dealership software provider CDK Global appears to have paid ~$25M to hackers on June 21, after a ransomware attack shut down its systems -
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: A Google DeepMind research paper details how Gemini 1.5 Pro's 1M-token context window lets Google's robots navigate and complete tasks using simple instructions -
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Two Republican US House Committee chairs call for an intelligence assessment of Microsoft's deal with Abu Dhabi's G42, including a focus on G42's China ties -
Bloomberg: Apple settles with the EU over Apple Pay and avoids potential fines by agreeing to open NFC access on iOS to third-party wallet developers for free for a decade -
Wes Davis / The Verge: YouTube announces new Shorts features, including TikTok-like text-to-speech video narration, in-app auto-generated captions, and a set of Minecraft effects -
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Regard, which saves physicians time by analyzing patients' health data using AI, raised a $61M Series B led by Oak HC/FT, a source says at a $350M valuation -
Bloomberg: Tencent-backed Shift Up closed up ~18% after raising $320M in its Seoul IPO, the largest South Korean IPO by a gaming company since Krafton raised $3.8B in 2021