Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The FBI urges LockBit ransomware victims to come forward after obtaining 7,000+ decryption keys to recover data; police seized 2,500+ keys in February 2024 — The FBI urges past victims of LockBit ransomware attacks to come forward after revealing that it has obtained over 7,000 LockBit decryption keys …
Amazon acquires key assets of Indian video streaming service MX Player; a source says the deal values the streamer at $100M, below its $500M valuation in 2019 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Amazon acquires key assets of Indian video streaming service MX Player; a source says the deal values the streamer at $100M, below its $500M valuation in 2019 — Amazon has agreed to acquire key assets of Indian video streaming service MX Player from the local media powerhouse Times Internet …
Slack launches Slack Lists, a new feature for paid users to integrate project and task management into the app, including helping to structure conversations (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Slack launches Slack Lists, a new feature for paid users to integrate project and task management into the app, including helping to structure conversations — Salesforce Inc. is making good on its plan to transform the Slack collaboration tool into a project management platform with the debut of a new feature called Slack Lists.
A look back at Sam Altman’s career, starting as Loopt CEO before moving to YC and founding OpenAI in 2015, as many former allies now view his charm as duplicity (Ellen Huet/Bloomberg)
Ellen Huet / Bloomberg:
A look back at Sam Altman’s career, starting as Loopt CEO before moving to YC and founding OpenAI in 2015, as many former allies now view his charm as duplicity — From founding a startup at 19 to running Y Combinator at 29, the CEO behind ChatGPT is the most Silicon Valley man alive.
Sources: as Humane’s Ai Pin flopped, with just ~10,000 orders by early April, the startup started talking to HP about a $1B+ sale; Humane has raised $240M (New York Times)
New York Times:
Sources: as Humane’s Ai Pin flopped, with just ~10,000 orders by early April, the startup started talking to HP about a $1B+ sale; Humane has raised $240M — Days before gadget reviewers weighed in on the Humane Ai Pin, a futuristic wearable device powered by artificial intelligence …
ASML’s shares jumped 8.1% on July 5 to reach a €377B market cap, passing fashion conglomerate LVMH for the first time; only Novo Nordisk is worth more in Europe (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
ASML’s shares jumped 8.1% on July 5 to reach a €377B market cap, passing fashion conglomerate LVMH for the first time; only Novo Nordisk is worth more in Europe — – The shares soared 8.1% amid a broad tech-driven rally — Novo Nordisk is the largest company in Europe by market cap
Ikea plans to hire 10 people to run its virtual Roblox store, including to help pick out furniture and serve meatballs in the Bistro, and will pay £13.50/hour (Joshua Robertson/TheGamer)
Joshua Robertson / TheGamer:
Ikea plans to hire 10 people to run its virtual Roblox store, including to help pick out furniture and serve meatballs in the Bistro, and will pay £13.50/hour — – Ikea is hiring 10 people to run a virtual store in Roblox, as part of a campaign to show young people the career paths available at the store.
eBay emails customers to say the service will drop American Express cards as a payment option because of “unacceptably high fees”, starting on August 17 (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
eBay emails customers to say the service will drop American Express cards as a payment option because of “unacceptably high fees”, starting on August 17 — – Online marketplace calls Amex fees ‘unacceptably high’ — Change to take effect Aug. 17; Amex defends its fees
Coinbase-backed advocacy group Stand with Crypto passes 1M members after targeting voters in swing states, including ~24K members in Georgia and 16K+ in Arizona (Andrea Shalal/Reuters)
Andrea Shalal / Reuters:
Coinbase-backed advocacy group Stand with Crypto passes 1M members after targeting voters in swing states, including ~24K members in Georgia and 16K+ in Arizona — Stand with Crypto, an advocacy organization for voters who own cryptocurrencies, saw its membership surpass 1 million on Wednesday …
A profile of ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet, a 51-year-old Frenchman who sources say supports global tech collaboration, as ASML starts to worry about geopolitics (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
A profile of ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet, a 51-year-old Frenchman who sources say supports global tech collaboration, as ASML starts to worry about geopolitics — ASML makes some of the most advanced chip-making machines. It must balance Western demands to curb China’s access while keeping a foothold in a key market.
