Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A US court rejects Realtek’s lawsuit accusing MediaTek of paying a company to file meritless US patent lawsuits to drive Realtek out of the TV chip market — Chipmaker MediaTek (2454.TW) has convinced a California federal court to reject a lawsuit accusing it of illegally partnering …
UK-based Wayve, which is developing a self-learning system for autonomous driving, raised a $1.05B Series C led by SoftBank, the UK’s largest AI fundraise ever (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
UK-based Wayve, which is developing a self-learning system for autonomous driving, raised a $1.05B Series C led by SoftBank, the UK’s largest AI fundraise ever — Wayve, a U.K.-born startup developing a self-learning rather than rule-based system for autonomous driving …
A look at the trademark dispute over the name AGI House between two rival hacker houses, one in Hillsborough and the other in Twin Peaks in the Bay Area (Forbes)
Forbes:
A look at the trademark dispute over the name AGI House between two rival hacker houses, one in Hillsborough and the other in Twin Peaks in the Bay Area — Two rival hacker houses, both claiming the name “AGI House,” have attracted the attention of Silicon Valley’s biggest names.
Sources: China has hacked a payroll system used by the UK’s Ministry of Defence, targeting service personnel; names and bank details have been exposed (Sky News)
Sky News:
Sources: China has hacked a payroll system used by the UK’s Ministry of Defence, targeting service personnel; names and bank details have been exposed — MPs will be told on Tuesday of a massive data breach involving the Ministry of Defence, targeting service personnel.
Google Cloud unveils Google Threat Intelligence, which uses Gemini and combines insights from Mandiant, VirusTotal, and Google to provide faster protection (Kyle Alspach/CRN)
Kyle Alspach / CRN:
Google Cloud unveils Google Threat Intelligence, which uses Gemini and combines insights from Mandiant, VirusTotal, and Google to provide faster protection — Launched at RSAC 2024, the new Google Threat Intelligence offering provides faster protection against threats by combining insights from Mandiant …
Sources: Apple has been working on its own chip designed to run AI software in data center servers; the project is internally codenamed Project ACDC (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Apple has been working on its own chip designed to run AI software in data center servers; the project is internally codenamed Project ACDC — The company is leaning on its long history of chip development in the effort, code-named Project ACDC — Apple has been working …
Researchers detail an attack against many VPN apps that force them to send some or all traffic outside of the VPN encrypted tunnel; Android mitigates the flaw (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Researchers detail an attack against many VPN apps that force them to send some or all traffic outside of the VPN encrypted tunnel; Android mitigates the flaw — TunnelVision vulnerability has existed since 2002 and may already be known to attackers. — Researchers have devised an attack …
Synopsys agrees to sell its Software Integrity Group business to a PE consortium led by Clearlake Capital and Francisco Partners in a deal valued at $2.1B (Reuters)
Reuters:
Synopsys agrees to sell its Software Integrity Group business to a PE consortium led by Clearlake Capital and Francisco Partners in a deal valued at $2.1B — Synopsys (SNPS.O) will sell its software integrity (SIG) unit to a private equity consortium led by Clearlake Capital and Francisco Partners …
DocuSign says it is acquiring contract workflow automation startup Lexion for $165M; Lexion had raised $35.2M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
DocuSign says it is acquiring contract workflow automation startup Lexion for $165M; Lexion had raised $35.2M — As DocuSign reportedly explores a sale to private equity, it’s acquiring a company itself. — On Monday, DocuSign announced that it’s buying Lexion, a contract workflow automation startup, for $165 million.
Palantir reports Q1 revenue of $634M, up 21% YoY, vs. $625M est., net income of $106M, up from $16.8M YoY; Palantir stock drops 9% after hours on weak guidance (Rohan Goswami/CNBC)
Rohan Goswami / CNBC:
Palantir reports Q1 revenue of $634M, up 21% YoY, vs. $625M est., net income of $106M, up from $16.8M YoY; Palantir stock drops 9% after hours on weak guidance — Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, arrives for the “AI Insight Forum” at the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on September 13, 2023 in Washington, DC.
