Sofia Barnett / Wired:
Anonymous social media app Sidechat has become both a place for dialog and a breeding ground for hate speech amid US college protests over the Israel-Hamas war — Amidst tensions about free speech on university campuses and the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, anonymous social media app Sidechat has become a hotbed of vile rhetoric.
Cybersecurity experts say responses to the new US data breach disclosure rules, which have raised legal risks for public companies and their CISOs, have varied (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
Cybersecurity experts say responses to the new US data breach disclosure rules, which have raised legal risks for public companies and their CISOs, have varied — New US rules around the disclosure of data breaches are heaping more pressure on information security chiefs
A look at Intel’s efforts to build Ohio One, a “mega fab” that could become the world’s largest chip factory and for which the company has committed $28B (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
A look at Intel’s efforts to build Ohio One, a “mega fab” that could become the world’s largest chip factory and for which the company has committed $28B — A few months ago, a tugboat set off from New Orleans, pushing a barge up the Mississippi River.
The US DOJ sentences Ukrainian national Yaroslav Vasinskyi to 13+ years in prison and orders $16M in restitution for helping REvil conduct ransomware attacks (Hannah Rabinowitz/CNN)
Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
The US DOJ sentences Ukrainian national Yaroslav Vasinskyi to 13+ years in prison and orders $16M in restitution for helping REvil conduct ransomware attacks — A Ukrainian national was sentenced on Wednesday to more than 13 years in prison and ordered to pay $16 million in restitution …
Microsoft announces plans to invest $2.2B in cloud and AI infrastructure in Malaysia over four years and train 200,000 people with AI skills in the country (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
Microsoft announces plans to invest $2.2B in cloud and AI infrastructure in Malaysia over four years and train 200,000 people with AI skills in the country — – Nadella announces plan for more AI infrastructure in Malaysia — Tech companies are targeting Southeast Asia as new growth area
Trend Micro: cybercriminals and nation-state spies are coexisting inside the same compromised brand-name routers, using the devices to disguise their attacks (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Trend Micro: cybercriminals and nation-state spies are coexisting inside the same compromised brand-name routers, using the devices to disguise their attacks — How and why nation-state hackers and cybercriminals coexist in the same router botnet. — Cybercriminals and spies working …
SK Hynix says its capacity to make HBM chips is almost fully booked through 2025 and it now aims to begin mass production of its next-generation HBM chip in Q3 (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
SK Hynix says its capacity to make HBM chips is almost fully booked through 2025 and it now aims to begin mass production of its next-generation HBM chip in Q3 — – Samsung rival aims to begin making next-gen HBM3E next quarter — SK Hynix is one of the companies at heart of a global AI boom
Ethan Zuckerman sues to stop Meta from blocking his planned Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension that would let Facebook users effectively turn off their newsfeed (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)
Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
Ethan Zuckerman sues to stop Meta from blocking his planned Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension that would let Facebook users effectively turn off their newsfeed — Academic Ethan Zuckerman is suing Meta to win protections for add-ons that help researchers study the platform and give users more control over their feeds.
Chennai-based CRM software maker Freshworks redesignates CEO Girish Mathrubootham as the executive chairman and names Dennis Woodside as his replacement (Bhavya Dilipkumar/Moneycontrol)
Bhavya Dilipkumar / Moneycontrol:
Chennai-based CRM software maker Freshworks redesignates CEO Girish Mathrubootham as the executive chairman and names Dennis Woodside as his replacement — Mathrubootham will now be spending more time on the long-term product vision, innovation and AI strategy.
The US CFTC appoints Ted Kaouk as its first chief AI officer; Kaouk currently serves as the regulator’s chief data officer and director of its data division (Mengqi Sun/Wall Street Journal)
Mengqi Sun / Wall Street Journal:
The US CFTC appoints Ted Kaouk as its first chief AI officer; Kaouk currently serves as the regulator’s chief data officer and director of its data division — Commodity Futures Trading Commission has promoted Ted Kaouk to the chief data and artificial intelligence officer role
