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Thoma Bravo’s LogRhythm merges with Exabeam in more cybersecurity consolidation
[[{“value”:” Private equity giant Thoma Bravo has announced that its security information and event management (SIEM) company LogRhythm will be merging with Exabeam, a rival cybersecurity company backed by the likes of Cisco and Lightspeed Venture Partners. SIEM is the business of using real-time data gleaned from servers, network devices, and applications to flag abnormal activity […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Temu accused of breaching EU’s DSA in bundle of consumer complaints
[[{“value”:” Consumer protection groups around the European Union have filed coordinated complaints against Temu, accusing the Chinese-owned ultra low-cost e-commerce platform of a raft of breaches related to the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA). Temu only launched in the region about a year ago but recently reported blasting past 75 million monthly users. Penalties for confirmed […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Senate study proposes ‘at least’ $32B yearly for AI programs
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FBI seizes hacking forum BreachForums — again
[[{“value”:” The FBI along with a coalition of international law enforcement agencies seized the notorious cybercrime forum BreachForums on Wednesday. For years, BreachForums has been a popular English-language forum for hackers and cybercriminals who wanted to advertise, sell and trade stolen data. Just recently, a threat actor advertised Dell customers’ personal information and data stolen from […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Netflix to take on Google and Amazon by building its own ad server
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Matt Garman taking over as CEO with AWS at crossroads
[[{“value”:” It’s tough to say that a $100 billion business finds itself at a critical juncture, but that’s the case with Amazon Web Services, the cloud arm of Amazon, and the clear market leader in the cloud infrastructure market. On Tuesday, the company announced that CEO Adam Selipsky was stepping down to spend more time with […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Google still hasn’t fixed Gemini’s biased image generator
[[{“value”:” Back in February, Google paused its AI-powered chatbot Gemini’s ability to generate images of people after users complained of historical inaccuracies. Told to depict “a Roman legion,” for example, Gemini would show an anachronistic group of racially diverse soldiers while rendering “Zulu warriors” as stereotypically Black. Google CEO Sundar Pichai apologized, and Demis Hassabis, the co-founder of […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Google’s call-scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warn
[[{“value”:” A feature Google demoed at its I/O confab yesterday, using its generative AI technology to scan voice calls in real time for conversational patterns associated with financial scams, has sent a collective shiver down the spines of privacy and security experts who are warning the feature represents the thin end of the wedge. They warn […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
The top AI announcements from Google I/O
[[{“value”:” Google’s going all in on AI — and it wants you to know it. During the company’s keynote at its I/O developer conference on Tuesday, Google mentioned “AI” more than 120 times. That’s a lot! But not all of Google’s AI announcements were significant per se. Some were incremental. Others were rehashed. So to help […] © 2024 TechCrunch….