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Crunchbase: SF startups hit a record of 1,404 seed deals in 2025, while the number of NYC seed deals has dropped over the past three years, to 666 in 2025

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Wise confirms it is under investigation by Belgian prosecutors over suspicions its accounts were used for money laundering involving €500M in transactions

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Sources: Tencent, which has fallen behind domestic rivals in AI models, plans to test an AI agent for WeChat with a small group of users before a phased rollout

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GitHub Copilot's new pricing model went into effect today, and many noted sticker shock with some saying a few hours of AI usage ate big chunks of monthly caps

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Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B-parameter MoE open model; Artificial Analysis: it's the smartest open US model but trails the Chinese model Kimi K2.6

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Salesforce is acquiring CMS provider Contentful; source: Salesforce paid between $1B and $1.5B, a steep discount from Contentful's $3B valuation in 2021

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Don't Become a Data Breach Victim. Here's How to Protect Your Online Accounts

Last week, Carnival Corporation began notifying consumers of a major data breach that affected nearly 6 million people. The cruise line operator says that the breach occurred in April, with data thieves stealing names, dates of birth, email addresses and other pieces of confidential information. The average data breach costs

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Shai-Hulud malware infects Red Hat npm packages downloaded 80K times weekly

Shai-Hulud malware worms Red Hat npm package versions downloaded 80K times a week TeamPCP? Or copycat malware dev? Security researchers on Monday found dozens of Red Hat npm package releases infected with the Mini Shai-Hulud worm that TeamPCP cybercriminals recently open-sourced. The new supply chain attack hit at least 32

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Why Encrypted File Sharing Is Essential for Modern Businesses

Consider the history of any recent corporate scandal, and it is quite possible to guess what the story began with: a poorly secured file. No complex hacker intrusion, no state-sponsored attacks, just a document that had been sent to the wrong address, left in an unprotected storage space or forwarded

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Quote of the day by Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on" — a dire warning on the erosion of privacy

Co-founder of Oracle, Larry Ellison, who serves as the cloud giant's CTO, has been part of the tech industry's furniture for decades now. Looking ahead, he projects the rise of technologies such as AI, drones, and additional monitoring systems. The modern surveillance state Ellison's

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A Unified Framework for Data Inconsistency Detection & Correction in Planet-Scale Systems

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Dozens of Red Hat packages backdoored through its official NPM channel

The worm, dubbed Shai-Hulud, has all the hallmarks of malware released last month as freely available open source. TeamPCP was the first group to use Shai-Hulud, and it promoted a competition that promised a $1,000 payment to the hacker who carried out the biggest supply-chain attack using the malware.