US officials work with CrowdStrike to fight malware behind crypto theft

Federal authorities and private-sector partners were part of an operation to disrupt malware that redirected about $150,000 in crypto over the last eight years. Federal law enforcement officials, working with cybersecurity technology company CrowdStrike, announced action against entities behind malware that enabled the theft of $150,000 in cryptocurrency. In a Tuesday notice, the US Justice…

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Kelela wants her songs to feel as complex as real life

The FADER speaks to Kelela about genre and race, working with Oscar Scheller, and covering Incubus for her new Spotify Live Room sessions. Kelela’s songwriting process can be painstakingly slow. It doesn’t help that sometimes, not even she knows what she’s trying to say. “Oftentimes when I’m singing in gibberish over the instrumental, there are…

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Google avoids AdX breakup in ad tech antitrust case

Judge keeps the monopoly finding intact, but chooses behavioral remedies over a forced AdX sale, preserving Google’s ad exchange. A federal judge rejected the U.S. Justice Department’s bid to force Google to sell its AdX advertising exchange. Google is allowed to keep the business despite an earlier ruling that it illegally monopolized parts of the…

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OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts

OpenAI’s new Astra model will use a reasoning technique called “recurrent depth” that allows it to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models, the The Information reported on Tuesday. This technique, also called “opaque recurrence,” will likely make the model’s chain of thought more difficult to monitor — and that has…

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