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The company laid off around 1% of its total workforce, or around 140 employees. It’s the third round of cuts since the start of 2024.

Omead Afshar, one of Musk’s top lieutenants, is out after more than seven years at the company. He was recently elevated to a VP role in late 2024.

Kai West was arrested in France, along with four other hackers, all suspected of being part of the well-known hacking forum, BreachForums.

DHS said low-level cyberattacks targeting U.S. networks are “likely” in the wake of military conflict between the US and Israel, and Iran.

The authors alleged that Meta trained its AI models on their copyrighted works without permission, potentially violating copyright law.

Meta has hired a highly influential OpenAI researcher, Trapit Bansal, to work on its AI reasoning models under the company’s new AI superintelligence unit, a person familiar with the matter tells TechCrunch. OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood confirmed to TechCrunch that Bansal had departed OpenAI. Bansal’s LinkedIn page says that he left OpenAI in June. Bansal […]

Offerwall lets publishers give their sites’ readers a variety of ways to access their content, including through options like micro payments, taking surveys, watching ads, and more.

AI music company Suno acquired WavTool, a browser-based AI DAW. This aims to improve editing capabilities for musicians.

In July 2024, AT&T revealed that the call and text logs of “nearly all” of its cellular customers had been exposed in a breach that spring and put on the “dark web.”

Bezos allegedly sees an opening for his space company, Blue Origin, now that Musk has been diminished in the eyes of the President.