FBI and Dutch police seize botnet of hacked routers
A joint international law enforcement action shut down two services accused of providing a botnet of hacked internet-connected devices, including routers, to cybercriminals.
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cybercrime
cybersecurity
department of justice
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hacking
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Security
anduril
doge
Elon Musk
Government & Policy
Marc Andreessen
Palantir
Palmer Luckey
Peter Thiel
SpaceX
Venture
Silicon Valley’s influence in Washington benefits tech elite
Elon Musk isn’t the only tech billionaire with power over the federal agencies that regulate his businesses. Since Donald Trump took office, more
acquisition
AI
Cohere
Enterprise
Fundraising
Startups
AI startup Cohere acquires Ottogrid, market research
AI startup Cohere has acquired Ottogrid, a Vancouver-based platform that develops enterprise tools for automating certain kinds of high-level market research. Sully Omar,
Arc
electric boats
electric vehicles
EVs
Transportation
Arc’s new 24-foot electric boat is its cheapest yet
Electric boat startup Arc has a new model that is its cheapest and most approachable watercraft yet. The new boat is called the
Aletiq
Enterprise
Fundraising
PLM
SaaS
Startups
vertical SaaS
Aletiq secures $6.5M for SaaS tool: product lifecycle management
Aletiq has raised a €6 million funding round led by Point Nine a few months ago (around $6.5 million at current exchange rates).
apple music
growing us market
Media & Entertainment
music streaming
Spotify
US paid music subscribers cross 100 million mark for first time
The U.S. crossed the 100 million paid subscribers mark for music streaming services for the first time ever last year, as per a
TC
Venture
One of Elon Musk’s long-time VCs suing former employer
Josh Raffaelli, who has deep roots as a Silicon Valley investor and has backed a number of Elon Musk companies, is suing former
AI
deepseek
Microsoft
Microsoft employees are banned from using DeepSeek app
Microsoft employees aren’t allowed to use DeepSeek due to data security and propaganda concerns, Microsoft Vice Chairman and President Brad Smith said in
