Sunday, August 13, 2023

Q&A with an FBI agent on targeting and taking down DDoS-for-hire sites, why Christmas is the busiest DDoS time, how attacks have changed over 10 years, and more (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Q&A with an FBI agent on targeting and taking down DDoS-for-hire sites, why Christmas is the busiest DDoS time, how attacks have changed over 10 years, and more  —  In an interview at Black Hat, FBI agents explain how they target and take down DDoS-for-hire sites



ShapesXR, which offers an XR app creation and collaboration platform to clients like Meta, Qualcomm, and ByteDance, raised an $8.6M seed led by Supernode Global (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE:
ShapesXR, which offers an XR app creation and collaboration platform to clients like Meta, Qualcomm, and ByteDance, raised an $8.6M seed led by Supernode Global  —  Spatial apps creation and collaboration platform startup ShapesXR today announced that it has raised $8.6 million in new funding …



Sources: Apple is planning a major "Watch X" redesign for the 10th anniversary; a look at the M3 roadmap, including a top M3 Ultra with 32 CPU and 80 GPU cores (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is planning a major “Watch X” redesign for the 10th anniversary; a look at the M3 roadmap, including a top M3 Ultra with 32 CPU and 80 GPU cores  —  Apple's next line of smartwatches is expected to be a minor upgrade.  Behind the scenes, though …



Sources: SoftBank is in talks to acquire the 25% stake in Arm it does not directly own from Vision Fund 1, ahead of the chip designer's Nasdaq IPO next month (Reuters)

Reuters:
Sources: SoftBank is in talks to acquire the 25% stake in Arm it does not directly own from Vision Fund 1, ahead of the chip designer's Nasdaq IPO next month  —  SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) is in talks to acquire the 25% stake in Arm Ltd it does not directly own from Vision Fund 1 (VF1) …



Inside the Black Hat network operations center, staffed by volunteers who built the network on the week of the event from scratch using their own equipment (Iain Thomson/The Register)

Iain Thomson / The Register:
Inside the Black Hat network operations center, staffed by volunteers who built the network on the week of the event from scratch using their own equipment  —  NOC, NOC ... Who's there?  —  BLACK HAT Every summer, pandemics permitting, a group of volunteers gather in a Las Vegas hotel …



How Sweden's Psychological Defense Agency, a part of the Ministry of Defense, is combating online disinformation from foreign adversaries, especially Russia (Steven Lee Myers/New York Times)

Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
How Sweden's Psychological Defense Agency, a part of the Ministry of Defense, is combating online disinformation from foreign adversaries, especially Russia  —  The country has empowered a government agency to openly combat online disinformation coming from foreign adversaries, and especially the Kremlin.



The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5K workers at its Staten Island warehouse; Amazon plans to appeal (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Greg Bensinger / Reuters : The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5K workers at its ...