Friday, May 10, 2024

Google releases a Chrome security update to fix the fifth zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild in 2024; the vulnerability is in the Visuals component (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Google releases a Chrome security update to fix the fifth zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild in 2024; the vulnerability is in the Visuals component  —  Google has released a security update for the Chrome browser to fix the fifth zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild since the start of the year.



Smartphone shipments in India grew 8% in Q1, 2024; Vivo leads for the first time with 19.2% of market share, followed by Xiaomi with 18.8%, and Samsung 17.5% (Counterpoint Research)

Counterpoint Research:
Smartphone shipments in India grew 8% in Q1, 2024; Vivo leads for the first time with 19.2% of market share, followed by Xiaomi with 18.8%, and Samsung 17.5%  —  - For the first time ever, vivo led the market by volume in a single quarter.  — Samsung led the market by value after capturing …



Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi announces plans to shut down its web platform by May and partners with Coinbase to allow clients to access and withdraw funds (Amaka Nwaokocha/Cointelegraph)

Amaka Nwaokocha / Cointelegraph:
Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi announces plans to shut down its web platform by May and partners with Coinbase to allow clients to access and withdraw funds  —  The plan administrator will continue to use Coinbase for upcoming distribution rounds, potentially involving recovered funds from FTX.



Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech : Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; ...