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Microsoft finds USB worm that steals cryptocurrency through clipboard hijacking and Tor
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Jio Platforms files for India’s largest-ever IPO, with nearly $3 billion earmarked for debt repayment
ShinyHunters published 45GB of Madison Square Garden data, including facial recognition surveillance records
Wharton researchers coined ‘cognitive surrender’ to describe what happens when people let AI think for them
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NeuralTrust raised $20M to police the AI agents companies can’t even count
Arcade raised $60M to fix the real wall blocking enterprise AI agents: what they’re allowed to do
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A startup betting on a different material for AI’s optics problem just raised $80mn from the people who build the hardware
Warren raises €10M to fix Belgium’s broken workplace pensions
GitHub for the factory floor: Copia raises $26M to protect the code that runs industry
The Big Four bill by the hour. Andera just raised $37M to let AI do the audit.
He spent 15 months hunting for compliance software that didn’t exist. So he built Flagright, which just raised $12.5M.
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