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In recent weeks, a mysterious viral disease has emerged in parts of the Western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), leading to at least 53 deaths, officials say. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), clinicians are particularly concerned about the short period of time between the onset of what appears to be a “hemorrhagic fever” symptoms and the short period of death, which is only 48 hours. This is the latest virus outbreak that has collided with the East African region over the past year, especially after the outbreak of Marburg and MPOX disease. In particular, DRCs are susceptible…
To take on YouTube, Tiktok has revamped its desktop platform with several new features. On Thursday, the company announced that the web-based experience will feature new modular layouts, updates for feeds, new exploration tabs, immersive full-screen live game streaming and a floating player. The new web layout for social networks has a relocated navigation bar designed to allow for a more immersive and distracting viewing experience along the mobile version of Tiktok. Additionally, game streamers can now be “live” in portrait or landscape mode. Users on the desktop will see a horizontal view, while mobile users can also simply rotate…
February 27, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/Threat Intelligence The new campaign targets Taiwanese businesses using malware known as Winos 4.0 as part of a phishing email disguised as the country’s national tax office. The campaign, detected last month by Fortinet Fortiguard Labs, shows a deviation from previous attack chains that leveraged malicious game-related applications. “The sender claimed that the attached malicious files were a list of companies scheduled for tax inspections, and asked the recipient to transfer the information to the company’s treasurer,” security researcher Pay Han Riao said in a report shared with Hacker News. This attachment mimics the official Treasury document…
Ukrainian President Voldimia Zelensky said he plans to meet President Donald Trump “as early as this Friday” to sign a bilateral commercial agreement to jointly develop and manage Ukraine’s mineral wealth. Trump insisted on the deal three weeks after taking over in return for the support provided by the US over the three years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, telling the interviewer. [Ukraine] I want something worth $500 million worth of rare earths, and they essentially agree to do it. ” Zelenskyy publicly rejected the numbers, and he twice refused a transaction that did not include Ukraine’s security guarantees. The…
Anita Collaboration at Uppsala University details how small modular reactors are expected to permanently change perceptions of nuclear energy. Interest in nuclear power generation as a low-emission and dispatchable energy source has increased significantly in recent years due to inherent technical issues associated with the significant expansion of weather-dependent electricity production. For example, with the closure of nuclear reactors, countries such as Sweden and Germany have created increasingly unstable and vulnerable power systems where reduced transmit capacity, increased network costs, volatile and negative electricity prices are part of today’s reality. So, for what reason does nuclear power provide technically attractive…
Four years after the release of the information, Meta is reportedly considering spin-off the Instagram reel into its own standalone app. The report said Instagram head Adam Mosseri discussed the project, Codename Project Ray, with staff, citing an anonymous source. The move remains uncertain about Tiktok’s future in the US, and the potential regulatory measures looming on China-owned platforms. Instagram head Adam Mosseri is said to have discussed project rays with employees this week. The plan is to improve video recommendations for both new and existing US users, focusing on three-minute videos. “Instagram is considering launching a standalone app for…
Digital Payments Platform Stripe has yet to plan to publish it, but in the meantime, the company has cast a line of liquidity on past and present employees. The company confirmed Thursday a tender offer in which investors would acquire shares from those employees at a valuation of $91.5 billion. Stripe said it will buy back the shares as part of the transaction. The spokesman refused to say who was in the second round, except to confirm that it is “mainly” an existing investor. Past supporters of company numbers with over 150 investors per pitchbook data. These include common catalysts,…
IBM completed the multi-billion-dollar Hasicorp acquisition two days after British anti-trust regulators gave the blessing. An IBM spokesperson confirmed with TechCrunch on Tuesday that the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) quietly greenlighted the acquisition just before the UK’s Competitive Markets Agency (CMA). Today’s announcement comes after IBM first unveils its plans to pay $6.4 billion to Hashicorp, the enterprise software company most well-known for Terraform, a “infrastructure as code” tool for automating infrastructure provisioning and management across the cloud. Terraform was once available under an open source license, but Hashicorp switched to its controversially own license in 2023 (which led…
Jussi Tuovinen, CEO of Kvanttinova, explains how Finland has transformed its technology ecosystem and is becoming a global leader in chip development. The key role of critical technologies is recognized worldwide. Among these important technologies are semiconductors and microelectronics, or in short, chips. The European Union declared its position in 2022 through the Chips Act. Finland excels in specialized manufacturing and integration processes and complex system-on-chip designs. Both have been nurtured through intimate interactions between academic research, applied research, and industry efforts to develop research results into thriving businesses. From our perspective, artificial intelligence (AI) is a major factor in…
Stripe announced a new tender offer on Thursday, cherishing the company for $91.5 billion. The offer gave employees and early investors another opportunity to sell their shares, bringing the fintech giant closer to a peak rating of $95 billion in 2021 after a rough post-Covid market slump. Just two weeks ago, reports surfaced that Stripe was negotiating a sales of its employees’ stock at a $85 billion valuation. The final deal was high, adding $21.5 billion in value compared to last year’s $70 billion tender offer. The boost has increased investor reliability, but it is still below the $95 billion…