Chinese hackers hit Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing in spear phishing campaign

Proofpoint saw UNK_FistBump, UNK_DropPitch, and UNK_SparkyCarp engaging in spear-phishing The groups were trying to deploy different backdoors and malware The campaign is part of a wider effort to “achieve semiconductor self-sufficiency” experts claim Multiple Chinese state-sponsored threat actors have been coordinating attacks on the Taiwanese semiconductor industry, hitting manufacturing, supply chain, and financial investment analysis…

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British Citizen Charged With $99 Million Wine Fraud

A police mug shot of Italian-born American swindler Charles Ponzi (1882 – 1949) after his arrest for … More forgery under the name of Charles Bianchi, Montreal, Canada, 1909. Ponzi later served 14 years in jail in the US after the collapse of his fraudulent investment scheme, whereby early investors were paid from the investments…

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Inside Biden confidante Steve Ricchetti's 'combative' eight-hour grilling in House Oversight cover-up probe

A member of former President Joe Biden’s inner circle sat with House Oversight Committee investigators for a marathon closed-door interview that lasted more than eight hours on Wednesday. Steve Ricchetti, who served as counselor to the president for all four years of Biden’s term, was described as “combative and defensive” during his voluntary meeting, a…

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How Google developed and tested NotebookLM

In mid 2022, a small team within Google Labs had a big idea: an app that would deploy our advanced language models to help people with research, thinking and writing, all grounded in sources they had on hand. Trawling through the docs and slides and links you deemed relevant to a project, it would helpfully…

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Hints, Spangram And Answers For Sunday, June 29th

Today’s NYT Strands hints and answers Credit: New York Times Looking for Saturday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here: ForbesToday’s NYT Strands Puzzle: Hints, Spangram And Answers For Saturday, June 28thBy Erik Kain It’s Sunday and we have a very special Strands puzzle to solve. Seriously, I think this is the…

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