"This is no different from Comfort Women or the Holocaust," wrote South Korean President Lee Jae-myung on X last week, quoting a post with a video of Israeli Defense Forces soldiers throwing a body off a rooftop in Gaza. The president's post kicked off an internet firestorm for a thousand different reasons, not least because […]

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Bluesky says a sophisticated DDoS attack is to blame for continued app outages but it has not seen any evidence of unauthorized access to private data  —  Bluesky's website and app are still struggling on Friday after experiencing service interruptions that chief operating officer Rose Wang attributed to an ongoing cyberattack.

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Loop, which uses AI to predict supply chain disruptions, raised a $95M Series C co-led by Valor Equity Partners and the Valor Atreides AI Fund  —  Supply chains are messy.  San Francisco-based startup Loop isn't content helping companies merely clean up their supply chains.

Authorities had been circling D4vd for a while now, but had nothing concrete to bring him in on until now. Here's what we know.

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