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Bezos-backed Perplexity AI makes surprise bid for Google Chrome

One technology investor called the $34.5bn offer a “stunt” that is much lower than Chrome’s true value.

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GitHub CEO Steps Down From ‘Ride of a Lifetime,’ Microsoft Shifts Platform’s Leadership

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke will leave his position at the end of the year. He joined the developer platform from Microsoft in 2021.

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WinRAR Zero-Day Exploited by Russian-Linked Hackers RomCom and Paper Werewolf

Older WinRAR versions let malicious archives override the user-specified path via crafted archives, enabling stealthy system compromise.

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$34.5B Google Chrome Purchase Offer Shocker From AI Startup Perplexity

Many see Perplexity’s bid to buy Google’s Chrome browser as a strategic statement rather than a likely transaction.

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ChatGPT’s model picker is back, and it’s complicated

GPT-5 was supposed to get rid of all the complicated AI models to choose from in ChatGPT, but that’s not how it’s panned out.

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Government expands police use of facial recognition vans

The Home Office says the technology helps locate suspects but civil liberties groups warn of heightened surveillance.

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‘Cryptocrash king’ Do Kwon pleads guilty to fraud

The South Korean former tech executive co-founded Singapore-based cryptocurrency firm Terraform Labs.

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Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink

Neuralink has been making serious progress. Soon Sam Altman and OpenAI could be backing a challenger.

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AI can make us UK’s biggest firm, Rolls-Royce says

Tufan Erginbilgic says business deals to supply nuclear power for artificial intelligence could boost its fortunes

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StubHub is once again working on its IPO that could raise $1B

On Monday, StubHub filed an updated S-1. This indicates its delayed IPO is back on.

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