Reflection AI raises $2B to be America’s open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek

Reflection, once focused on autonomous coding agents, has raised $2B at an $8B valuation to expand into both an opensource ...

From infostealer to full RAT: dissecting the PureRAT attack chain

Researchers map a campaign that escalated from a Python infostealer to a full PureRAT backdoor — loaders, evasions, and ...
NPR

Deal for TikTok creates U.S. joint venture, and government won't have a stake

A new U.S.-based joint venture with investors that include Oracle and the private equity firm Silverlake will take control of the popular short video app TikTok, in a proposed deal that a senior White ...
CNN

TikTok’s algorithm will be overseen by Oracle in the US after the sale is completed

The White House has answered what had been one of the major outstanding questions regarding its pending deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to a majority American ownership group: Under the ...
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Massive monster: See the longest snake caught in the 2025 Florida Python Challenge

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge yielded 294 Burmese pythons, the most since the challenge began. Taylor Stanberry won the Ultimate Grand Prize of $10,000 for capturing 60 pythons. A total of 294 ...
ABC7

TikTok's algorithm to be licensed to US joint venture led by Oracle and Silver Lake

WASHINGTON -- Tech giant Oracle will spearhead U.S. oversight of the algorithm and security underlying TikTok's video popular platform under the terms of a deal laid out Monday by President Donald ...
The New York Times

U.S.-Run TikTok to License Algorithm, White House Says

The change is part of a deal to bring TikTok under U.S. ownership to avert a looming ban. By Emmett Lindner and Lauren Hirsch The software giant Oracle will oversee the security of Americans’ data and ...
Mother Jones

TikTok’s Algorithm Will Soon Be “Controlled By America”

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. After years of bipartisan warnings about TikTok’s potential national security risks, ...
KXAN

Georgetown plans to review housing codes to make homes more affordable

GEORGETOWN, Texas (KXAN) — The city of Georgetown will discuss reviewing possible changes to building and fire codes in an attempt to reduce housing costs in a city council workshop meeting next ...
Ars Technica

“China keeps the algorithm”: Critics attack Trump’s TikTok deal

TikTok will not shut down on Wednesday, as President Donald Trump inches nearer to closing a deal with China that will most likely see the app's majority ownership shift to US owners and US-based ...
Newsweek

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