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Insight Partners is closing in on a whopping $10B+ new fund

Insight Partners is reportedly on the cusp of closing on more than $10 billion in capital commitments for its 13th fund, per the FT.  The FT report notes that two of Insight’s portfolio companies were acquired in the last week. One of these, the threat intelligence company Recorded Future, which sold to Mastercard for $2.65 […]

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News Image Suspected Trump Gunman Was Once Charged With Possession of a Weapon of Mass Destruction

"I figured he was either dead or in prison by now," says the charging officer in Ryan Routh's 2002 arrest, who spoke with WIRED on Sunday.

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News Image You might start seeing Instagram comments on Threads soon

Instagram might roll out a way to share comments on other Instagram posts to Threads, according to Alessandro Paluzzi, who often reverse engineers Meta’s social media apps to find coming features. Paluzzi shared an image showing that when commenting on an Instagram post, there could be a new dropdown menu that lets users choose to share the comment only to Instagram or “also share on Threads.” Meta has made a few moves to integrate Threads with its other platforms in the past, such as showing Threads posts on Instagram or Facebook (and, later, letting users opt out of that). The Twitter-like short-posting social network also lacks DMs of its own, but users can still receive or send messages through Instagram. The bigger effort, of...

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News Image The Forest Hills, Shelley Duvall’s Final Film, Gets a Bloody Trailer

The indie horror film featuring Duvall's last, posthumous performance hits theaters and streaming in October.

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News Image Matt Reeves’ Batman Saga Will Keep Going and Keep Growing

The Dark Knight's epic crime saga reach its endgame and find some other extensions along the way for his Rogues Gallery.

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News Image Apple will charge more to swap your iPhone 16 Pro battery

Apple has hiked the price of its battery repair service for the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max. Now, it will cost $119 to get your battery replaced in either phone — a $20 jump over its older fee. The price remains the same for the standard and “Plus” models, as do those for last year’s phones, as MacRumors notes. The company doesn’t seem to have started charging more for other battery replacements yet, but it wouldn’t be unexpected. In 2022, Apple drove the cost of iPhone 14 battery service up by $30 to $99. Increases for iPad, MacBook, and older iPhone battery repairs came after that, and Apple Watches followed suit later. (One longs for the salad days of battery drama-induced $29 battery replacements!) Defective batteries are covered...

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Port of Seattle shares ransomware attack details

The Port of Seattle released a statement Friday confirming that it was targeted by a ransomware attack. The attack occurred on August 24, with the Port (which also operates the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport) saying it had “experienced certain system outages indicating a possible cyberattack.” The Port is now describing this as “a ‘ransomware’ attack by […]

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Windows vulnerability abused braille “spaces” in zero-day attacks

A recently fixed "Windows MSHTML spoofing vulnerability" tracked under CVE-2024-43461 is now marked as previously exploited after it was used in attacks by the Void Banshee APT hacking group....

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