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Microsoft Teams voice calls abused to push Matanbuchus malware

The Matanbuchus malware loader has been seen being distributed through social engineering over Microsoft Teams calls impersonating IT helpdesk. Matanbuchus is a malware-as-a-service operation seen promoted on the dark web first in early 2021. It was advertised as a $2,500 Windows loader that executes malicious payloads directly in memory to evade detection. In June 2022, threat analyst Brad Duncan reported that the malware loader was being used to deliver Cobalt Strike beacons in a large-scale

Virtuos, the studio behind Oblivion Remastered, is laying off around 270 employees

It said teams 'facing lower occupancy and slower demand due to structural shifts in the industry' would bear the brunt of the cuts. Virtuos, the studio that developed The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered, is laying off seven percent of its staff, or around 270 employees. Gauthier Andres, a reporter and co-founder at Origami, was first to report the news, which the studio later confirmed. Virtuos has provided support on a number of large game projects — including a recent patch for Cyberpunk

FOKS: Federated Open Key Service

A Simple Key Hierarchy To power applications like the Git and KV-Store shown above, FOKS needs a shared symmetric key for all readers and writers of the data, available only to the authorized devices, teams users and keys that the authors specify. FOKS achieves this natural application requirement with a simple key hierarchy. Everything starts with base-level keys, like user device keys, backup keys, or YubiKeys. Device keys are generated on user devices and never leave the machine they are ge

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FOKS: The Federated Open Key Service

A Simple Key Hierarchy To power applications like the Git and KV-Store shown above, FOKS needs a shared symmetric key for all readers and writers of the data, available only to the authorized devices, teams users and keys that the authors specify. FOKS achieves this natural application requirement with a simple key hierarchy. Everything starts with base-level keys, like user device keys, backup keys, or YubiKeys. Device keys are generated on user devices and never leave the machine they are ge

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Microsoft Teams now has threaded conversations

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft has added threaded conversations to its Teams communications app this week. After promising to launch the highly-requested feature in mid-2025, Microsoft is now releasing a public preview of threaded conversations for Teams users to enable. The Microsoft Teams threads integration debuts in the channels section of the app, where it works a little differently to how Sl

Jeff Chow of Miro shares how team intelligence drives better product-building at TechCrunch All Stage

AI can help your team move faster — but only if your team knows how to move together. Join Jeff Chow, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Miro, for a roundtable sessions at TechCrunch All Stage on July 15 in Boston’s SoWa Power Station, where he’ll break down how product-led innovation can supercharge collaborative problem-solving. This session, titled “Building Team Intelligence: How Product-Led Innovation Transforms Collaborative Problem-Solving,” and is built for founders, product leader

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The AI complexity paradox: More productivity, more responsibilities

peepo/Getty Images Does artificial intelligence (AI) make working life easier or complicated? Experts suggest the answer depends on the context. In a recent IDC-hosted interview, SIAC CEO Toni Townes-Whitley described AI as the ultimate weapon against system complexity, noting that her company is employing AI to reduce tech complexity in some of the most complex technology environments on the planet -- within the US Department of Defense. Also: Amazon's Andy Jassy says AI will take some jobs

Microsoft cancels its Perfect Dark and Everwild Xbox games

We have made the decision to stop development of Perfect Dark and Everwild as well as wind down several unannounced projects across our portfolio. As part of this, we are closing one of our studios, The Initiative. These decisions, along with other changes across our teams, reflect a broader effort to adjust priorities and focus resources to set up our teams for greater success within a changing industry landscape. We did not make these choices lightly, as each project and team represent years o

AllSpice’s platform is the GitHub for electrical engineering teams

There is no shortage of workflow collaboration tools — like Slack or Google Docs, in addition to industry-specific ones like GitHub — for software developers. A startup called AllSpice successfully bet that electrical hardware engineering teams need their own collaboration platform, too. AllSpice’s platform sits between existing workflow software. It allows hardware teams to collaborate on the types of documents they traditionally work in — documents that don’t easily translate over Slack and e

Red Bull brings 5th Valorant Home Ground tournament to New York

Red Bull announced today that it is holding Home Ground, its Valorant Off//Season esports tournament, in New York for its 5th anniversary. It will hold the tournament at the Manhattan Center on November 13-16. It’ll feature 18 teams and a total of $100,000 in prizes. According to Red Bull, six invited teams will compete alongside 12 qualifying teams, with the confirmed invited teams being Sentinels, T1, Fnatic, ZETA Division and G2 Esports. Regional qualifiers are still taking place, with teams

Game Hacking – Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC)

Intro In 2002 Valve created an Anti-Cheat solution called “Valve Anti-Cheat” aka VAC. The first game they implemented VAC into was Counter-Strike. When VAC was introduced it only operated in User Mode (Still does) meaning it runs entirely in user space and has no kernel component. Below is a list of games that use VAC.. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Counter-Strike (video game) Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Counter-Strike: Source Counter-Strike 2 Day of Defeat

Dunk City Dynasty launches Season 2 with Jayson Tatum and $10K community competition

NetEase Games is launching Season 2 of Dunk City Dynasty today, with the addition of NBA star Jayson Tatum and a community competition with a prize pool of $10,000. Titled “Championship Parade”, the second season of free-to-play NBA- and NBPA-licensed streetball game for Android and iOS introduces new basketball stars, gameplay, events, customizations and the first community competition, boasting a prize pool of $10,000. Season 2: Championship Parade introduces three new basketball stars to th

Apple @ Work: What’s new for IT teams with Apple’s fall software releases?

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Lemony is a plug-and-play device for secure on-premise AI

Lemony launched a simple-looking device to deliver on-premise artificial intelligence to redefine how organizations deploy generative AI. Lemony’s secure, hardware-based node offers enterprise-grade ‘AI in a Box,’ empowering companies to run advanced, end-to-end AI workflows privately, instantly, and without cloud dependence. Lemony has secured a $2M seed funding round led by True Ventures. Lemony’s AI nodes are stackable and scalable, creating small, modular AI compute clusters that support s