The Internal Revenue Service is providing new cyber aid to the Ukrainian government as both parties try to up their efforts to identify Russian oligarchs looking to evade international sanctions.
Driving the news: The IRS Criminal Investigation team (IRS-CI) and Chainalysis announced Thursday the two are donating blockchain analysis tools and new cyber trainings to several Ukrainian government agencies.
Malicious hackers are embeddingmalware into illegal downloads of the "The Super Mario Bros. Movie," researchers at ReasonLabs have found.
Driving the news: ReasonLabs published a report today, first shared with Axios, detailing how a Trojan virus is infecting people looking for a free way to watch the smash hit movie.
Some of the most important research into protecting the nation’s critical infrastructure from cyberattacks is happening in a group of labs in Northern Virginia.
Driving the news: I spent Thursday afternoon touring three of the research and development labs at the MITRE Corp., a not-for-profit organization that develops tech and security tools for both the private and public sectors.
The organization that builds tools for managing decentralized autonomous organizations has fallen into discord on Discord over the management of its own decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). TL;dr: "Autonomous" is winning out over "decentralized" right now.
Why it matters: Blockchain projects propose bold new experiments in coordinating how humans interact with each other, but those experiments also illuminate the fact that humans are pretty complicated.
Hollywood has spawned several movies about tech giant Apple, but Canada finally has its own tech movie — chronicling BlackBerry phone-maker Research in Motion.
Driving the news: Directed by Matt Johnson and starring Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton and Johnson himself, "BlackBerry" draws from the 2015 book "Losing the Signal" about the company, with a comedic spin and memorable performances. It hits theaters Friday.
Elon Musktweeted Thursday that he's hired someone to be CEO of Twitter, adding without naming the incoming executive that "shewill be starting in ~6 weeks!"
Why it matters: Since acquiring the social network last fall, Musk has been its de facto leader, even amid some criticism from Tesla shareholders unhappy with his devoting more time away from the automaker.
Nintendo’s newest Switch game, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, offers a grand, gorgeous and deeply interactive adventure, one that exceeds the high quality of the system’s launch game, 2017’s The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
Why it matters: Surpassing Breath of the Wild means clearing a very high bar.
The Google product I was most keen to try out at this year's I/O conference was Project Starline, an advanced video conferencing system that Google first showed off at I/O 2021.
What's new: It's still a work-in-progress, but Google has slimmed down the custom hardware, which had taken up an entire room, to the size of a large TV. That's small enough that it was able to set up several Starline booths at I/O this year. Google is now testing prototype systems at WeWork, Salesforce and T-Mobile.
AI-generated content is emerging as a disruptive political force just as nations around the world are gearing up for a rare convergence of election cycles in 2024.
Why it matters: Around one billion voters will head to polls in 2024 across the U.S., India, the European Union, the U.K. and Indonesia, plus Russia — but neither AI companies nor governments have put matching election protections in place.
Y Combinator's popular Demo Day switched to Zoom during the pandemic, and while other functions of the startup accelerator have shifted back to in-person, Demo Day remains online only.
Driving the news: Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan explained why from the stage at Axios BFD San Francisco Wednesday: It pays off for the participating startups, who get to pitch a bigger investor crowd.
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