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Cisco says Chinese hackers are exploiting its customers with a new zero-day

Cisco says Chinese hackers are exploiting its customers with a new zero-day: Cisco said it discovered a Chinese hacking campaign targeting its customers by exploiting a zero-day in some of the company's most popular products. Read More

Amazon appoints longtime AWS exec Peter DeSantis to lead new AI org: DeSantis has spent 27 years at Amazon, including eight years as an SVP for AWS, the cloud provider that powers about one-third of the internet. Read More

Facebook is testing a link-posting limit for professional accounts and pages: Meta said that the test impacts professional accounts and pages on Facebook. Read More

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