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Microsoft Teams and Cisco Webex have become unexpected tools for fraud, particularly targeting victims in China. Scammers are posing as colleagues or employers inside enterprise chat platforms to build trust before convincing people to transfer large sums of money. The exploitation of business-grade software gives these schemes a veneer of legitimacy that's proving difficult to counter.
Shifting to the AI industry, open-weight model companies — those that release their model weights publicly — have quietly become the hottest acquisition targets in Silicon Valley. Investors are pouring capital into businesses built around giving their core technology away, betting that distribution, infrastructure, and talent are worth more than the model itself. It's a counterintuitive gold rush, and it's accelerating fast.
And for gamers eagerly awaiting Grand Theft Auto six, there's a technical reality check from the analysts at Digital Foundry. Rockstar has confirmed a thirty frames-per-second ceiling on current console hardware, and experts say sixty frames per second is, in their words, extremely unlikely on consoles. Even the eventual PC release, they note, will be genuinely challenging to push beyond that threshold. The game may be stunning, but physics has a price.
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