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Hello, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter covering noteworthy happenings in the tech industry. This week, investment firm KKR announced that it would acquire VMware’s end-user computing business from Broadcom for $4 billion. As Ron explains, that business included VMware Workspace One and VMware Horizon — two remote desktop apps that had been part of VMware’s family of products. Elsewhere, Mistral, the French AI startup, launched a new model to rival OpenAI’s GPT-4 — and its own cheekily…

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has let launch providers conduct their own investigations in nearly every instance that a launch mishap has occurred since the start of the century — a practice that needs closer scrutiny, a federal watchdog said in a new report. The report, published Thursday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), takes a close look at the investigations into launch mishaps, the industry term for when a launch ends in an explosion or other failure. Mishap investigations are a…

The FBI said security holes in DeFi projects have let hackers get away with the vast majority of the total $1.3 billion stolen earlier this year.Photo: Burdun Iliya (Shutterstock)Think your crypto is more safe on a decentralized platform compared to the more centralized exchanges? Well, the FBI is here to tell you that, no, the vulnerabilities on DeFi platforms are real, and they’ve been party to the vast majority of $1.3 billion in stolen crypto in just the first three months of this year.In a public notice posted late…

A new study provides critical clues on what differentiates a good inflammatory recovery from a bad one.New research findings reveal how recovery progresses following inflammation triggered by injury or illness.New findings offer insight into recovery after inflammation caused by a wide range of injuries or acute illnesses.Scientists defined common healthy trajectories based on how quickly white blood cell and platelet counts should return to normal after an inflammatory response.The results could help clinicians recognize…