New Zealand joins US, UK in claims of China-backed cyber espionage | World News



Hackers linked to the Chinese government launched a state-sponsored operation that targeted New Zealand’s Parliament in 2021, the country’s security minister said on Tuesday.


New Zealand’s allegation comes a day after US and UK authorities announced a set of criminal charges and sanctions against seven hackers, all believed to be living in China, who targeted US officials, journalists, corporations, pro-democracy activists and the UK’s election watchdog.


“The use of cyber-enabled espionage operations to interfere with democratic institutions and processes anywhere is unacceptable,” Minister Responsible for the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) Judith Collins said in a media statement.


Collins said the agency had also established links between a state-sponsored actor linked to China and malicious cyber activity targeting parliamentary entities in New Zealand.


“The GCSB’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) completed a robust technical assessment following a compromise of the Parliamentary Counsel Office and the Parliamentary Service in 2021, and has attributed this activity to a PRC (China) state-sponsored group known as APT40,” Collins says.

“Fortunately, in this instance, the NCSC worked with the impacted organisations to contain the activity and remove the actor shortly after they were able to access the network.”

The networks hacked contained important information that enables the effective operation of the New Zealand government.


Collins said New Zealand will not follow the US and UK in sanctioning China as New Zealand does not have a law allowing such penalties, nor were there plans to introduce legislation.


Foreign Minister Winston Peters confirmed New Zealand’s concerns had been conveyed to the Chinese Ambassador Wang Xiaolong.


“Foreign interference of this nature is unacceptable, and we have urged China to refrain from such activity in future,” Peters said in a media statement Tuesday.

“New Zealand will continue to speak out — consistently and predictably — where we see concerning behaviours like this.”

Peters met with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi last week and said the countries share a “significant and complex relationship”.


“We cooperate with China in some areas for mutual benefit,” he said. “At the same time, we have also been consistent and clear that we will speak out on issues of concern.

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First Published: Mar 26 2024 | 7:38 AM IST



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Microsoft Bing chief to exit role after Mustafa Suleyman named AI leader | World News


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By Dina Bass

Microsoft Corp.’s Mikhail Parakhin, head of the company’s Bing search engine and advertising businesses, will exit those roles and look for a new position, a week after the software giant named Mustafa Suleyman to oversee consumer artificial intelligence work and asked Parakhin to report to him.

 

Parakhin, who had been chief executive officer for advertising and web services, will report to Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott while searching for his next role, Microsoft said. Parakhin also oversaw some parts of the company’s Windows software business. That work will be shifted to Pavan Davuluri, who had been overseeing hardware and the rest of Windows. Davuluri will now run all of Windows and Surface hardware, reporting to Executive Vice President Rajesh Jha, who disclosed the changes in a staff email Monday.


Jha’s email and a spokesperson didn’t specify if Parakhin was likely to leave Microsoft or take a new role within the company.


Parakhin’s exit from a core part of the company’s consumer AI products marks the first shuffle stemming from CEO Satya Nadella’s move last week to install Suleyman, a co-founder of AI researcher DeepMind, as head of a unified push in the space.


The move illustrated Nadella’s impatience with his team’s efforts, two people familiar with his thinking said last week. Over the past year, Microsoft has baked AI into the Bing search engine, Windows, Office and other products, creating various digital assistants under the brand Copilot. Yet Bing has made few gains against search market leader Google, and other products remain works in progress.


The Verge reported earlier on the management changes. 

First Published: Mar 26 2024 | 7:13 AM IST



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No evidence that Ukrainian govt had anything to do with Moscow attack: US | World News


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Reaffirming that the terrorist attack at the concert hall in Moscow was carried out by ISIS at Crocus, the United States said that there is no evidence that the Ukrainian government had anything to do with this attack.


White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Tuesday that this terrorist attack was conducted by ISIS and Russian President Vladimir Putin understands that.


“This was a terrorist attack that was conducted by ISIS. Mr. Putin understands that. He knows that very well. And look, there is absolutely no evidence that the government of Ukraine had anything to do with this attack,” she said.


Expressing condolences, Karine Jean-Pierre said that she wants to step back for a second and offer her deepest condolences to those who lost loved ones, and those who were injured because of this horrific attack.


“We continue to strongly condemn the heinous terrorist attack in Moscow,” she stressed.


“We’re very clear about that. On March 7, we informed Americans in Russia, and did a public advisory, to be more specific. And ISIS bears the sole responsibility here,” Pierre said.


At least 133 people have died in the massive terror attack at the concert hall.


United States has strongly condemned the “heinous” terrorist attack carried out by ISIS at Crocus City Hall music venue near Moscow and expressed condolences to the bereaved families.


White House Press Secretary, Karine Jeane-Pierre, in a statement, termed ISIS as a “common terrorist enemy” and said that it needs to be defeated everywhere.


“The United States strongly condemns the heinous terrorist attack in Moscow. We extend our deepest condolences to those who lost loved ones and to those who were injured or affected by these unconscionable attacks against innocent civilians. ISIS is a common terrorist enemy that must be defeated everywhere,” the statement read.


Moreover, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned the terrorist attack in Russia’s Moscow and said that US stands with Russia in grieving the loss of lives.


In a post on X, Blinken stated, “The United States strongly condemns the March 22 terrorist attack in Moscow. We stand in solidarity with the people of Russia in grieving the loss of life after this horrific event.

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First Published: Mar 26 2024 | 7:16 AM IST



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Dell reduces workforce as part of broader cost cuts, limits external hiring | Company News


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Last year, Dell slashed 6,650 jobs, when it braced for a potential recession and demand for personal computers dwindled | Photo: Bloomberg


Dell Technologies reduced its workforce as part of a broader initiative to cut costs that included limiting external hiring and employee reorganizations, it said in a filing on Monday.


As of Feb. 2, 2024, it had nearly 120,000 employees, down from about 126,000 a year earlier.

 


The layoffs come after sluggish demand for its personal computers for nearly two years partly contributed to a 11 per cent drop in revenue in fourth-quarter earnings posted last month.

 


Dell expects net revenue in its client solutions group (CSG) – home to PCs – to grow for the entire year, it said on Monday.


The segment’s revenue had fallen 12 per cent in the fourth quarter.

 


While Dell cautioned against near-term challenges, the company expects demand to improve and pricing environment to be more competitive in FY 2025.

 


However, the company expects input costs to rise and added there is likely to be “continued reduction of our other businesses’ net revenue as a result of the change in our commercial relationship with VMware”.

 


Dell bought back shares tied to its interest in software maker VMware, paving the way for it to return to the market in 2018. Chipmaker Broadcom closed its $69 billion acquisition of VMware last year.

 


Last year, Dell slashed 6,650 jobs, when it braced for a potential recession and demand for personal computers dwindled.

First Published: Mar 26 2024 | 7:02 AM IST



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US, UK accuse China of broad cyberattacks, British voter data theft | World News


By Jamie Tarabay, Alex Wickham and Kitty Donaldson


The US and UK accused state-backed Chinese hackers of targeting politicians, companies and dissidents for years, as well as stealing troves of British voter data, in the latest revelation of cyberattacks that Washington and its allies have linked to President Xi Jinping’s government.

 


US officials said seven Chinese nationals targeted members of Congress and officials working at the White House and agencies including the Justice Department, as well as candidates, campaign staff and US companies. The hackers, part of a state-sponsored group known as APT31, have been charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusions and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. 

Both the US and UK announced sanctions against two of those individuals, as well as a firm in Wuhan, China, called Wuhan Xiaoruizhi Science and Technology Co. The US alleged it was a front that “has served as cover for multiple malicious cyber operations” and the hackers had worked there as contractors.

The UK also accused China of accessing details of some 40 million voters held by the Electoral Commission, according to Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden. 


The revelations Monday add to a growing list of cybersecurity breaches that the US and its allies say are backed by the Chinese government as part of a broader strategic and economic competition worldwide.


New Zealand also established links between a state-sponsored actor linked to the Chinese government and malicious cyber activity targeting parliamentary activities there, Judith Collins, the minister responsible for the Government Communications Security Bureau, said Tuesday in Wellington. She said a compromise of the Parliamentary Counsel Office and the Parliamentary Service in 2021 was resolved quickly. 


China disputed the claims, with a foreign ministry official in Beijing calling the UK’s accusations “disinformation” and a spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Washington saying in a statement that the US has “jumped to an unwarranted conclusion and made groundless accusations.”


In January, the FBI said that it had dismantled infrastructure used by a Chinese state-backed group named Volt Typhoon, which targeted the US power grid and pipelines. Last October, security officials from the so-called Five Eyes — the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada — raised alarm about Chinese hacking and espionage in media interviews and public appearances. In 2015, security researchers suspected Beijing was behind the theft of more than 22 million US security clearance records.


UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Monday that an “increasingly assertive” China’s support for the hacks present an “epoch-defining challenge” and “the greatest state-based threat to our economic security.” The head of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Christopher Wray, called them “continuous and brash efforts to undermine our nation’s cybersecurity and target Americans and our innovation.


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According to US authorities, some of the hacking activity successfully compromised the targets’ networks, email accounts, cloud storage accounts and telephone call records, with some surveillance of compromised email accounts lasting years.


The hacking campaign involved more than 10,000 malicious emails sent to targets that often appeared to be from prominent news outlets or journalists and appeared to contain legitimate news articles, US authorities said. The emails contained hidden tracking links that would allow information about the recipient, including their location and devices used to access email, to be transmitted to a server controlled by the defendants and others that they were working with.


That information was the used by the group to carry out more sophisticated hacking, the US Justice Department said, including compromising home routers and other electronic devices. 


Among the more alarming allegations, the US said that the hackers began targeting email accounts belonging to several senior campaign staff members for an unnamed presidential candidate in about May 2020. By that November, the hackers had sent emails containing tracking links to targets associated with additional political campaigns, including a retired senior US government national security official, according to the indictment.


US companies in the defense, information technology, telecommunications, manufacturing and trade, finance, consulting, legal and research industries were targeted by the group, and the victims include a provider of 5G network equipment in the US, an Alabama-based research corporation in the aerospace and defense industries and a Maryland-based professional support services company, according to the US.


In the UK, the National Cyber Security Centre said it’s “almost certain” APT31 conducted reconnaissance activity against British parliamentarians during a separate campaign in 2021 — though no parliamentary accounts were successfully compromised.


Britain summoned the Chinese ambassador in London, and Foreign Secretary David Cameron said in a separate statement that he raised the matter directly with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.


For the UK, the episode marks an escalation in tensions that have been growing after Hong Kong passed security legislation that the UK says erodes freedoms in the city, contravening the handover deal signed between the two nations when governance of the territory was transferred to Beijing in 1997.

First Published: Mar 26 2024 | 7:06 AM IST



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Co-founder Adam Neumann bids over $500 million to buy back WeWork | World News



Adam Neumann has submitted a bid of more than $500 million to buy back WeWork, the office-sharing company he co-founded and propelled to a $47 billion valuation before it fell into bankruptcy, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.

 


It’s not clear how Neumann is planning to line up financing for his bid, the source said, requesting anonymity as the discussions were confidential.

 


Neumann raised WeWork to be the most valuable U.S. startup, worth $47 billion, before his pursuit of expansion at the expense of profit and revelations about his eccentric behavior led to his ouster in 2019 and derailed what would have been a major initial public offering.

 


Last month, Reuters reported founder Neumann was trying to buy back the SoftBank-backed flexible workspace provider, which had filed for bankruptcy in November.

 


“WeWork is an extraordinary company and it’s no surprise we receive expressions of interest from third parties on a regular basis,” WeWork said in a statement.

 


“Our board and our advisors review those approaches in the ordinary course, to ensure we always act in the best long-term interests of the company,” it added.

 


WeWork said it remains focused on its restructuring efforts to “emerge from Chapter 11 in the second quarter as a financially strong and profitable company”.

 


Last month, Neumann’s lawyers sent a letter to WeWork, saying he was exploring a joint bid for the company with Daniel Loeb’s hedge fund Third Point and other investors.

 


Third Point later told Reuters it had held “only preliminary conversations” with Neumann and his property company Flow and had not made any financial commitments.

 


WeWork scrapped its IPO in 2019 after investors raised questions about its valuation and corporate governance arrangements that gave Neumann too much control.

 


The company racked up losses on its long-term lease obligations as more people began working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic and demand for office space plunged.

 


The Wall Street Journal first reported on Neumann’s bid earlier on Monday.

First Published: Mar 26 2024 | 6:50 AM IST



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Trump’s net worth hits $6.5 bn, making him one of world’s 500 richest | World News


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By Tom Maloney

Donald Trump’s business empire was supposed to be in peril like never before on Monday. Instead, it turned into the single-greatest day on record for the former president’s wealth. 

 


Facing a deadline to post a bond of more than $500 million in a New York fraud lawsuit, a state appeals court tossed him a lifeline, slashing the amount he’d have to post to $175 million — an amount he says he’ll cover. Around the same time, his social media company Trump Media & Technology Group wrapped up a 29-month-long merger process, meaning shares worth billions of dollars on paper are now officially Trump’s.


All told, his net worth increased by more than $4 billion. That means for the first time ever, Trump joined the ranks of the world’s wealthiest 500 people on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with a fortune of $6.5 billion.

“We have a great company and are incredibly honored,” Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization, said in a statement. 


Trump, 77, has been rich all his life. But his fortune, which previously peaked at $3.1 billion, has largely consisted of real estate properties, the value of which he and his company were found to have inflated by billions of dollars a year for more than a decade to get better terms on loans.


His illiquid wealth created a potential financial crisis ahead of Monday’s deadline to either pay his $454 million verdict or post a bond for 120% of the judgment while he appeals it. New York Attorney General Letitia James signaled she was ready to seize assets if Trump didn’t comply.


Trump vowed to quickly post cash or a bond to cover the lowered amount. As it stands now, he can’t cash in on his windfall from Trump Media’s merger with Digital World Acquisition Corp. because his shares are locked up for roughly six months. 

DWAC shares closed at $49.95 Monday, up about 185% since the start of the year. That values Trump’s 58% stake in the company at $3.9 billion. (It’s expected to start trading under the ticker DJT on Tuesday.


The completion of the merger, which overcame hurdles including an investigation and settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission and last-minute lawsuits from executives and investors, means the shares are now included in Bloomberg’s calculation of Trump’s net worth. Previously, his stake had been valued at just $22.5 million, based on his most recent financial disclosure form. 


His revised fortune makes Trump, who is campaigning to return to the White House, worth on paper about the same as Joe Ricketts, Gordon Getty and Tony James, according to the Bloomberg wealth index, which has been calculating Trump’s net worth since 2015. 


The figure, which has consistently been below Trump’s own estimates, is based on ethics disclosures required for presidential candidates, public filings tied to key real estate holdings and staff reporting.

First Published: Mar 26 2024 | 6:30 AM IST



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Some Sangh Parivar leaders who came here (Malappuram, Kerala) asked those who sat in front of them to chant the slogan “Bharat Mata Ki Jai”. Who coined the slogan? I don’t know whether the Sangh Parivar knows that his name is Azimullah Khan.


 


 


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First Published: Mar 26 2024 | 6:30 AM IST



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Winning over airlines biggest challenge for new Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun | World News


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Boeing Chief Executive Officer Dave Calhoun | Photo: Bloomberg

By Julie Johnsson and Siddharth Philip


Boeing Co.’s customers finally have what they’ve been after: a leadership shakeup at the planemaker.

 


Days after top executives of major US airlines turned up the heat on Boeing’s board to get a handle on its spiraling safety crisis, the embattled manufacturer announced one of the most dramatic overhauls in its century-long history. The trio that has led the company for the past four tumultuous years is relinquishing control, including Chief Executive Officer Dave Calhoun.


The fix was in after the CEOs of Boeing’s three largest US customers — United Airlines Holdings Inc., Southwest Airlines Co. and American Airlines Group Inc. — pressed Boeing directors last week for a meeting where they could air concerns without Calhoun present, according to people familiar with the campaign.

The CEOs were armed with the support of other airline leaders, an industry trade group and the frustrations of a broader group of stakeholders: the flying public and the lawmakers in Washington who represent them, these people said.


“The simplest explanation is often the correct one, and it’s the upcoming meetings without Calhoun and the airlines, who are not only mad but reflect a much broader traveling public anger, too,” said Richard Aboulafia, managing director of consultancy AeroDynamic Advisory. “What the board couldn’t do, what the US government couldn’t do, what investors couldn’t do, maybe it came down to customers reflecting the fact that their jet fleets were fast becoming a meme.”


The leadership changes were formalized over a weekend board session but had been discussed for months after a near-catastrophic incident on an Alaska Airlines jet pushed the planemaker into crisis, these people said. Directors wanted to signal the overhaul before the company issued its annual proxy statement, which was already weeks later than originally planned. 


Boeing’s new management faces a myriad of challenges — criminal investigations, eroding finances, regulatory scrutiny, market share losses to rival Airbus SE — along with a rare opportunity to shift Boeing away from the focus on cash that has driven its strategy for the past decade. They also have to convince the companies that buy its planes and the consumers who ride on them that their aircraft are safe.


The company is already in talks to buy its largest supplier, Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc., a gambit that would’ve been unthinkable before the Alaska incident. Its incoming leadership will also need to map out plans for its first all-new jetliner in two decades, Calhoun told CNBC on Monday after announcing his impending departure.


That gives Steve Mollenkopf, the former Qualcomm Inc. chief who will head the search for a replacement to Calhoun, an enormous say over Boeing’s future. Calhoun plans to stay on until the end of the year to help guide Boeing through unprecedented scrutiny of its factory operations by the Federal Aviation Administration and potentially contentious labor negotiations with its largest union.


Larry Kellner, chairman of Boeing’s board, won’t stand for reelection at the company’s annual meeting this Spring. Stan Deal, the head of the division making commercial jetliners, stepped down immediately and was replaced by Chief Operating Officer, Stephanie Pope, who had been seen as a potential successor to Calhoun.

“I think there are enormous opportunities here,” said Aboulafia, who has been a vocal critic of Calhoun. “Getting rid of three key people in the space of a day. There’s so much potential here for the company, the workforce. All that’s needed is real leadership with a solid knowledge of the industry.”


Potential candidates for the top job include Pope, who remains in the running despite changing roles in Monday’s reshuffling, according to a person familiar with the matter. Others potentially under consideration could include General Electric Co. CEO Larry Culp; David Gitlin, a Boeing director and CEO of Carrier Global Corp.; Patrick Shanahan, Spirit AeroSystems CEO; and Greg Smith, American Airlines chairman and Boeing’s former finance chief.


Representatives for Gitlin, Shanahan and Smith didn’t respond to requests for comment. When asked in a February interview about the Boeing CEO role, Culp said he was “looking forward to serving Boeing as their most important partner and supplier.” GE had no additional comment on Monday.


Boeing Reset


The reset gives Boeing a chance to recapture some of its lost luster by making bold strategic moves, fixing simmering manufacturing issues and shifting from what critics saw as a myopic focus on cash generation. Boeing has posted $26 billion in losses over the last three years.


Frustration and dismay had mounted over months by some of Boeing’s largest customers and safety officials over the latest crisis centered on the 737 Max jetliner, the planemaker’s main source of revenue and a backbone of domestic flying within the US. The FAA has capped production of the workhorse jet until it is satisfied Boeing has adequate quality controls in place in the wake of a January accident. As the agency finishes up an audit of the company’s manufacturing, Michael Whitaker, the agency’s new head, expressed concern about its safety culture in a rare interview on NBC Nightly News.


The FAA is also revisiting Boeing this week to review its 30-day plan as the planemaker works to strengthen control over quality in its factories and supply chain. That will be followed by 60- and 90-day reviews, Calhoun told CNBC, with the agency expecting the planemaker to demonstrate that it’s making progress.


Boeing has taken steps to address a big source of its quality breakdowns: planes that make their way down the assembly line rather than halting work for late-arriving parts, Brian West, the company’s chief financial officer said in a March 20 presentation. As of March 1, it stopped accepting fuselages from Spirit AeroSystems that didn’t fully meet manufacturing specifications.


“At the end of the day it may be good for them, we who buy Boeing aircraft and airlines, for them to have gone through a very, very difficult period,” said John Plueger, CEO of Air Lease Corp., the largest US aircraft leasing company. 


A stronger Boeing would emerge with the “confidence of regulators and ultimately the confidence of the flying public,” Plueger said.

First Published: Mar 26 2024 | 6:36 AM IST



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Tom Brady shows love to niece, Maya, after she belts 2 home runs in UCLA win: ‘Just runs in the family’


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Legendary NFL quarterback Tom Brady was seen bragging about his family on social media, and it wasn’t one of his own kids this time. 

Instead, it was his niece, Maya Brady, the 22-year-old UCLA softball shortstop who belted two homers during the No. 14 Bruins’ victory over No. 8 Washington on Sunday. 

Maya’s longshots were the 61st and 62nd of her Bruins career, as she now ranks third all-time in home runs in program history. 

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Maya Brady #7 of the UCLA Bruins looks on ahead of an at-bat during a game against the Stanford Cardinal at Easton Stadium on April 02, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Katharine Lotze/Getty Images)

Her uncle decided to show some love and praise on his Instagram Story.

“Sorry peeps it just runs in the family,” he captioned the post, which showed Maya’s accomplishment. “LFG!!!”

This isn’t the first time Brady has praised his niece over the years. In 2021, a UCLA Softball post showing Maya hitting a homer led to an X post from her uncle. 

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“Maya Brady, the most dominant athlete in the Brady family…by far!” Brady wrote at the time on his X account. 

And in 2022, a viral clip of Maya doing Tom’s signature fist pump after hitting another homer made waves. 

“Must run in the family (Sorry mom!),” Brady posted at the time, as he apologized for the expletive he and his niece said in the moment.

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Tom Brady credits his nutrition for helping him perform at peak levels. (Gilbert Flores)

Maya, the oldest daughter of Tom’s eldest sister, Maureen, spoke about the competitive nature that naturally comes out in the Brady family.

“You literally have to compete to survive in this family,” she said during an espnW segment in 2021. “Whenever our entire family comes together, it turns bad very, very, very quickly.

“The Brady women are the strongest and most competitive.”

Maya is hoping her competitive spirit can help the Bruins win a national title this season. UCLA, which won the Pac-12 softball championship in 2021 and 2023, is currently 18-8 after avoiding a sweep from the Huskies over the weekend. They are 4-2 in Pac-12 play. 

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Tom Brady continues to show praise to his niece, Maya Brady, who is a standout UCLA shortstop on their softball team. (Getty Images)

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Maya has eight homers on the season thus far after belting a career-high 18 in 2023. She is in her fifth year with the program. 

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