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The FBI is investigating a ransomware attack on Prospect Medical Holdings, which runs 16 hospitals and 166 outpatient clinics and centers in CA, CT, PA, and RI — A major hospital network with arms in multiple states is dealing with widespread network outages due to a cyberattack, which the FBI confirms is ransomware.
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
X delays its Ads Revenue Sharing program's payouts that were set for the week of July 31, saying the volume of people signing up “has exceeded our expectations” — In news that isn't very surprising given the recent history of Twitter, which Elon Musk is currently rebranding to X …
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Elon Musk says X will fund the legal bills of people who have been “unfairly treated” by their employer “due to posting or liking something on this platform” — Elon Musk has said his X social media platform will fund the legal bills of people who have been treated unfairly …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Krakow-based Android phone monitoring app LetMeSpy plans to shut down by the end of August 2023 after a hacker breached and deleted its server data in June — Poland-based spyware LetMeSpy is no longer operational and said it will shut down after a June data breach wiped out its servers … | Casey Newton / Platformer: |
US lawmakers are quickly advancing an anti-sex, anti-speech agenda in the name of kids' online safety, which could soon entangle every adult internet user — Anti-speech laws are spreading from states to Congress, and the future of online speech could hang in the balance
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Russian independent news outlet Meduza says Apple removed its flagship podcast from Apple Podcasts; source: Roskomnadzor asked Apple to remove the show — Meduza has received a notice from Apple, informing our media that our flagship podcast “What Happened” has been removed from the Apple Podcasts streaming platform.
More: The Verge. Mastodon: @kevinrothrock@infosec … and @Marielle_W@mastodon.social
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
A US judge rules former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky must face New York AG Letitia James' lawsuit accusing him of defrauding investors by hiding Celsius' risks — Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former chief of the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, must face a lawsuit … | Wall Street Journal: |
How Waymo and Cruise are struggling to win over San Francisco residents, showing the challenges they may face in expanding driverless cars across the US — Alphabet's Waymo and General Motors' Cruise are struggling to win over San Francisco residents and officials, a major hurdle in their nationwide expansion.| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
Nansen: payouts to NFT creators fell 98% from a peak of $269M in January 2022 to $4.3M in July 2023, as OpenSea and Blur cut royalty rates amid a bear market — - Payouts to NFT content creators sank 98% from a peak in 2022 — Exchanges for NFTs chopped royalty rates amid a bear market| Varsha Bansal / Wired: |
Some workers say on-demand home services startup Urban Company, which helped Indian women enter the gig economy, pushed them out for not meeting steep targets — Home services platform Urban Company helped Indian women get into the gig economy. Now they say it's setting impossible targets and then abandoning them.| Bloomberg: |
How members of the Community, a group of teenage SIM swappers who met on the forum OGUsers, stole millions in crypto in 2018 before turning on each other — Michael Terpin lost a fortune to a phone “SIM swap.” When he went to war to get it back, he found some surprising allies.| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Microsoft fixes an Azure flaw that could have let hackers access sensitive data, after criticism from the CEO of cybersecurity risk management company Tenable — Microsoft has resolved a vulnerability that allows threat actors to gain access to information managed by Azure AD … | Harmeet Singh Walia / Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartphone revenue fell 8% YoY and 15% QoQ to under $90B in Q2 2023; Apple had a record 45% share of global smartphone revenue and an 85% share of profit — - Apple led global smartphone revenues and operating profit with record June-quarter shares of 45% and 85% respectively.
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