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| David Hollingworth / Cyber Daily: |
Hackers post 1.67TB of Insomniac Games' internal data, including for an upcoming Wolverine game, HR files, Slack screenshots, and a Marvel-Sony X-Men agreement — The Rhysida ransomware gang publishes 98 per cent of leaked data minutes after the ransom deadline passes - Wolverine game files included.
More: Video Games Chronicle, PCMag, IGN, gamedeveloper, Bloomberg, HotHardware, Axios, Club386, The Messenger, Game World Observer, Windows Central, VentureBeat, GamesIndustry.biz, Reuters, Gizmodo, Forbes, Insider Gaming, Digital Trends, Tom's Guide, MobileSyrup, IGN, Engadget, Al Bawaba, GameSpot, TechSpot, Kotaku, Game Rant, Polygon, PC Gamer, Push Square, GamingBolt, The Verge, GameRevolution, Neowin, TheGamer, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Wccftech, 9to5Toys, Dot Esports, Press Start, Pure Xbox, Gamereactor UK, and Notebookcheck
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| Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: |
Google agrees to pay $700M and make app store changes, like offering an alternative billing system, to settle a 2021 antitrust lawsuit by 36 US states and DC — Agreement with coalition of states resolves antitrust litigation related to app store — Google parent Alphabet agreed …
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| Eva Dou / Washington Post: |
In Google's $700M settlement for Utah et al v. Google, an estimated 102M eligible US Android users will split $630M, leaving $70M for other related claims — Google will pay consumers from all 50 states to settle a lawsuit over its app store practices — Tens of millions of U.S. consumers … | Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
The FBI, the UK, Denmark, Germany, Spain, and Australia seize ransomware gang ALPHV's dark web leak website; the US also seized “several websites” run by ALPHV — An international group of law enforcement agencies have seized the dark web leak site of the notorious ransomware gang known as ALPHV, or BlackCat.
More: US Department of Justice, Reuters, BleepingComputer, Bloomberg, The Messenger, PCMag, The Record, The Register, The Record, BleepingComputer, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, ITPro, Cybernews.com, and Hackread
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Comcast's Xfinity says hackers breached one of its Citrix servers in October 2023, two weeks after Citrix issued a patch, and stole data on 35,879,455 people — Comcast Cable Communications, doing business as Xfinity, disclosed on Monday that attackers who breached one of its Citrix servers …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working on a software fix to avoid an Apple Watch ban in the US over Masimo's blood oxygen patents; Masimo says “the hardware needs to change” — - Company submitting software workaround to customs agency — Apple engineers are racing to develop fixes for patent issue
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| Kanishka Singh / Reuters: |
A US judge approves a previously announced settlement between Binance and the CFTC, asking Binance to pay $2.7B and Changpeng Zhao to pay $150M to the regulator — A U.S. court entered an order against crypto exchange Binance and its former CEO, Changpeng Zhao, approving billions of dollars … | Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Andrew Ng, a Google Brain cofounder, Stanford professor, ex-Baidu executive, and investor, on AI models, training, regulation, Big Tech, and Biden's EO — The computer scientist says it's a mistake to fall for the doomsday hype on AI — and that regulators who do will only benefit vested interests
X: @per_thorn, @anastasiabekt, @hoofnagle, and @drcolinwplewis
| Bloomberg: |
The failed Figma acquisition leaves Adobe with ~$6B in cash, likely to be used for AI development and stock buybacks; ADBE is up 75%+ in 2023 amid AI excitement — - Startups like Canva, Figma and OpenAI remain a risk to growth — Investors banking on AI to boost Adobe's customers and sales| Sheila Dang / Reuters: |
Meta's Oversight Board says Meta shouldn't have removed two Israel-Hamas war videos, as they were valuable to showing human suffering, its first expedited cases — Meta Platform's (META.O) Oversight Board said on Tuesday that the social media company erred in removing two videos depicting hostages … | David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Meta adds tongue tracking in an update to its OpenXR extension, letting developers bring the feature to the Quest Pro; Meta Avatars SDK hasn't yet added support — Quest Pro's face tracking now includes your tongue too. — In our review of Quest Pro last year, we pointed out how moving …
More: TechRadar and The Verge
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| Hannah Schoenbaum / Associated Press: |
NetChoice, which represents TikTok, Meta, X, Snap, and others, sues Utah over its laws requiring kids and teens to obtain parental consent to use social media — A trade group that represents TikTok and other major tech companies sued Utah on Monday over its first-in-the-nation laws requiring children …
More: The Hill, ABC4 Utah, Axios, 9to5Mac, Salt Lake Tribune, NetChoice, and Deseret News. X: @netchoice
| Bloomberg: |
TSMC Chair Mark Liu plans to retire in 2024, to be replaced by CEO C.C. Wei, set to become one of the most influential tech executives, if shareholders confirm — - C. C. Wei will become chairman of Apple's chipmaking partner — Wei is poised to lead the world's most advanced chipmaker| New York Times: |
How Russia uses specialized e-commerce sites, secretive shipping workarounds, and middlemen in China to buy Cisco and other Western tech to maintain its economy — Using specialized e-commerce sites, secretive shipping workarounds and a constellation of middlemen, Russia has obtained …
X: @auroraalmendral and @ldrogen
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok updates its app for tablets and foldable devices, adding streamlined navigation bars and a landscape mode, as the company seeks to compete with YouTube — TikTok has rolled out an update to enhance the app experience for viewers on tablets and foldable devices, the company announced on Monday.| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
An analysis of Amazon's AI review summaries shows they sometimes mischaracterize products or exaggerate negative feedback, which sellers say can threaten sales — Review summaries created by generative artificial intelligence also sometimes mischaracterize products.| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Boston-based Lightmatter, which uses light for AI computing, adds $155M led by GV to its $154M Series C at a $1.2B valuation, taking its total funding to $420M+ — The AI boom has lifted the startup's prospects. … Lightmatter said Tuesday that it raised $155 million in a deal led by GV …
More: Business Wire
| Bloomberg: |
As NYC's $17.96+/hour minimum wage law for delivery apps begins, Uber and DoorDash update their apps to make tipping harder and, workers say, work more for less — - Base hourly pay of $17.96 prompts companies to pass on costs — City aims for smaller, more efficient, better paid workforce| Matthew Connatser / Tom's Hardware: |
Chinese GPU maker Moore Threads unveils the MTT S4000, which lags Nvidia's 2020-era Ampere, working with China's Lenovo and others to boost its KUAE ecosystem — Beefy clusters with 200 petaops of AI compute. — Chinese GPU manufacturer Moore Threads announced the MTT S4000 …
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