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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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Threads: @crumbler. X: @timsweeneyepic, @lutherlowe, @timsweeneyepic, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @florian4gamers, @mishaalrahman, @mishaalrahman, and @timsweeneyepic. Forums: r/Android
| 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, BleepingComputer, Reuters, Cybersecurity Dive, Silicon Republic, Bloomberg, The Messenger, PCMag, The Record, The Register, BleepingComputer, The Record, Cybernews.com, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, Hackread, and ITPro
| 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 …
More: Comcast, Maine.gov, TechCrunch, SC Media, Cybersecurity Dive, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, Mashable, TechStartups, TechRadar, Baseline, The Record, Deadline, Engadget, Cybernews.com, ITPro, DataBreaches.net, The Hollywood Reporter, and Variety
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X: @lorenzofb and @vxunderground
| 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.
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Forums: r/GamingLeaksAndRumours, r/GamingLeaksAndRumours, and Slashdot
| 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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X: @munster_gene, @munster_gene, @munster_gene, @markgurman, @markgurman, @pitdesi, @munster_gene, @idevicehelpus, and @markgurman. LinkedIn: Evan Zimmerman. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| 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 … | Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Okta is acquiring Israeli cybersecurity company Spera, which raised a $10M seed in March 2023; source: the deal is worth ~$100M-$130M, contingent on milestones — The American identity and access management giant is making its first purchase in Israel. Spera, which raised $10 million …
More: TechCrunch
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail a MITM attack on SSH that can break the integrity of the protocol, the first “practical attack of its kind”; fixes face compatibility issues — Novel Terrapin attack uses prefix truncation to downgrade the security of SSH channels.
More: BleepingComputer and Terrapin Attack
Threads: @nixcraft. Mastodon: @dangoodin@infosec.exchange and @dangoodin@infosec.exchange. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Meta updates its OpenXR extension with tongue tracking, letting developers use the feature in the Quest Pro, but hasn't added support to the Meta Avatars SDK — Quest Pro's face tracking now includes your tongue. — In our review of Quest Pro last year, we pointed out how sticking …
More: iPhone in Canada Blog, TechRadar, and The Verge
Threads: @mattnavarra. X: @the_real_nagia, @amarchare, @makofukasametv, @sadlyitsbradley, and @naeruruu
| Sheila Dang / Reuters: |
Meta's Oversight Board says Meta erred in removing two Israel-Hamas war videos as they were valuable to understanding 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 … | 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 …
More: VideoCardz.com, TechPowerUp, and Wccftech
| Bloomberg: |
Adobe's failed Figma acquisition leaves Adobe with ~$6B in cash, likely to be used for AI investment and stock buybacks; ADBE jumped 75%+ in 2023 on AI interest — - Startups like Canva, Figma and OpenAI remain a risk to growth — Investors banking on AI to boost Adobe's customers and sales| Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Andrew Ng, a Google Brain co-founder, Stanford professor, ex-Baidu executive, and investor, on AI models, training, regulatory capture, 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
| Stefanie Dazio / Associated Press: |
A US judge orders a Tesla driver to pay $23K+ for a 2019 crash that killed two, likely the first US felony case involving a partially automated driving system — A Tesla driver will pay more than $23,000 in restitution for the deaths of two people during a 2019 car crash in a Los Angeles suburb … | Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Interpol: a global law enforcement operation led by South Korea has seized $300M and led to the arrest of 3,500 cybercrime suspects between July and December — An international law enforcement operation codenamed ‘Operation HAECHI IV’ has led to the arrest of 3,500 suspects …
More: Cybernews.com
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on returning as CEO after firing Dave Clark, buying Deliverr and Convoy, Amazon, Vision Fund, growing the company, and more — His replacement got the boot barely a year into the job. What brought Petersen back? … Today, I'm talking with Ryan Petersen.| 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, Salt Lake Tribune, NetChoice, Deseret News, and 9to5Mac. X: @netchoice
| 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
| 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 chipmakerSponsor Posts
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