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Researchers say a threat actor claims to have hacked Ticketmaster and Santander using stolen credentials of a Snowflake employee; Snowflake disputes the claims — A threat actor claiming recent Santander and Ticketmaster breaches says they stole data after hacking into an employee's account at cloud storage company Snowflake.
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X: @evisdrenova, @troyhunt, @gossithedog, @rockhudsonrock, and @arkadiyt. LinkedIn: Alon Gal. Forums: Hacker News
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Filing: Ticketmaster confirms “unauthorized activity within a third-party cloud database”, after a hacking group advertised alleged data of 560M users for sale — Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, confirmed it found “unauthorized activity” within a cloud database … | Owen Walker / Financial Times: |
Hacking group ShinyHunters offers to sell alleged data of Santander staff and 30M customers; Santander warned on May 14 that a database had been compromised — ShinyHunters group is advertising data it says includes account details of 30mn customers — Hackers are offering to sell … | Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
President Biden vetoes a bill overturning SAB 121, a controversial SEC bulletin that establishes accounting standards for companies that custody crypto — - U.S. President Joe Biden vetoed a bill to overturn a controversial Securities and Exchange Commission bulletin, SAB 121 …
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X: @senlummis, @blockchainassn, @iankar_, @adamscochran, @ryansadams, @codycarbonedc, @cdixon, @autismcapital, and @financialcmte. LinkedIn: Kasper Luyckx
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Sources: Microsoft is discussing a deal with CISPE, which could include a multimillion-euro payment to get the cloud lobby to drop its EU antitrust complaint — Possible deal involves a multimillion-dollar payout to cloud association backed by Amazon. — Microsoft is closing …
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| Brian Fung / CNN: |
FCC ends the Affordable Connectivity Program, which helped low-income Americans afford internet service, after the House failed to approve additional funding — The Affordable Connectivity Program, which helped low-income Americans get online, is no more. — On Friday, the US government announced …
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| April Xu / Documented: |
Content creators are posting videos on Douyin giving Chinese migrants step-by-step instructions on how to get to the United States through Latin America — Xiong learned how to travel the path to the United States from Latin America through a community of migrants on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.| Michael Hytha / Bloomberg: |
LA-based Webtoon, owned by South Korea's Naver, files for a US IPO; sources: the online comics platform could seek to raise up to $500M at a $3B-$4B valuation — Los Angeles-based Webtoon said in a filing Friday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that South Korean internet company Naver … | Bloomberg: |
What to expect at Computex 2024, where the CEOs of Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, and Arm are speaking, as AI hardware products like AI PCs take center stage — - Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, Arm chiefs all speaking at show — Computex popularity underscores Taiwan's global importance
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| Politico: |
YC is lobbying in Washington to support “Little Tech” over concerns that AI regulations meant to head off harms will instead help Big Tech maintain its lead — Venture capital firms are bringing San Francisco's startup culture to Washington as they try to tip the regulatory scales away from giants in the sector.
X: @typewriters, @gilduran76, @lindsayaamos, and @lutherlowe. LinkedIn: Garry Tan. Forums: r/washingtondc
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Q&A with the pseudonymous Pliny the Prompter, who is well known in the AI community for jailbreaking leading LLMs, on what motivates them, their goals, and more — Around 10:30 am Pacific time on Monday, May 13, 2024, OpenAI debuted its newest and most capable AI foundation model …
More: Futurism, The Decoder, TweakTown, Tom's Hardware, and BGR
| Reuters: |
Japanese crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin says it has lost 4,502.9 bitcoin, worth about $308M, in an “unauthorised leak”, and is investigating the incident — TOKYO, May 31 (Reuters) - Japan's cryptocurrency exchange DMM Bitcoin said on Friday that it had lost 4,502.9 bitcoin …
More: Elliptic, The Block, DL News, Bloomberg, CoinGape, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoinist.com, New.blicio.us, Bankless Times, BleepingComputer, Benzinga, TechCrunch, Bitcoin Insider, The Crypto Times, Coinpedia Fintech News, Decrypt, Cryptonews, CryptoSlate, Blockworks, CoinDesk, and Crypto Briefing
X: @jeffjohnroberts and @lorenzofb
Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and r/Bitcoin
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Jio Financial Services, part of Reliance, launches the JioFinance app to provide digital banking, bill payments, and other services in a crowded Indian market — Indian conglomerate Reliance Group is making its boldest consumer-facing move yet into financial services with the launch of JioFinance … Sponsor Posts
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