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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
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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| 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 …
More: BBC, BleepingComputer, Daily Express, Daily Mail, The Mirror, Metro.co.uk, Security Affairs, DeviceSecurity.io, The Daily Hodl, The Guardian, and ITPro
X: @mattjay and @h4ckmanac
| 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 …
More: Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., TechCrunch, NPR, Stack Diary, Security Affairs, The Hill, WKBN-TV, Variety, The Verge, New York Times, nltimes.nl, Deadline, and Axios
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| Bloomberg: |
Nvidia plans to upgrade its AI accelerators annually, and announces a Blackwell Ultra chip for 2025 and a next-gen Rubin AI platform for 2026 that will use HBM4 — - CEO Jensen Huang reveals plans for annual upgrade cycle — Company details plans for Blackwell Ultra and subsequent chips
More: Reuters and Deccan Herald
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Jensen Huang said at Computex that Asus, Pegatron, Wistron, and others will deliver cloud, on-prem, embedded, and edge AI systems using Nvidia Blackwell GPUs — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced at Computex that the world's top computer manufacturers today are unveiling Nvidia Blackwell …
More: Nikkei Asia, Network World, ASROCK RACK INC., and NVIDIA
| Emilia David / The Verge: |
AI search engine Perplexity launches Pages, which will research and create a customizable webpage based on user prompts, aimed at educators, researchers, others — AI search platform Perplexity is launching a new feature called Pages that will generate a customizable webpage based on user prompts.
More: Perplexity Blog, TechTalks, and The Decoder
| Rest of World: |
A look at activist groups' efforts to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from building more data centers in Chile, amid a drought expected to last until 2040 — Multiple groups are working to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doubling the number of centers in the country, fearing environmental devastation.| Nathaniel Popper / Bloomberg: |
An excerpt from the book The Trolls of Wall Street, which details how r/WallStreetBets fueled a movement that turned millions of young Americans into investors — An excerpt from Nathaniel Popper's forthcoming The Trolls of Wall Street. — By the end of 2011, Jaime Rogozinski, 29, had fallen into a rut.
X: @tck_jrubano, @0xrogozinski, and @nathanielpopper
| Alexandra Alter / New York Times: |
How TikTok influencers helped a self-published author sell 1M+ copies of her book, including ~700K on the TikTok shop, showing how TikTok changed book marketing — Keila Shaheen's “The Shadow Work Journal” shows how radically book sales and marketing have been changed by TikTok.| Politico: |
Donald Trump's campaign joins TikTok, the app he once tried to ban; a TikTok official says there's a 2:1 ratio of pro-Trump versus pro-Biden content on the app — Trump's joining of TikTok is a major win for the embattled app that's fighting for its existence in Washington.| 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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| Michael Roddan / The Information: |
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