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A global law enforcement operation takes down 593 servers hosting unlicensed versions of Cobalt Strike, a penetration testing tool abused by cybercriminals — Europol coordinated a joint law enforcement action known as Operation Morpheus, which led to the takedown of almost 600 Cobalt Strike servers used … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Twilio says threat actors identified the phone numbers of users of its 2FA app Authy; last week, hackers claimed to have stolen 33M phone numbers from Twilio — Last week, a hacker claimed to have stolen 33 million phone numbers from U.S. messaging giant Twilio.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
OpenAI updates its ChatGPT macOS app to encrypt locally stored conversations, after a user discovered that the app was storing chats in plain text — Until Friday, OpenAI's recently launched ChatGPT macOS app had a potentially worrying security issue: it wasn't hard to find your chats stored …
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| Andrea Hsu / NPR: |
A federal court in Texas temporarily blocks the US government's ban on noncompete agreements that was set to take effect on September 4 — A federal court in Texas has partially blocked the government's ban on noncompete agreements that was set to take effect September 4.
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Microsoft agrees to pay $14.4M to settle with the California Civil Rights Department over allegations of discriminating against workers who took protected leave — Microsoft Corp. has agreed to pay $14.4 million to settle allegations that the global software giant retaliated and discriminated … | Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has 175M+ MAUs, up from 150M in April, ahead of its one-year anniversary on July 5; source: Meta may turn on ads in Threads in 2025 — A year and a half ago, Threads was but a twinkle in Mark Zuckerberg's eye. — Now, the rival to Elon Musk's X has reached …
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| Rocky Swift / Reuters: |
Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, after scrapping over 1,000 regulations governing their use — Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon plans to discontinue Astro for Business, its robot security guard for SMBs announced in November 2023, on September 25 to focus on its Astro home robot — Astro is leaving its job to spend more time with family. — Amazon informed customers and employees Wednesday morning that it plans …
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Forums: r/technews, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Gen Z-focused social media app noplace, backed by Alexis Ohanian's 776 and others, tops the US iOS App Store, and raised a $15M Series A1 at a $75M valuation — Aiming to bring the “social” back to “social media,” a new app called noplace has surged to the top of the App Store as it launched out of invite-only mode Wednesday.
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| CRN: |
OpenText plans to lay off 1,200 staff and add 800 positions, resulting in a ~1.7% workforce reduction, and expects to reduce annual expenses by CA$150M in 2025 — “The business optimization plan is intended to strategically align the company's workforce to support its 'growth and innovation plans …
More: BetaKit, Reuters, OpenText Blogs, SiliconANGLE, Channel Futures, Canadian Press, financialpost, and MarketWatch
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| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
A look at a16z's Crypto Startup Accelerator, a Y Combinator-style program that provides $500K in funding and 10 weeks of coaching, most recently in London — Andreessen Horowitz is betting the house on crypto. (Yes, really.) This spring, the VC firm schooled a new batch of founders …
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at the inaugural Esports World Cup, a multi-genre tournament in Riyadh funded by Saudi Arabia, featuring 1,500+ gamers and a record $60M+ prize pool — - Esports World Cup has record prize pool of $60 million — Crown Prince MBS wants to build esports capital in Riyadh
More: USA Today and The Streamable
| Ben Westcott / Bloomberg: |
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