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Letter: the US Treasury says China-backed hackers gained access to some Treasury workstations and unclassified docs; a vendor notified it of the hack on Dec. 8 — The U.S. Treasury told lawmakers in a letter Monday that it was hit by a cyberattack earlier in December, which the department has attributed to Chinese government hackers.
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X: @lorenzofb, @malwarejake, @jsrailton, @j_arthur_bloom, @congressmanraja, @commanderapaul, @malwarejake, @jsrailton, @committeeonccp, and @0xalexei. LinkedIn: Tara Lemieux
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Sensitive data of over 800K VW Group EV customers, including GPS coordinates, was exposed on an unprotected AWS database for months before being reported — The sensitive information of VW, Audi, Seat, and Skoda EV owners was left exposed on an unprotected and misconfigured cloud storage system for months
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Bluesky: @evacide. Mastodon: @harrysintonen@infosec …. X: @alex_avoigt, @guydealership, @nzahn42, @stakedeve, @m_hoppenstedt, @om, @electricfelix, @lukeweston, @kyleichan, and @alenapopova. LinkedIn: Gerry Kennedy
Forums: Hacker News and Ars OpenForum
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Venezuela's top court fines TikTok $10M over viral challenge deaths, citing a failure to take necessary measures, and orders it to open an office in the country — Venezuela's highest court Monday fined TikTok $10 million in connection with viral challenges that authorities … | Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF surpassed $50B in assets in 11 months, marking the fastest-growing ETF debut ever and pushing BTC's price past $100K for the first time — - IBIT has grown to more than $50 billion in assets in 11 months — US ETFs played a key role in Bitcoin's rally over $100,000
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| Reuters: |
Samsung invests $181M in South Korean robot maker Rainbow Robotics, boosting its stake to 35%, and launches a Future Robotics Office reporting to the CEO — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) became the largest shareholder of South Korea's Rainbow Robotics (277810.KQ), the robotics company said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday.
More: The Korea Times, SamMobile, Samsung Newsroom, The Korea Herald, KED Global, and Businesskorea
| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
Accounting startup Bench, which had raised $100M+ and abruptly shut down last week, will be acquired by Employer.com for an undisclosed price — Bench, the VC-backed accounting startup that left thousands of customers locked out of their accounts after it suddenly shut down last week … | Turner Wright / Cointelegraph: |
A US judge delays the CFTC v. Gemini trial to January 21, after Trump's inauguration; CFTC alleged Gemini misled the agency in its 2017 bid to debut BTC futures — The civil case between the US financial regulator and Gemini Trust Company was initially scheduled to go to trial before Donald Trump's inauguration.
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| Kanishka Singh / Reuters: |
The US DOJ files a complaint and announces a civil enforcement action against fintech startup Dave and CEO Jason Wilk, replacing an FTC complaint from November — The U.S. Justice Department filed a complaint and announced a civil enforcement action on Monday against financial technology company Dave Inc … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia completes its $700M acquisition of Israel-based Run:ai, which helps orchestrate GPU clouds for AI, and plans to open source Run:ai's software — Nvidia has completed its acquisition of Run:ai, a software company that makes it easier for customers to orchestrate GPU clouds for AI, and said that it would open-source the software.
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X: @nvidia and @danielnewmanuv
Forums: r/technology, r/nvidia, and Slashdot
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Source: ByteDance keeps using a loophole for US chip sanctions and told suppliers it planned to spend up to $7B to access Nvidia chips outside China in 2025 — ByteDance continues to use Nvidia's most advanced artificial intelligence chips despite U.S. efforts to block Chinese companies from using them.
More: TechCrunch and Benzinga
X: @kakashiii111, @the_ai_investor, and @miles_brundage
Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/hardware
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
The technology of passkeys is elegant, but the complexities of syncing them to password managers can contribute to platform lock-in and make them less usable — It's that time again, when families and friends gather and implore the more technically inclined among them to troubleshoot problems …
More: Tao of Mac. Mastodon: @funnymonkey@freeradical.zone. Forums: Hacker News, r/PasswordManagers, r/privacy, r/technews, r/technology, lobste.rs, and Ars OpenForum
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
The UK's CMA opens an antitrust investigation into IBM's planned acquisition of cloud software vendor HashiCorp; the US FTC has been investigating it since July — The Competition and Markets Authority, the U.K.'s antitrust watchdog, has opened an investigation into whether IBM's planned acquisition …
More: Wall Street Journal and SiliconANGLE
| Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: |
Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile operator, signs a deal with Starlink to roll out text messaging in Q4 2025, and plans to add voice and data in later stages — - Kyivstar to offer text messages via Starlink by late 2025 — Starlink terminals are critical to Ukraine's war effortSponsor Posts
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