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FBI email servers were hacked to send spam warning of a “sophisticated chain attack”, with a likely goal to discredit security researcher Vinny Troia — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) email servers were hacked to distribute spam email impersonating FBI warnings …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
The person claiming responsibility for the FBI email server hack says they were able to send spam messages by abusing insecure code in the FBI's LEEP portal — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed today that its fbi.gov domain name and Internet address were used to blast …
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| New York Times: |
Apple, Spotify, and other companies that distribute podcasts have done little to rein in COVID-19 misinformation, escaping the scrutiny social media giants face — False statements about vaccines have spread on the “Wild West” of media, even as some hosts die of virus complications.| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How US cities are deploying drones, robots, and AI to more affordably inspect, diagnose, and repair the country's aging sewer infrastructure — Cash-strapped U.S. cities are turning to drones, artificial intelligence and other innovations to help inspect and fix the country's aging underground arteries of waste
Tweets: @wsj, @robenfarzad, @neorsd, @wsj, and @baiju_r_shah
| Robert Burnson / Bloomberg: |
Apple agrees to pay its CA store workers $29.9M, settling a 2013 lawsuit for time spent in required security bag checks; Apple dropped the policy in 2015 — Apple Inc. agreed to pay $29.9 million to employees at its stores who were forced to submit to security bag checks — off the clock … | Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
AMD reveals 50 security flaws affecting EPYC processors and its graphics driver for Windows 10; Intel discloses 25 security flaws in its products including CPUs — Think of an attack - DoS, arbitrary code execution, memory corruption - and one of these vulns allows it
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| Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal: |
WSO2, which offers low-code tools to help businesses, hospitals, schools, and public sector organizations build apps, raises $90M from Goldman Sachs — Amid a tech-talent crunch, the Wall Street bank is eyeing a growing market for do-it-yourself app builders that put development into the hands of business-line employees| Chris Prentice / Reuters: |
US states led by Texas file an amended Google lawsuit, providing more details about “Project Bernanke”, which allegedly gave Google's own ad-buying an advantage — A group of U.S. states led by Texas have filed an amended complaint against Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) … | Chris Stokel-Walker / Wired UK: |
Substack touts itself as an alternative to toxic, ad-driven social media, but many of its top earners are polarizing figures who were deplatformed elsewhere — The company's CEO says the old way of social media is broken—but is his alternative much different?| Agam Shah / The Register: |
Mercury Research: ARM's market share in PC chips was about 8% in Q3 2021, up from 2% in Q3 2020 when Apple's ARM-based M1 Macs weren't on sale — What a difference a year makes? — It took Apple less than a year to seemingly start undoing decades of x86 and Intel dominance in the traditional PC chip market.
Tweets: @blu51899890, @nixcraft, and @haerwu
| Zaheer Merchant / The Economic Times: |
App Annie: India saw 4.8B mobile game downloads in H1 2021, or one in every five downloads globally, making it the world's top market for mobile games — A new report by App Annie, an app market analytics firm, puts numbers to something we've all known for 19 months now … | Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
The latest iOS 15.2 beta adds a manual Macro mode toggle to the Camera app on the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max — The second beta of iOS 15.2 adds a toggle for Macro mode on the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max when Auto Macro is disabled in Settings, enabling users …
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