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The BlackCat ransomware gang threatens to release 80GB of data allegedly stolen from Reddit; the company says BlackCat's claims relate to a February 5 attack — Hackers are threatening to release confidential data stolen from Reddit unless the company pays a ransom demand - and reverses its controversial API price hikes.
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Twitter: @brettcallow, @chengrob, @alvierid, @ido_cohen2, and @devaonbreaches
Forums: r/ModCoord, r/theworldnews, r/technology, r/anonymous, r/hackernews, and Slashdot
| Gabriela Galindo / Wired: |
How Apple is trying to gain IP rights over depictions of apples globally, worrying Fruit Union Suisse that the 111-year-old company may need to change its logo — Apple, the company, wants rights to the image of apples, the fruit, in Switzerland—one of dozens of countries where it's flexing its legal muscles.
More: AppleInsider, Mashable, Neowin, TechRadar, Gizchina, Android Authority, MacDailyNews, Supercharged, PC Gamer, iMore, and The Verge
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| Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
Sources: internal teams at Singapore-based Crypto.com trade tokens for profit on the exchange and elsewhere, a little-known fact since the company's 2016 launch — Singapore group has desk to profit from market moves — Crypto.com, the exchange endorsed by Hollywood actor Matt Damon …
More: CoinDesk, The Block, CryptoSlate, Cryptonews, Decrypt, Cryptopolitan, Unchained Crypto, CryptoPotato, crypto.news, Coinpedia Fintech News, DL News, Watcher Guru, and CoinGape
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| Jon / The Nexus Of Privacy: |
Amid ongoing Reddit protests, decentralized link aggregation and discussion forum projects Lemmy and Kbin grow to a total of 70K+ MAUs and 1,000+ instances — Draft! Work in Progress! Feedback welcome! … Contents: — Eight days later ... - Experiment to find what approaches …
More: join-lemmy.org, Asif Youssuff, Android Authority, Netzgemeinde Hubzilla, and Beehaw
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Forums: Hacker News and r/Lemmy
| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
How kids are using hacked Discord servers or Twitter accounts and “NFT drainers” for phishing attacks to steal millions of dollars' worth of NFTs and tokens — - NFT drainers like Inferno and Venom are commonly used to carry out phishing attacks involving compromised Discord servers and Twitter accounts.
More: crypto.news and Cryptonews
Twitter: @bgurley, @dabitch, @timccopeland, and @lex_node
Forums: r/ethtrader and r/CryptoCurrency
| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Some publishers say they have seen a sharp drop in Facebook traffic since May 2023; Echobox: the share of traffic to publisher sites from Facebook fell ~50% YoY — With no communication from the company, publishers relying on Facebook traffic are at the mercy of the inscrutable algorithm, and they say it's punishing them.
More: Geek News Central Podcast and Beehaw
| Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: |
Celebrities, including aging star athletes, are signing deals to put AI duplicates of themselves into ad campaigns, helping brands de-age them, among other uses — Using AI-generated duplicates, brands also benefit, using stars in ways they never could before| Tim Hakki / Decrypt: |
Twitter suspends Explain This Bob, a GPT-4 chatbot tied to the BOB Token, after Elon Musk called the account a “scam”; Musk replied “I love Bob” in April 2023 — The move marks an abrupt about-face for Musk, who had previously engaged with the bot's content on Twitter.
More: Cointelegraph, OpIndia, Cryptonews, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoinist.com, and Coinspeaker
Twitter: @elonmusk, @defidownsin, @obesechess, @talalunfiltered, @titterdaily, @mattbinder, and @poordart
| BBC: |
An interview with Foxconn chairman Young Liu on shifting some supply chains away from China as China-US tensions rise, hoping to capture 5% of EVs, and more — iPhone maker Foxconn is betting big on electric cars and redrawing some of its supply chains as it navigates a new era of icy Washington-Beijing relations.| Financial Times: |
An overview of how the adoption of generative AI tools is transforming everyday work in legal contracts, professional services, filmmaking, and programming — Professional services, filmmaking and coding are among the first to use the technology in everyday operations| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
Snap hopes to use My AI chatbot interactions to personalize ads; 150M+ Snapchat users, or ~20% of MAUs, sent 10B messages to My AI since its late February debut — Snap Inc., the maker of the Snapchat app, is testing ways that its popular new artificial intelligence chatbot can boost the company's advertising business.| John Carreyrou / New York Times: |
A look at the orchestrated downfall of Kyle Roche, co-founder of Roche Freedman LLP, known for suing crypto companies and getting a verdict against Craig Wright — Kyle Roche was a rising star in the field of cryptocurrency law — until his career imploded. Who orchestrated his downfall?
More: Cryptonews. LinkedIn: Roderick Mann. Twitter: @nxthompson, @moorehn, @yonettejo, @nytimes, and @silvermanjacob
Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and Slashdot
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