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| Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: |
Google agrees to pay $700M and make app store changes, like offering an alternative billing system, to settle a 2021 antitrust lawsuit by 36 US states and DC — Agreement with coalition of states resolves antitrust litigation related to app store — Google parent Alphabet agreed …
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Threads: @crumbler. X: @timsweeneyepic, @florian4gamers, @florian4gamers, @jason_kint, @timsweeneyepic, @lutherlowe, @mishaalrahman, @mishaalrahman, @timsweeneyepic, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, and @florian4gamers. Forums: r/Android
| Eva Dou / Washington Post: |
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Forums: r/Android, r/news, and MacRumors Forums
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Comcast's Xfinity says hackers breached one of its Citrix servers in October 2023, two weeks after Citrix issued a patch, and stole data on 35,879,455 people — Comcast Cable Communications, doing business as Xfinity, disclosed on Monday that attackers who breached one of its Citrix servers …
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Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange and @SteveD3@infosec.exchange
X: @brettcallow, @hackingdave, @lorenzofb, and @vxunderground
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail a MITM attack on SSH that can break the integrity of the protocol, the first “practical attack of its kind”; fixes face compatibility issues — Novel Terrapin attack uses prefix truncation to downgrade the security of SSH channels.
More: BleepingComputer, Terrapin Attack, and SiliconANGLE
Threads: @nixcraft. Mastodon: @sadiedoreen@mastodon.social, @dangoodin@infosec.exchange, @dangoodin@infosec.exchange, and @drahardja@sfba.social. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Okta is acquiring Israeli cybersecurity company Spera, which raised a $10M seed in March 2023; source: the deal is worth ~$100M-$130M, contingent on milestones — The American identity and access management giant is making its first purchase in Israel. Spera, which raised $10 million … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Copilot can now compose songs, including lyrics, instruments, and voices, from a sentence, due to a new integration with generative AI music app Suno — Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft's AI-powered chatbot, can now compose songs thanks to an integration with gen AI music app Suno.
More: Bing Blogs, The Verge, TechRadar, MobileSyrup, Windows Central, New.blicio.us, The Decoder, Thurrott, Neowin, and Engadget. X: @jordirib1
| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Pharmacy chain Rite Aid must stop using facial recognition for five years as part of a settlement with the US FTC, which said the tech falsely flagged customers — - FTC says chain's surveillance system falsely flagged customers — Bankrupt pharmacy chain will stop using system, delete images
More: Federal Trade Commission, The Verge, Reuters, VentureBeat, Rite Aid, Forbes, CNBC, and The Hill
X: @ainowinstitute, @a_bacci, and @ainowinstitute
LinkedIn: Samuel A.A. Levine and Timnit Gebru
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
The FBI, the UK, Denmark, Germany, Spain, and Australia seize ransomware gang ALPHV's dark web leak website; the US also seized “several websites” run by ALPHV — An international group of law enforcement agencies have seized the dark web leak site of the notorious ransomware gang known as ALPHV, or BlackCat.
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Mastodon: @PogoWasRight@infosec.exchange, @cR0w@infosec.exchange, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, and @metacurity@infosec.exchange
X: @vxunderground, @jamiemaccoll, @bushidotoken, @vxunderground, @dojcrimdiv, @nohackme, @itsreallynick, @vxunderground, @aejleslie, @azalsecurity, @sosintel, @uuallan, @ericgeller, @uk_daniel_card, and @vxunderground. LinkedIn: Jamie MacColl. Forums: Slashdot
| David Hollingworth / Cyber Daily: |
Hackers post 1.67TB of Insomniac Games' internal data, including for an upcoming Wolverine game, HR files, Slack screenshots, and a Marvel-Sony X-Men agreement — The Rhysida ransomware gang publishes 98 per cent of leaked data minutes after the ransom deadline passes - Wolverine game files included.
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X: @youtheremehere, @tamoorh, @andy_vgc, @paultassi, @phiweber, @stirpicus, @lordbalvin, @pc_focus_, @platinumequinox, @mdsveritas, @evanfilarca, @playstationsize, @pure_ps, @chellaramanan, @patrician_tv, @dannynanni, @jorraptor, @vslayerv, @ghost_motley, @bigrebo, @pawesasko, @jordanmaison, @thegamersjoint, @chitogaminglive, @iantothemax, @peter5tewart, @elysivms, @discussingfilm, @vslayerc99, @postup_sog, @sweetpeachgames, @stephentotilo, @vaultofdaedalus, @squared_nation, @tomwarren, @redgamingtech, @colleen_sculpts, @pc_clown, @vslayerv, @tha_rami, @vslayerv, @bromojumbo, and @mylesdyer
LinkedIn: David Hollingworth and Jack Chapman
Forums: r/GamingLeaksAndRumours, r/GamingLeaksAndRumours, and Slashdot
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Interpol: a global law enforcement operation led by South Korea seized $300M and led to the arrest of 3,500 cybercrime suspects between July and December 2023 — An international law enforcement operation codenamed ‘Operation HAECHI IV’ has led to the arrest of 3,500 suspects …
More: INTERPOL, Gizmodo, The Record, SiliconANGLE, and Cybernews.com
| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Sources: AWS plans to overhaul its sales team as it aims to increase the share of Fortune 1,000 firms spending over $10M/year on AWS, from less than 20% to 80% — Matt Garman, head of sales at Amazon Web Services, plans to reorganize his more than 60,000-person team to address problems … | Nickolas Diaz / Android Central: |
Samsung's Self-Repair program includes foldable devices for the first time, the Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Z Fold 5, and expands to 30 additional countries in Europe — Its latest smartphone series and laptop join in, too. — What you need to know — Samsung has expanded coverage …
More: Samsung Newsroom, 9to5Google, Android Police, The Verge, PhoneArena, Neowin, Engadget, and Droid Life
| Pranshu Verma / Washington Post: |
NewsGuard: since May 2023, websites hosting AI-created fake news articles have grown from 49 to 600+; some post “hundreds if not thousands of articles” per day — AI is making it easy for anyone to create propaganda outlets, producing content that can be hard to differentiate from real news| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
Walmart expands its Affirm partnership and says more than 4,500 Walmart stores now offer BNPL options at self-checkout kiosks; AFRM jumps 15%+ — - Partnership grows to more stores, a self-checkout option — Affirm building out its presence during in-store transactions| Matthew Connatser / Tom's Hardware: |
Chinese GPU maker Moore Threads unveils the MTT S4000, which lags Nvidia's Ampere from 2020, and taps Chinese companies like Lenovo to boost its KUAE ecosystem — Beefy clusters with 200 petaops of AI compute. — Chinese GPU manufacturer Moore Threads announced the MTT S4000 …
More: VideoCardz.com, TechPowerUp, and Wccftech
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Flexport co-founder Ryan Petersen on returning as CEO after firing Dave Clark, acquiring Deliverr and Convoy, Amazon, the Vision Fund, growth, and more — His replacement got the boot barely a year into the job. What brought Petersen back? … Today, I'm talking with Ryan Petersen.| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
HughesNet debuts a $110/month 100Mbps satellite internet plan, double its previous top speed; Starlink offers 220Mbps, but US Ookla data shows many get ~70Mbps — HughesNet's speed boost comes courtesy of the recently launched Jupiter 3 satellite, which is designed to serve customers in the Americas.| Kanishka Singh / Reuters: |
A US judge approves a previously announced settlement between Binance and the CFTC, asking Binance to pay $2.7B and Changpeng Zhao to pay $150M to the regulator — A U.S. court entered an order against crypto exchange Binance and its former CEO, Changpeng Zhao, approving billions of dollars …
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| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Meta updates its OpenXR extension with tongue tracking, letting developers use the feature in the Quest Pro, but hasn't added support to the Meta Avatars SDK — Quest Pro's face tracking now includes your tongue. — In our review of Quest Pro last year, we pointed out how sticking …
More: Digital Trends, Android Central, Social Media Today, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechRadar, and The Verge
Threads: @mattnavarra. Bluesky: @oremus.bsky.social. X: @pushmatrix, @the_real_nagia, @amarchare, @makofukasametv, @sadlyitsbradley, and @naeruruu
| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Stability AI debuts Stability AI Membership, with free, $20/month, and custom pricing enterprise tiers, limiting commercial use of its models to the paid tiers — Stability AI, the maker of the text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, is now offering a subscription service that standardizes …
More: 9to5Toys
| Isabel Gottlieb / Bloomberg Law: |
Harvey, which builds generative AI tools for law firms, raised a $80M Series B co-led by Elad Gil and Kleiner Perkins at a $715M valuation — Harvey.ai raised an additional $80 million, it announced Tuesday, valuing the generative AI legal technology platform at $715 million.Sponsor Posts
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