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Authorities arrest two LockBit operators in Poland and Ukraine, issue arrest warrants and a decryption tool, seize 200+ crypto wallets; US indicts two Russians — Law enforcement arrested two operators of the LockBit ransomware gang in Poland and Ukraine, created a decryption tool …
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| Jacob Pramuk / CNBC: |
Walmart agrees to acquire TV maker Vizio for $2.3B, or $11.50/share, to boost its ad business via Vizio's SmartCast OS, which lets users stream content with ads — - Walmart is buying TV maker Vizio for $2.3 billion in cash. — The move is a bid to boost the big-box retailer's high-margin ad business.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Messaging app Signal finally rolls out usernames in beta, allowing a user to conceal their phone number; Signal will still a require phone number to register — We tested the end-to-end encrypted messenger's new feature aimed at addressing critics' most persistent complaint. Here's how it works.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's longtime VP in charge of acoustics Gary Geaves is stepping down, replaced by Ruchir Davé, another big shakeup in the hardware engineering group — - Apple acoustics chief Gary Geaves is stepping down from role — Executive has been key to development of AirPods and HomePod| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google engineers hacked a Sony PlayStation Portal, which can only stream PS5 games, to run games locally via a PPSSPP emulator using a “software based” exploit — Sony's new PlayStation Portal has been hacked by Google engineers to run emulated games locally.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Music debuts a monthly version of Replay, with insights like total listening time, top songs, artists, and albums, and makes 2024's Replay Mix available — Apple today updated the Apple Music Replay experience, available at replay.music.apple.com, with visualizations of your favorite music habits … | John Voorhees / MacStories: |
A look at ways to play games on Apple Vision Pro: spatial and iPad App Store games, streaming via MirrorPlay for PS5, NDI, Macs, browsers like Nexus⁺, and more — The lack of any kind of port significantly limits the type of gaming you can do in the Apple Vision Pro - or does it?
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| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
As YouTube marks one year as Nielsen's top US streaming service, a Q&A with YouTube VPs Nicky Rettke and Tara Levy on the NFL, ad innovation, creators, and more — EXCLUSIVE: YouTube has been racking up milestones lately. Its pay-TV bundle, YouTube TV, just passed 8 million subscribers.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Adobe launches AI Assistant in Acrobat in beta, to summarize PDFs, answer and recommend questions, and more, letting paying users “easily chat with documents” — Adobe is adding a new generative AI experience to its Acrobat PDF management software, which aims to …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Samsung details its Auracast, 360 Audio, and Auto Switch features, rolling out to Buds 2, Buds FE, the S24 series, Neo QLED and OLED TVs, Book laptops, and more — None are appearing on Samsung's devices for the first time, but we now know how broadly they'll be supported across the lineup.| HouseFresh: |
How some big outlets are inundating the web with bad product recommendations without testing the products, and how Google is helping them through inaction — And why you shouldn't trust product recommendations from big media publishers ranking at the top of Google
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Over the past several days, attackers targeted smaller Mastodon servers by signing up spam accounts; Eugen Rochko said previously only big servers were targeted — A spam attack that impacted the open source X rival Mastodon, Misskey, and other apps highlights how the decentralized social web …
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