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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
A threat actor hacked the Internet Archive and stole a user authentication database with 31M unique records; a DDoS attack took the site offline on October 9 — Internet Archive's “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole …
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| CoinDesk: |
US prosecutors charge four purported crypto market makers, a handful of crypto projects, and over a dozen individuals with manipulating various crypto markets — Gotbit, CLS Global, MyTrade, and ZM Quant were secretly offering market manipulation services to projects that wanted …
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| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
WordPress.org adds a checkbox to confirm users aren't “affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise” before they log in or register an account — WordPress.org users are forced to confirm they are not “affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise” … | David Heinemeier Hansson / HEY: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Amazon says Apple TV+ will be available as a $9.99/month subscription add-on in Prime Video Channels later this month in the US, joining 100+ streaming services — Apple will begin selling TV+ subscriptions through Prime later this month, Mike Hopkins, senior vice president of Amazon Prime Video …
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Some Threads and Instagram users say their accounts are being deleted or restricted due to moderation failures; Adam Mosseri says he's “looking into it” — On Threads, the topic of “Threads Moderation Failures” is trending. Some users complain their accounts are being deleted …
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
OpenAI says it has disrupted 20+ operations and deceptive networks in 2024 so far that tried to use its models, including four that had election-related content — OpenAI is increasingly becoming a platform of choice for cyber actors looking to influence democratic elections across the globe.
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| Reuters: |
FTC: Marriott agrees to pay a $52M penalty to 49 states and DC to resolve data security allegations, and, in another settlement, agrees to a new infosec program — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday it will require Marriott International and its subsidiary Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide …
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian insurance firm Star Health says it suffered a “malicious cyberattack”, about two weeks after hackers put 31M customers' alleged personal data on Telegram — Star Health and Allied Insurance, one of the largest health insurance firms in India, has confirmed it was the target of a … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
An investigation details a $243M crypto heist in August 2024 in which a social engineering attack targeted a single customer of Gemini's crypto exchange — The parents of a 19-year-old Connecticut honors student accused of taking part in a $243 million cryptocurrency heist in August …
More: Cybernews.com. Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange. X: @cybernews and @moo9000
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Dan Riccio, Apple's Vision Pro chief and former SVP of hardware engineering, is leaving in October; the Vision Pro team will now report to John Ternus — - Headset group will be overseen by hardware leader John Ternus — The retiring executive had worked at Apple for over 26 years
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| Bloomberg: |
A profile of FTC Chair Lina Khan, whose term ended in September 2024, as a bipartisan club of tech figures and VCs, including Reid Hoffman, call for her ouster — Biden's FTC chair has toughened merger oversight, taken on noncompetes and made the donor class crazy.
More: Quartz, Raw Story, Financial Times, and MLex Market Insight
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Florida-based data broker National Public Data files for bankruptcy, admitting its breach that led to the August 2024 SSN leak may impact “hundreds of millions” — In court documents, National Public Data concedes the breach may impact ‘hundreds of millions’ of people … | Will Knight / Wired: |
Amazon announces AI Shopping Guides, which show AI-generated descriptions and recommendations for 100+ product types on its US mobile website and in its US app — Amazon feeds its large language models vast quantities of retail data. It says its AI agents might someday be smart enough to buy you stuff without you even having to ask.
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
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| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
ByteDance launches its first earbuds, the open-ear wearables called Ola Friend, designed as an audio assistant, shipping on October 17 in China for ~$170 — The Ola Friend earphones are linked to ByteDance's self-developed chatbot, Doubao, currently China's most popular GenAI app
More: Tech in Asia
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A SCOTUS decision means that the US now legally owns the 69,370 BTC obtained during its Silk Road probe; the ex-IRS agent who seized them is in a Nigerian jail — The $4.4 billion in crypto is set to be the largest pile of criminal proceeds ever sold off by the US.| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Documents: OpenAI's projections suggest it won't turn a profit until 2029, when its revenue would hit $100B; losses could hit $14B in 2026, up nearly 3x on 2024 — OpenAI's newest investors have signed up for a bumpy and expensive ride. The company's projections suggest it won't turn a profit until 2029 … | The Information: |
Sources: Sierra, an AI agent startup co-founded by Bret Taylor, is raising hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding led by Greenoaks at a $4B+ valuation — Sierra, an artificial intelligence startup co-founded by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor, is raising hundreds of millions …
More: Sierra, AIM, and Bloomberg
X: @btaylor, @sierraplatform, @steph_palazzolo, @technology, @pitdesi, @amir, @btaylor, and @btaylor. LinkedIn: Sierra
| Alexander Sammon / Slate: |
Despite the fallout from SBF's political donations, crypto's super PAC raising $203M far exceeds other groups like Koch Industries, the second-largest at $26M — About a week before the 2022 midterms, FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by billionaire wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried, began to collapse.Sponsor Posts
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