Uber says there is “no evidence” the hacker accessed sensitive user info, like trip histories, during the breach and that all its products are now “operational”
Uber says there is “no evidence” that any of its users' private information was compromised in a breach of its internal computer systems.
A US federal appeals court upholds the Texas social media content moderation law, lifting an injunction that blocked it and remanding it back to the lower court
A federal appeals court upheld the validity of a Texas social-media law that companies like Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc …
Uber takes some internal systems offline to investigate a network breach; Yuga Labs' Sam Curry says it appears the hacker pretty much has “full access to Uber”
what you need to know Msmash / Slashdot : Uber Investigating Breach of Its Computer Systems Prajeet Nair / BankInfoSecurity.com : Uber Probes Breach After Hacker Boasts About Intrusion Michael Hill / ...
EVGA stops making video cards, citing conflicts with Nvidia and ending a partnership started in 1999; Nvidia's GeForce reportedly makes up 80% of EVGA's revenue
EVGA will continue selling current-gen GeForce cards until it runs out of stock. — Graphics card manufacturer eVGA …
Uber's hacker, who claims to be 18 years old, says he hacked Uber for fun, using social engineering, might leak source code, and has access to its AWS account
Washington Post :
Adobe's $20B Figma deal is worth it because Figma's $400M ARR, independent of margin, was continuing to double and creating pricing pressure on Adobe
Hint: The Answer Doesn't Involve a Spreadsheet — I'm not an investor in Figma. I don't know Figma CEO Dylan Field. And I'm not a designer.
PitchBook: the Adobe deal makes Figma the largest VC-backed exit in 20+ years; source: Figma's biggest outside shareholder is Index Ventures with a 12%+ stake
Bloomberg :
The European Central Bank selects Amazon, the European Payments Initiative, CaixaBank, Worldline, and Nexi to prototype digital euro user interfaces by Q1 2023
The European Central Bank plans to test how well the technology underlying a digital euro integrates with user interfaces developed by companies.
Intel says the company plans to replace its Pentium and Celeron brands, debuted in 1993 and 1998, with Intel Processor, starting with notebooks in 2023
though details are scarce on what we can expect from the former. https://arstechnica.com/... Shac Ron / @stuntpants : So they want “Intel Processor” to be synonymous with low end, budget CPUs? Not the...
The 5th Circuit federal court's ruling to uphold the Texas social media content moderation law is based on a misrepresentation of how Section 230 actually works
from the batshit-crazy dept — As far as I can tell, in the area the 5th Circuit appeals court has jurisdiction … Tweets: @ngrossman81 , @steve_vladeck , @ericowensdc , @fernandorgallo , @jeffjarvis ...
LastPass says a hacker had access to its systems for four days in August 2022 but there is no evidence they accessed customer data or encrypted password vaults
LastPass says the attacker behind the August security breach had internal access to the company's systems for four days until they were detected and evicted.
Meta's stock has lost 61% of its value in the past 12 months, by far the biggest slide among Big Tech stocks and more than 2x the drop in the Nasdaq Composite
- Meta shares dropped below the company's pandemic nadir during the day on Friday and are down more than 60% for the year.
The White House releases a “comprehensive framework” for US crypto regulation, outlining various federal agencies' recommendations after six months of study
here's what's in it The White House : Statement by NEC Director Brian Deese and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Digital Assets Framework Terence Zimwara / Bitcoin News : White House Release...
Filing: Starboard Value has built a 9% stake in Wix, which has been struggling with losses since Q4 2021 and has adopted a three-year cost-cutting program
Starboard Value LP has built a 9% stake in website development platform Wix.com Ltd (WIX.O), the activist hedge fund disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday.
Sources: BeReal is exploring adding paid features to avoid advertising; the app now has 15M DAUs, up from 10K in March 2021, and is now valued at ~$600M
Photo-sharing app BeReal is exploring the addition of in-app payments for extra features to avoid Instagram-style advertising … Tweets: @cristinacriddle Tweets: Cristina Criddle / @cristinacriddle : I...
Some experts say targeted ads on streaming services could be crucial in the 2022 US midterms, as others worry the ads evade federal regulation and oversight
Over the last few weeks, tens of thousands of voters in the Detroit area who watch streaming video services were shown different … Tweets: @peterhamby and @jason_kint See also Mediagazer Tweets: Peter...
An interview with AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Fei-Fei Li on deep learning's progress since 2012's groundbreaking ImageNet database research
Artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, one of the trailblazers of the deep learning “revolution” that began a decade ago … Tweets: @emilymbender , @emilymbender , @emilymbender , @emily...
Shopify changes its compensation practices to let staff choose a mix of cash, restricted stock units, and stock options; Shopify stock is down 75% in 2022
Shopify Inc. is changing its compensation practices to let staff decide how much of their pay will be cash versus equity …
Parler restructures as Parlement Technologies after raising a $16M Series B and acquires Dynascale to offer “uncancelable” cloud services for online businesses
oh wait, they have and it ends like you'd expect. https://en.wikipedia.org/... https://twitter.com/... Russell Brandom / @russellbrandom : This makes a lot of sense — Parler has been in trouble for a ...
Vectra: Microsoft Teams stores authentication tokens in unencrypted plaintext; Microsoft has no plans for a fix, since an exploit would require network access
and a fix is NOT in the pipeline Steve Zurier / SC Media : Vulnerability allows access to credentials in Microsoft Teams Monica J. White / Digital Trends : This Microsoft Teams exploit could leave you...
Sources: due to an accounting bug, Binance erroneously disbursed ~4.8M of Helium's HNT tokens, worth ~$19M, to some of its users, many of whom quickly sold them
Danny Nelson / CoinDesk :
After Ethereum's Merge, a look at four more upgrades to the network that are under active development, called The Surge, The Verge, The Purge, and The Splurge
First off, thank you for reading and as always, nothing you read or hear of my content is ever financial advice. Brian Njuguna / Blockchain News : Ethereum to Undergo 4 Phases to Tackle the Scalabilit...
Unsealed court docs in a privacy user profiling suit against Meta show that apps from Zynga, Yahoo, and others had extensive access to users' friends' data
It's not the crime, it's the cover up... The scandal-hit company formerly known as Facebook has fought for over four years to keep …
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