The FBI is investigating a ransomware attack on Prospect Medical Holdings, which runs 16 hospitals and 166 outpatient clinics and centers in CA, CT, PA, and RI
A major hospital network with arms in multiple states is dealing with widespread network outages due to a cyberattack, which the FBI confirms is ransomware.
Apple acknowledges the US “smartphone market has been in a decline for the last couple of quarters”; sources: iPhone 15 sales will start around September 22
On the cusp of the iPhone 15 debut, Apple has finally admitted what has long been clear: The industry is facing a smartphone slowdown.
Elon Musk says X will fund the legal bills of people who have been “unfairly treated” by their employer “due to posting or liking something on this platform”
Elon Musk has said his X social media platform will fund the legal bills of people who have been treated unfairly …
X delays its Ads Revenue Sharing program's payouts that were set for the week of July 31, saying the volume of people signing up “has exceeded our expectations”
In news that isn't very surprising given the recent history of Twitter, which Elon Musk is currently rebranding to X …
A US judge rules former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky must face New York AG Letitia James' lawsuit accusing him of defrauding investors by hiding Celsius' risks
Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former chief of the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, must face a lawsuit …
Smartphone shipments in India fell 10% YoY in H1 2023 to 64M; in Q2 2023, Apple and OnePlus grew 61% YoY each, Xiaomi fell 39% YoY, and Realme fell 30% YoY
Microsoft fixes an Azure flaw that could have let hackers access sensitive data, after criticism from the CEO of cybersecurity risk management company Tenable
Microsoft has resolved a vulnerability that allows threat actors to gain access to information managed by Azure AD …
A profile of Clop, a Russian-speaking ransomware group responsible for the MOVEit hack and believed to be operating out of Russia and Ukraine
They hold global businesses to ransom and seem to act with impunity — but behind them lies a tangled geopolitical web
Russian independent news outlet Meduza says Apple removed its flagship podcast from Apple Podcasts; source: Roskomnadzor asked Apple to remove the show
Meduza has received a notice from Apple, informing our media that our flagship podcast “What Happened” has been removed from the Apple Podcasts streaming platform.
Global smartphone revenue fell 8% YoY and 15% QoQ to under $90B in Q2 2023; Apple had a record 45% share of global smartphone revenue and an 85% share of profit
- Apple led global smartphone revenues and operating profit with record June-quarter shares of 45% and 85% respectively.
US lawmakers are quickly advancing an anti-sex, anti-speech agenda in the name of kids' online safety, which could soon entangle every adult internet user
Today let's talk about a right we currently take for granted that may soon disappear: the ability to browse and post to most websites anonymously. Mastodon: @ernie@writing.exchange , @drewharwell@mast...
Google will face a scaled-down antitrust lawsuit over search after a judge ruled that state AGs didn't show that Google's search results harmed rivals like Yelp
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg :
Krakow-based Android phone monitoring app LetMeSpy plans to shut down by the end of August 2023 after a hacker breached and deleted its server data in June
Poland-based spyware LetMeSpy is no longer operational and said it will shut down after a June data breach wiped out its servers … Mastodon: @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social . Forums: Hacker News , r/cy...
How Waymo and Cruise are struggling to win over San Francisco residents, showing the challenges they may face in expanding driverless cars across the US
Wall Street Journal :
Zomato reports Q1 revenue up 71% YoY to ~$292.2M and its first consolidated quarterly net profit at ~$241.9K, vs. a ~$23.4M loss in Q1 2023; ZOMATO jumps 10%+
The Economic Times :
Nansen: payouts to NFT creators fell 98% from a peak of $269M in January 2022 to $4.3M in July 2023, as OpenSea and Blur cut royalty rates amid a bear market
- Payouts to NFT content creators sank 98% from a peak in 2022 — Exchanges for NFTs chopped royalty rates amid a bear market Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . Bluesky: @blueheronhollow.bsky.social . X...
To comply with the EU's DSA, TikTok plans to let users turn off personalized recommendations in For You, remove targeted ads for users aged 13 to 17, and more
Martin Coulter / Reuters :
Some workers say on-demand home services startup Urban Company, which helped Indian women enter the gig economy, pushed them out for not meeting steep targets
Home services platform Urban Company helped Indian women get into the gig economy. Now they say it's setting impossible targets and then abandoning them. X: @varshaabansal , @peterguest , @ashiqueali...
People have few options for protection or recourse when hallucinating AI chatbots create and spread falsehoods about them that threaten their reputations
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times :
How members of the Community, a group of teenage SIM swappers who met on the forum OGUsers, stole millions in crypto in 2018 before turning on each other
Bloomberg :
SoftBank sues former IRL CEO Abraham Shafi for fraud after investing $150M in IRL in 2021 on user metrics claims; IRL allegedly paid to fill the site with bots
There was a time Theranos was a unique story. Now we have IRL, Frank, FTX, Ozy Media, Headspin, etc. … X: Elon Musk / @elonmusk : @eringriffith Wow @zachweinberg : All you had to do to diligence IRL ...
Some designers say AI tools have made them anxious about the YouTube thumbnail microeconomy's future; creators like MrBeast pay up to $10K for a video thumbnail
for @restofworld https://restofworld.org/... @restofworld : “I think that ‘humanmade’ will be a sign of quality for digital goods in the age of AI the same way that ‘handmade’ is a sign of quality for...
A profile of Window Snyder, who helped secure the early internet while at Microsoft and Mozilla, and pushed Apple to enable encryption by default in its devices
https://techcrunch.com/... Kenn White / @kennwhite@mastodon.social : This is a great profile on Window Synder, one of the true OG hackers and an absolute force of nature in internet security. You can...
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