Sony notifies 6,791 US individuals, including current and former employees and their family members, that a MOVEit Transfer data breach on May 28 affected them
Sony Interactive Entertainment (Sony) has notified current and former employees and their family members about a cybersecurity breach that exposed personal information.
Some 4chan users are running a coordinated campaign to flood the internet with racist images created using Bing's text-to-image generator powered by DALL-E 3
4chan users are coordinating a posting campaign where they use Bing's AI text-to-image generator to create racist images that they can then post across the internet.
Source: Microsoft plans to close its $68.7B Activision acquisition on October 13, with a final decision from UK's CMA allowing the deal expected next week
Microsoft is planning to finalize its $68.7 billion proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard next week.
Filing: the US SEC sues Elon Musk to force him to testify in its probe into his Twitter takeover in 2022, after Musk failed to appear for testimony in September
- Agency says that billionaire failed to appear last month — Musk attorney says that his client testified multiple times
Source: Linda Yaccarino told the banks that funded Elon Musk's Twitter takeover that X is testing three premium service tiers that vary how many ads are shown
- CEO Linda Yaccarino discusses plan in briefing to lenders — X advertisers have been returning, but with smaller budgets
Source: MGM Resorts refused to pay hackers' ransom in the September cyberattack; filing: MGM says the hack will have a $100M negative impact on its Q3 earnings
Fallout will have a $100 million negative impact on quarterly earnings, Las Vegas-based company says
Sources: OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips and has evaluated a potential acquisition target; Sam Altman made acquiring more AI chips a top priority
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is exploring making its own artificial intelligence chips and has gone as far as evaluating …
The CMA opens an investigation into the supply of public cloud infrastructure services in the UK with the deadline of April 4, 2025, following Ofcom's referral
Following its probe into the UK cloud services market, Ofcom has referred the matter to the CMA …
Ofcom finds that “hyperscalers” like AWS and Microsoft Azure are limiting competition in the UK's cloud market by making it difficult for businesses to switch
Former Facebook policy staff detail their experience with “jawboning”, or informal government efforts to persuade platforms to change their moderation policies
Dispatches from two former tech platform employees. — A research initiative studying governmental efforts …
Report: the US DHS finds that ICE, CBP, and the Secret Service illegally used phone location data; a CBP official tracked coworkers for no investigative purpose
In a bombshell report, an oversight body for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
Analysis: Binance transferred just ~10.78M BNB tokens in its 2017 ICO vs. the 100M earmarked, and quietly gave angel investors 40M BNBs, double their allocation
The mythology surrounding the rise of the world's largest crypto exchange is impressive. However, a Forbes investigation reveals …
Samsung unveils the Galaxy SmartTag 2, with a revamped design, Bluetooth, UWB, and still compatible only with Samsung devices, available on October 10 for $30
but it's got a major flaw Mike Viray / Phandroid : Samsung Smart Tag 2 gives Apple's Air Tag a run for its money Amit Tiwari / SamNews 24 : Samsung introduces the Galaxy SmartTag 2 James Lee Taylor / ...
Elliptic: total value of crypto laundered via decentralized exchanges, bridges, and coin swaps hits $7B; Lazarus Group was the top culprit, laundering $900M+
- Elliptic's new report shows $7 billion was laundered through decentralized exchanges (DEXs), cross-chain bridges and coin swaps.
X starts removing preview headlines from posts with article links, showing only the lead image and domain name; Elon Musk mentioned the change in August 2023
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @rickf@indieweb.social : In other words, “please generate needless clicks so I can boost ‘engagement’ on the platform to get more advertisers back, pleeeasseeee.......
Microsoft rolls out a new version of Microsoft Teams, in preview since March 2023, rebuilt from the ground up to be less resource-hungry on Windows and macOS
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Going Infinite excerpt: how effective altruism pushed Caroline Ellison to Alameda, which would lose its management team and half its employees in 2018, and more
Michael Lewis / Wall Street Journal :
FTX co-founder Gary Wang testifies that Alameda Research had “special privileges” that afforded a $65B line of credit, of which the firm ultimately withdrew $8B
and then lied about it Owotunse Adebayo / Cryptopolitan : FTX co-founder makes shocking revelation at SBF's trial New York Times : New Details About FTX Emerge as Bankman-Fried's Trial Begins Chimaman...
Q&A with Getty Images' Craig Peters on the company's generative AI tool, copyright issues, attribution for rights holders, deepfakes, disinformation, and more
Getty's entire brand is built on authenticity. CEO Craig Peters sat down with us at Code to talk about how the company is dealing with AI and disinformation.
Apple releases iOS 17.0.3, which “addresses an issue that may cause iPhone to run warmer than expected”, and iPadOS 17.0.3
Source: Flexport plans to lay off up to 30% of its workforce around the end of October, after a sharp revenue drop and cutting ~20% of its staff in January 2023
Liz Young / Wall Street Journal :
In-depth iPhone 15 Pro Max camera review: native 24MP capture and 5x lens represent one of the biggest camera upgrades in iPhone's history for everyday users
White House urges the FCC to adopt strong rules next month to address “digital discrimination” in some communities as some ISPs warn against tough regulation
Todd Shields / Bloomberg :
Source: Meta is paying several top creators millions of dollars each over multiple years for nonexclusive use of their likeness in its text-based AI characters
Sahil Patel / The Information :
How Nvidia, Intel, and Qualcomm are pushing back against the Biden administration's plans for further crackdowns on their sales of semiconductor tech to China
and Almost Invincible Jeff Kagan / RCR Wireless News : Qualcomm losses grow thanks to new Huawei and Apple 5G chipsets Reuters : Exclusive: US-China tech war: RISC-V chip technology emerges as new bat...
Epic Games plans an Unreal Engine per-seat licensing fee for non-gaming sectors like film and TV; Tim Sweeney says “financial problems” hit Epic ~10 weeks ago
Sources: AT&T is exploring options for its 70% DirecTV stake, such as adding a new investor or selling the stake and exiting the venture as early as August 2024
A look at the impact of Shein and Temu on China's exports; government data shows exports via e-commerce grew 19.9% YoY in H1 2023, while overall exports fell
Q&A with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati about joining OpenAI, copyright challenges, AI regulation, competition, safety challenges, DALL-E 3, the future of AI, and more
Messari: crypto startup funding fell to sub $2.1B across 297 deals in Q3 2023, the lowest since Q4 2020, after a nearly $17.5B peak across 900+ deals in Q1 2022
Los Angeles-based Metropolis, which sells AI parking services, raised $650M in debt and $1.05B in Series C financing to acquire parking facility company SP Plus
Filing: UK chip designer Graphcore needs funds to keep operating as a “going concern”, after 2022 revenue fell 46% YoY and pretax losses grew 11% YoY to $204.6M
Los Angeles-based Machina Labs, which is using AI and robotics to build “software-defined factories”, raised a $32M Series B, taking its total funding to $45M
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