23andMe confirms that it is aware of user data from its platform circulating on hacker forums and attributes the leak to a credential-stuffing attack
23andMe has confirmed to BleepingComputer that it is aware of user data from its platform circulating on hacker forums and attributes the leak to a credential-stuffing attack.
X appears to be rolling out a new mobile ad format that can't be reported or blocked, lacks an ad label and user profile, and doesn't disclose the advertiser
The new ads also don't disclose who the advertiser is or that they are even ads. — X, the Elon Musk-owned platform formerly known as Twitter …
Source: MGM Resorts refused to pay a hackers' ransom in the September cyberattack; filing: MGM estimates the hack will cost the company $100M+ in its Q3 2023
Fallout will have a $100 million negative impact on quarterly earnings, Las Vegas-based company says
Source: Microsoft plans to unveil its first chip designed for data centers that train and run LLMs at its annual Ignite developer and IT conference in November
Microsoft next month plans to unveil the company's first chip designed for artificial intelligence at its annual developers' conference …
Amazon updates its Luna cloud gaming service to let users buy individual games, starting with select Ubisoft titles; users must first link their Ubisoft account
Amazon Luna has been struggling to some extent with big library shuffles, but the cloud gaming platform is now introducing a big new feature - the ability to buy games.
Cloud software company Blackbaud agrees to pay $49.5M to settle an investigation by AGs from 49 US states into a May 2020 ransomware attack and data breach
Cloud computing provider Blackbaud reached a $49.5 million agreement with attorneys general from 49 U.S. states to settle …
Hackers posted an initial data sample from 23andMe on BreachForums earlier in the week, claiming that it had 1M data points exclusively about Ashkenazi Jews
At least a million data points from 23andMe accounts appear to have been exposed on BreachForums.
The Delhi police accuse Xiaomi, Vivo, and others of helping transfer funds illegally to news outlet NewsClick, which is accused of spreading Chinese propaganda
Indian police have formally accused Chinese smartphone makers Xiaomi Corp and Vivo Mobile of helping transfer funds illegally …
Sales teams at Google, Twilio, and other companies say productivity spiked after they started using ChatGPT-like tools to answer prospective customers' RFPs
ChatGPT-style AI can tackle the drudge work of responding to RFPs faster than humans. Sales teams at Google, Twilio, and others say productivity is spiking. Threads: @carnage4life . Mastodon: @carnag...
Even though the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro have the same Tensor G3 chip, features like Night Sight Video and enhanced Magic Eraser are exclusive to the Pixel 8 Pro
or meaningless r/GooglePixel : Google's seven-year Pixel update promise is historic — or meaningless
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
Austin Weinstein / Bloomberg :
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
A look at SoftBank-owned PayPay, which holds a two-thirds share of the QR-code payments market in Japan and could be next in the conglomerate's IPO pipeline
- Firm chases gross merchant value growth of over 30% this year — PayPay seen to be next in SoftBank's arsenal of possible IPOs
Amazon's Alexa has been claiming that the 2020 election was stolen citing sources from Rumble and Substack; Amazon says the errors were fixed
The popular voice assistant says the 2020 race was stolen, even as parent company Amazon promotes the tool as a reliable election news source — foreshadowing a new information battleground X: @emzorbi...
Yuga Labs, the creator of Bored Ape Yacht Club and other prominent NFTs, restructures, lays off some US staff, and is still evaluating its international teams
Yuga Labs is announcing a restructuring that will better focus our team on our core priorities. James Cirrone / Blockworks : Crypto hiring: Major layoffs at Yuga Labs, Ledger and Chainalysis this week...
THORSwap moves to “maintenance mode” after criminals linked to the FTX hack in 2022 used the decentralized exchange to convert $38M worth of ether to bitcoin
James Hunt / The Block :
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office issues a preliminary enforcement notice to Snap over its My AI chatbot possibly being a risk to children's privacy
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
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
Political advertisers have raised concerns about X's Community Notes after major brands like Apple, Samsung, and Uber had critical notes attached to their ads
his top priority for revenue growth. Community Notes on ads will 100% be removed because of this. Meg Graham / @megancgraham : “This Is a False Advertisement”: Major brands like Apple, Uber and Samsun...
PitchBook: VCs invested $700.3M in video game startups in Q3 2023, the lowest since Q2 2020; gaming attracted $2B+ for eight straight quarters through Q2 2022
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg :
The US adds 42 Chinese companies and seven companies from India, the UK, and other countries to an export control list over their support for Russia's military
The U.S. Commerce Department on Friday added 42 Chinese companies to a government export control list over their support … Mastodon: @kevinrothrock@infosec … . Forums: r/worldnews Mastodon: Kevin Roth...
AllianceBernstein: Netflix has ~6.5M subscribers in India, Prime Video has 20M, and Disney+ Hotstar has 40M+; Netflix's slow growth due to lack of local content
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Genshin Impact developer miHoYo has made two short-lived attempts since August to set up a payment system for iOS users, to avoid Apple's 30% App Store cut
and failed — twice to create its own micropayment system for iPhone users. But this might also herald future China trouble for Apple. https://thechinaproject.com/ ... Daniel Ahmad / @zhugeex : I spoke...
India asks X, YouTube, and Telegram to remove CSAM from their platforms, threatening to strip the companies of protection from legal liability for not complying
Shilpa Jamkhandikar / Reuters :
Several users on Seller Central, Amazon's forum for merchants, welcomed the FTC's lawsuit against the company, while others remain skeptical about its outcome
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