Researchers say a threat actor claims to have hacked Ticketmaster and Santander using stolen credentials of a Snowflake employee; Snowflake disputes the claims
A threat actor claiming recent Santander and Ticketmaster breaches says they stole data after hacking into an employee's account at cloud storage company Snowflake.
President Biden vetoes a bill overturning SAB 121, a controversial SEC bulletin that establishes accounting standards for companies that custody crypto
- U.S. President Joe Biden vetoed a bill to overturn a controversial Securities and Exchange Commission bulletin, SAB 121 …
Filing: Ticketmaster confirms “unauthorized activity within a third-party cloud database”, after a hacking group advertised alleged data of 560M users for sale
Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, confirmed it found “unauthorized activity” within a cloud database …
Hacking group ShinyHunters offers to sell alleged data of Santander staff and 30M customers; Santander warned on May 14 that a database had been compromised
ShinyHunters group is advertising data it says includes account details of 30mn customers — Hackers are offering to sell …
AI search engine Perplexity launches Pages, which will research and create a customizable webpage based on user prompts, aimed at educators, researchers, others
AI search platform Perplexity is launching a new feature called Pages that will generate a customizable webpage based on user prompts.
Global foldable phone shipments were up 49% YoY in Q1, marking its highest rate of increase in six quarters; Huawei led with a 35% share, overtaking Samsung
this company is Hannes Brecher / Notebookcheck : Samsung loses lead in foldables market after 42% slump in sales X: Prakash Sangam / @mytechmusings : Guess who has the highest global market share in #...
FCC ends the Affordable Connectivity Program, which helped low-income Americans afford internet service, after the House failed to approve additional funding
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What to expect at Computex 2024, where the CEOs of Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, and Arm are speaking, as AI hardware products like AI PCs take center stage
- Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, Arm chiefs all speaking at show — Computex popularity underscores Taiwan's global importance
Content creators are posting videos on Douyin giving Chinese migrants step-by-step instructions on how to get to the United States through Latin America
Xiong learned how to travel the path to the United States from Latin America through a community of migrants on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.
Japanese crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin says it has lost 4,502.9 bitcoin, worth about $308M, in an “unauthorised leak”, and is investigating the incident
LA-based Webtoon, owned by South Korea's Naver, files for a US IPO; sources: the online comics platform could seek to raise up to $500M at a $3B-$4B valuation
Los Angeles-based Webtoon said in a filing Friday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that South Korean internet company Naver …
Jio Financial Services, part of Reliance, launches the JioFinance app to provide digital banking, bill payments, and other services in a crowded Indian market
How to use, top features, more Moneycontrol : Jio Financial Services launches ‘JioFinance’ app in beta version Business Today : Jio Financial launches beta version of JioFinance app; UPI, digital bank...
Google explains AI Overviews' viral mistakes and updates its systems, including “better detection for nonsensical queries” and limiting satire and humor content
Google scales back AI search answers after it told users to eat glue https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Nitasha Tiku / @nitashatiku : breaking non-trump news from @GerritD. Google says it's scaling d...
Q&A with the pseudonymous Pliny the Prompter, who is well known in the AI community for jailbreaking leading LLMs, on what motivates them, their goals, and more
Around 10:30 am Pacific time on Monday, May 13, 2024, OpenAI debuted its newest and most capable AI foundation model …
Content creators are amassing audiences of thousands on Twitch by covering political news and raising funds for Palestinians, as other platforms eschew politics
Dozens of content creators are leveraging the live streaming app to raise funds for Palestinians, circumventing political content bans on other platforms.
Spotify creates a refund process for its discontinued Car Thing gadget, as consumers sue claiming Spotify misled them by selling a soon-to-be obsolete product
how to get your money back before Spotify bricks it Tim Marcin / Mashable : Spotify to refund Car Thing purchases. Here's how to get yours. Ayomide Sadiq / TalkAndroid.com : Public Fury Works: Spotify...
Sources: Microsoft is discussing a deal with CISPE, which could include a multimillion-euro payment to get the cloud lobby to drop its EU antitrust complaint
Possible deal involves a multimillion-dollar payout to cloud association backed by Amazon. — Microsoft is closing …
Google plans to disable extensions built with the older Manifest V2 framework on June 3, beginning with users of Chrome's Beta, Dev, and Canary versions
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YC is lobbying in Washington to support “Little Tech” over concerns that AI regulations meant to head off harms will instead help Big Tech maintain its lead
Venture capital firms are bringing San Francisco's startup culture to Washington as they try to tip the regulatory scales away from giants in the sector. X: @typewriters , @gilduran76 , @lindsayaamos ...
The Tribeca Festival and OpenAI plan to feature five short films made using OpenAI's text-to-video tool Sora on June 15
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Startup Fable Studio announces Showrunner, a streaming service that lets users watch AI-generated series and create their own series by writing prompts
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Meta is notifying Instagram and Facebook EU users that it's using their data to train its AI models, and users can opt out, “if your objection is honoured”
Cool. I'm not even going to try it. — I just deleted over 20 years of posts, and I'll slooowly upload everything again... All NightShaded. 😈 — Fuck Meta. Fuck AI. … X: @tantacrul : 1. I'm legit...
The US Treasury Department plans to make the IRS' Direct File program permanent from the 2025 tax season and invites all states and Washington DC to participate
ElevenLabs launches Sound Effects, a tool that lets users generate sound effects via prompts and uses an in-house model fine-tuned on Shutterstock's audio data
Filing: Meta agrees to settle a 2022 lawsuit by Texas accusing Meta of using facial recognition tech to collect biometric data of Texans without their consent
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Rest of World retracts an article on WhatsApp misinformation “tip lines” in India after several fact-checking orgs detail how it was “riddled with inaccuracies”
Sources: Vista Equity has written off the entire value of its investment in tech learning platform Pluralsight, three years after taking it private for $3.5B
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