Qualys researchers say an OpenSSH flaw can let attackers remotely compromise servers and allow unauthenticated RCE as root; over 14M servers may be vulnerable
Researchers from Qualys say regreSSHion allows attackers to take over servers with 14 million potentially vulnerable OpenSSH instances identified.
Revolut's 2023 revenue almost doubled to £1.8B after interest income grew from £83M in 2022 to £500M; auditor BDO gave Revolut's accounts a clean bill of health
- UK fintech's interest income jumps sixfold to £500 million — Auditor BDO gives financial accounts a clean bill of health
Wise, Affirm, Mercury, and other companies say they're investigating how a recent ransomware attack by LockBit on Evolve Bank and Trust impacted their customers
The money transfer and fintech company Wise announced on Friday that some of its customers' personal data may have been stolen …
For ~10 years, millions of macOS and iOS apps using CocoaPods were vulnerable to a serious flaw in the dependency manager, which was patched in October 2023
Apps that used code libraries hosted on CocoaPods were vulnerable for about 10 years. — Vulnerabilities that went undetected …
Tubi launches in the UK with over 20K movies and TV episodes, featuring content from distributors including Disney, Lionsgate, NBCUniversal, and Sony Pictures
The ad-supported streamer now has more than 80 million monthly active users. — Tubi, the free advertising-supported streaming service owned …
SCOTUS orders lower courts to take another look at Texas' and Florida's social media laws, saying neither lower court conducted proper analysis of 1A challenges
The First Amendment was written in the 18th century … The Hill : Morning Report — Is a Trump election interference trial off the table? CCIA : Supreme Court Issues Ruling in CCIA, NetChoice Challenge ...
Figma disables its recently launched generative AI app design tool Make Design, after a user showed it copied Apple's Weather when asked to design a weather app
The design tool Figma has disabled a newly launched AI-powered app design tool after a user showed that it was clearly copying Apple's weather app.
Source: Google plans AI features for the Pixel 9 under the Google AI brand, like Pixel Screenshots, which lets users search their screenshots using on-device AI
Google's implementation of the feature means good news for those concerned with privacy. — •
A look at why Japan, due to its culture and employment laws, is not undergoing mass layoffs in the gaming industry, as Microsoft-owned Tango Gameworks closes
After Microsoft shut down Tango Gameworks, we look at the reasons why Japan has otherwise been sheltered (but not immune) to many of the layoffs and trends seen further afield
The US SEC charges the parent company of Silvergate Bank and executives with misleading investors about its AML compliance strength; Silvergate settles for $50M
similar to SBF and his publicity tour post-collapse — went out and made very specific claims about the health of their bank, publicly, and often. The SEC wants repercussions for that. LinkedIn: Mary L...
SCOTUS agrees to consider whether a Texas law requiring porn sites to verify users' ages violates the First Amendment, in its next term, which starts in October
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to consider whether a Texas law that requires pornographic websites to verify the age …
Australia's eSafety Commissioner issued notices to internet firms asking for an enforceable code to protect kids from pornography and other content by October 3
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Preliminary findings: the EU says Meta's pay or consent ad model breaches the DMA; Meta faces a fine of up to 10% of its global annual turnover if found guilty
Sentient, an open-source AI development platform being built on Polygon, raised an $85M seed led by Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, and Framework Ventures
The project aims to address concerns about the proliferation of AI whereby the underlying code is concentrated in the hands of a few superpowers like Google or Meta.
The Biden administration awards $504M in funding for 12 regional tech hubs, including in New York and Florida, to expand research in AI, chip making, and more
- Effort aims to draw private investment around more of the US — Awards cover twelve centers, including in New York and Florida
Sources: French antitrust regulators are preparing to charge Nvidia for allegedly anti-competitive practices, after raids in the GPU sector in September 2023
Meta changes its “Made with AI” label to “AI info” to indicate that images were not necessarily created with AI, but that AI editing tools may have been used
AI Media Is So Real, We Need Help Distinguishing It From Reality Tim Sweezy / HotHardware : Meta Backtracks On Made With AI Labels For Real Photos Following Angry Backlash Kate Irwin / PCMag : Meta Ch...
Some YouTube employees detail internal deliberations about content relating to the Israel-Hamas war and accuse the company of inconsistent moderation
Insiders have shared YouTube's playbook for handling the Gaza crisis. They argue that it shows inconsistent enforcement.
VFX company DNEG raised $200M from Abu Dhabi's UASG at a $2B+ valuation to expand its Brahma division, which is developing an AI-powered, photo-real CGI creator
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Sources: Northern Data is weighing a US IPO of its combined AI cloud computing and data center businesses at a ~$10B to $16B valuation as early as in H1 2025
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YouTube rolled out a policy change in June that lets people request the takedown of AI-generated or other synthetic content that simulates their face or voice
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
China plans to form a technical committee for brain-computer interface standards, including for brain information encoding and decoding, and data communication
Foster Wong / Bloomberg :
Cyberattacks against CDK Global, used by ~15K car dealerships, and Change Healthcare show how large swathes of some industries have a “single point of failure”
Circle says it has been granted an e-money license from France, making the crypto startup compliant with stablecoin provisions under the EU's tough crypto laws
An overview of “looksmaxxing” apps that rate teen boys' faces and are criticized for worsening the youth mental health crisis; paid app UMAX has 7M+ downloads
I thought “lookmaxxing” was just a meme joke thing. [embedded post] X: Verne Kopytoff / @vkopytoff : One person claimed to have obtained a chiseled jaw by hitting his face with a hammer (a practice k...
A look at the national security fears around Microsoft's deal with Abu Dhabi's G42, including the US DOD's skepticism that G42 will entirely uncouple from China
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Google says it will require advertisers to disclose election ads that use digitally altered content that depicts real or realistic-looking people or events
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