Sources: John Binns, a US citizen who has been incarcerated in Turkey and indicted for allegedly hacking T-Mobile in 2021, is linked to the AT&T data breach
across the breadth of America's second largest teleco. It's just awful. https://x.com/... Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : Scoop: John Binns, an American hacker in Turkey, is linked to the massive breach of...
AT&T says it will begin notifying consumers about a data breach where cybercriminals stole phone records of “nearly all” of its cellular and landline customers
Item 1.05 Material Cybersecurity Incidents. On April 19, 2024, AT&T Inc. … AT&T : AT&T Addresses Illegal Download of Customer Data CNN : Nearly all AT&T cell customers' call and text records exposed ...
Meta says it will soon roll back restrictions on Donald Trump's Instagram and Facebook accounts to ensure parity among candidates ahead of the 2024 election
- While those penalties were designed to limit any public figure's accounts during civil unrest, Donald Trump's accounts …
An internal document and source detail OpenAI's Strawberry, formerly known as Q*, which aims to improve its AI models' reasoning capabilities dramatically
ChatGPT maker OpenAI is working on a novel approach to its artificial intelligence models in a project code-named “Strawberry,” …
Snowflake confirms that the data breach at AT&T is connected to the hack that has affected other customers, including Ticketmaster and LendingTree
- Fallout from attack disclosed in May is still spreading — Ticketmaster, LendingTree among recent victims in crime spree
Arkham: the German government appears to have sold its last bitcoin on July 12, after authorities seized ~50K bitcoin, worth $2B+, in January 2024 from suspects
- The German government had received 50,000 Bitcoin in January — Bitcoin's price has been choppy in recent weeks on worries
Saudi Arabia will host the inaugural Olympic Esports Games in 2025, as part of a newly announced 12-year partnership with the Olympic Committee
Saudi Arabia has sealed a 12-year deal to host the Esports Olympics. … Jason Chung : The International Olympic Committee - IOC has announced the launch of the Olympic Esports Games in 2025 in partners...
An experiment where writers had access to GPT-4 for short story ideas finds it boosted creativity for some but reduced the collective diversity of novel content
A new study examines whether AI could be an automated helpmeet in creative tasks, with mixed results: it appeared …
Preliminary findings: the European Commission says X's paid blue checkmark deceives users and breaches the DSA; X could be fined up to 6% of its global revenue
https://ec.europa.eu/... … X: Thierry Breton / @thierrybreton : Back in the day, #BlueChecks used to mean trustworthy sources of information✔️🐦 Now with X, our preliminary view is that: ❌They deceive ...
A look at MetaFilter, which turns 25 on July 14; owner Jessamyn West, who helped stabilize it after its near death, doesn't plan to license its archives to AI
After a quarter century the community-driven site hasn't changed much. And don't ask it to license its archive to AI.
A look at the rise and fall of Jump Crypto and former President Kanav Kariya, and Jump's involvement in some of crypto's biggest scandals, like FTX's collapse
The Zoom meeting at Jump Crypto was always running. And in May 2021, a scrum of employees was on the screen, discussing a mounting crisis.
Ahead of a key UK Amazon workers' union vote, a look at Amazon's efforts to prevent employees from organizing, after fending off most of the similar US attempts
Campaign is part of tech giant's long-running global battle to prevent employees from organising
Hashed: 1M+ memecoins have been created on Pump.fun, a platform based on the Solana and Blast blockchains, generating $50M+ in revenue since its January launch
- Pump.fun is one of the most profitable memecoin projects — Platform has been at the center of crypto's memecoin craze
Tether-backed Northern Data expects sales of €200M-€240M in 2024, up from €77.5M in 2023, on AI demand, as it disputes allegations of misrepresenting finances
Northern Data AG, provider of high-performance computing solutions, forecast revenue could more than triple this year …
Three US senators introduce the COPIED Act, which aims to give journalists, songwriters, and artists tools to fight AI models using their work without consent
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A look at challenges indie video game devs face, as they struggle to survive due to lack of funding and studio closures, leading to talent loss in the industry
Megan Farokhmanesh / Wired :
The Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals puts the FCC's reinstatement of net neutrality rules on hold until August 5 as it considers industry legal challenges
David Shepardson / Reuters :
Letter: OpenAI whistleblowers asked the SEC to probe OpenAI's allegedly restrictive NDAs barring staff from warning regulators about the risks its tech may pose
In a letter exclusively obtained by The Washington Post, whistleblowers asked the SEC to probe company's allegedly restrictive non-disclosure agreements Threads: @crumbler . X: @carnage4life , @cat_za...
A profile of Shein's executive chair Donald Tang, who has become the public face of the company as he leads its expansion overseas and prepares for a London IPO
Executive whose rise on Wall Street won fame in his native China faces tough task at fashion group planning London IPO
Qualcomm and Philips have sued Shenzhen-based Transsion, the world's fourth-largest smartphone maker, for alleged intellectual property violations
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Sources: the US DOJ plans to sue RealPage by the end of the summer, accusing the company of selling software that allows landlords to collude on setting rents
Josh Sisco / Politico :
The EU publishes the EU AI Act's final text, which comes into force on August 1, 2024; most companies have until August 2026 to comply with transparency rules
Sources: X-Epic, a Chinese EDA software maker for designing chips that had raised $121.7M as of March 2023, is laying off up to 50% staff amid market headwinds
Che Pan / South China Morning Post :
China accounts for 40%+ of sales at Applied Materials and Lam Research, as they boost shipments of legacy chipmaking equipment not targeted by US export curbs
Kosuke Shimizu / Nikkei Asia :
Source: online ticketing service StubHub delays a potential US IPO until after Labor Day, after reportedly eyeing a summer IPO with a $16.5B+ valuation
Source: Meta plans to release the largest version of its Llama 3 model, expected to have 405B parameters and multimodal capabilities, on July 23
PartnerOne acquires HeadSpin, whose founder is serving a jail sentence for fraud; email: employees' stock options were canceled as the options were “underwater”
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch : X: @bayareawriter and @koolhead17 X: Mary Ann Azevedo / @bayareawriter : PartnerOne's CFO told @TechCrunch that HeadSpin was a victim of its former CEO's actions and t...
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