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The LockBit ransomware gang claims ION Trading UK paid a ransom after the group's cyberattack on the software firm upended derivatives trading around the world — The hacking group behind the attack on ION Trading UK — the software firm that was struck by a cyberattack earlier this week …
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Interviews detail the Conti ransomware group's 2021 attack on Ireland's public health system; Conti seemingly called off the hack without receiving a ransom — At first the attack on Ireland's public-health system fell into a depressingly familiar pattern.
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Tweets: @roryireland, @brettcallow, @jamiemaccoll, @zschneeweiss, and @rj_gallagher
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
A look at T2, a Twitter alternative founded by a former employee of Google's Area 120 to offer a “2007 Twitter” vibe that Musk's platform no longer supplies — Cofounder Gabor Cselle says his upstart social network can offer a “2007 Twitter” community vibe that Elon Musk's platform no longer supplies.
Tweets: @martinsfp, @pt, @gabor, @stevenlevy, and @chrismessina
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Background check services TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate confirm a data breach after hackers leak a 2019 database allegedly containing the info of 20M users — PeopleConnect, the owners of the TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate background check services, confirmed they suffered a data breach … | Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
A US judge denies the FTC's bid to stop Meta's acquisition of Within, rejecting the regulator's concerns of the deal reducing competition in the AR/VR market — A judge on Friday released a ruling denying the Federal Trade Commission's request to stop Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) … | Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World: |
Flipkart-owned Indian fashion retailer Myntra is penalizing users who return items too often; studies: 25% to 40% of clothes sold online in India are returned — Across India, e-commerce giants like Myntra and Flipkart are canceling free returns to boost profits. — • BENGALURU, INDIA
Tweets: @nilchristopher, @alexgonzor, @webaficionado, and @anupkaphle
| Josh Zumbrun / Wall Street Journal: |
ChatGPT testing shows the chatbot struggles with basic arithmetic questions, confidently offering entertaining but wrong answers, an inherent problem with LLMs — ‘Large language models’ supply grammatically correct answers but struggle with calculations — Cheating With ChatGPT: Can an AI Chatbot Pass AP Lit?
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| Kelsey Weekman / BuzzFeed News: |
After YouTuber MrBeast made a video about paying for 1,000 blind people's eye surgery, critics raise questions about “stunt philanthropy” and “charity porn” — Is it stunt philanthropy or self-funded charity in the YouTube age? — A YouTuber just helped treat 1,000 people with blindness and low vision.| New York Times: |
Alphabet, Amazon, and other tech firms begin 2023 by championing austerity after facing the worst year on Wall Street in 2022 since the 2008 financial crisis — After years of expansion and billions in profits, Big Tech is pulling back from its famously lavish spending as a long boom finally ends.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Utah lawmakers are fast tracking two bills that would require social media companies to age verify users, grant parents access to their kids' accounts, and more — The evidence-free moral panic over social media keeps getting stupider, and when things get particularly stupid about the internet …
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A federal jury in San Francisco finds Elon Musk not liable in a Tesla shareholder suit over 2018 tweets in which he said he was considering taking Tesla private — - Tesla CEO Elon Musk was found not liable in a shareholder class-action suit stemming from 2018 tweets in which he said he was considering taking Tesla private.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Twitter cuts off API access to Movetodon, a useful tool for finding and following one's Twitter followers on Mastodon; it's unclear if the tool broke any rule — from the trying-to-lock-the-barn-doors dept — People keep claiming that Mastodon isn't scaring Elon Musk …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Elon Musk says Twitter will start sharing revenue from reply-thread ads with users who pay for Twitter Blue, starting on February 3, but doesn't give details — Elon Musk says that Twitter will start sharing revenue from reply-thread ads with creators who are subscribed to Twitter Blue Verified.
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Mastodon: @rjcc@mastodon.xyz, @kentborg@social.tchncs.de, @waldo@ohai.social, @gimulnautti@mastodon.green, and @stefan@gardenstate.social
Tweets: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @katienotopoulos, @kyliebytes, @mattbinder, @thecartoonloon, @wagatwe, @eve6, @http_lovecraft, @harriesilver, @mjfree, @thoughtfulnz, @lawyerbuchanan, @jamespmcleod, @chessproblem, @liamdaly, @sdkstl, @rjcc, @libshipwreck, @morningbrew, @hourlykokomimi, @ezralevant, and @zssbecker
| Erin Woo / The Information: |
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| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / Sifted: |
Valencia-based Jeff, which provides a frontend app, data insights, and other tools to manage businesses, raised a $90M Series C, split ~50/50 in equity and debt — Profitability is now the number one priority for the company — Spanish startup Jeff — which helps entrepreneurs launch …
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| Forbes: |
Q&A with Sam Altman on AI systems replacing search engines, Microsoft's OpenAI investments, how artificial general intelligence may “break capitalism”, and more — In a rare interview, OpenAI's CEO talks about AI model ChatGPT, artificial general intelligence and Google Search.
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