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Cisco Talos: North Korea's Lazarus is using a new malware variant to target internet backbone infrastructure and healthcare entities in Europe and the US — A notorious hacking group working on behalf of the North Korean government is using a new strain of malware to attack healthcare entities …
More: Cisco Talos Blog, Cisco Talos Blog, TechRepublic, BankInfoSecurity.com, CSO, The Hacker News, and SecurityWeek
X: @talossecurity and @talossecurity
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The EU's DSA goes into effect, forcing platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok to let users opt out of profiling-based content recommendations — Internet users in the European Union are logging on to a quiet revolution on mainstream social networks today: The ability to say ‘no thanks’ to being attention hacked by AI.
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X: @thierrybreton, @patricksavalle, @peterpaulguy, @aaron_r_rankin, @petervlemmix, @georgeszamuely, @robpwj, @rita_wezenbeek, @DidierMaisto, @visegrad24, @jamescz19, @elonmusk, @mattrosoff, @eu_justice, @vonderleyen, @timingnl, @edwinhayward, @thisguyoftheai, and @isaacpkironde. LinkedIn: Ross Dawson
Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, and r/technology
| Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: |
FTX, Genesis, and BlockFi customer data is compromised after a SIM swap against an employee of Kroll, which manages creditor claims for the bankrupt companies — A ‘cybersecurity incident’ affected Kroll, which gathers customer claim data on behalf of bankrupt companies. — Register Now
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X: @blockfi, @ftx_official, @davidgerard, @functi0nzer0, @molly0xfff, @bennetttomlin, @bantg, @cryptoparadyme, @angelclarksays, and @corpseinorbit
Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and r/ThePPShow
| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of New Jersey-based CoreWeave, which offers Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, is valued at ~$2B, and has 700 clients, including Microsoft and Inflection AI — It's not just Nvidia. There is another big winner of the AI boom—and it's now competing with some of the world's most valuable companies.
X: @wsjbusiness, @coreweave, and @minzengwsj
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube offers insights meant to guide Shorts creators, including how the Shorts algorithm differs from long-form YouTube's algorithm and what counts as a view — YouTube this week put out a new video meant to address creators' questions over its short-form video platform, YouTube Shorts.| Joe Wituschek / BGR: |
X launches its job posting feature X Hiring in beta for verified organizations, allowing them to “organically reach millions of relevant candidates” — Who goes to LinkedIn to look for a job? Nah, those days are over. X is the new place to find your next employer.
More: Twitter Help Center, Social Media Today, and The Verge
| New York Times: |
Sources: a company spending $800M+ to buy thousands of acres to build a new Bay Area city is backed by Michael Moritz, Reid Hoffman, Marc Andreessen, and others — A mysterious company has spent $800 million in an effort to buy thousands of acres of San Francisco Bay Area land.
More: The Guardian, Bloomberg, Insider, Wall Street Journal, and The Information
Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @dangillmor@mastodon.social. Bluesky: @andimann.bsky.social. X: @edzitron, @teddyschleifer, @pitdesi, @chiefofstuffs, @kylebrussell, @pkafka, @pkafka, @gaberivera, @kateclarktweets, @hknightsf, @mikeisaac, and @eringriffith
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Despite cheating and misinformation fears, some US schools that once raced to block AI chatbot access are now encouraging teachers and students to use them — Some districts that once raced to block A.I. chatbots are now trying to embrace them. — For decades, Walla Walla High School …
More: New York Post and The Register
Bluesky: @harbourfordyce.bsky.social. X: @_akpiper, @nytimesbusiness, @drcarlhindy, @nytimes, @tcblume, and @southjoseph
| Eri Sugiura / Financial Times: |
Huawei and Ericsson renew a multiyear global patent cross-licensing deal for 5G and other technologies; Huawei owns 20% of global 5G patents — Agreement gives Chinese group a boost after being subject to bans in Europe and the US — Huawei has sealed a multiyear patent cross-licensing deal … | Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Emsisoft: the MOVEit Transfer breach has so far impacted 1,000+ known victim organizations, of which 83.9% are based in the US, and 60M+ individuals — At least 60 million individuals affected, though the true number is far higher — A mass-hack involving the MOVEit Transfer software …
More: BleepingComputer, Security Affairs, DataBreachToday.com, and SecurityWeek
| Oliver Roeder / Financial Times: |
A look at Smallville, a virtual village populated by AI chatbots, built by Stanford and Google researchers to create a society with “believable human behavior” — Giving digital agents ‘memory streams’ produced surprising results — John Lin is a small-town pharmacist who takes great pride in his work.| Emily Baker-White / Forbes: |
Sources: at TikTok, Oracle staff reviewing the app's source code sit at desks beneath TikTok-controlled cameras, a requirement directly from China's government — Under a draft agreement between ByteDance and CFIUS, Oracle would be TikTok's partner — and a government proctor.
X: @zachweinberg, @forbes, @rickcarew, and @ebakerwhite
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