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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
23andMe says the genetics company is aware of user data from its platform circulating on hacker forums and attributes the leak to a credential-stuffing attack — 23andMe has confirmed to BleepingComputer that it is aware of user data from its platform circulating on hacker forums and attributes …
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| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
X appears to be rolling out a new mobile ad format that can't be reported or blocked, lacks an ad label and user profile, and doesn't disclose the advertiser — The new ads also don't disclose who the advertiser is or that they are even ads. — X, the Elon Musk-owned platform formerly known as Twitter …
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Threads: @mossbergwalt, @joshhantman, @john.foland, @mossbergwalt, @meal_fitforaking, @georgiagemo, @davidnakayama, @carnage4life, @jasontheknight, @malwaretech, @mossbergwalt, @itsedsilha, @mark.benl, and @craig.sangster. Bluesky: @mattbinder.bsky.social
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| Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: MGM Resorts refused to pay a hackers' ransom in the September cyberattack; filing: MGM estimates the hack will cost the company $100M+ in its Q3 2023 — Fallout will have a $100 million negative impact on quarterly earnings, Las Vegas-based company says| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Source: Microsoft plans to unveil its first chip designed for data centers that train and run LLMs at its annual Ignite developer and IT conference in November — Microsoft next month plans to unveil the company's first chip designed for artificial intelligence at its annual developers' conference … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Cloud software company Blackbaud agrees to pay $49.5M to settle an investigation by AGs from 49 US states into a May 2020 ransomware attack and data breach — Cloud computing provider Blackbaud reached a $49.5 million agreement with attorneys general from 49 U.S. states to settle … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office issues a preliminary enforcement notice to Snap over its My AI chatbot possibly being a risk to children's privacy — Snap's AI chatbot has landed the company on the radar of the UK's data protection watchdog which has raised concerns the tool may be a risk to children's privacy.
More: Information Commissioner's …, The Record, The Guardian, Reuters, PYMNTS.com, Investor's Business Daily, Tech Monitor, CNBC, Cryptopolitan, Engadget, The Messenger, BBC, The Verge, Cointelegraph, Metaverse Post, and Bloomberg
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| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
Yuga Labs, the creator of Bored Ape Yacht Club and other prominent NFTs, restructures, lays off some US staff, and is still evaluating its international teams — Yuga Labs reveals a restructuring effort that has impacted U.S. employees as the $4 billion Bored Ape startup rethinks its priorities.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Amazon updates its Luna cloud gaming service to let users buy individual games, starting with select Ubisoft titles; users must first link their Ubisoft account — Amazon Luna has been struggling to some extent with big library shuffles, but the cloud gaming platform is now introducing a big new feature - the ability to buy games.
More: Amazon Luna, Thurrott, Neowin, AFTVnews, Game Developer, The Verge, and Android Headlines
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| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Sales teams at Google, Twilio, and other companies say productivity spiked after they started using ChatGPT-like tools to answer prospective customers' RFPs — ChatGPT-style AI can tackle the drudge work of responding to RFPs faster than humans. Sales teams at Google, Twilio, and others say productivity is spiking.
X: @datarobot, @richardkimphd, and @fgraillot
LinkedIn: Robert DuWors, Saurabh Sharma, Jon Druker, Mamoon Chowdry, Debanjan Saha, and Adnan Z.
| Reuters: |
The Delhi police accuse Xiaomi, Vivo, and others of helping transfer funds illegally to news outlet NewsClick, which is accused of spreading Chinese propaganda — Indian police have formally accused Chinese smartphone makers Xiaomi Corp and Vivo Mobile of helping transfer funds illegally …
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
PitchBook: VCs invested $700.3M in video game startups in Q3 2023, the lowest since Q2 2020; gaming attracted $2B+ for eight straight quarters through Q2 2022 — - Funding opportunities dry up with game companies cutting jobs — Total peaked when people were still indoors because of Covid
More: Video Games Chronicle, Metro, Gameranx, and PC Games Insider
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Source: Microsoft plans to close its $68.7B Activision Blizzard acquisition on October 13, with a final approval of the deal from the UK CMA expected next week — Microsoft is planning to finalize its $68.7 billion proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard next week.
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| James Hunt / The Block: |
THORSwap moves to “maintenance mode” after criminals linked to the FTX hack in 2022 used the decentralized exchange to convert $38M worth of ether to bitcoin — - THORChain-based decentralized exchange THORSwap is “temporarily transitioning” its interface into maintenance mode …
More: CoinDesk, DL News, Crypto Briefing, Web3 is Going Just Great, Bitcoin News, Unchained Crypto, The Crypto Basic, Cryptopolitan, CCN.com, Decrypt, crypto.news, CryptoSlate, CoinJournal, and Cointelegraph. Forums: r/ethtrader
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