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| Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: |
Google agrees to pay $700M and make app store changes, like offering an alternative billing system, to settle a 2021 antitrust lawsuit by 36 US states and DC — Agreement with coalition of states resolves antitrust litigation related to app store — Google parent Alphabet agreed …
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Threads: @crumbler. X: @timsweeneyepic, @lutherlowe, @timsweeneyepic, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @florian4gamers, @mishaalrahman, @mishaalrahman, and @timsweeneyepic. Forums: r/Android
| Eva Dou / Washington Post: |
In Google's $700M settlement for Utah et al v. Google, an estimated 102M eligible US Android users will split $630M, leaving $70M for other related claims — Google will pay consumers from all 50 states to settle a lawsuit over its app store practices — Tens of millions of U.S. consumers … | Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
The FBI, the UK, Denmark, Germany, Spain, and Australia seize ransomware gang ALPHV's dark web leak website; the US also seized “several websites” run by ALPHV — An international group of law enforcement agencies have seized the dark web leak site of the notorious ransomware gang known as ALPHV, or BlackCat.
More: US Department of Justice, Wired, SiliconANGLE, CyberScoop, Reuters, Cybersecurity Dive, Silicon Republic, Bloomberg, The Record, BleepingComputer, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, Hackread, ITPro, The Messenger, Cybernews.com, The Register, and PCMag
Mastodon: @PogoWasRight@infosec.exchange, @cR0w@infosec.exchange, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social, and @metacurity@infosec.exchange
X: @vxunderground, @jamiemaccoll, @bushidotoken, @vxunderground, @dojcrimdiv, @nohackme, @itsreallynick, @vxunderground, @aejleslie, @azalsecurity, @sosintel, @uuallan, @ericgeller, @uk_daniel_card, and @vxunderground. LinkedIn: Jamie MacColl. Forums: Slashdot
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Comcast's Xfinity says hackers breached one of its Citrix servers in October 2023, two weeks after Citrix issued a patch, and stole data on 35,879,455 people — Comcast Cable Communications, doing business as Xfinity, disclosed on Monday that attackers who breached one of its Citrix servers …
More: Comcast, Maine.gov, TechCrunch, Associated Press, The Register, 9to5Mac, Cybersecurity Dive, SC Media, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, TechSpot, Android Headlines, TechRadar, Digital Trends, Mashable, TechStartups, Baseline, Engadget, ITPro, The Record, DataBreaches.net, Deadline, Cybernews.com, The Hollywood Reporter, and Variety
Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange and @SteveD3@infosec.exchange
X: @lorenzofb and @vxunderground
| David Hollingworth / Cyber Daily: |
Hackers post 1.67TB of Insomniac Games' internal data, including for an upcoming Wolverine game, HR files, Slack screenshots, and a Marvel-Sony X-Men agreement — The Rhysida ransomware gang publishes 98 per cent of leaked data minutes after the ransom deadline passes - Wolverine game files included.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Copilot can now compose songs, including lyrics, instruments, and voices, from a sentence, due to a new integration with generative AI music app Suno — Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft's AI-powered chatbot, can now compose songs thanks to an integration with gen AI music app Suno.
More: Bing Blogs, The Verge, Windows Central, Thurrott, Engadget, The Decoder, and Neowin. X: @jordirib1
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Okta is acquiring Israeli cybersecurity company Spera, which raised a $10M seed in March 2023; source: the deal is worth ~$100M-$130M, contingent on milestones — The American identity and access management giant is making its first purchase in Israel. Spera, which raised $10 million … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail a MITM attack on SSH that can break the integrity of the protocol, the first “practical attack of its kind”; fixes face compatibility issues — Novel Terrapin attack uses prefix truncation to downgrade the security of SSH channels.
More: BleepingComputer and Terrapin Attack
Threads: @nixcraft. Mastodon: @drahardja@sfba.social, @dangoodin@infosec.exchange, and @dangoodin@infosec.exchange. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Matthew Connatser / Tom's Hardware: |
Chinese GPU maker Moore Threads unveils the MTT S4000, which lags Nvidia's Ampere from 2020, and taps Chinese companies like Lenovo to boost its KUAE ecosystem — Beefy clusters with 200 petaops of AI compute. — Chinese GPU manufacturer Moore Threads announced the MTT S4000 …
More: VideoCardz.com, TechPowerUp, and Wccftech
| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Meta updates its OpenXR extension with tongue tracking, letting developers use the feature in the Quest Pro, but hasn't added support to the Meta Avatars SDK — Quest Pro's face tracking now includes your tongue. — In our review of Quest Pro last year, we pointed out how sticking …
More: Android Central, Social Media Today, TechRadar, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Threads: @mattnavarra. X: @the_real_nagia, @amarchare, @makofukasametv, @sadlyitsbradley, and @naeruruu
| Kanishka Singh / Reuters: |
A US judge approves a previously announced settlement between Binance and the CFTC, asking Binance to pay $2.7B and Changpeng Zhao to pay $150M to the regulator — A U.S. court entered an order against crypto exchange Binance and its former CEO, Changpeng Zhao, approving billions of dollars … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Flexport co-founder Ryan Petersen on returning as CEO after firing Dave Clark, acquiring Deliverr and Convoy, Amazon, the Vision Fund, growth, and more — His replacement got the boot barely a year into the job. What brought Petersen back? … Today, I'm talking with Ryan Petersen.| Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Andrew Ng, a Google Brain co-founder, Stanford professor, ex-Baidu executive, and investor, on AI models, training, regulatory capture, and Biden's EO — The computer scientist says it's a mistake to fall for the doomsday hype on AI — and that regulators who do will only benefit vested interests
X: @per_thorn, @anastasiabekt, @hoofnagle, and @drcolinwplewis
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Interpol: a global law enforcement operation led by South Korea seized $300M and led to the arrest of 3,500 cybercrime suspects between July and December 2023 — An international law enforcement operation codenamed ‘Operation HAECHI IV’ has led to the arrest of 3,500 suspects …
More: INTERPOL and Cybernews.com
| Stefanie Dazio / Associated Press: |
A US judge orders a Tesla driver to pay $23K+ for a 2019 crash that killed two, likely the first US felony case involving a partially automated driving system — A Tesla driver will pay more than $23,000 in restitution for the deaths of two people during a 2019 car crash in a Los Angeles suburb … | Sheila Dang / Reuters: |
Meta's Oversight Board says Meta erred in removing two Israel-Hamas war videos as they were valuable to understanding human suffering, its first expedited cases — Meta Platform's (META.O) Oversight Board said on Tuesday that the social media company erred in removing two videos depicting hostages … | Bloomberg: |
Adobe's failed Figma acquisition leaves Adobe with ~$6B in cash, likely to be used for AI investment and stock buybacks; ADBE jumped 75%+ in 2023 on AI interest — - Startups like Canva, Figma and OpenAI remain a risk to growth — Investors banking on AI to boost Adobe's customers and sales| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
More: mjtsai.com, Constellation Research, Sramana Mitra, Fortune, WRAL TechWire, and Bloomberg. X: @coryweinberg
| Bloomberg: |
TSMC Chair Mark Liu plans to retire in 2024, to be replaced by CEO C.C. Wei, set to become one of the most influential tech executives, if shareholders confirm — - C. C. Wei will become chairman of Apple's chipmaking partner — Wei is poised to lead the world's most advanced chipmaker| New York Times: |
How Russia uses specialized e-commerce sites, secretive shipping workarounds, and middlemen in China to buy Cisco and other Western tech to maintain its economy — Using specialized e-commerce sites, secretive shipping workarounds and a constellation of middlemen, Russia has obtained …
X: @auroraalmendral and @ldrogen
| Hannah Schoenbaum / Associated Press: |
NetChoice, which represents TikTok, Meta, X, Snap, and others, sues Utah over its laws requiring kids and teens to obtain parental consent to use social media — A trade group that represents TikTok and other major tech companies sued Utah on Monday over its first-in-the-nation laws requiring children …
More: PCMag, Utah Attorney General, The Hill, Salt Lake Tribune, ABC4 Utah, 9to5Mac, Axios, NetChoice, and Deseret News. X: @netchoice
| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Stability AI debuts Stability AI Membership, with free, $20/month, and custom pricing enterprise tiers, limiting commercial use of its models to the paid tiers — Stability AI, the maker of the text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, is now offering a subscription service that standardizes …
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