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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, @timsweeneyepic, @lutherlowe, @mishaalrahman, @mishaalrahman, @timsweeneyepic, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, and @florian4gamers. 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 … | 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 …
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Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange and @SteveD3@infosec.exchange
X: @lorenzofb and @vxunderground
| 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| 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: @sadiedoreen@mastodon.social, @dangoodin@infosec.exchange, @dangoodin@infosec.exchange, and @drahardja@sfba.social. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| 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 … | 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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Forums: r/GamingLeaksAndRumours, r/GamingLeaksAndRumours, and Slashdot
| 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, TechRadar, MobileSyrup, New.blicio.us, Thurrott, Engadget, The Decoder, and Neowin. X: @jordirib1
| 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.
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X: @vxunderground, @jamiemaccoll, @bushidotoken, @vxunderground, @dojcrimdiv, @nohackme, @itsreallynick, @vxunderground, @aejleslie, @azalsecurity, @sosintel, @uuallan, @ericgeller, @uk_daniel_card, and @vxunderground. LinkedIn: Jamie MacColl. Forums: Slashdot
| 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, Gizmodo, The Record, SiliconANGLE, and Cybernews.com
| Nickolas Diaz / Android Central: |
Samsung's Self-Repair program includes foldable devices for the first time, the Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Z Fold 5, and expands to 30 additional countries in Europe — Its latest smartphone series and laptop join in, too. — What you need to know — Samsung has expanded coverage …
More: Samsung Newsroom, 9to5Google, Android Police, The Verge, PhoneArena, Neowin, Engadget, and Droid Life
| 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
| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
Walmart expands its Affirm partnership and says more than 4,500 Walmart stores now offer BNPL options at self-checkout kiosks; AFRM jumps 15%+ — - Partnership grows to more stores, a self-checkout option — Affirm building out its presence during in-store transactions| 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.| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
HughesNet debuts a $110/month 100Mbps satellite internet plan, double its previous top speed; Starlink offers 220Mbps, but US Ookla data shows many get ~70Mbps — HughesNet's speed boost comes courtesy of the recently launched Jupiter 3 satellite, which is designed to serve customers in the Americas.| 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: Digital Trends, Social Media Today, Android Central, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechRadar, and The Verge
Threads: @mattnavarra. Bluesky: @oremus.bsky.social. X: @pushmatrix, @the_real_nagia, @amarchare, @makofukasametv, @sadlyitsbradley, and @naeruruu
| 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 …
More: 9to5Toys
| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Sources: AWS plans to overhaul its sales team as it aims to increase the share of Fortune 1,000 firms spending over $10M/year on AWS, from less than 20% to 80% — Matt Garman, head of sales at Amazon Web Services, plans to reorganize his more than 60,000-person team to address problems …
More: Investor's Business Daily. X: @nideveloper, @nmasc_, @sunilmallya, @quinnypig, @modestproposal1, and @anissagardizy8
| Pranshu Verma / Washington Post: |
NewsGuard: since May 2023, websites hosting AI-created fake news articles have grown from 49 to 600+; some post “hundreds if not thousands of articles” per day — AI is making it easy for anyone to create propaganda outlets, producing content that can be hard to differentiate from real news| 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 …
More: Transparency Center, CNN, Oversight Board, Oversight Board, The Guardian, Associated Press, New York Post, The Verge, The Messenger, Wired, Financial Times, Oversight Board, The Hill, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and Engadget
Threads: @senwarren, @senwarren, @senwarren, and @senwarren
| The Guardian: |
Internal messages: TikTok told some moderators to let users under 13-years-old stay on the platform if they claimed their parents were overseeing their accounts — Questions for tech giant over claims underage users can remain on platform if they say parents are overseeing their account
More: ChinaTechNews.com
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