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Researchers say a threat actor claims to have hacked Ticketmaster and Santander using stolen credentials of a Snowflake employee; Snowflake disputes the claims — A threat actor claiming recent Santander and Ticketmaster breaches says they stole data after hacking into an employee's account at cloud storage company Snowflake.
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Filing: Ticketmaster confirms “unauthorized activity within a third-party cloud database”, after a hacking group advertised alleged data of 560M users for sale — Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, confirmed it found “unauthorized activity” within a cloud database … | Owen Walker / Financial Times: |
Hacking group ShinyHunters offers to sell alleged data of Santander staff and 30M customers; Santander warned on May 14 that a database had been compromised — ShinyHunters group is advertising data it says includes account details of 30mn customers — Hackers are offering to sell … | Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
President Biden vetoes a bill overturning SAB 121, a controversial SEC bulletin that establishes accounting standards for companies that custody crypto — - U.S. President Joe Biden vetoed a bill to overturn a controversial Securities and Exchange Commission bulletin, SAB 121 … | Brian Fung / CNN: |
FCC ends the Affordable Connectivity Program, which helped low-income Americans afford internet service, after the House failed to approve additional funding — The Affordable Connectivity Program, which helped low-income Americans get online, is no more. — On Friday, the US government announced … | Reuters: |
Japanese crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin says it has lost 4,502.9 bitcoin, worth about $308M, in an “unauthorised leak”, and is investigating the incident — TOKYO, May 31 (Reuters) - Japan's cryptocurrency exchange DMM Bitcoin said on Friday that it had lost 4,502.9 bitcoin …
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YC is lobbying in Washington to support “Little Tech” over concerns that AI regulations meant to head off harms will instead help Big Tech maintain its lead — Venture capital firms are bringing San Francisco's startup culture to Washington as they try to tip the regulatory scales away from giants in the sector.
X: @typewriters, @lindsayaamos, @gilduran76, and @lutherlowe. LinkedIn: Garry Tan. Forums: r/washingtondc
| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Meta is notifying Instagram and Facebook EU users that it's using their data to train its AI models, and users can opt out, “if your objection is honoured” — If you use Instagram or Facebook, Meta is using your data to train its AI models. The company uses posts as training material for its generative AI systems.| Michael Hytha / Bloomberg: |
LA-based Webtoon, owned by South Korea's Naver, files for a US IPO; sources: the online comics platform could seek to raise up to $500M at a $3B-$4B valuation — Los Angeles-based Webtoon said in a filing Friday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that South Korean internet company Naver … | Brian Welk / IndieWire: |
The Tribeca Festival and OpenAI plan to feature five short films made using OpenAI's text-to-video tool Sora on June 15 — “Nanny” director Nikyatu Jusu is among the five filmmakers who created a film for the festival using the tech. — Post — Short films generated by artificial intelligence …
More: The Hollywood Reporter, Engadget, and Bloomberg
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Jio Financial Services, part of Reliance, launches the JioFinance app to provide digital banking, bill payments, and other services in a crowded Indian market — Indian conglomerate Reliance Group is making its boldest consumer-facing move yet into financial services with the launch of JioFinance … | Bloomberg: |
What to expect at Computex 2024, where the CEOs of Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, and Arm are speaking, as AI hardware products like AI PCs take center stage — - Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, Arm chiefs all speaking at show — Computex popularity underscores Taiwan's global importance
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Q&A with the pseudonymous Pliny the Prompter, who is well known in the AI community for jailbreaking leading LLMs, on what motivates them, their goals, and more — Around 10:30 am Pacific time on Monday, May 13, 2024, OpenAI debuted its newest and most capable AI foundation model …
More: Futurism, TweakTown, Tom's Hardware, and BGR
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Google plans to disable extensions built with the older Manifest V2 framework on June 3, beginning with users of Chrome's Beta, Dev, and Canary versions — The move begins with Chrome beta users on June 3, before a gradual phaseout of ‘Manifest V2’ extensions for all users in the coming months, which could impact uBlock Origin.
More: Chromium Blog, The Register, Ars Technica, The Verge, OSnews, Android Authority, TechSpot, Neowin, Ghacks, and How-To Geek
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Sources: Microsoft is discussing a deal with CISPE, which could include a multimillion-euro payment to get the cloud lobby to drop its EU antitrust complaint — Possible deal involves a multimillion-dollar payout to cloud association backed by Amazon. — Microsoft is closing …
More: Reuters
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Global foldable phone shipments were up 49% YoY in Q1, marking its highest rate of increase in six quarters; Huawei led with a 35% share, overtaking Samsung — - Global foldable smartphone shipments were up 49% YoY in Q1 2024, driven by Huawei, HONOR and Motorola.
More: 9to5Google, Counterpoint Research, PC-Tablet India, Business Insider, The Economic Times, Times of India, Patently Apple, PhoneArena, PhoneArena, Android Authority, Patently Apple, GSMArena.com, Benzinga, South China Morning Post, Huawei Central, Dexerto, Display Daily, Phandroid, Sam Lover, Financial Express, Notebookcheck, and Android Headlines
| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
Filing: Meta agrees to settle a 2022 lawsuit by Texas accusing Meta of using facial recognition tech to collect biometric data of Texans without their consent — Meta's Facebook (META.O) has agreed to settle a lawsuit by the state of Texas that accused the social media giant … | Axios: |
The US Treasury Department plans to make the IRS' Direct File program permanent from the 2025 tax season and invites all states and Washington DC to participate — - Treasury announced earlier this month that more than 140,000 people participated in the Direct File pilot program …
More: MarketWatch, Washington Post, Internal Revenue Service, Engadget, NBC News, U.S. Department …, PCMag, CNET, and Associated Press
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| Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Startup Fable Studio announces Showrunner, a streaming service that lets users watch AI-generated series and create their own series by writing prompts — Fable, the studio behind the viral AI-generated ‘South Park’ clips, has announced a streaming platform that allows users to create their own content.
More: Tubefilter, VentureBeat, MobileSyrup, The Guardian, Dexerto, Gizmodo, and Forbes
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Tether acquires a $100M stake in US-listed bitcoin miner Bitdeer owned by Chinese billionaire Jihan Wu, with an option to buy $50M more in shares within a year — - Bitcoin miner is owned by the Chinese billionaire Jihan Wu — Bitdeer was previously in talks with private credit firmsSponsor Posts
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