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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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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
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 …
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| 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 …
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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
AI search engine Perplexity launches Pages, which will research and create a customizable webpage based on user prompts, aimed at educators, researchers, others — AI search platform Perplexity is launching a new feature called Pages that will generate a customizable webpage based on user prompts.
More: Perplexity Blog, TechTalks, The Decoder, TestingCatalog, MSPoweruser, and WinBuzzer
| 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 …
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| Alexandra Alter / New York Times: |
How TikTok influencers helped a self-published author sell 1M+ copies of her book, including ~700K on the TikTok shop, showing how TikTok changed book marketing — Keila Shaheen's “The Shadow Work Journal” shows how radically book sales and marketing have been changed by TikTok.| Nathaniel Popper / Bloomberg: |
An excerpt from the book The Trolls of Wall Street, which details how r/WallStreetBets fueled a movement that turned millions of young Americans into investors — An excerpt from Nathaniel Popper's forthcoming The Trolls of Wall Street. — By the end of 2011, Jaime Rogozinski, 29, had fallen into a rut.
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A look at activist groups' efforts to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from building more data centers in Chile, amid a drought expected to last until 2040 — Multiple groups are working to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doubling the number of centers in the country, fearing environmental devastation.| Politico: |
Donald Trump's campaign joins TikTok, the app he once tried to ban; a TikTok official says there's a 2:1 ratio of pro-Trump versus pro-Biden content on the app — Trump's joining of TikTok is a major win for the embattled app that's fighting for its existence in Washington.
More: Reuters, The Mirror, BNN Bloomberg, NBC News, and realdonaldtrump on TikTok
| Michael Roddan / The Information: |
Sources: a16z and other investors in the fintech Synapse, which filed for bankruptcy in early May, were aware of recordkeeping discrepancies for years — Millions of consumers who kept their savings with digital banking startups such as Yotta or Juno have lost access to their money as a result … | Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
Content creators are amassing audiences of thousands on Twitch by covering political news and raising funds for Palestinians, as other platforms eschew politics — Dozens of content creators are leveraging the live streaming app to raise funds for Palestinians, circumventing political content bans on other platforms.| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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