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A global law enforcement operation takes down 593 servers hosting unlicensed versions of Cobalt Strike, a penetration testing tool abused by cybercriminals — Europol coordinated a joint law enforcement action known as Operation Morpheus, which led to the takedown of almost 600 Cobalt Strike servers used … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
OpenAI updates its ChatGPT macOS app to encrypt locally stored conversations, after a user discovered that the app was storing chats in plain text — Until Friday, OpenAI's recently launched ChatGPT macOS app had a potentially worrying security issue: it wasn't hard to find your chats stored …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Twilio says threat actors identified the phone numbers of users of its 2FA app Authy; last week, hackers claimed to have stolen 33M phone numbers from Twilio — Last week, a hacker claimed to have stolen 33 million phone numbers from U.S. messaging giant Twilio.
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Sources: earlier in 2023, a hacker breached OpenAI's internal messaging and accessed product details; OpenAI told staff but did not go public or inform the FBI — A security breach at the maker of ChatGPT last year revealed internal discussions among researchers and other employees, but not the code behind OpenAI's systems.| Associated Press: |
Microsoft agrees to pay $14.4M to settle with the California Civil Rights Department over allegations of discriminating against workers who took protected leave — Microsoft Corp. has agreed to pay $14.4 million to settle allegations that the global software giant retaliated and discriminated … | Andrea Hsu / NPR: |
A federal court in Texas temporarily blocks the US government's ban on noncompete agreements that was set to take effect on September 4 — A federal court in Texas has partially blocked the government's ban on noncompete agreements that was set to take effect September 4.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Evan Blass leaks Samsung's entire specs sheets and marketing materials for the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6, expected at its Unpacked event on July 10 — We're only one week away from Samsung's next Unpacked event on July 10th, where we're expecting the company's Galaxy Z Fold 6 … | Paul Vieira / Wall Street Journal: |
Canada authorizes the implementation of a 3% levy on revenue from large tech companies that provide digital services to or sell data of Canadian users — A 3% levy will apply to revenue from companies that provide digital services to Canadian users, or sell Canadian user data
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| Ben Westcott / Bloomberg: |
AWS partners with the Australian government to build a secure cloud data system for top secret information; the government will invest $1.3B over 10 years — - US company to operate three data centers in Australia — Australia says new infrastructure will improve cybersecurity| Rocky Swift / Reuters: |
Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, after scrapping over 1,000 regulations governing their use — Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Gen Z-focused social media app noplace, backed by Alexis Ohanian's 776 and others, tops the US iOS App Store, and raised a $15M Series A1 at a $75M valuation — Aiming to bring the “social” back to “social media,” a new app called noplace has surged to the top of the App Store as it launched out of invite-only mode Wednesday.
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OpenText plans to lay off 1,200 staff and add 800 positions, resulting in a ~1.7% workforce reduction, and expects to reduce annual expenses by CA$150M in 2025 — “The business optimization plan is intended to strategically align the company's workforce to support its 'growth and innovation plans …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Q&A with Adam Mosseri on Threads' first year, not leaning into political content, driving engagement, focusing on real-time content, the fediverse, and more — A year ago this week, Meta introduced Threads to the world. — The text-based social network, which launched as a kind …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
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