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AT&T appears to have paid a member of ShinyHunters $370K+ to delete call records stolen from AT&T's Snowflake account that exposed “nearly all” of its customers — A security researcher who assisted with the deal says he believes the only copy of the complete dataset …
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| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Alphabet is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for roughly $23B; Wiz raised $1B at a $12B valuation in May 2024 — Deal would be tech giant's largest acquisition ever.
More: CNBC, Tech Monitor, Silicon Republic, Financial Express, The Verge, Business Standard, Financial Times, New York Times, Reuters, The Register, Proactive, Al Bawaba, TipRanks Financial, Cyber Security News, Bloomberg, Proactiveinvestors UK, The Cyber Express, The Rio Times, Business Today, PCMag, TechCrunch, The Information, SiliconANGLE, Livemint, Bloomberg, Security Boulevard, Business Times, Originally Reported …, The Times of Israel, Barron's Online, PYMNTS.com, Neowin, CTech, Benzinga, Investor's Business Daily, SecurityWeek, Business Insider, and NewsBytes
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
X's trending topics surfaced conspiracy theories around Donald Trump's assassination attempt; YouTube and Facebook primarily directed users to news outlets — Conspiracy theories about the shooting at a Trump rally began surfacing on X shortly after the news broke this afternoon …
More: Bloomberg, The Atlantic, Wired, BNN Bloomberg, Forbes, Washington Post, Mashable, NPR, and NBC Bay Area
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| Lloyd Lee / Business Insider: |
More: Business Today, Semafor, Washington Post, Benzinga, The Information, Newsmax, Times of India, VentureBeat, Quartz, 9to5Mac, Los Angeles Times, The Verge, and GeekWire
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Apple approves the first PC emulator for iOS, UTM SE, weeks after rejecting and barring the app from being notarized for third-party app stores in the EU — Apple has approved UTM SE, an app for emulating a computer to run classic software and games, weeks after the company rejected …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/iosgaming, r/ipad, and Slashdot
| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
An interview with Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria, who presides over the company's $17B content budget, on catering to different tastes and more — She presides over a $17bn budget and is looking for local hits with global potential — Bela Bajaria, Netflix's chief hitmaker … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
IDC: ~350M people in India still use a feature phone, and 50% of them have a model that costs less than $18; the ASP of a smartphone is $255, up 54% from 2020 — Around 350 million people still use a feature phone — India, the world's second-largest smartphone market after China … | Jason Parham / Wired: |
Q&A with Imran Ahmed, founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, on Elon Musk's lawsuit, election disinformation, social media harms, AI, and more — Imran Ahmed, founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, is unsentimental about what's at stake if we don't curb the spread … | Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: |
An interview with Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington on their startup Thrive AI Health to build an AI health coach, and why AI has become a technology of faith — An important thing to realize about the grandest conversations surrounding AI is that, most of the time, everyone is making things up.
More: The Economic Times and The Overspill
X: @dorotheabaur, @ddeubel, @iethics, @rosenzweigjane, @dpsj, @geomblog, @johnreynlds, @evanmcmurry, @theatlantic, @theatlantic, @cwarzel, and @ahcastor. Forums: Hacker News
| Washington Post: |
Letter: OpenAI whistleblowers asked the SEC to probe OpenAI's allegedly restrictive NDAs barring staff from warning regulators about the risks its tech may pose — In a letter exclusively obtained by The Washington Post, whistleblowers asked the SEC to probe company's allegedly restrictive non-disclosure agreements
More: Interesting Engineering, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Guardian, Benzinga, Reuters, Reuters, CoinGape, The Decoder, The Crypto Times, Cointelegraph, PCMag, and The Hill
Forums: Hacker News, r/Futurology, r/singularity, r/artificial, r/OpenAI, r/news, and r/technology
| Andy Mukherjee / Bloomberg: |
A look at Nexus, a Bank for International Settlements-backed project aiming to link domestic smartphone-based payment systems for instant cross-border payments — A protocol to move money across borders quickly at a low fee will be the best thing to happen to instant payments — until the next best thing comes along.| Matthew Connatser / The Register: |
Intel has faced mounting pressure to fix Raptor Lake CPU stability issues since February 2024; a game studio accuses Intel of selling “defective” CPUs — High-end processor instability headaches, failures pushed one studio to switch to AMD — One game developer says it's …
More: Alderon Games, The Verge, TweakTown, Tom's Hardware, HotHardware, Wccftech, Digital Trends, PCGamesN, PCMag, PC Guide, XDA Developers, PC Guide, PC Gamer, and TechSpot
Forums: Hacker News, r/pcgaming, r/wallstreetbets, r/hardware, r/AMD_Stock, r/hardware, r/Games, r/technology, Beehaw, and MacRumors Forums
| Hugh Langley / Business Insider: |
Source: Google and Samsung's XR headset, codenamed Moohan and initially planned for Q1 2024, is now set for March 2025, with a developer version in October 2024 — - Google recently reshuffled the ranks to consolidate teams working in augmented reality. — The release of Google …
More: CNET, TechRadar, 9to5Google, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, TechRadar, Road to VR, UploadVR, and 9to5Google
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