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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
A threat actor hacked the Internet Archive and stole a user authentication database with 31M unique records; a DDoS attack took the site offline on October 9 — Internet Archive's “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole …
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Mastodon: @JMarkOckerbloom …, @hanno@mastodon.social, and @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
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| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
WordPress.org adds a checkbox to confirm users aren't “affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise” before they log in or register an account — WordPress.org users are now required to agree that they are not affiliated with website hosting platform WP Engine before logging in.| David Heinemeier Hansson / HEY: |
Automattic demanding an 8% cut of WP Engine's revenue is a wanton violation of open source ideals, and the damage to open source may extend far beyond WordPress — Automattic demanding 8% of WP Engine's revenues because they're not “giving back enough” to WordPress is a wanton violation …
More: The Verge, DevLog, and TechIssuesToday.com
Mastodon: @cryptecks@mstdn.social and @chikorita157@sakurajima.moe
X: @photomatt, @blackmagikcodes, @dhh, @sherieffyi, @dan0sz, @hunvreus, @dhh, @technerdteitzel, @lemire, @photomatt, @shortformernie, and @thdxr. Forums: Slashdot
| Joyu Wang / Wall Street Journal: |
Taiwan says China detained four employees at Foxconn's iPhone factory in Zhengzhou and says Foxconn said it didn't suffer a financial loss tied to their actions — Taiwan says investor confidence may be damaged after four Taiwanese are held — TAIPEI—Four Taiwanese employees …
More: 9to5Mac, The Information, AppleInsider, Patently Apple, Cult of Mac, MacDailyNews, and BNN Bloomberg
X: @carlquintanilla, @jchengwsj, and @jchengwsj
| Bloomberg: |
Amazon says Apple TV+ will be available as a $9.99/month subscription add-on in Prime Video Channels later this month in the US, joining 100+ streaming services — Apple will begin selling TV+ subscriptions through Prime later this month, Mike Hopkins, senior vice president of Amazon Prime Video …
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X: @itscinehouse, @richlightshed, @tvmojoe, @jbflint, and @tomodell
LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski and Nicola Korzenko
Forums: r/television, r/cordcutters, and r/tvPlus
| Financial Times: |
How Google plans to deflect and delay the US breakup threat; a remedies ruling is likely in mid-2025 and legal timelines may let it put off any impact for years — Search group claims regulators are overreaching just as foreign and domestic rivals are gaining ground
More: MediaPost, DevX, ITPro, Morningstar UK, The Nation, WAtoday, BBC, ComputerWeekly.com, Reuters, AV Club, and New York Times
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
OpenAI says it has disrupted 20+ operations and deceptive networks in 2024 so far that tried to use its models, including four that had election-related content — OpenAI is increasingly becoming a platform of choice for cyber actors looking to influence democratic elections across the globe.
More: Reuters, OpenAI, The Verge, International Business Times, The Independent, Tech Monitor, The Hacker News, NBC News, Times of India, Seeking Alpha, and CyberScoop
X: @benimmo, @robertpszczel, @ridt, @gabby_roncone, and @lukolejnik
Forums: r/politics and r/technology
| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
How Ryan Salame, an FTX executive who gave millions to GOP politicians, and Michelle Bond, who ran for Congress, went from crypto power couple to facing prison — Ryan Salame, an FTX executive, and Michelle Bond, a crypto policy advocate, were once a Washington power couple. Now they both face prison time.| CoinDesk: |
US prosecutors charge four purported crypto market makers, a handful of crypto projects, and over a dozen individuals with manipulating various crypto markets — Gotbit, CLS Global, MyTrade, and ZM Quant were secretly offering market manipulation services to projects that wanted …
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| Bloomberg: |
A profile of FTC Chair Lina Khan, whose term ended in September 2024, as a bipartisan club of tech figures and VCs, including Reid Hoffman, call for her ouster — Biden's FTC chair has toughened merger oversight, taken on noncompetes and made the donor class crazy.
More: Quartz, Raw Story, and Financial Times
| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
ByteDance debuts its first earbuds, open-ear wearables called Ola Friend that have audio access to its Doubao chatbot, shipping on October 17 in China for ~$170 — The Ola Friend earphones are linked to ByteDance's self-developed chatbot, Doubao, currently China's most popular GenAI app
More: Engadget, The Information, and Tech in Asia
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Chinese researchers debut AI model Pyramid Flow, which makes a five-second, 384p video in 56 seconds, built using a new technique called pyramidal flow matching — The number of AI video generation models continues to grow with a new one, Pyramid Flow, launching this week … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A SCOTUS decision means that the US now legally owns the 69,370 BTC obtained during its Silk Road probe; the ex-IRS agent who seized them is in a Nigerian jail — The $4.4 billion in crypto is set to be the largest pile of criminal proceeds ever sold off by the US.| Martin Coulter / Reuters: |
Google EMEA President Matt Brittin says he plans to step down after a decade in the post and to continue running operations until a successor is chosen — The man charged with overseeing Google's (GOOGL.O) operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia has stepped down after a decade in post.
More: The Times
| Gavin Bonshor / The Register: |
Intel unveils its Arrow Lake desktop processors, with an NPU, better power efficiency at higher clock speeds, and 2X the graphics performance vs. its 14th Gen — New silicon, new architecture, and loads of new motherboards rise to support it, but will power be anchored down?
More: PCWorld, XDA Developers, HotHardware, Club386, Tom's Hardware, PCWorld, The Verge, How-To Geek, Tom's Guide, PC Gamer, ExtremeTech, Laptop Mag, Guru3D, PCGamesN, Wccftech, Digital Trends, TechSpot, and TweakTown
X: @markhachman, @markhachman, and @tomwarren
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
An investigation details a $243M crypto heist in August 2024 where attackers used a phone-based social engineering attack on a user of Gemini's crypto exchange — The parents of a 19-year-old Connecticut honors student accused of taking part in a $243 million cryptocurrency heist in August …
More: Cybernews.com. Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange. X: @moo9000 and @cybernews
Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and r/Connecticut
| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Some Threads and Instagram users say their accounts are being deleted or restricted due to moderation failures; Adam Mosseri says he's “looking into it” — On Threads, the topic of “Threads Moderation Failures” is trending. Some users complain their accounts are being deleted …
More: One Man & His Blog, Pajiba, TechIssuesToday.com, and Absolute Geeks
Threads: @mosseri, @saramontourlewis, @tomwarrenuk, @ckt_bkr, @tomwarrenuk, @georgebetak, @bluesky_social, @mattnavarra, @karissabe, @mattnavarra, @stuartathompsonnyt, @maryocontrary, @personality_of_colt, @dino.luck, @bluesky_social, @georgescriban, @josh.bellwilson, @shayan86bbc, @mattnavarra, @willoremus, @guillecummings, @nickrmartin, @laura_brianna, @jendiagammon, @mattnavarra, @wario64, @kylie.robison, @bluesky_social, @renee.diresta, @thebrianpenny, and @mattnavarra
Bluesky: @o.simardcasanova.net, @janetcivitelli.bsky.social, @wagatwe.com, @serrata.org, @krisrabberman.bsky.social, @wagatwe.com, and @batsandwires.bsky.social. X: @evacide
Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, and r/technology
| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Suki, which makes AI voice assistants for health care providers, raised a $70M Series D, a source says at a ~$500M valuation, taking its total funding to $165M — Suki, a startup that offers to build artificial intelligence (AI) assistants in healthcare, has raised $70 million in a Series D round …
More: PYMNTS.com, Suki AI, STAT, Tech Startups, Business Insider, HIT Consultant, and ENDPOINTS NEWS
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Florida-based data broker National Public Data files for bankruptcy, admitting its breach that led to the August 2024 SSN leak may impact “hundreds of millions” — In court documents, National Public Data concedes the breach may impact ‘hundreds of millions’ of people … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian insurance firm Star Health says it suffered a “malicious cyberattack”, about two weeks after hackers put 31M customers' alleged personal data on Telegram — Star Health and Allied Insurance, one of the largest health insurance firms in India, has confirmed it was the target of a … | Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Garmin Fenix 8 review: the $1,000 smartwatch has excellent battery and fitness tracking and an OLED option, but costs $350 more than the Fenix 7 and lacks LTE — The Fenix 8 adds smarter features, but they don't quite make up for the price hike or lack of LTE.
More: Android Central, PhoneArena, Notebookcheck, and The Drive
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