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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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| 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 …
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| 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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| 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 …
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| 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
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| 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.| 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.
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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.| 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.| 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
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Numeric, which wants to use AI to automate accounting tasks, raised a $28M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, five months after raising a $10M seed — Accountants generally dread month-end and quarter-end closings. That's because finalizing financial records for a specific period is generally a manual …
LinkedIn: Yuan Chen
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
AMD launches the Instinct MI325X GPUs to compete with Nvidia's upcoming Blackwell chips, and plans to start production before the end of 2024 — AMD launched a new artificial-intelligence chip on Thursday that is taking direct aim at Nvidia's data center graphics processors, known as GPUs.| 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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| Grace Kay / Business Insider: |
Four of Musk's Tesla direct reports, including its CIO and global vehicle automation and safety policy lead, recently resigned, ahead of Tesla's robotaxi event — - Four Tesla execs announced in the past week that they were leaving or had already left the company.
More: Daily Mail, Chron, The Economic Times, Cointelegraph, The Information, Understanding AI, and Forbes
| 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
| 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 … | 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 …
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LinkedIn: Bruno Solari, Sean O'Sullivan, and Punit Singh Soni
| 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, and Notebookcheck
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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