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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 …
More: The Record, The Verge, The Register, How-To Geek, Metacurity, ExtremeTech, Hackaday, Boing Boing, Wired, ZDNET, PCWorld, BetaNews, Tom's Hardware, PCMag, Mashable, Silicon Republic, AppleInsider, PaymentSecurity.io, ComputerWeekly.com, Security Boulevard, SecurityWeek, PC Gamer, Ghacks, 9to5Mac, TechSpot, Android Headlines, Forbes, Benzinga, Infosecurity, WinBuzzer, Hackread, Neowin, TechRadar, SC Media, Have I Been Pwned …, Daring Fireball, TechIssuesToday.com, TechCrunch, Engadget, Ace of Spades, Cyber Daily, and my patience is waning …
Mastodon: @JMarkOckerbloom …, @hanno@mastodon.social, and @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
X: @sn_darkmeta, @brewster_kahle, @troyhunt, @sn_darkmeta, @troyhunt, @brewster_kahle, @haveibeenpwned, @brewster_kahle, @mrboko1234, @todd_x_y, @vxunderground, @zelinarxy, @tgzerosugar, @aldanmarki, @jamesrbuk, @_omoriboy, @kaybrainrot, @skellenaut, @leo_puglisi6, @vxunderground, @internetarchive, @genkiwastaken, @brianroemmele, @lostmediabuster, @clancynewyork, and @in_marxist
| 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: TechIssuesToday.com, Cautious Optimism, DevLog, and The Verge
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, BNN Bloomberg, AppleInsider, Patently Apple, Cult of Mac, and MacDailyNews
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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LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski and Nicola Korzenko
Forums: r/MLS, r/television, r/cordcutters, and r/tvPlus
| 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.| 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: Ars Technica, Techstrong.ai, MediaPost, DevX, The Nation, ComputerWeekly.com, Proactiveinvestors UK, WAtoday, and Reuters
X: @adamkovac, @leehepner, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, and @econliberties
| 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: OpenAI, Ars Technica, The Hill, Reuters, Sherwood News, 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
| Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: |
The FBI reveals it created Ethereum-based token NexFundAI with the help of “cooperating witnesses” to investigate price manipulation in crypto markets — The FBI created a cryptocurrency as part of an investigation into price manipulation in crypto markets, the government revealed Wednesday.
More: Gizmodo, PCMag, CryptoGlobe, Crypto Briefing, Inside Bitcoins, Coinspeaker, CCN.com, Bitcoin Insider, CoinGape, crypto.news, Cryptopolitan, Benzinga, and Blockhead
| CoinDesk: |
More: US Securities …, US Department of Justice, Reuters, Cryptopolitan, Protos, Unchained, Cryptonews, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Crypto Basic, crypto.news, Coinspeaker, The Cyber Express, CryptoSlate, The Crypto Times, CryptoGlobe, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, Bloomberg, and The Block
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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 and Raw Story
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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
| 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.| 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 … | 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.
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X: @benbajarin and @benbajarin
| 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: John Melas-Kyriazi and Yuan Chen
| 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: The Verge, Tom's Hardware, PCWorld, XDA Developers, HotHardware, Club386, PCWorld, Game Rant, Tom's Guide, PC Gamer, ExtremeTech, Laptop Mag, Guru3D, TweakTown, How-To Geek, Digital Trends, Wccftech, TechSpot, and PCGamesN
X: @markhachman, @markhachman, and @tomwarren
| BBC: |
The US and UK announce a joint agreement aimed at keeping children safer online, including the setting up of an online safety working group to share expertise — The argument over smartphones in schools has been “won”, the technology secretary Peter Kyle has told the BBC …
More: TechCrunch, GOV.UK, London Evening Standard, Reuters, ComputerWeekly.com, and The Independent
| 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
| 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: FinSMEs, PYMNTS.com, Suki AI, ENDPOINTS NEWS, Business Insider, Tech Startups, STAT, and HIT Consultant
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