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The BlackCat ransomware gang threatens to release 80GB of data allegedly stolen from Reddit; the company says BlackCat's claims relate to a February 5 attack — Hackers are threatening to release confidential data stolen from Reddit unless the company pays a ransom demand - and reverses its controversial API price hikes.
More: BleepingComputer, MacRumors, DataBreachToday.com, Forbes, SlashGear, DataBreaches.net, TechRadar, Silicon Republic, Developer Tech News, 9to5Mac, Security Boulevard, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, Tech Monitor, Mercury News, Android Police, HotHardware, MobileSyrup, Dexerto, Techlusive, iPhone in Canada Blog, International Business Times, Security Affairs, and Neowin
Twitter: @chengrob, @devaonbreaches, @alvierid, and @ido_cohen2
Forums: r/ModCoord, r/theworldnews, r/technology, r/anonymous, r/hackernews, and Slashdot
| Gabriela Galindo / Wired: |
How Apple is trying to gain IP rights over depictions of apples globally, worrying Fruit Union Suisse that the 111-year-old company may need to change its logo — Apple, the company, wants rights to the image of apples, the fruit, in Switzerland—one of dozens of countries where it's flexing its legal muscles.
More: AppleInsider, Neowin, PC Gamer, Mashable, iMore, TechRadar, Gizchina, Android Authority, MacDailyNews, Supercharged, and The Verge
Mastodon: @williamgunn@mastodon.social. Twitter: @nproctor. Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, and r/Switzerland
| Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
Sources: internal teams at Singapore-based Crypto.com trade tokens for profit on the exchange and elsewhere, a little-known fact since the company's 2016 launch — Singapore group has desk to profit from market moves — Crypto.com, the exchange endorsed by Hollywood actor Matt Damon …
More: The Block, CryptoPotato, Decrypt, CryptoSlate, The Verge, Cryptonews, crypto.news, Cryptopolitan, Unchained Crypto, Coinpedia Fintech News, DL News, Watcher Guru, and CoinGape
Twitter: @nikasgari, @bitfinexed, @smtuffy, @tmnxeq, @pledditor, @cuntycakes123, @bankofvol, @pt, @smdiehl, @mayazi, @davidbelle_, @eug_ng, @davidgerard, and @whalepanda. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Jon / The Nexus Of Privacy: |
Amid ongoing Reddit protests, decentralized link aggregation and discussion forum projects Lemmy and KBin grow to a total of 70K+ MAUs and nearly 600 instances — Draft! Work in Progress! Feedback welcome! … Contents: — Eight days later ... - Experiment to find what approaches …
More: join-lemmy.org, Asif Youssuff, Android Authority, Netzgemeinde/Hubzilla, and Beehaw
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Forums: Hacker News and r/Lemmy
| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Some publishers say they have seen a sharp drop in Facebook traffic since May 2023; Echobox: the share of traffic to publisher sites from Facebook fell ~50% YoY — With no communication from the company, publishers relying on Facebook traffic are at the mercy of the inscrutable algorithm, and they say it's punishing them.
More: Beehaw. Twitter: @glenngabe, @grovesprof, @saptarshinath, and @thomasgermain. Forums: r/technology
| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
How kids are using hacked Discord servers or Twitter accounts and “NFT drainers” for phishing attacks to steal millions of dollars' worth of NFTs and tokens — - NFT drainers like Inferno and Venom are commonly used to carry out phishing attacks involving compromised Discord servers and Twitter accounts.
More: crypto.news and Cryptonews
Twitter: @dabitch, @timccopeland, and @lex_node
Forums: r/ethtrader and r/CryptoCurrency
| Tim Hakki / Decrypt: |
Twitter suspends Explain This Bob, a GPT-4 chatbot tied to the BOB Token, after Elon Musk called the account a “scam”; Musk replied “I love Bob” in April 2023 — The move marks an abrupt about-face for Musk, who had previously engaged with the bot's content on Twitter.
More: Cointelegraph, Politico, OpIndia, Cryptonews, Coinspeaker, and Bitcoinist.com
Twitter: @elonmusk, @defidownsin, @obesechess, @talalunfiltered, @titterdaily, @poordart, and @mattbinder
| Financial Times: |
An overview of how the adoption of generative AI tools is transforming everyday work in legal contracts, professional services, filmmaking, and programming — Professional services, filmmaking and coding are among the first to use the technology in everyday operations| Dewi Kurniawati / Reuters: |
SpaceX launches Indonesia's largest telecom satellite as part of a $540M project to offer internet in remote areas; the SATRIA-1 has a 150Gbps throughput — Indonesia and Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX on Monday launched the country's largest telecommunication satellite from the United States … | BBC: |
An interview with Foxconn chairman Young Liu on shifting some supply chains away from China as China-US tensions rise, hoping to capture 5% of EVs, and more — iPhone maker Foxconn is betting big on electric cars and redrawing some of its supply chains as it navigates a new era of icy Washington-Beijing relations.| John Carreyrou / New York Times: |
A look at the orchestrated downfall of Kyle Roche, co-founder of Roche Freedman LLP, known for suing crypto companies and getting a verdict against Craig Wright — Kyle Roche was a rising star in the field of cryptocurrency law — until his career imploded. Who orchestrated his downfall?
More: Cryptonews. LinkedIn: Roderick Mann. Twitter: @nxthompson, @moorehn, @yonettejo, @nytimes, and @silvermanjacob
Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and Slashdot
| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
Snap hopes to use My AI chatbot interactions to personalize ads; 150M+ Snapchat users, or ~20% of MAUs, sent 10B messages to My AI since its late February debut — Snap Inc., the maker of the Snapchat app, is testing ways that its popular new artificial intelligence chatbot can boost the company's advertising business.Sponsor Posts
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