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Wise, Affirm, Mercury, and other companies say they're investigating how a recent ransomware attack by LockBit on Evolve Bank and Trust impacted their customers — The money transfer and fintech company Wise announced on Friday that some of its customers' personal data may have been stolen …
More: Evolve Bank & Trust, Wise, The Register, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Benzinga, SecurityWeek, Affirm, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown …, Mercury Help Center, EarnIn, The Cyber Express, Cybernews.com, Affirm, TechCrunch, Reuters, TechRadar, and Bloomberg
Mastodon: @lorenzofb@infosec.exchange. X: @mercury, @mikulaja, @affirm, @mikulaja, @mlevchin, @mikulaja, @mdudas, @immad, @anshublog, @cxcarroll, @lessin, @maxtagher, @ddayen, @mikulaja, @scott_harkey, and @mayurzzz. LinkedIn: Jason Mikula. Forums: Slashdot
| Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: |
Revolut's 2023 revenue almost doubled to £1.8B after interest income grew from £83M in 2022 to £500M; auditor BDO gave Revolut's accounts a clean bill of health — - UK fintech's interest income jumps sixfold to £500 million — Auditor BDO gives financial accounts a clean bill of health| Lucian Constantin / CSO: |
Qualys researchers say an OpenSSH flaw can let attackers remotely compromise servers and allow unauthenticated RCE as root; over 14M servers may be vulnerable — Researchers from Qualys say regreSSHion allows attackers to take over servers with 14 million potentially vulnerable OpenSSH instances identified.
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LinkedIn: Jacob Williams and Gianluca Varisco
Forums: r/linuxsucks, r/archlinux, r/hacking, r/linux, and r/worldnews
| Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Tubi launches in the UK with over 20K movies and TV episodes, featuring content from distributors including Disney, Lionsgate, NBCUniversal, and Sony Pictures — The ad-supported streamer now has more than 80 million monthly active users. — Tubi, the free advertising-supported streaming service owned …
More: TubiTV Corporate, 9to5Mac, Engadget, The Guardian, Neowin, Proactive, Broadband TV News, BBC, The Mirror, Deadline, Financial Times, Variety, and TechRadar
| Alicia Haddick / GamesIndustry.biz: |
A look at why Japan, due to its culture and employment laws, is not undergoing mass layoffs in the gaming industry, as Microsoft-owned Tango Gameworks closes — After Microsoft shut down Tango Gameworks, we look at the reasons why Japan has otherwise been sheltered (but not immune) to many of the layoffs and trends seen further afield| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Some YouTube employees detail internal deliberations about content relating to the Israel-Hamas war and accuse the company of inconsistent moderation — Insiders have shared YouTube's playbook for handling the Gaza crisis. They argue that it shows inconsistent enforcement.| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
The US SEC charges the parent company of Silvergate Bank and executives with misleading investors about its AML compliance strength; Silvergate settles for $50M — Silvergate Bank, once a cornerstone of the crypto financial world until its collapse in early 2023, defrauded its investors …
More: US Securities …, Finextra, Bloomberg, CCN.com, Cointelegraph, Benzinga, Cryptonews, crypto.news, The Block, Decrypt, and Blockworks
Threads: @merket. X: @secgov, @haileylennonbtc, @caspiancey, @daveweisberger1, @bykatherineross, @patio11, @patio11, and @caspiancey. LinkedIn: Mary Loeza
| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Sentient, an open-source AI development platform being built on Polygon, raised a $85M seed led by Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, and Framework Ventures — The project aims to address concerns about the proliferation of AI whereby the underlying code is concentrated in the hands of a few superpowers like Google or Meta.
More: Decrypt, The Block, and CryptoPotato
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Northern Data is weighing a US IPO of its combined AI cloud computing and data center businesses at a valuation of up to $16B as early as in H1 2025 — - Combined cloud, data center business could list on Nasdaq — Company secured financing from Tether Group to buy chips| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta changes its “Made with AI” label to “AI info”, to indicate images were not necessarily created with AI but that AI editing tools may have been used — After Meta started tagging photos with a “Made with AI” label in May, photographers complained …
More: Meta, PCMag, Financial Express, The Verge, MySmartPrice, Android Headlines, Silicon Republic, The Decoder, Cybernews.com, PhoneArena, CNET, Engadget, Social Media Today, NewsBytes, PetaPixel, Maginative, and New York Sun
Threads: @parkstone_photography, @lindseygamble_, and @thebrianpenny
LinkedIn: Ricardo Dalmaso Marques and Melissa Trotto
| Bloomberg: |
The Biden administration awards $504M in funding for 12 regional tech hubs, including in New York and Florida, to expand research in AI, chip making, and more — - Effort aims to draw private investment around more of the US — Awards cover twelve centers, including in New York and Florida
More: Benzinga, PCMag, The White House, and Associated Press
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube rolled out a policy change that will let people request the takedown of AI-generated or other synthetic content that simulates their face or voice — Meta is not the only company grappling with the rise in AI-generated content and how it affects its platform.
More: Google Help Center, Dexerto, Music Ally, Engadget, Tech.co, BetaNews, PhoneArena, PetaPixel, MEDIANAMA, The Register, Gizmodo Australia, Neowin, and Maginative
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