Casino giant Caesars tells thousands: Yup, ransomware crooks stole your data (www.theregister.com)
Casino giant Caesars tells thousands: Yup, ransomware crooks stole your data::House always wins, er, wait …
Why were these weird accounts following a bunch of people on Spotify? (www.theverge.com)
Somebody sent a strange tip about Spotify to The Verge on Wednesday. The email, with the subject line “Spotify Hackers,” claimed that “Every English account in America has two new followers, ! lucasrpx and ! vitornovaes.” The tipster followed up two minutes later to share a screenshot showing the profile pictures from...
Chinese programmer ordered to pay 1m yuan for using virtual private network (www.theguardian.com)
Google Cloud mitigated largest DDoS attack, peaking above 398 million rps | Google Cloud Blog (cloud.google.com)
Thousands of WordPress sites have been hacked through tagDiv plugin vulnerability (arstechnica.com)
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs historic wave energy legislation into law (www.renewableenergymagazine.com)
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Reddit Sees Copyright Takedowns Peak While Subreddit Bans Drop. (torrentfreak.com)
Encountering mostly promotional articles in tech RSS feed
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How authoritarian governments are using generative AI (www.platformer.news)
A new report finds at least 16 countries using synthetic media to mislead their citizens — and the number is growing fast
Apple declares its $17,000 solid-gold watch officially obsolete, ending repairs and servicing (www.techspot.com)
Apple declares its $17,000 solid-gold watch officially obsolete, ending repairs and servicing::undefined
Looking for a Linux-Compatible Alternative to Descript for Podcast Editing
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Netflix shutters its DVD rental business, marking the end of the red envelope era (www.cnn.com)
Netflix shutters its DVD rental business, marking the end of the red envelope era::Netflix will send out its last red envelope on Friday, marking an end to 25 years of mailing DVDs to members.
Using LLMs to Facilitate Formal Verification of RTL (arxiv.org)
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Here’s the Email Amazon Sent Sellers It’s Allegedly Screwing Over After FTC Filed Antitrust Lawsuit (www.vice.com)
Meta launches consumer AI chatbots with celebrity avatars in its social apps (arstechnica.com)
Russian zero-day seller offers $20M for hacking Android and iPhones | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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Google Pixel 8's amazing new camera features shown off in leaked teaser video: Video boost, Magic Editor, and a pro camera mode (archive.ph)
New Apple Zero-Days Exploited to Target Egyptian ex-MP with Predator Spyware (thehackernews.com)
The great AI "pause" that wasn't (www.axios.com)
The organizers of a high-profile open letter last March calling for a "pause" in work on advanced artificial intelligence lost that battle, but they could be winning a longer-term fight to persuade the world to slow AI down.
MGM Resorts is back online after a huge cyberattack. The hack might have cost the Vegas casino operator $80 million. (www.businessinsider.com)
MGM Resorts is back online after a huge cyberattack. The hack might have cost the Vegas casino operator $80 million.::MGM Resorts’ customer-facing, electronic systems were largely taken out in a cyberattack that had also targeted Caesars Entertainment.
Elon Musk: X/Twitter to charge all users with monthly subscription fees (www.axios.com)
Elon Musk: X/Twitter to charge all users with monthly subscription fees::undefined
What the most ‘Chinese’ smartphone yet tells us about politics | Financial Times (www.ft.com)
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The GNU Project turns 40 this month (www.theregister.com)
French Apple Stores call for strike on iPhone 15 launch day (www.euronews.com)
Space Drugs Factory Denied Reentry to Earth - The Air Force and the FAA denied permission for Varda Space's capsule to return and land on Earth (gizmodo.com)
Space Drugs Factory Denied Reentry to Earth - The Air Force and the FAA denied permission for Varda Space’s capsule to return and land on Earth::The Air Force and the FAA denied permission for Varda Space’s capsule to return and land on Earth.
