December 17, 2024news Interpol says calling online scams “pig butchering”, a widely used phrase, is unhelpful as gangs “appear to have” created the phrase to describe victims (Wired) Experts say the catchall term for online fraud furthers harm against victims and could dissuade people from reporting attempts to bilk them […]
December 17, 2024news The Irish Data Protection Commission fines Meta €251M over a Facebook breach that affected ~29M users globally and ~3M in the EU and EEA in September 2018 (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch) Meta has been fined €251 million (around $263 million) in the European Union for a Facebook security breach that affected millions of […]
December 16, 2024news After probing an open-and-shut SEC violation for two years, it’s nearly too late for the SEC to do anything over how Musk acquired Twitter before Trump moves in (Matt Levine/Bloomberg) After probing an open-and-shut SEC violation for two years, it’s nearly too late for the SEC to do anything over how Musk […]
December 16, 2024news YouTube adds a tool to let creators give authorization to several third parties, including Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, OpenAI, and Meta, to train on their videos (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) YouTube on Monday announced it will give creators more choice over how third parties can use their content to train their AI […]
December 16, 2024news Reports: Israel-based Paragon, maker of Pegasus-rival Graphite, sold to US PE firm AE Industrial for ~$500M, a sum that may grow if profitability goals are hit (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch) The company’s spyware, dubbed Graphite, is capable of hacking phones and stealing private communications. Read More »
December 16, 2024news Q&A with Arm CEO Rene Haas on AI’s potential, working with Intel, TSMC, and Samsung, the Trump admin, China and IP licenses, the CHIPS Act, OpenAI, and more (Alex Heath/The Verge) The ubiquitous chip designer on what the “breathtaking” pace of AI means for the future. Read More »
December 16, 2024news A profile of US ride-hailing startup Empower, which does 100K rides per week in DC despite refusing to register with the city’s Department of For-Hire Vehicles (Eli Tan/New York Times) A profile of US ride-hailing startup Empower, which does 100K rides per week in DC despite refusing to register with the city’s […]
December 16, 2024news Q&A with Arm CEO Rene Haas on AI’s potential, working with Intel, TSMC, and Samsung, the Trump admin, China and IP licenses, the CHIPS Act, OpenAI, and more (Alex Heath/The Verge) The ubiquitous chip designer on what the “breathtaking” pace of AI means for the future. Read More »
December 16, 2024news A researcher details a “jailbreak” of Reviver’s digital license plates, which are legal in some US states, and rewrite its firmware to enable Bluetooth commands (Andy Greenberg/Wired) Digital license plates sold by Reviver, already legal to buy in some states and drive with nationwide, can be hacked by their […]
December 16, 2024news US Senate investigation: senior Amazon execs disregarded internal warnings over the high rates of worker injuries due to concerns about Amazon’s performance (Noam Scheiber/New York Times) US Senate investigation: senior Amazon execs disregarded internal warnings over the high rates of worker injuries due to concerns about Amazon’s performance […]
