The data breach which hit password manager LastPass this August was more serious than earlier perceived, and involved customer passwords being stolen, the company admitted in a latest update on the situation. In the August hack, the company claimed that a threat actor gained internal access to its systems for a period of four days,…
LastPass Confirm Hackers Stole Customer Passwords in Recent Admission
Musk Says Twitter’s New CEO Could Be MrBeast, World’s Biggest YouTuber
Elon Musk has said he’s open to the possibility that Jimmy Donaldson, the world’s biggest YouTuber known as MrBeast, could become Twitter’s new CEO. After earlier suggesting he would eventually quit being the chief executive at Twitter after taking over the social media platform in October, Musk ran a poll recently asking if he should…
US Probing Automated Driving System Use in 2 Tesla Crashes
The U.S. government’s highway safety agency said Thursday it will send teams to investigate two November crashes in California and Ohio involving Teslas that may have been operating on automated driving systems. The probes bring to 35 the number of crashes investigated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) since 2016 in which either…
California Earthquake Puts Early Warning System to the Test
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—As sensors picked up the first signs of a strong earthquake jolting the Northern California coast, an alert was blasted to 3 million smartphone users telling them to “drop, cover, hold on.” It was hailed as the biggest test yet of the warning system since its public launch. But the people most rattled by…
Sen. Wyden Demands Answers From FBI on Hacking of Americans’ Phones
Democrat Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has called for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to provide public disclosures about the extent of its hacking of the phones of American citizens and the criteria that the FBI uses in determining when to put specialized software to use to manipulate a person’s phone. In a Dec….
Elon Musk Optimistic Twitter Will Be ‘Cash-Flow Break-Even’ in 2023
Twitter CEO Elon Musk expects the social media platform to be “cash-flow break-even” next year as the company’s cost-cutting and new revenue-generating measures averted a $3 billion shortfall. During a Twitter Spaces discussion on Wednesday, Musk revealed that the business was headed toward a “negative cash-flow situation of $3 billion a year” when he became…
Elon Musk Expects Twitter to Be ‘Cash Flow Break-Even’ Next Year
Elon Musk said Twitter Inc. is now on track to be “roughly cash flow break-even” next year, as the billionaire owner defended his deep cost-cutting measures at the social media platform. Twitter was previously tracking toward a “negative cash flow situation of $3 billion per year” before the cost cuts, Musk said on Wednesday in…
3 Chinese Nationals Charged for Pilfering Data From Spotify, Netflix, and Optus
Three Adelaide-based Chinese men have been charged for illegally obtaining the personal details of Spotify, Netflix, and Foxtel customers by using data leaked from Australian telecommunications giant Optus. Sheng Li, 24, on Dec. 20 faced 76 charges of money laundering and the federal charge of conspiracy, although he was initially charged with using other people’s…
Scientists Develop Gelatinous Robots to Crawl Through Human Body to Deliver Medical Payloads or Diagnose Illnesses
Scientists have developed miniature gelatinous robots that can crawl through the human body to deliver medicine or diagnose illnesses. The “gelbot” is powered by little more than temperature changes, and its innovative design, which resembles an inchworm, is one of the most promising concepts in the field of soft robotics, according to Jill Rosen of John Hopkins University….
Apple Fined 1 Million Euros by Paris Court Over App Store Practices
PARIS—The Paris Commercial Court on Monday fined iPhone maker Apple just over 1 million euros ($1.06 million) for imposing abusive commercial clauses on French app developers for access to the company’s App Store, the court ruling showed. The ruling, seen by Reuters, said there was no need to order Apple, which has a market value…
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