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TikTok’s Asian e-commerce haul quadrupled in a single year

TikTok’s Asian e-commerce haul quadrupled in a single year 2024-07-17 at 06:31 By Laura Dobberstein Rescued its partner in Indonesia as it dodged regulations Chinese short video platform TikTok is fast becoming an Asian e-commerce giant, according to analysis released by Singapore-based consultancy Momentum Works on Tuesday.… This article is an excerpt from The Register […]

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If you think AI labs wouldn’t stoop to using scraped YouTube subtitles for training, think again

If you think AI labs wouldn’t stoop to using scraped YouTube subtitles for training, think again 2024-07-17 at 04:46 By Matthew Connatser What next, nutrition labels on cartons? Probably Comment  FYI: It’s not just Reddit posts, books, articles, webpages, code, music, images, and so forth being used by multi-billion-dollar businesses for training neural networks. AI

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Iran’s MuddyWater phishes Israeli orgs with custom BugSleep backdoor

Iran’s MuddyWater phishes Israeli orgs with custom BugSleep backdoor 2024-07-17 at 03:16 By Jessica Lyons India, Turkey, also being targeted by campaign that relies on corporate email compromise MuddyWater, an Iranian government-backed cyber espionage crew, has upgraded its malware with a custom backdoor, which it’s used to target Israeli organizations.… This article is an excerpt

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On one Prime Day, Amazon warehouse workers endured ‘45% injury rate’

On one Prime Day, Amazon warehouse workers endured ‘45% injury rate’ 2024-07-17 at 00:46 By Matthew Connatser Bernie Sanders puts e-souk titan on blast for workplace harm Risk of workplace injury is extremely high for Amazon warehouse workers during Prime Day and the holiday season, according to a US Senate committee report.… This article is

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2.3 Million Users Affected by Advance Auto Parts Breach

2.3 Million Users Affected by Advance Auto Parts Breach 2024-07-17 at 00:01 Advance Auto Parts has confirmed that a data breach has affected over 2.3 million individuals, exposing sensitive personal information such as names, Social Security numbers, driver’s licenses, and government-issued identification numbers. This breach, which occurred between April 14, 2024, and May 24, 2024,

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Antitrust: GoDaddy under fire for banning DNS automation tool in favor of its own

Antitrust: GoDaddy under fire for banning DNS automation tool in favor of its own 2024-07-17 at 00:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Domain name giant yanked into court after Entri Connect disconnect GoDaddy is facing an antitrust lawsuit over claims it unfairly and underhandedly blackballed a smaller outfit’s DNS automation tool in favor of its own apparently

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You know what spreadsheets need? LLMs, says Microsoft

You know what spreadsheets need? LLMs, says Microsoft 2024-07-16 at 22:37 By Dan Robinson Excel-lent, Smithers, have we fired accounting yet? Researchers at Microsoft have developed a framework designed to make it easier for large language models (LLMs) to analyze the content of spreadsheets and perform data management and analysis tasks, because why not?… This

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Scattered Spider’s fave new ransomware tools are RansomHub and Qilin

Scattered Spider’s fave new ransomware tools are RansomHub and Qilin 2024-07-16 at 21:16 By Connor Jones Extortionists left hanging after rivals crawled into the woodwork The Scattered Spider cybercrime group is now using RansomHub and Qilin ransomware variants in its attacks, illustrating a possible power shift among hacking groups.… This article is an excerpt from

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65 years of NASA’s meatball: Original logo lives on despite detractors

65 years of NASA’s meatball: Original logo lives on despite detractors 2024-07-16 at 20:31 By Richard Speed Next year the ‘worm’ turns 50 – there’s room for both at the US space agency Logowatch  NASA is celebrating 65 years of its iconic “meatball” logo, despite spending the best part of 17 years trying to kill

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Huawei lays final bricks of billion-dollar Shanghai R&D complex

Huawei lays final bricks of billion-dollar Shanghai R&D complex 2024-07-16 at 19:47 By Matthew Connatser Billed as a city in its own right, center built to advance megacorp’s 5G, cloud, and AI tech Huawei’s massive R&D complex in Shanghai is finally built – intended to give the US-sanction-hit Chinese tech giant a boost when it

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Gartner nudges down global IT spending growth forecast as ‘change fatigue’ persists

Gartner nudges down global IT spending growth forecast as ‘change fatigue’ persists 2024-07-16 at 18:45 By Lindsay Clark Meanwhile, software vendors are left paying the GenAI ‘tax’ as users yet to see value Gartner has nudged down its expected growth in worldwide IT spending for 2024 from 8 percent to 7.5 percent, with the total

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UK competition officials launch merger probe of Microsoft, Inflection AI deal

UK competition officials launch merger probe of Microsoft, Inflection AI deal 2024-07-16 at 18:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo AI supremacy is a helluva drug, and Microsoft’s old habits die hard UK antitrust regulators today announced the beginning of a merger inquiry into Microsoft’s cash deal with startup Inflection AI, which included poaching employees. … This article is

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Microsoft to intro checkpoint cumulative updates for Win 11

Microsoft to intro checkpoint cumulative updates for Win 11 2024-07-16 at 17:17 By Richard Speed The mission? To spend less time in patch purgatory Microsoft is making yet another attempt to combat update bloat with checkpoint cumulative updates coming to both Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025.… This article is an excerpt from The

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‘Konfety’ Ad Fraud Uses 250+ Google Play Decoy Apps to Hide Malicious Twins

‘Konfety’ Ad Fraud Uses 250+ Google Play Decoy Apps to Hide Malicious Twins 2024-07-16 at 17:17 By Details have emerged about a “massive ad fraud operation” that leverages hundreds of apps on the Google Play Store to perform a host of nefarious activities. The campaign has been codenamed Konfety – the Russian word for Candy

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Rite Aid admits 2.2 million people’s data stolen by criminals

Rite Aid admits 2.2 million people’s data stolen by criminals 2024-07-16 at 16:46 By Connor Jones RansomHub allegedly strikes again as its star continues to rise in the cybercrime scene US drugstore chain Rite Aid has admitted that last month’s “data security incident” compromised the data of 2.2 million individuals.… This article is an excerpt

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Intel’s China investments may have spurred fresh US restrictions

Intel’s China investments may have spurred fresh US restrictions 2024-07-16 at 16:02 By Dan Robinson Has America been taking it too easy on local companies so far? Analysis  Intel’s investment arm might be forced to divest interests in China due to incoming US regulations governing American funds going to Chinese tech companies. The chipmaker is

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