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Musk on reported Trump donations: “I don’t prescribe to cult of personality”
Billionaire Elon Musk denied media reports that he has been donating $45 million a month to former President Donald Trump’s election campaign.
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Leave big tech alone: breakup would harm the economy, think tank warns
Large corporations, including big tech, are dominant in the market. However, the independent think tank Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) argues that breaking them up or otherwise limiting them may not be the best approach as it harms innovation and efficiency.
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AT&T outage due to failed network update, FCC releases new findings
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has finished its investigation into February’s hours-long AT&T outage that disrupted dozens of 911 call centers nationwide and says the telecom giant’s lack of “best practices” and numerous “procedural errors” led to the public safety fiasco.
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CrowdStrike CEO called to testify over outage by US Congress
US lawmakers have called on CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to testify on Capitol Hill and explain in detail the events leading up to last Friday’s global tech outage.
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Influencers like Andrew Tate drive extreme misogyny, British police say
Online influencers like Andrew Tate are radicalizing young boys and men in much the same way terrorists recruit followers, the police have warned.
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Tesla's Cybertruck will be a new combat vehicle on Fortnite
The contentious electric truck makes its debut in two of Epic Games' major titles - Fortnite and Rocket League.
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NoName pro-Russian hackers arrested in Spain, group vows retaliation
Pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16) unleashes a wave of attacks against Spain after three of its members are arrested by Spanish authorities over the weekend.
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Delta CEO expects delays to last for days, cancels 800 flights
US carrier Delta Air Lines CEO says recovery from last week's global cyber outage will drag on for days as hundreds more flights are cancelled, stranding thousands of passengers for the fourth day in a row.
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Musk says Tesla will employ humanoid robots by 2025
Elon Musk on Monday said that “useful” humanoid robots will begin working internally at Tesla factories by 2025.
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Disastrous CrowdStrike update disrupts 8.5 million systems, Microsoft offers recovery tool
A software update pushed by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike knocked offline 8.5 million Windows devices, which is less than one percent of machines relying on this operating system, Microsoft said. Redmond giant also released a tool to help recover affected computers.
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CrowdStrike CEO releases statement on global IT outage
CrowdStrike CEO and founder George Kurtz released an official statement Friday – in an attempt to explain to thousands of customers worldwide – how the largest IT outage in world history came to be, and how the American cybersecurity firm plans to make sure it never happens again.
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CrowdStrike airline delays reverberate in wake of IT outage
Delta, American, and United Airlines, all impacted by the CrowdStrike IT outage, say some operations are back online after thousands of US flight delays and cancelations.
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Shoppers won’t receive furniture orders after ransomware attack
Basset Furniture, one of the oldest furniture manufacturers in the US, is stopping its manufacturing operations after a ransomware attack on its systems.
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Widespread IT outage affects banking, media, airlines and other services
Shopping baskets blocking self-serve checkouts, crowds at airports, banks offline – widespread IT outages have sent multiple systems haywire.
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FBI cracks Trump shooter phone in 40 minutes (with some outside help)
After numerous attempts, the FBI has finally unlocked the cell phone belonging to the man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump at a Presidential campaign rally last weekend – and it only took 40 minutes – with some outside help from an Israeli cyber intel firm.
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AT&T reports arrest made in April hack, updates affected customers
AT&T reveals an arrest has been made related to the April 14th hack of 109 million landline and mobile customers in an updated post to customers Wednesday.
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Ransomware recovery in energy, water sectors hits $3M, quadrupling in one year
The median ransomware recovery cost for two critical infrastructure sectors, energy and water, has quadrupled to $3 million in a year, according to Sophos.
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London Borough of Hackney reprimanded over cyberattack
At least 280,000 residents of London's trendy Hackney borough were affected by a cyberattack in 2020 when bad actors gained access to the local council's systems and encrypted 440,000 files.
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Coinbase third-party breach reveals bank account numbers
The American cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase is notifying customers “out of an abundance of caution” of a recent third-party data breach that may involve some of their personal information.
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Internet users with disabilities guaranteed web access under new rule
The US government has published new regulations requiring all webpages and mobile apps to be ADA-compliant, guaranteeing accessibility for individuals with disabilities, such as vision and hearing loss.
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