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Twitter Blue: a license to peddle fakes?
Elon Musk’s monthly subscription blue check mark, available for $8 a month and already mired in controversy, is enabling independently confirmed peddlers of disinformation to spread fake and misleading content, a watchdog has claimed.
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Hyundai data breach exposed customer info
Hyundai customers in Italy and France have received letters informing them their data was accessed in a recent breach suffered by regional branches of the South Korean automaker.
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Royal Dutch Football Association claimed as LockBit victim
The infamous LockBit ransomware gang claims to have breached the Royal Dutch Football Association and threatens to expose private data.
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ChatGPT will resume in Italy if it meets watchdog’s demands
Italy’s data protection agency said it would only allow ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence service, to resume in the country if it meets a set of demands by April 30. OpenAI, the company behind the popular chatbot, welcomed the decision.
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NPR quits Twitter – but app doesn’t work as referral source anyway
America’s National Public Radio (NPR) says it will no longer post content on its Twitter feeds after the platform branded it “government-funded media”, and several other public news organizations followed suit. But Twitter was never that important to media outlets, research shows.
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MSI attackers leak over 500GB of stolen data
A data breach of a major Taiwanese computer manufacturer culminated in cybercriminals leaking several of the company’s databases, acquired in a recent ransomware attack.
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Starlink outage over certificate ‘inexcusable’
Elon Musk’s Starlink went down for several hours over an expired digital certificate that machines rely on to work together.
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OpenAI bug bounty program offers up to $20k finders fee
Finding a vulnerability in ChatGPT could net you up to $20,000 under OpenAI’s new bug-bounty program, but the company said it won't include ChatGPT misfires from prompt misuse and hallucinations.
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Twitter in row with BBC after branding it ‘government funded’
Elon Musk’s fight with media organizations continues. After branding America’s National Public Radio (NPR) “state-affiliated” media, Twitter now designated the BBC, Britain’s national broadcaster, “government funded.”
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Pizza Hut, Taco Bell owner confirms data breach
Yum! Brands, the fast-food corporation behind the KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell franchises, has confirmed attackers breached its systems, exposing sensitive data.
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New York's oldest law firm hacked, over 90k clients affected
The cyberattack on white-shoe law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has put the personal information of over 90,000 clients at risk.
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Prescott College attackers steal driver’s license numbers
Prescott College, a US-based private school, warned thousands of victims of a data breach that exposed their personal information.
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Crossbow firm discloses data breach: crooks compromised credit card data
Killer Instinct, a company that trades high-tech modern adaptations of the archaic long-range weapon, has disclosed a data breach affecting over 800 users.
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Cash App founder Bob Lee fatally wounded in San Francisco stabbing
Bob Lee, a chief product officer at cryptocurrency company MobileCoin, has passed away after a stabbing incident in downtown San Francisco.
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O'Neal Industries discloses data breach affecting its former employees
An Alabama-based holding company specializing in the metals service industry said an attacker accessed its network using a "highly sophisticated type of malware that evaded virus detection".
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Rogers Communications data allegedly sold on a hacker forum
Rogers’ leak includes data from the company’s active directory, including information on customers, the attackers claim.
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UK’s state hackers take on hostile countries and terrorists
For the first time, the government of the United Kingdom formally confirmed its National Cyber Force (NCF) has been conducting offensive operations – against unfriendly regimes and terrorist organizations.
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Belgian man commits suicide after talking to chatbot
There are quite a few AI-supported chatbots designed to assist you with your mental health. But in Belgium, a talk with a virtual assistant didn’t help a young man at all – he committed suicide.
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Ukraine hacktivists trick wives into exposing Russian airmen suspected of war crimes
Military wives' sultry photos have led Ukrainian hacktivists to sensitive personal information about Russian air force pilots accused of war crimes in Ukraine.
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ChatGPT tied to Samsung’s alleged data leak
Samsung employees have been reported by local media as sharing confidential data with ChatGPT, opening up the data to OpenAI’s users.
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