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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers say a threat actor claims to have hacked Ticketmaster and Santander using stolen credentials of a Snowflake employee; Snowflake disputes the claims — A threat actor claiming recent Santander and Ticketmaster breaches says they stole data after hacking into an employee's account at cloud storage company Snowflake.
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| Owen Walker / Financial Times: |
Hacking group ShinyHunters offers to sell alleged data of Santander staff and 30M customers; Santander warned on May 14 that a database had been compromised — ShinyHunters group is advertising data it says includes account details of 30mn customers — Hackers are offering to sell …
More: BBC, BleepingComputer, Hackread, Daily Express, Daily Mail, The Mirror, Metro.co.uk, Security Affairs, The Daily Hodl, DeviceSecurity.io, The Guardian, ITPro, Cybernews.com, and Finextra
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Filing: Ticketmaster confirms “unauthorized activity within a third-party cloud database”, after a hacking group advertised alleged data of 560M users for sale — Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, confirmed it found “unauthorized activity” within a cloud database …
More: TechCrunch, Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., Security Affairs, WKBN-TV, NPR, Variety, New York Times, The Verge, nltimes.nl, Fox News, Deadline, Axios, and BBC
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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
AI search engine Perplexity launches Pages, which will research and create a customizable webpage based on user prompts, aimed at educators, researchers, others — AI search platform Perplexity is launching a new feature called Pages that will generate a customizable webpage based on user prompts.
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| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
President Biden vetoes a bill overturning SAB 121, a controversial SEC bulletin that establishes accounting standards for companies that custody crypto — - U.S. President Joe Biden vetoed a bill to overturn a controversial Securities and Exchange Commission bulletin, SAB 121 …
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| Alexandra Alter / New York Times: |
How TikTok influencers helped a self-published author sell 1M+ copies of her book, including ~700K on the TikTok shop, showing how TikTok changed book marketing — Keila Shaheen's “The Shadow Work Journal” shows how radically book sales and marketing have been changed by TikTok.
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| Michael Hytha / Bloomberg: |
LA-based Webtoon, owned by South Korea's Naver, files for a US IPO; sources: the online comics platform could seek to raise up to $500M at a $3B-$4B valuation — Los Angeles-based Webtoon said in a filing Friday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that South Korean internet company Naver … | Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
Content creators are amassing audiences of thousands on Twitch by covering political news and raising funds for Palestinians, as other platforms eschew politics — Dozens of content creators are leveraging the live streaming app to raise funds for Palestinians, circumventing political content bans on other platforms.
More: Tubefilter. Bluesky: @ricardo.bsky.social. X: @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @caprisunnpapi, and @jordanuhl
| Michael Roddan / The Information: |
Sources: a16z and other investors in the fintech Synapse, which filed for bankruptcy in early May, were aware of recordkeeping discrepancies for years — Millions of consumers who kept their savings with digital banking startups such as Yotta or Juno have lost access to their money as a result …
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| April Xu / Documented: |
Content creators are posting videos on Douyin giving Chinese migrants step-by-step instructions on how to get to the United States through Latin America — Xiong learned how to travel the path to the United States from Latin America through a community of migrants on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.| Bloomberg: |
What to expect at Computex 2024, where the CEOs of Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, and Arm are speaking, as AI hardware products like AI PCs take center stage — - Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, Arm chiefs all speaking at show — Computex popularity underscores Taiwan's global importance
More: Wccftech, Digital Trends, OC3D, MediaTek Inc., AnandTech, PCMag, Tom's Guide, Tom's Hardware, and Benzinga
| Politico: |
YC is lobbying in Washington to support “Little Tech” over concerns that AI regulations meant to head off harms will instead help Big Tech maintain its lead — Venture capital firms are bringing San Francisco's startup culture to Washington as they try to tip the regulatory scales away from giants in the sector.
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