Journals

Consumer Reports: Researchers find serious security flaws in cheap video door bells sold by a Chinese company under various brands names on Amazon, Shein, and other sites  —  The devices are also sold by Walmart, Sears, and other retailers—and big… Read More »Researchers find serious security flaws in cheap video door bells sold by a Chinese company under various brands names on Amazon, Shein, and other sites (Consumer Reports)

Davey Winder / Forbes: Russian-speaking LockBit threatens to release Trump case documents in Fulton County Court that “could affect the upcoming US election” unless a ransom is paid  —  The LockBit ransomware group is threatening to release Fulton County Court… Read More »Russian-speaking LockBit threatens to release Trump case documents in Fulton County Court that “could affect the upcoming US election” unless a ransom is paid (Davey Winder/Forbes)

Morgan Sung / Rest of World: As Twitch shuts down in South Korea citing high costs due to new “sender pays” network rules, livestreamers struggle to use Korean rivals like AfreecaTV  —  The streaming giant attributed its departure to high… Read More »As Twitch shuts down in South Korea citing high costs due to new “sender pays” network rules, livestreamers struggle to use Korean rivals like AfreecaTV (Morgan Sung/Rest of World)

Timmy Shen / The Block: Arkham: the US government appears to have transferred out about $922M worth of bitcoin from two crypto wallets that held funds seized from a 2016 Bitfinex hack  —  – Arkham Intelligence data showed that two… Read More »Arkham: the US government appears to have transferred out about $922M worth of bitcoin from two crypto wallets that held funds seized from a 2016 Bitfinex hack (Timmy Shen/The Block)

Shivam Patel / Reuters: India approves setting up three chipmaking units worth $15.2B from companies including India’s Tata Group and Japan’s Renesas  —  India on Thursday approved setting up three chipmaking units worth 1.26 trillion rupees ($15.2 billion) from firms… Read More »India approves setting up three chipmaking units worth $15.2B from companies including India’s Tata Group and Japan’s Renesas (Shivam Patel/Reuters)

Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: Filing: Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi receives options to buy stock worth ~$136M after hitting a performance target to reach a $120B valuation for the company  —  Dara Khosrowshahi became entitled to award after meeting targets… Read More »Filing: Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi receives options to buy stock worth ~$136M after hitting a performance target to reach a $120B valuation for the company (Camilla Hodgson/Financial Times)

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Q&A with OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair on paying out $15B+ to creators since inception, negative perceptions of the site, hosting sports and other content, AI, more  —  The platform’s boss is proud of its adult-content… Read More »Q&A with OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair on paying out $15B+ to creators since inception, negative perceptions of the site, hosting sports and other content, AI, more (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: AI chatbots designed to help hackers, using manipulated versions of models from companies like Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, are being sold on the dark web  —  The dark web is home to a growing… Read More »AI chatbots designed to help hackers, using manipulated versions of models from companies like Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, are being sold on the dark web (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

Lucy Fisher / Financial Times: The UK is piloting the use of ChatGPT and open-source AI models to analyze responses to public consultations and write draft answers to parliamentary questions  —  Initiative is part of Rishi Sunak’s drive to boost… Read More »The UK is piloting the use of ChatGPT and open-source AI models to analyze responses to public consultations and write draft answers to parliamentary questions (Lucy Fisher/Financial Times)

Amrita Khalid / The Verge: X adds a feature that lets Spaces hosts enable live video when they create a new session, available on iOS  —  Spaces, the live audio feature for X, is now letting hosts turn on their… Read More »X adds a feature that lets Spaces hosts enable live video when they create a new session, available on iOS (Amrita Khalid/The Verge)