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An ID verification company that works on behalf of TikTok, X and Uber, among others, has left a set of administrative credentials exposed for more than a year, as reported by 404 Media. The Israel-based AU10TIX verifies the identity of users by using pictures of their faces and drivers’ licenses, potentially opening up both to hackers.
“My personal reading of this situation is that an ID Verification service provider was entrusted with people's identities and it failed to implement simple measures to protec
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American consumers are getting tighter with their wallets and pickier about deals, which means retailers should take cues from Walmart and Costco. Read more ›
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The Realme 12 Pro+ arrived in January, and the company is already working on its successor, the Realme 13 Pro+. This has now been certified by the FCC ahead of its global availability. The certification process has revealed the fact that the Realme 13 Pro+ comes with a 5,050 mAh battery, and it will run Android 14 when it launches. Realme 13 Pro+ (RMX3921) receives FCC certification, reveals following:- ColorOS... Read more ›
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Chinese-made Pocket 386 is a tiny retro laptop that comes with Windows 3.11 but can be upgraded to Windows 95. Read more ›
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On Sunday evening, gunmen attacked two Orthodox churches and two synagogues in Russia's Dagestan region, killing around 20 people. Read more ›
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Monroe's Brentwood home is safe from demolition, as it was ruled a historic cultural landmark on Wednesday. Read more ›
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Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman said at the Aspen Ideas Festival that AI is going to "turbocharge" our capacity to produce knowledge. Read more ›
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There are plenty of high-speed internet service providers in Hayward -- but which one is the best? Read more ›
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Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel said OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman can't be trusted with artificial intelligence and called for government intervention. Read more ›
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The New York Times' Editorial Board called for President Joe Biden to end his campaign after Thursday's disastrous debate performance against Trump. Read more ›
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Rupert Murdoch has spent at least two years trying to sell his NYC penthouse, slashing its original listing price from $62 million to $28.5 million. Read more ›
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Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, said that her family's billionaire status "ends with me." Read more ›
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The Supreme Court handed down what is likely to be one of its most consequential modern-day decisions on Friday. Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo fully consolidates the Court’s dominance over federal agencies within the executive branch of government. It is a radical reordering of the US separation of powers, giving the one unelected branch of […] Read more ›
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Photo by Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit Microsoft AI boss Mustafa Suleyman incorrectly believes that the moment you publish anything on the open web, it becomes “freeware” that anyone can freely copy and use. When CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin asked him whether “AI companies have effectively stolen the world’s IP,” he said: I think that with respect to content that’s already on the open web, the social contract of... Read more ›
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Tim Milgram is part of the Los Angeles dance community. When he learned about the 7M TikTok cult, he knew he had to do something to help — so he pitched a documentary. Read more ›
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A driver told police that his Tesla drove onto active train tracks when it mistook them for a road. It's the latest in issues with Autopilot. Read more ›
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"My favorite thing about living in a 3D printed house is really the aesthetic," said homeowner Daniella Glaeze. Read more ›
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This week’s episode of The Acolyte makes for one of the most brutal half-hours of Star Wars action we’ve had in a while, as a group of Jedi come face to face with the sinister threat of the Stranger—a masked monster that proves a lot more than they could’ve ever anticipated handling. Suffice to say, things don’t go wellRead more... Read more ›
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Tesla’s Cybertruck is being recalled yet again, according to reporting by The Verge. The company issued a physical recall that could impact nearly 12,000 owners of the controversial vehicle. Here’s how it breaks down. The company’s recalling 11,688 Cybertrucks due to a faulty windshield wiper that could significantly reduce visibility while driving. It’s also recalling 11,383 electric pickups because of trim in the bed that could come loose and create... Read more ›
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A YouTube Live broadcast that ran for five hours today used a deepfake of Elon Musk to push a cryptocurrency scam. The video, which has has since been taken down, showed a clip of Musk that was meant to look like a livestream from a Tesla event, with an AI-generated version of his voice instructing viewers to visit a website and deposit their bitcoin, Ethereum or Dogecoin in order to... Read more ›
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SpaceX just won a $843 million contract to, basically, crash the International Space Station (ISS) into the sea. It’s part of a NASA program to safely deorbit the ISS within the next ten years. The ISS has been continuously operating since 1998 and, like all things, has been aging. The space station is due to end its orbital tenure in or around 2030. However, NASA doesn’t want the whole thing... Read more ›
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Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who flew on the much-delayed first crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner craft, won’t be coming home from the International Space Station until sometime next month, well past their originally planned return date of June 14. NASA announced last night that it's pushing the date of their return trip back even further in order to allow for more reviews into problems that arose with Starliner... Read more ›
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Volkswagen and EV company Rivian have entered a new partnership, and the total price tag for the collaboration could reach an eye-popping $5 billion. The businesses are launching a joint venture to develop platforms for “software-defined vehicles.” According to the press release announcing the deal, the joint venture's work will focus on Rivian's zone-based approach to electric vehicles, which significantly reduces the complexity of the wiring and electronics. Both Rivian... Read more ›
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Reddit has a warning for AI companies and other scrapers: play by our rules or get blocked. The company said in an update that it plans to update its Robots Exclusion Protocol (robots.txt file), which allows it to block automated scraping of its platform. The company said it will also continue to block and rate-limit crawlers and other bots that don’t have a prior agreement with the company. The changes,... Read more ›
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One of the more compelling features Apple showed off for macOS at Worldwide Developers Conference 2024 earlier this month is the ability to mirror your iPhone to your desktop. Brave souls who don't mind installing developer betas on their devices can now check that out for themselves, as it's available in the latest iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia builds. The first public betas of both operating systems are expected to... Read more ›
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Atari pretty much started this whole home console gaming thing with the 2600, a precursor to the NES. That console is 45 years old and Atari itself was formed well over 50 years ago. To originally commemorate its 50th birthday, the company released a robust collection of games called Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration. Now, it’s getting a hefty update with nearly 40 additional games, though Atari has yet to... Read more ›
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It’s been a weekend of crypto scams, hacks and deepfake chaos. Late on Friday, someone hacked 50 Cent’s accounts to push memecoin GUNIT and made off with millions. The exact amount is unclear; Fiddy himself wrote on Instagram, “whoever did this made $3,000,000 in 30 minutes.” The rapper’s X account and website were hacked at the same time. Then, multiple deepfakes of Elon Musk were spotted on YouTube, telling viewers... Read more ›
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It has been nearly a year since the European Commission opened its investigation into Microsoft and there's finally a preliminary finding. The European Union's executive body announced its "view" that the tech giant violated antitrust laws by tying Microsoft Teams to its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 business suites. Last October, Microsoft unbundled Teams for users in the European Union and Switzerland, but the European Commission's Statement of Objections calls... Read more ›
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