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18 Oct 2024

Brazilian police arrested the hacker who stole everyone’s SSN

The Federal Police of Brazil announced the arrest of the hacker linked to a breach that leaked 2.9 billion records that included sensitive personal information, including some Social Security numbers. The data from that hack, which came to light in August, was put for sale on the dark web in April by an entity identifying themselves as USDoD. As pointed out by Bleeping Computer, according to a machine translation of the department’s press release, the hacker was linked to “two publications selling” federal police data. The hacker also boasted of disclosing the personal data of 80,000 members of the FBI’s InfraGard program, the department said. Security researchers at Atlas have created a tool to search the leaked records and told P

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by theverge
18 Oct 2024

Automattic offered employees another chance to quit over WordPress drama

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg offered a second buyout round to employees who don’t agree with his actions, according to a report from 404 Media. In a message to employees seen by the outlet, Mullenweg gave employees until October 17th to decide whether they would resign in exchange for nine months of pay.“New alignment offer: I guess some people were sad they missed the last window. Some have been leaking to the press and ex-employees,” Mullenweg wrote in the message seen by 404 Media. “You have until 00:00 UTC Oct 17 (-4 hours) to DM me the words, ‘I resign and would like to take the 9-month buy-out offer’ You don’t have to say any reason, or anything else. I will reply ‘Thank you.’ Automattic will accept your resignation.”Earlier

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by theverge
18 Oct 2024

YouTube is testing its cheaper Premium Lite subscription again, but it now has limited ads

Last year, YouTube axed Premium Lite, its cheaper version of YouTube Premium, but the company has been testing a new version of the subscription in Australia, Germany, and Thailand, YouTube confirmed to Android Authority.The company confirmed the tests to The Verge as well, with spokesperson Jessica Gibby saying that it has been testing a “different version” of the subscription with “some users in Australia, Germany and Thailand for several months (with the most recent one beginning in Australia at the start of this year).” Gibby adds that “we don’t have anything else to share in terms of a broader rollout at this time.”According to a screenshot shared by singer-songwriter Jonah Manzano on Threads, the Premium Lite subscription in

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by theverge
17 Oct 2024

Airbnb can now help you find somebody to manage your listing

Airbnb is making it easier for hosts to find someone to manage their Airbnb. The new “Co-Host Network,” which is available starting today, lets you compare co-hosts and work with the co-hosts that you hire right inside the app. Third-party Airbnb management companies are quite common already, but a co-host network directly in the Airbnb app could be a more convenient option for some users.Co-hosts can help with things like managing your listing and messaging guests that have booked at your Airbnb. Hosts are also able to choose from a range of payout options for their co-hosts, such as a cleaning fee, a percentage per booking, or a fixed amount. Airbnb has been piloting a co-hosting hiring service for “several years,” Skift reports, but

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by theverge
18 Oct 2024

Unity attempts to turn things around with its latest game engine release

Unity hasn’t had the easiest go of things as of late, but as part of its efforts to get back in the good graces of game developers, the company has released Unity 6 globally. In addition to new features like tools that let developers to target mobile web, the game engine maker is also promising that it will dedicate “long-term” resources to “to enhance feature sets and deliver new functionality while maintaining ease of upgrade and continued stability,” according to a press release.Unity is a widely-used game development engine powering games like Among Us, Hollow Knight, and many more, but the release of Unity 6 follows a turbulent period in the company’s history. Unity charges developers on a per-user basis, but in September 2023, the

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by theverge
18 Oct 2024

McLaren updates Google Chrome

McLaren is updating the version of Google Chrome on its F1 racecar. By that, I mean: McLaren’s got more Google Chrome logos and chrome finish than usual on the F1 car it’s bringing to the US Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, this weekend.McLaren’s MCL38 continues the tradition of rocking Google-colored wheels and logos, but like last year’s special British Grand Prix version, the livery for this weekend’s race has a splash of literal chrome beneath the Chrome logo, looking like it came out of a custom car shop from the aughts. This time, however, McLaren has added extra Chrome logos and what looks like a heavier slathering of metallic chrome that extends down the sidewalls.It’s a lot of chrome, as driver

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by theverge
18 Oct 2024

Rivian’s new update could make your EV feel like Knight Rider (or Back to the Future)

Rivian’s getting into the Halloween spirit by adding new “car costumes” to its electric vehicles that can theme out its screens to look like the Time Machine interface from Back to the Future or KITT from Knight Rider. (It’ll animate red KITT-like scanner lights on the front of the car, too.) There’s also a non-IP-specific “Haunted” theme that displays a ghostly static TV screen inside the car.The costumes will come via a software update Rivian will roll out right after midnight local time tonight (October 18th at 12:01am). R1T and R1S vehicles must already have the 2024.39 update installed to get the new features, as well as the latest version of the mobile app.

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by theverge
17 Oct 2024

Anthropic’s CEO thinks AI will lead to a utopia — he just needs a few billion dollars first

If you want to raise ungodly amounts of money, you better have some godly reasons.That’s what Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei laid out for us on Friday in more than 14,000 words: otherworldly ways in which artificial general intelligence (AGI, though he prefers to call it “powerful AI”) will change our lives. In the blog, titled “Machines of Loving Grace,” he envisions a future where AI could compress 100 years of medical progress into a decade, cure mental illnesses like PTSD and depression, upload your mind to the cloud, and alleviate poverty. At the same time, it’s reported that Anthropic is hoping to raise fresh funds at a $40 billion valuation.Today’s AI can do exactly none of what Amodei imagines. It will take, by his own admission, h

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