Shakeeb Ahmed, a former security engineer at Amazon, has pleaded guilty to charges of hacking and stealing over $12.3 million from two crypto exchanges in July 2022. This high-profile cybercrime incident, according to BleepingComputer reporting, has sent shockwaves through the cryptocurrency community, highlighting the vulnerabilities of decentralized finance platforms. The two exchanges victimized by Ahmed’s
Read MorePlus: The FBI’s baffling inaction on a ransomware group, a massive breach of Danish electric utilities, and more.
Read MoreApple has unveiled a new feature for its App Store subscriptions, termed “contingent pricing,” aimed at enhancing the way developers attract and retain subscribers, according to a recent 9To5Mac report. This innovative pricing strategy allows developers to offer discounted subscription rates to users who are already subscribed to another service. Outlined in a recent post
Read MoreIf you have software-defined radio hardware and you are only using someone elses’ software, you are missing out on half of the fun. [Tech Minds] shows you how easy it can be to roll your own software using GNU Radio Companion in a recent video. GNU Radio usually uses Python, but with the companion software
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Congress has extended Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for a few more months to April 2024. According to The New York Times, the program was included in the $886 billion National Defence Authorization Act, which passed the House by a vote of 310
Read MoreOpal’s latest webcam makes for a nice carry-on companion, one that packs a bigger, better sensor than Opal’s first offering. | Image: Opal Happy Saturday, dear readers! It’s been a relatively quiet week on the deals front — well, aside from the return of Walmart’s $349 Xbox Series X deal and a smattering of well-timed
Read MoreErin Woo / The Information: A look at the race for wearable AI as Meta adds multimodal AI to its Ray-Ban glasses and a source says OpenAI discussed adding GPT-4 with Vision to Snap devices — Next year’s artificial intelligence battle is coming into focus—and it’s all about glasses.
Read MoreSergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Ex-Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed pleads guilty to hacking and stealing over $12.3M from Nirvana Finance and an unnamed crypto exchange in July 2022 — Former Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed pleaded guilty this week to hacking and stealing over $12.3 million from two cryptocurrency exchanges in July 2022.
Read More[Chris Makes Stuff] is an aptly named channel. His recent video shows how he took a kid’s electric motorcycle toy and built a “penny farthing” bicycle. You might not know the bike by that name, but when you see it in the video below, you’ll recognize it. These Victorian-era bikes used a single large wheel
Read MoreGeorge Hammond / Financial Times: An interview with Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li on the lack of resources for academic AI, Silicon Valley’s “bro” culture, keeping AI safe for humanity, and more — The China-born technologist on Silicon Valley’s ‘bro’ culture — and her mission to keep AI safe for humanity
Read MoreClare Duffy / CNN: As TikTok rolls out its new Creativity Program Beta, some creators say they’re frustrated by its push to become a “mini YouTube” with videos of up to 15 minutes — New York CNN — — When TikTok took off in 2020 — with short dancing or comedy clips providing much-needed entertainment
Read MoreSergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Ex-Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed pleads guilty to hacking and stealing over $12.3M from Nirvana Finance and an unnamed crypto exchange in July 2022 — Former Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed pleaded guilty this week to hacking and stealing over $12.3 million from two cryptocurrency exchanges in July 2022.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple announced a pilot program called “contingent pricing for subscriptions” yesterday that will let App Store developers automatically offer discounted subscriptions for users of other apps. Developers, the company says, will be able to base this on subscriptions “from one developer or two different developers,” which lets them
Read MoreErin Woo / The Information: A look at the race for wearable AI as Meta adds multimodal AI to its Ray-Ban glasses and a source says OpenAI discussed adding GPT-4 with Vision to Snap devices — Next year’s artificial intelligence battle is coming into focus—and it’s all about glasses.
Read MoreThere are many places where you’d want to use remotely controlled robots, but perhaps forestry isn’t the first application to come to mind. Yet there are arguments to be made for replacing something like a big logging machine with grapple for a much smaller robot. The reduced ground pressure can be beneficial in fragile ecosystems,
Read MoreHannah Miao / Wall Street Journal: Robinhood received ~$1.1B in account transfers since it began offering a 1% match on transferred brokerage accounts on October 23, with 150+ transfers of $1M+ — Trading app receives $1.1 billion in account transfers since offering 1% match — Robinhood Markets , known for a clientele …
Read MoreImage: Epic Games Apple rules the iPhone’s App Store with an iron fist — sideloading outside it is not allowed. Google lets anyone install any app on an Android phone. But guess which one of these two companies has an illegal monopoly, according to the courts? As you probably already know, Google is the one
Read MoreIf there’s one thing we know about Google Pixel launches, it’s that some of the best features aren’t available until months down the road. Google uses regular Feature Drops to keep its phones feeling fresh and new long after they launch. While some Feature Drops center around bringing new features to older Pixels, others debut
Read MoreHannah Miao / Wall Street Journal: Robinhood received ~$1.1B in account transfers since it began offering a 1% match on transferred brokerage accounts on October 23, with 150+ transfers of $1M+ — Trading app receives $1.1 billion in account transfers since offering 1% match — Robinhood Markets , known for a clientele …
Read MoreEvery year, we orchestrate the voting for the Reader’s Choice Award for the best smartphone of the year. Historically, it’s been easy to foresee the winner by simply looking at Samsung’s top-of-the-line flagship that year, as this almost always ends up being our readers’ pick. In 2022, though, Google broke through and nabbed the Reader’s
Read MoreChance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple announces contingent pricing for subscriptions, letting developers give users a discounted price if they’re actively subscribed to another subscription — Apple has announced a new “contingent pricing” feature for subscriptions in the App Store. According to the company …
Read MoreMichael Acton / Financial Times: An interview with Tim Sweeney about Epic’s win over Google and his concerns that Google will “get away with continuing their scheme” through “fake” remedies — ‘Fortnite’ maker’s boss Tim Sweeney hopes court will avoid ‘fake’ remedies following landmark legal win over tech giant
Read MoreFor the longest time, Marvel has almost singularly fixated on heroes and villains that have it all. Thanos has his army and multi-dimensional prowess. Iron Man has his technology and money, a privilege Peter Parker gets to enjoy at the slightest inconvenience. Of course, there are a lot of tragic backstories, but it’s always met
Read MoreEvery year, we orchestrate the voting for the Reader’s Choice Award for the best smartphone of the year. Historically, it’s been easy to foresee the winner by simply looking at Samsung’s top-of-the-line flagship that year, as this almost always ends up being our readers’ pick. In 2022, though, Google broke through and nabbed the Reader’s
Read MoreThe two women are the stars of one of the most watches shows on Netflix this year. | Image Amanda Matlovich/Netflix Stop me if you’ve heard this one. You’re at a holiday gathering and some very offline family member starts chatting about the show Yellowstone. Pretty soon after a very online family member looks up
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