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Microsoft attributes recent zero-day attacks on the MOVEit Transfer tool to the Clop ransomware gang; responders say the gang can take weeks to issue demands (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Microsoft attributes recent zero-day attacks on the MOVEit Transfer tool to the Clop ransomware gang; responders say the gang can take weeks to issue demands — Microsoft has linked the Clop ransomware gang to recent attacks exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer platform to steal data from organizations.

Singer C7290Q Sewing Machine Review: Stitches for Days

Make, mend, and alter clothes to your heart’s desire with this device both novices and experts will appreciate.

Tech layoffs, compounded by rising interest rates and inflation, lead to high unemployment levels and falling wages in California, Oregon, and Washington (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Tech layoffs, compounded by rising interest rates and inflation, lead to high unemployment levels and falling wages in California, Oregon, and Washington — California, Oregon and Washington have some of the nation’s highest jobless rates — The West Coast tech downturn is sending …

What to watch on Netflix and everything else you need to know

Though it has much stiffer competition than it once did, Netflix is still the indisputable king of streaming. The company, which launched more than 20 years ago, has since transformed its business model completely to match the ever-changing tech landscape. As a result, the company now boasts more than 223 million subscribers (as of October

The 13 best Peacock original series you can stream in 2023

Credit: Peacock NBCUniversal’s streamer Peacock is still a relatively new player in the streaming game. But it’s put out some good original content already, with original shows punching above their weight every week. With lots of streaming services to wade through, we thought we’d make it easy for you by pointing you to the best

Nothing Phone 2 renders leak: Is that an iPhone 6 with LEDs?

Credit: OnLeaks/SmartPrix Nothing Phone 2 renders have appeared online. The images suggest Nothing looked to the iPhone 6 series for inspiration. Otherwise, the handset seems like an evolution over the Phone 1. Nothing has been teasing the arrival of the Nothing Phone 2 for a while now, confirming several specs last month. Now, a trusted

The Trade-Offs for Privacy in a Post-Dobbs Era

In a world where health care in one state is a crime in another, the interconnectivity of electronic medical records puts patients’ reproductive health data at risk.

Apple store down ahead of WWDC 2023

The Apple Store is down ahead of WWDC 2023.

Bank records: Binance executive Guangying Chen controlled five Silvergate Bank accounts from 2019 to 2020 belonging to its purportedly independent US affiliate (Reuters)

Reuters: Bank records: Binance executive Guangying Chen controlled five Silvergate Bank accounts from 2019 to 2020 belonging to its purportedly independent US affiliate — A senior Binance executive was the main operator for five bank accounts belonging to the giant cryptocurrency exchange’s purportedly …

Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Some of Reddit’s biggest communities including r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and r/lifeprotips are planning to set themselves to private on June 12th over new pricing for third-party app developers to access the site’s APIs. Setting a subreddit to private, aka “going dark,” will mean that the communities taking part

Spotify plans to cut ~200 jobs, or 2% of its staff, at its podcast unit, combines Parcast and Gimlet into Spotify Studios, and reports 100M+ podcast listeners (Sahar Elhabashi/Spotify)

Sahar Elhabashi / Spotify: Spotify plans to cut ~200 jobs, or 2% of its staff, at its podcast unit, combines Parcast and Gimlet into Spotify Studios, and reports 100M+ podcast listeners — Below is an adaptation of an internal update on Spotify’s Podcast Business from Sahar Elhabashi, VP, Head of Podcast Business.

To protest API pricing for third-party Reddit apps, r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and other large subreddits plan to go private on June 12 for 48 hours (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge: To protest API pricing for third-party Reddit apps, r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and other large subreddits plan to go private on June 12 for 48 hours — Some of Reddit’s biggest communities including r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and r/lifeprotips are planning to set themselves …

Apple WWDC 2023 Liveblog: Watch Apple Announce a VR Headset, iOS 17, and New Macs

We’re coming to you live from the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, California. Stick with us during the keynote for analysis, commentary, and photos.

Inside 4chan’s Top-Secret Moderation Machine

Internal company documents reveal how the imageboard’s chaotic moderation allowed racism and violence to take over.

Hands-on with Google’s Search Generative Experience: answers are slow to load and often include unnecessary details, error messages for simple queries, and more (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge: Hands-on with Google’s Search Generative Experience: answers are slow to load and often include unnecessary details, error messages for simple queries, and more — Why wait for an AI-generated summary when I can just scroll down the page? … The worst thing about Google’s …

Internal document: Twitter’s US ad revenue from April 1 to the start of May dropped 59% YoY to $88M; sources say that performance is unlikely to improve soon (New York Times)

New York Times: Internal document: Twitter’s US ad revenue from April 1 to the start of May dropped 59% YoY to $88M; sources say that performance is unlikely to improve soon — In internal forecasts, the company projected that ad sales would keep declining, handing a tough challenge to its new chief executive.

Getting started with MQTT in Azure Event Grid

MQTT is an important technology for the industrial internet of things (IIoT), building on concepts from IBM’s venerable MQ Series message queue technology. MQTT was initially designed to deliver telemetry from SCADA control systems, with IBM handing the protocol over to the OASIS standards body in 2013. The standard is deliberately intended to evolve slowly,

Bitcoin developers feud over whether to stamp out memecoins, which have swarmed the network, led to an 11x spike in fees in May 2023, and created a logjam (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)

Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: Bitcoin developers feud over whether to stamp out memecoins, which have swarmed the network, led to an 11x spike in fees in May 2023, and created a logjam — The coders who maintain Bitcoin’s blockchain are clashing over whether to stamp out the meme tokens swarming the network.

An interview with sci-fi writer Ted Chiang on AI’s limits, how current machines lack consciousness, his 2010 book The Lifecycle of Software Objects, and more (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: An interview with sci-fi writer Ted Chiang on AI’s limits, how current machines lack consciousness, his 2010 book The Lifecycle of Software Objects, and more — The visionary author on the limits of AI, the uses of science fiction — and why there’s a ‘market opportunity for volleyballs’

An interview with Grab CEO Anthony Tan, who expects the company to break even in 2023 with $2.2B in revenue, on his super-app vision, social impact, and more (Charlie Campbell/TIME)

Charlie Campbell / TIME: An interview with Grab CEO Anthony Tan, who expects the company to break even in 2023 with $2.2B in revenue, on his super-app vision, social impact, and more — The lunchtime rush is just bubbling at Kedai Kopi hawker center in Singapore’s Clementi neighborhood when Anthony Tan strolls in.

3D Printing Safety (According to the UL)

If you want to start a heated discussion in 3D printing circles, ask people about the requirements to print safely. Is ABS safe to print without ventilation? Can you drink out of a PLA cup? How nasty is that photo resin if you spill it on yourself? If you are at home, it’s more or

Sources: Binance’s Richard Teng is the frontrunner to become CEO if CZ steps aside, as the succession issue becomes more urgent amid US regulatory scrutiny (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Binance’s Richard Teng is the frontrunner to become CEO if CZ steps aside, as the succession issue becomes more urgent amid US regulatory scrutiny — In mid-May, cryptocurrency exchange Binance got some bad news in a far-flung corner of its sprawling universe.

Microsoft is finally putting Cortana for Windows out of its misery

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Microsoft has announced that it’s killing off Cortana for Windows. It’s advised users to switch to Bing Chat and several other alternative tools. The news comes two years after Microsoft killed Cortana’s mobile apps. Microsoft made tech headlines this year with its Bing Chat AI tool and several other

Policymakers should not let tech executives shape the narrative that companies are best placed to regulate AI and should instead rely on independent oversight (Marietje Schaake/Financial Times)

Marietje Schaake / Financial Times: Policymakers should not let tech executives shape the narrative that companies are best placed to regulate AI and should instead rely on independent oversight — Policymakers must not let complexity stop them from doing their job — The writer is international policy director …

YouTube Music is getting a Spotify-style feature on Nest speakers

Credit: Joe Hindy / Android Authority YouTube Music is finally getting Spotify Connect-like automatic cast sessions. When you have music playing on a smart speaker, you can now open the YouTube Music app on your phone to control playback. This is a server-side change and will be rolling out gradually. One of the most convenient

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