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OpenAI discloses API customer data breach via Mixpanel vendor hack New ShadowV2 botnet malware used AWS outage as a test opportunity NordVPN Black Friday Deal: Unlock 77% off VPN plans in 2025 Popular Forge library gets fix for signature verification bypass flaw Comcast to pay $1.5M fine for vendor breach affecting 270K customers Multiple London councils' IT systems disrupted by cyberattack Microsoft: Security keys may prompt for PIN after recent updates Microsoft to secure Entra ID sign-ins from script injection attacks ASUS warns of new critical auth bypass flaw in AiCloud routers Passwork 7: Self-hosted password and secrets manager for enterprise teams OnSolve CodeRED cyberattack disrupts emergency alert systems nationwide The Black Friday 2025 Cybersecurity, IT, VPN, & Antivirus DealsArs Technica
OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide Tech firm’s new CTO gets indicted; company then claims he was never CTO Landlords’ go-to tool to set rent prices to be gutted under RealPage settlement DOGE “cut muscle, not fat”; 26K experts rehired after brutal cuts Tech company CTO and others indicted for exporting Nvidia chips to China Keep your receipts: Tech firms told to prepare for possible tariff refunds Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification Trump revives unpopular Ted Cruz plan to punish states that impose AI laws Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled in size He got sued for sharing public YouTube videos; nightmare ended in settlement GOP overhaul of broadband permit laws: Cities hate it, cable companies love it Faced with naked man, DoorDasher demands police action; they arrest her for illegal surveillance Meta wins monopoly trial, convinces judge that social networking is dead Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike UCLA faculty gets big win in suit against Trump’s university attacks US may owe $1 trillion in refunds if SCOTUS cancels Trump tariffs “How about no”: FCC boss Brendan Carr says he won’t end news distortion probes US spy satellites built by SpaceX send signals in the “wrong direction” Google claims win for everyone as text scammers lost their cloud server OpenAI slams court order that lets NYT read 20 million complete user chatsSlashdot
Apple Asks Indian Court to Block Antitrust Law Allowing $38 Billion Fine Greek Cybercrime Unit Shuts Down IPTV Pirates, 68 End Users Face Fines OpenAI Says Dead Teen Violated TOS When He Used ChatGPT To Plan Suicide Texas Buys $5 Million In BTC ETF As States Edge Toward First Government Crypto Reserves Warner Music Group Partners With Suno To Offer AI Likenesses of Its Artists Google Maps Will Let You Hide Your Identity When Writing Reviews CISA Warns Spyware Crews Are Breaking Into Signal and WhatsApp Accounts Trump Launches Genesis Mission, a Manhattan Project-Level AI Push Amazon Pledges Up To $50 Billion To Expand AI, Supercomputing For US Government Google Denies 'Misleading' Reports of Gmail Using Your Emails To Train AI 'The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming' Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program in Sacramento Magician Forgets Password To His Own Hand After RFID Chip Implant SEC Dismisses Case Against SolarWinds, Top Security Officer Tech Company CTO and Others Indicted For Exporting Nvidia Chips To ChinaEvents
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The VPN panic is only getting started Signal’s secure message backups arrive on iOS Press a button and this SSD will self-destruct with all your data The FCC is rolling back steps meant to stop a repeat of a massive telecom hack Cloudflare explains Tuesday’s outage that temporarily took down ChatGPT Cloudflare shows internet outages aren’t a matter of if — but when X launches Chat, its new encrypted DMs Google is collecting troves of data from downgraded Nest thermostatsThe Cipher Brief
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