Tech Meme

Jenna Moon / Semafor: TV and radio stations in some Russian cities on Ukraine’s border broadcast a deep fake video of Putin declaring martial law on June 5; Russia blames a “hack”  —  A deep fake video depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin declaring martial law and warning that he would order … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Microsoft attributes recent attacks on Progress’ MOVEit Transfer tool to the Clop ransomware gang; incident responders: 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. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal: Stanford researchers: Twitter didn’t stop uploads of 40+ known child sexual abuse images in recent months; the issue seemed fixed in May after staff were told  —  Social-media platform has now improved its detection system, Stanford Internet Observatory was told Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google announces passkeys on Workspace accounts in open beta, letting staff at 9M+ organizations sign in without a password, rolling out in the coming weeks  —  Google has taken a significant step toward a passwordless future with the start of an open beta for passkeys on Workspace accounts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ilena Peng / Bloomberg: Carbon Health launches a GPT-4 tool to create medical records, using Amazon Transcribe Medical for transcription, and says nearly 90% are accepted without edits  —  A new tool uses GPT artificial intelligence to create medical records, allowing doctors to focus on their patients instead of their notes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: To protest Reddit’s API pricing for third-party apps, r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and other big 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 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Internal document: Twitter’s US ad revenue from April 1 to the first week of May fell 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. Lees verder op Tech Meme

William Turton / Bloomberg: BA, the BBC, and others warn staff that their data may have been stolen in Progress’ MOVEit hack; thousands of companies could be impacted by the vulnerability  —  British Airways and the government of Nova Scotia are among the earliest known victims of an ongoing hacking campaign … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jenna Moon / Semafor: A deep fake video of Putin declaring martial law was broadcast on TVs and radios in some Russian cities on Ukraine’s border; Russia says it was due to a “hack”  —  A deep fake video depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin declaring martial law and warning that he would order … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: The SEC sues Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao, accusing the company of mishandling billions in customer funds, lying to regulators and investors, and more  —  The S.E.C. said the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange mixed “billions of dollars” in customer funds and secretly sent … Lees verder op Tech Meme