Tech Meme

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Sources: Scattered Spider conducted a ransomware attack on UK retailer M&S, which employs 64,000 in 1,400+ stores, causing widespread disruption from April 22  —  Ongoing outages at British retail giant Marks & Spencer are caused by a ransomware attack believed to be conducted … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Punchbowl News: Source: Amazon plans to soon show how much President Trump’s tariffs are adding to the price of each product, right next to its total listed price  —  Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers  —  Schatz moves quickly to lock up whip race  —  Gaming out reconciliation Lees verder op Tech Meme

Google Cloud Blog: Google tracked 75 zero days exploited in the wild in 2024, down from 98 in 2023 but up from 63 in 2022; state-sponsored threat groups led in zero-day exploits  —  Google Threat Intelligence  —  Visibility and context on the threats that matter most.  —  Executive Summary Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joey Roulette / Reuters: Amazon launches 27 satellites for its Project Kuiper broadband internet program, the first batch of 3,236 satellites that it plans to send into low-Earth orbit  —  The first 27 satellites for Amazon’s Kuiper broadband internet constellation were launched into space from Florida on Monday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Critics fear the Trump administration could weaponize the Take It Down Act, one of the few online safety bills to pass in years, against content it dislikes  —  Critics warn it could have grave consequences for online speech and encryption. … The Take It Down Act is heading … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Will Oremus / Washington Post: The US House passes the Take It Down Act to criminalize posting nonconsensual intimate imagery, including deepfakes, and require online platforms to remove them  —  Trump is expected to sign into law a bill that would force online platforms to quickly take down nonconsensual intimate images. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Google Cloud Blog: Google tracked 75 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild in 2024, down from 98 in 2023 but up from 63 in 2022, with government hackers leading the use  —  Google Threat Intelligence  —  Visibility and context on the threats that matter most.  —  Executive Summary Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Sources: Scattered Spider carried out a ransomware attack on UK retailer M&S, which employs 64K+ in 1,400 stores, that caused huge disruption starting April 22  —  Ongoing outages at British retail giant Marks & Spencer are caused by a ransomware attack believed to be conducted … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn says the company will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle”, as part of an announcement to be “AI-first”  —  The company is going to be ‘AI-first,’ says its CEO. … Duolingo will “gradually stop using contractors … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paige Smith / Bloomberg: PayPal reports Q1 net revenue up 1% YoY to $7.8B, transaction margin dollars up 7% to $3.7B, above est., TPV up 3% to $417.2B, and active accounts up 2% to 436M  —  PayPal Holdings Inc. beat analysts’ estimates on a key profitability gauge, another sign of progress for Chief Executive Officer Alex Chriss’s turnaround plan. Lees verder op Tech Meme