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AT&T Only Learned of Massive 2022 Data Breach This April; Delayed Revealing It at the Request of U.S. Law Enforcement
krebsonsecurity.com/2024/07/hackers-steal-phone-sms-records-for-nearly-all-att-customers/
Brian Krebs:
In a written statement shared with KrebsOnSecurity, the FBI
confirmed that it asked AT&T to delay notifying affected
customers.
“Shortly after identifying a potential breach to customer data and
before making its materiality decision, AT&T contacted...
Google Chrome, Along With Other Popular Chromium Browsers, Grants System Monitoring Privileges to *.google.com Domains
Luca Casonato:
So, Google Chrome gives all *.google.com sites full access to
system / tab CPU usage, GPU usage, and memory usage. It also gives
access to detailed processor information, and provides a logging
backchannel.
This API is not exposed to other sites - only to...
Jason Fried
• Jason Fried
Achieving optionality
It took me a while to fully realize the value of something my company achieved years ago, and continues to savor today. It’s one of our greatest quiet advantages, full stop.It’s not something you hear much about in business circles. In fact, I can’t remember the last time ...
Massive Data Breach at AT&T Exposed Six Months of Call and SMS Records of Nearly All Customers
cnn.com/2024/07/12/business/att-customers-massive-breach/index.html
Matt Egan and Sean Lyngaas, reporting for CNN:
The call and text message records from mid-to-late 2022 of tens of
millions of AT&T cellphone customers and many non-AT&T customers
were exposed in a massive data breach, the telecom company
revealed Friday. AT&T...
Hermès’s H08 Watch, the Other Source for Samsung’s Ultra Rip-Off
I’ve seen a few people arguing that Samsung’s Galaxy Watch Ultra, though clearly inspired by Apple Watch Ultra, isn’t a rip-off, per se, because it’s not an exact clone. Ben Thompson even tried to argue such with me on Dithering this week.
Here, for example, is a literal cl...
European Commission Charges X With Breach of DSA
I guess the European Commission hasn’t taken off for their months-long summer vacation quite yet:
[T]he Commission has issued preliminary findings of non-compliance
on three grievances:
First, X designs and operates its interface for the “verified
accounts” with the...
Jason Fried
• Jason Fried
Directional decisions
In the course of building products, you’ll make a thousand common decisions, but only a handful of directional decisions.While a common decision may alter a specific feature, design, or implementation, a directional decision remaps the fundamental trajectory of the entire ...
Amid Antitrust Scrutiny, Microsoft Drops OpenAI Board Observer Seat, and Apple, Reversing Course, Will Not Take One
Camilla Hodgson and George Hammond, reporting for The Financial Times:
Microsoft has given up its seat as an observer on the board of
OpenAI while Apple will not take up a similar position, amid
growing scrutiny by global regulators of Big Tech’s investments in
AI start-...
M1 MacBook Air Drops from $700 to $650 at Walmart
Joe Rossignol, MacRumors:
Walmart+ members have early access to the deal as of 12 p.m.
Eastern Time today, and it will be available to all Walmart
customers starting at 6 p.m. Eastern Time today.
Walmart first began selling the MacBook Air with the M1 chip for
$699 in M...
Pennsylvania Is, Finally, Getting Beautiful License Plates
I’ve been a big fan of Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro since his term as our attorney general. He was absolutely fantastic in the aftermath of the 2020 election, when Trump attempted to steal Pennsylvania.
But as of this week he might be my favorite politician in the entire country. He accomplished what I had long ago given up hope of ever seeing: replacing PA’s fugly-as-sin license plates with a new design that’s among the best I’ve ever seen. Good typography, great colors, and a new slogan and icon that exemplify Pennsylvania’s role as the birthplace of the longest-standing democracy the world has ever seen: the Liberty Bell.
Bravo.
(Next job: Apply this same design language to our god-awful driver’s licenses.)
Update: Design credit for both the new plates and welcome signage goes to Robyn Kanner.
Samsung Rips Off Apple Watch Ultra, Right Down to the Name
Quinn Nelson on X:
Watch Ultra is the most shameless copy of an Apple product in
ages — and it’s hideous
Wait, it gets more shameless — Buds3 and Buds3 Pro are clones
of AirPods
It’s sad to see Samsung — who once was a leader in design and
innovation — start knocking ...
Flight Tracking in Messages (and Anywhere Data Detectors Work)
cnet.com/tech/mobile/you-can-track-any-flight-directly-from-your-iphones-text-messages/
Nelson Aguilar and Blake Stimac, writing for CNet:
That’s right. There’s a hidden flight tracker built right into
iMessage that you probably would have never noticed unless you
threw in the right combination of details within a message. [...]
Although the airline name/f...
Windows Notepad Finally Gets Spellcheck and Autocorrect
Dave Grochocki, writing for Microsoft’s Windows Insider Blog:
With this update, Notepad will now highlight misspelled words and
provide suggestions so that you can easily identify and correct
mistakes. We are also introducing autocorrect which seamlessly
fixes common typ...
New Cars in the EU Now Equipped With Nagging Speed Limiters
lbc.co.uk/news/new-cars-fitted-automatic-speed-limiters-this-week/
Kieran Kelly, reporting for LBC:
New cars that are sold in Europe from this week will host
automatically-installed speed limiters, following the introduction
of a new EU law.
Even though the rule to install the technology does not apply in
the UK, many of the cars will ...
Daring Fireball
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