Month: July 2024
AT&T just suffered one of the worst data breaches in years – and nobody’s safe
AT&T has admitted that ‘tens of millions’ of customers were involved in a huge data breach that rocked the telecom titan back in 2022. Although the breach impacted AT&T cellphone customers, the company has since stated that the exposed data did not contain the contents of personal calls and messages,…
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China’s cloud push is coming at a big environmental cost — and it’s affecting Microsoft and others too
A new study has highlighted the slow progress of China’s major cloud computing and data center companies in adopting renewable energy. The Greenpeace report reveals VNEP Group, the operator of Microsoft 365 in China, uses just 4.35% renewable energy. The news comes days after it was revealed China wants to…
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Nearly everything on 8BitDo’s hefty $100 gamepad is made of metal
8BitDo’s shiny silver- and gold-finished 11th anniversary SN30 Pro gamepads feature housings and controls made of so much metal that they weigh in at 381 grams — almost an entire pound. As spotted by Polygon, the company went nearly all in on the metal facelift for its SN30 Pro gamepad,…
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It looks like CDK paid a $25 million ransom in crypto to finally end its outage
CDK Global has apparently paid up in order to end the ransomware attack which recently crippled its operations, and brought a large part of North American car dealership businesses to a screeching halt. Citing multiple anonymous sources familiar with the matter, CNN claims CDK has paid the attackers $25 million…
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Millions of spyware customers exposed in mega data breach
Another spyware company has been breached, with sensitive data held on its customers leaked online, researchers have revealed. This time, it’s the Ukrainian company Brainstack, which builds and maintains mSpy, which currently has around 1.5 million users. The breach came after unidentified threat actors reportedly broke into the company’s Zendesk…
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Southwest Airlines and Archer strike a deal for an electric air taxi network
Today, Southwest Airlines became the latest major carrier to join forces with a so-called urban air mobility startup. The Dallas-based airline signed a memorandum of understanding with Archer Aviation to draw up plans for an air taxi service. The service will operate using Archer’s battery-powered, four-passenger, tilt-rotor Midnight aircraft, which…
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