Author: Zach_Wilson
170 million strong data leak traced to US data broker
Cybernews researchers have uncovered a colossal data leak believed to be related to People Data Labs (PDL), a San Francisco-based data broker, containing over 170 million records. Breached data includes sensitive information like full names, phone numbers, emails, location, skills, professional summaries, education history and employment history, putting those affected…
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Tesla has a not-so-secret plan to replace a fundamental-but-flawed building block of the Internet — Musk’s Exascale DOJO supercomputer will use TTPoE instead of the universal TCP and wants the world to embrace it
Tesla is looking to replace the widely-used Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) with its own offering. The company says Tesla Transport Protocol over Ethernet (TTPoE) is designed to support high-speed, low-latency communication, especially in environments where reliable data transfer is essential. TTPoE, integral to Tesla’s DOJO supercomputer, is optimized for the…
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New Meta VR headset in FCC certification teases an imminent Quest 3S launch
Meta Connect 2024 is fast approaching, and one of the announcements we’ll almost certainly get on September 25 will be for the Meta Quest 3S. We not only saw a batch of details from regular leakers, Meta itself leaked the headset’s existence twice in recent months, and now FCC and…
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Chinese organizations are being hit by Cobalt Strike malware from within China
Cybersecurity researchers from Securonix discovered a new threat campaign that included phishing, DLL sideloading, and Cobalt Strike beacons, all using Tencent’s infrastructure, and targeting Chinese entities. Tencent is the largest and most popular cloud service provider in China. Apparently, the group (which has not been identified and doesn’t seem to…
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Windows 11 is finally more popular than Windows 10 – at least in the world of PC gaming
Windows 11 has finally done it and managed to overtake Windows 10 when it comes to market share with PC gamers. As you might have guessed, this is the Steam Hardware Survey which is conducted every month and is a snapshot of the configurations of the various gaming PCs used…
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I watch TV for a living – these are the 14 shows on Netflix, Prime Video, Max, and more I’m most excited to see in late 2024
I don’t know about you, dear reader but I can’t quite believe the fact that there are (at the time of writing) four months left of 2024. Still, as we wave goodbye to summer – or winter, for those in the southern hemisphere – there’s one thing we can all…
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