August 10, 20230CommentsGoogle, American Airlines, and Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy partner to create more sustainable flight routes by avoiding those that create contrails (Justine Calma/The Verge)
August 10, 20230CommentsFiling: FTX criticizes “unrestricted” traders and market makers on its creditor panel, accusing them of seeking control of assets and “unprofessional conduct” (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)
August 10, 20230CommentsThe EU did not immediately follow Biden’s EO banning Chinese tech investment outright and instead plans to release its own proposals by year-end (Financial Times)
August 10, 20230CommentsResearchers: since 2014, Belarus-linked hackers, dubbed MoustachedBouncer, have targeted foreign diplomats in the country by intercepting ISP connections (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
August 10, 20230CommentsResearchers at Black Hat detail a months-long investigation into Deckmate, the most widely used casino shuffling machine, finding a flaw to give “full control” (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
August 10, 20230CommentsLyft begins serving in-app ads to riders as they wait for rides, when they match with a driver, and during their trips, and plans to add video ads by year-end (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
August 10, 20230CommentsA closer look at the UK Electoral Commission hack, disclosed nine months after discovery, which likely relied on a now-patched Microsoft Exchange Server flaw (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
August 10, 20230CommentsAlibaba reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to ~$32.2B, beating analyst estimates of ~$31.1B, and a ~$4.7B net income, as its core e-commerce arm returned to growth (Bloomberg)
August 10, 20230CommentsYandex co-founder Arkady Volozh, who quit as CEO in June 2022, denounces Russia’s Ukraine war as “barbaric”, as Yandex plans to spin off from its Dutch parent (Alexander Marrow/Reuters)