The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined South Staffordshire Water Plc and parent company South Staffordshire Plc £963,900 ($1.3 million) over a cyberattack that exposed the personal data of 663,887 customers and employees. […]
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AI, Data Breaches, Global Security News, Network Security
Instructure Reaches Ransom Agreement with ShinyHunters to Stop 3.65TB Canvas Leak
American educational technology company Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, said it reached an “agreement” with a decentralized cybercrime extortion group after it breached its network and threatened to leak stolen information from thousands of schools and universities. In an update shared on Monday, the Utah-based firm said it “reached an agreement with the unauthorized…
APAC, Global Security News
Elon Musk’s Grok Is Losing Ground in AI Race
Adoption by business and consumer users has slowed as parent SpaceX rents out spare computing capacity to rival Anthropic.
AI, Apps, Global Security News
Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying “Antifa”
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta changed its speech rules to add new restrictions around posts including the word “antifa,” according to documents reviewed by The Intercept. This spring, Meta quietly revised its Community Standards policy, an internal company document dictating what its billions of global users can and cannot say online. The latest tweaks…
AI, Apps, Global Security News
China’s ByteDance Gets Access to Top Nvidia AI Chips
TikTok’s parent company has global ambitions to compete with companies such as Google and OpenAI by offering a range of AI applications for everyday users.
Global Security News
Bill Ackman Makes a Big Bet on Meta
Pershing Square has disclosed a roughly $2 billion position in Facebook’s parent.