Category: Consumer Assistance
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WBD rolls out a $7.99/month Extra Member Add-On for US Max subscribers, about two years after Netflix made a similar move to crack down on password sharing (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter: WBD rolls out a $7.99/month Extra Member Add-On for US Max subscribers, about two years after Netflix made a similar move to crack down on password sharing — U.S. users can also transfer their existing (adult) profile to the extra member account. — Max rolled out an “Extra Member…
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Researcher: the official SDK JS library for interacting with the XRP Ledger, with 140K+ weekly downloads, was compromised; XRP Ledger Foundation says it’s fixed (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
Daniel Kuhn / The Block: Researcher: the official SDK JS library for interacting with the XRP Ledger, with 140K+ weekly downloads, was compromised; XRP Ledger Foundation says it’s fixed — – The XRP Ledger Foundation said there is a potential vulnerability in recent versions of the XRPL JavaScript library used …
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SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecom, says hackers accessed USIM-related customer info, potentially useful in SIM swap attacks and targeted surveillance (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecom, says hackers accessed USIM-related customer info, potentially useful in SIM swap attacks and targeted surveillance — South Korea’s largest mobile operator, SK Telecom, is warning that a malware infection allowed threat actors to access sensitive USIM-related information for customers.
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DOJ v. Google: an OpenAI exec says Google declined to let OpenAI access its search index; a DOJ remedy proposal would make Google share its index with rivals (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: DOJ v. Google: an OpenAI exec says Google declined to let OpenAI access its search index; a DOJ remedy proposal would make Google share its index with rivals — OpenAI’s Nick Turley said the company never intended to simply create a chatbot like its popular ChatGPT, and instead wanted to deliver a …
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Supabase, an open-source alternative to Google’s Firebase that’s used by 2M+ developers, raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Supabase, an open-source alternative to Google’s Firebase that’s used by 2M+ developers, raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation — Supabase cofounders Ant Wilson and Paul Copplestone. — Supabase — Paul Copplestone didn’t think things like this actually happened.
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The Washington Post partners with OpenAI to make its content “more accessible” in ChatGPT; OpenAI says it now has similar deals with 20+ other publishers (Todd Spangler/Variety)
Todd Spangler / Variety: The Washington Post partners with OpenAI to make its content “more accessible” in ChatGPT; OpenAI says it now has similar deals with 20+ other publishers — The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has gone into business with artificial-intelligence powerhouse OpenAI.
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Sources: Apple’s new Siri engineering chief Mike Rockwell is replacing much of Siri’s leadership with top Vision Pro software execs, and is restructuring teams (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple’s new Siri engineering chief Mike Rockwell is replacing much of Siri’s leadership with top Vision Pro software execs, and is restructuring teams — Apple Inc.’s new Siri engineering chief is overhauling the management team leading development of the beleaguered voice assistant …
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Instagram launches Edits, a “video creation app designed for creators” intended to rival ByteDance’s CapCut app, for free on iOS and Android (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
Dominic Preston / The Verge: Instagram launches Edits, a “video creation app designed for creators” intended to rival ByteDance’s CapCut app, for free on iOS and Android — The standalone video editing app supports green screen and cutout features, just like ByteDance’s CapCut app.
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In a reversal, Google says it won’t roll out a new standalone third-party Chrome cookie prompt, meaning adtech companies can keep using related targeting tools (Ronan Shields/Digiday)
Ronan Shields / Digiday: In a reversal, Google says it won’t roll out a new standalone third-party Chrome cookie prompt, meaning adtech companies can keep using related targeting tools — In a shocking development, Google won’t roll out a new standalone prompt for third-party cookies in Chrome …
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Apple drops “available now” from an Apple Intelligence page featuring an AI-supercharged Siri and removes a Siri-related video, after the BBB nonprofit inquired (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Emma Roth / The Verge: Apple drops “available now” from an Apple Intelligence page featuring an AI-supercharged Siri and removes a Siri-related video, after the BBB nonprofit inquired — The National Advertising Division recommended that Apple ‘modify or discontinue’ the claim.
