Sofia Vergara is living her best single life. The ‘AGT’ judge was dancing up a storm at Karol G’s concert with her ‘Griselda’ castmates and more.
Sofia Vergara is living her best single life. The ‘AGT’ judge was dancing up a storm at Karol G’s concert with her ‘Griselda’ castmates and more.
A Tesla data breach earlier this year affecting more than 75,000 people was caused by “insider wrongdoing,” according to a notification on Maine’s Attorney General website. The 75,735 people impacted were likely current or former Tesla employees. “While we have not identified evidence of misuse of the data in a manner that may cause harm to you, we are nonetheless providing you with this notice to ensure that you are aware of what happened and the measures we have taken,” the company wrote in a letter to employees.
The breach occurred on May 10th, when the German-language newspaper Handelsblatt said it received 100GB of data from “several informants” within Tesla. The “Tesla files” reportedly contained 23,000 internal files, containing 2,400 reports of self-acceleration issue and 1,500 cases of braking function problems. The latter included 139 complaints about unintentional emergency braking and 383 incidences of phantom stops from false collision warnings.
In the employee letter, Tesla provided more information about the incident, confirming the May 10 breach date and that Handelsblatt had obtained Tesla confidential information. “The investigation revealed that two former Tesla employees misappropriated the information in violation of Tesla’s IT security and data protection policies and shared it with the media outlet.”
The data also included employee names and contact information including physical addresses, email addresses and mobile phone numbers. “The outlet has stated that it does not intend to publish the personal information, and in any event, is legally prohibited from using it inappropriately,” Tesla stated. It added that several lawsuits resulted in the seizure of devices thought to carry the data, and that it had “obtained court orders that prohibit the former employees from further use, access, or dissemination of the data.”
Last year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened a probe into Tesla’s phantom braking issue following owner complaints. And in August 2022, it was reported that Tesla is facing a class-action lawsuit over the same problem.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/tesla-says-data-breach-that-affected-over-75000-people-was-caused-by-insider-wrongdoing-121756644.html?src=rss
Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy were spotted taking a walk in their Florida neighborhood just days after Michael Oher claimed they lied about adopting him.
Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy were spotted taking a walk in their Florida neighborhood just days after Michael Oher claimed they lied about adopting him.
Britney Spears ‘played all night’ with her ‘favorite boys’ in her second Instagram post following the sad news about her marriage.
Britney Spears ‘played all night’ with her ‘favorite boys’ in her second Instagram post following the sad news about her marriage.
Elon Musk says the service formerly known as Twitter is getting rid of the option to block other users, except in DMs. There, you’ll still be able to block unsolicited messages from anyone sending malicious, offensive missives, which is for some, the majority of their DMs.
But Musk said it “makes no sense” to block other users instead of muting them. Outside DMs, the mute option will still be available. There is a wrinkle here, noted on Musk’s own tweets. If the company did nix the ability to block users, it would violate policies for both Apple’s App Store and Google Play Store. (A web app, however, would be unaffected.)
In the spring, X killed off the platform’s free API, which broke many third-party apps. Just one year earlier, Twitter (as it was known at the time) started recommending third-party apps to help mitigate harassment on the platform. Many of these, like Block Party, stopped working after those API changes.
– Mat Smith
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A small French developer called Blue Rose Team has been prepping Twin Peaks: Into the Night for a while now, and it just dropped a demo of the fan-made game. The graphics are retro and decidedly PS1 flavored, which makes sense given how the show premiered in 1990. The gameplay looks to be full of exploration, complete with conversations with the town’s many oddball residents, but there’s a survival horror element reminiscent of the original Resident Evil titles. The scariest, most sinister threat, though, may be copyright law. However, the creators have announced the game will be free when/if it launches.
After teasing the announcement a few days ago, Lamborghini revealed a new EV concept vehicle at Monterey Car Week. The all-electric Lamborghini Lanzador boasts all kinds of high-tech bells and whistles, with a design inspired by spaceships, but it won’t actually ever hit retail. Instead, as is often the case with high-end concept cars, it’ll inspire and inform future Lamborghini rides. The driver and passenger sit low to the ground, as if in a jet, with a center console between them. The company says the interior is “unexpectedly roomy,” despite a roof height of around 1.5 meters.
Microsoft reportedly published — and retracted — an AI-generated article that recommended people visit a Canadian food bank as a tourist attraction. The article recommended catching a baseball game, honoring fallen soldiers at a war museum and… swinging by the Ottawa Food Bank.
It’s a bleak mistake. Paris Marx first called out the story on X (formerly Twitter). “People who come to us have jobs and families to support, as well as expenses to pay,” the AI-written section about the food bank section read. “Life is already difficult enough. Consider going into it on an empty stomach.” The article was pulled when Microsoft was asked for comment. The article’s author was merely Microsoft Travel, suggesting real people may not have been involved in its creation. We hope not.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-you-wont-be-able-to-block-elon-musk-or-anyone-else-on-x-111544892.html?src=rss
Dr. John Warnock, who co-founded the revolutionary company Adobe, has died aged 82, Adobe announced on Saturday. He is survived by his wife, Marva Warnock, and three children; no cause of death has been released.
“It is with profound sadness that I share that our beloved co-founder Dr. John Warnock passed away at the age of 82,” wrote Adobe Chair and CEO Shantanu Narayen. “John has been widely acknowledged as one of the greatest inventors in our generation with significant impact on how we communicate in words, images and videos.”
Warnock created Adobe with the late Dr. Charles Geschke in 1982, and served as the company’s CEO until 2000, remaining co-chairman with Geschke until 2017 (Geschke passed in 2021). The company’s original logo was created by Marva Warnock, and Adobe released its debut product, the desktop publishing software Adobe Postscript, in 1984.
Adobe went on to launch Photoshop in 1987. It subsequently developed the PDF file format, and released widely used applications like Illustrator, Lightroom, Premiere Pro and After Effects. To that end, the company helped launch the desktop publishing revolution in the ’80s, and offers key tools used for the web, video/audio editing and visual effects used in film and television.
Warnock was one of the rare CEOs with high-level technical skills. In his 1969 doctoral thesis, he invented the Warnock algorithm for hidden surface determination. He later worked with Geschke at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, but was unable to convince management to commercialize the InterPress graphics language. That led the pair to form Adobe, where they subsequently created PostScript and released it for Apple’s LaserWriter in 1985. Warnock also invented Adobe Illustrator, a drawing program that uses vectors rather than pixels to describe images.
“My interactions with John over the past 25 years have been the highlight of my professional career,” wrote Narayen. “At breakfasts with John and Chuck, we would imagine the future, however, it was our varied conversations on rare books, art, world history and politics that gave me unique insight into John, who was truly a renaissance man.”
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/adobe-co-founder-dr-john-warnock-has-passed-away-at-82-102540052.html?src=rss
Russia’s first attempt to land on the Moon since 1976 has ended in disapppointment. Ten days after its August 10th launch, Russia’s state-run space agency, Roscosmos, confirmed its Luna-25 spacecraft had spun out of control and rammed into the Moon. “The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon,” Roscosmos explained in a statement. The organization initially reported the incident as an “abnormal situation” before sharing news of the crash.
Luna-25 was headed to the south pole to find water ice and spend a year analyzing how it emerged there and if there was a link with water appearing on Earth. It was also set to test drive technology and examine the regolith (the soil covering moon rock). The plan was for it to remain in the moon’s orbit for five days before touching down on August 21st. Luna-25 took a range of images pre-crash, including one of the Zeeman crater, near the <oon’s south pole.
🌘 Welcome to the other side of the #moon!
👉 Russia’s #Luna25 has shared first pics of lunar surface – they show Zeeman crater on the moon’s far side.
The ultimate goal is to land on the moon’s South Pole in search of water. Looking forward to new amazing photos from space 😍 pic.twitter.com/kRlnJBFLwM
— Russia 🇷🇺 (@Russia) August 19, 2023
If successful, it would have been the first craft to land on the south pole — a title that may now go to India. Russia was racing to beat India, whose spacecraft launched on July 14th and is expected to land on the Moon on August 23rd.
Countries across the globe are gearing up for their own moon missions. Currently, the United States plans to have humans orbit the Moon in 2024 and land on it in 2025. China, Japan, Mexico, Canada and Israel are among the other nations with active plans to reach the Moon.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/russias-luna-25-spacecraft-crashes-into-the-moon-093542172.html?src=rss
Threads by Instagram will get a web version as soon as this week, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal. Earlier this month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised a web version with better search functionality, and Instagram head Adam Mosseri recently said that one is in testing. Currently, a full version of Threads is only available on iOS and Android, with limited read-only functionality on browsers.
A web version is near the top of the list of most-desired features for Threads, but the company is exercising caution with the release. “It’s a little bit buggy right now, you don’t want it just yet,” Mosseri said Friday on Instagram. “As soon as it is ready we will share it with everybody else.”
Threads recently added new features to Threads like the ability to set notifications and view posts in chronological order. The company also started labeling state-controlled media outlets after some were seen posting propaganda. Another new update is the “repost” tab makes it easier to see all reposted content. (X, previously called Twitter, recently renamed “retweets” to the more generic “reposts,” ironically following Threads’ lead.)
A web version would be coming at a good time for Threads. After a torrid launch with over 100 million users signing on in the first week, the number of daily active users (DAUs) dropped down to 80 percent by mid-August. Still, Threads is by far the most successful alternative to X, which counted around 238 million DAUs in August 2023 and 364 million monthly active users, X reported last year.
In any case, the launch of a web version will be particularly useful for social media power users, just when Twitter has put one of its key tools for those folks, Tweetdeck, permanently behind a paywall.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/threads-web-app-could-arrive-this-week-082645402.html?src=rss
On the season 18 premiere of ‘Sister Wives,’ Kody and Christine Brown reunite to discuss holiday plans two months after she left the family to move to Utah.
On the season 18 premiere of ‘Sister Wives,’ Kody and Christine Brown reunite to discuss holiday plans two months after she left the family to move to Utah.
Britney Spears gave off a ‘ready to mingle’ vibe in her latest Instagram post as she writhed around in bed after heading to Dave’s Hot Chicken.
Britney Spears gave off a ‘ready to mingle’ vibe in her latest Instagram post as she writhed around in bed after heading to Dave’s Hot Chicken.
