Tue. 11/09 – Robinhood Hacked By Unknown Bandits

Robinhood has been compromised by some true brigands. If you’ve got a Robinhood account, double down on being wary of phishing attacks. Netflix takes a page out of the TikTok playbook. And whole bunch of announces about new DRAM chips, new AMD chips, new custom voicebot toolkits from Nvidia, and Niantic doesn’t want to get left behind in the Metaverse race it arguably helped set off.

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Links:

• Robinhood says millions of customer names and email addresses taken in data breach (TechCrunch)
• US seizes $6 million in ransom payments and charges Ukrainian over major cyberattack (CNN)
• Netflix to Roll Out TikTok-Like Short Clip Feature Aimed at Kids (Bloomberg)
• Samsung’s new LPDDR5X DRAM is 1.3x faster and consumes 20% less power than LPDDR5 DRAM (XDA Developers)
• AMD lands Meta as customer and takes on Nvidia, sending shares up 11% (Reuters)
• Nvidia’s Riva Custom Voice lets companies create custom voices powered by AI (VentureBeat)
• Niantic launches platform to build ‘real-world metaverse’ apps (The Verge)

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