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Financial Times: The UK is investigating “potential failings” at IT contractor SSCL, which was breached by suspected Chinese hackers to expose payroll records for 272K people  —  Grant Shapps announces investigation into attack by ‘malign actor’ that targeted up to 270,000 military personnel records Source link

Jing Yang / The Information: Internal memo: Shein tells staff that the company is stepping up efforts to keep products made with forced labor off its platform, citing tougher US enforcement  —  China-founded fashion giant Shein told employees it is stepping up its efforts to keep products made with forced labor off its site …

Baldur’s Gate III is prepared to receive its first patch and by the looks of it, it seems like a huge one. Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke confirmed a roadmap on Twitter, promising to fix issues and make relevant tweaks to ability balances, based on user suggestions. First up, is hotfix #4, which would make

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: TikTok vs. US filing: ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming owns a 21% stake in TikTok’s parent company, and is living in Singapore while keeping Chinese citizenship  —  – Zhang has a 21% stake in the world’s most valuable startup  — Chinese tech founders have built up a presence on the island Source

Google introduced its newest cybersecurity-focused threat detection and analysis product dubbed Google Threat Intelligence, on Tuesday. The tech giant is offering the product as part of the Google Cloud Security portfolio, and said it will assist cybersecurity professionals gain better visibility of global threats. The threat intelligence platform will leverage the capabilities of the company’s

Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: Analysis: the tech-dominated list of top 50 companies whose stocks made the biggest percentage gains in 2020 have since collectively lost $1.5T in market value  —  Top 50 biggest stock gainers hit by painful decrease since the end of 2020 as lockdown trends fade Source link

OpenAI said on Wednesday it had acquired digital products company Global Illumination, in what comes as the first known acquisition by the storied artificial intelligence firm. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. “The entire (Global Illumination) team has joined OpenAI to work on our core products including ChatGPT,” OpenAI said. New York-based Global

Bloomberg: Sources: Getir faced pressure from investors to cut costs and refocus on Turkey; a source says Mubadala and G Squared have agreed to invest as much as $200M  —  – Getir CEO Salur came under investor pressure to cut costs  — Leadership and country managers disagreed on some strategies Source link

Close to half of American adults support a ban on the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos survey that also asked questions about national security concerns and China. TikTok, owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance and used by tens of millions of Americans, has faced calls from US lawmakers for a

Georgia Butler / DatacenterDynamics: Google says “rare issues at Google Cloud” caused a week-long private cloud outage at UniSuper, an Australian pension fund for the education and research sectors  —  Google problems resulting in an inadvertent misconfiguration of UniSuper’s systems Source link