Russian internet and search company Yandex announced today that one of its system administrators had enabled unauthorized access to thousands of user mailboxes. The company discovered the breach internally, during a routine check of its security team. The investigation revealed that the employee’s actions led to the compromise of almost 5,000 Yandex email inboxes. Sysadmin’s side business The employee was a system administrator who had access rights to provide technical support for… Source link

Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast The Vergecast to discuss this week in Verge headlines. Here’s what The Verge’s Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Adi Robertson focus the episode on this week: Google’s mysterious lack of iOS app updates, the rumors around an Apple-made VR / AR headset, and the gadget headlines you may have missed. This week, users of the iOS versions of Google’s apps were shown a prompt claiming the software was “out of date” and suggesting… Source link

What you need to know: First of its kind partnership with Yahoo Ryot Lab and New York Fashion Week will reimagine fashion through next gen content built on 5G Yahoo Ryot Lab will launch an immersive sneak preview with Rebecca Minkoff this season, tied to her Spring/Summer ‘21 collection debut at NYFW Immersive content created with Rebecca Minkoff will be powered by Verizon Media Immersive and distributed across Yahoo’s ecosystem NEW YORK – Today, Yahoo Ryot Lab (formerly known as RYOT)… Source link

Bloomberg A Crypto Kid Had a $23,000-a-Month Condo. Then the Feds Came (Bloomberg) — Stefan Qin was just 19 when he claimed to have the secret to cryptocurrency trading.Buoyed with youthful confidence, Qin, a self-proclaimed math prodigy from Australia, dropped out of college in 2016 to start a hedge fund in New York he called Virgil Capital. He told potential clients he had developed an algorithm called Tenjin to monitor cryptocurrency exchanges around the world to seize on price… Source link

Russian search engine and email provider Yandex said today that it caught one of its employees selling access to user email accounts for personal gains. The company, which did not disclose the employee’s name, said the person was “one of three system administrators with the necessary access rights to provide technical support” for its Yandex.Mail service. The Russian company said it’s now in the process of notifying the owners of the 4,887… Source link

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President Joe Biden speaks about his administration’s response to the coup in Myanmar in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Does anybody remember the “phase one” trade deal the Trump administration struck with China a little over a year ago? It’s still in effect, and it’s not turning out to be a very good deal. Former President Trump and his trade negotiators inked the phase one deal on Jan. 15,… Source link

(Photo via Google) Google is offering new photo-editing features to all Android users—for a price. If you’re carrying anything other than a Pixel-brand handset, you’ll need to be a paying Google One subscriber in order to use them. The paywalled tools include machine learning-powered effects like Portrait Blur, Portrait Light, and Color Pop, initially released last year with the Pixel 5. All three work for new photos and past images—even those without depth information. (Your device must… Source link

Naomi Osaka has gained many fans over the years at the Australian Open. The 2019 champion likely added many more on Friday after her magical moment with a butterfly. During the second set of her 6-3, 6-2 victory over Ons Jabeur of Tunisia, a fan yelled to Osaka as she was about to serve, “There’s a butterfly on your legs.” Very delicately, Osaka scooped up the butterfly off her legs and placed it on the side of the court. The butterfly, however, wasn’t done with the three-time Grand Slam… Source link

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