[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex denies hack, blames source code leak on former employee  BleepingComputer Source link

A Yandex source code repository allegedly stolen by a former employee of the Russian technology company has been leaked as a Torrent on a popular hacking forum. Yesterday, the leaker posted a magnet link that they claim are ‘Yandex git sources’ consisting of 44.7 GB of files stolen from the company in July 2022. These code repositories allegedly contain all of the company’s source code besides anti-spam rules. Yandex repository leaked on hacker forums (BleepingComputer) Software… Source link

Reuters California authorities see no link between dance hall shooter and victims Los Angeles-area investigators have found no connection between the victims of a mass shooting at a Monterey Park, California, dance hall and the elderly man who carried out the massacre last weekend, authorities said. The 72-year-old assailant, Huu Can Tran, on Saturday killed 11 people and wounded nine others at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio, a venue just east of Los Angeles that is popular with older patrons… Source link

Google code red was issued, and the tech giant is quite right to be worried. You already know the rise of ChatGPT and how it can be powerful. But did you know there is already an AI-powered search engine called You.com or the new front that is opening up in the Google vs Apple silent war? Yes, recent events have allegedly prepared Apple for a foray into the search engine market. Can they really stop the king of search engines? In this article, we will look for the answer to… Source link

Washington CNN  —  For the better part of 15 years, Google has seemed like an unstoppable force, powered by the strength of its online search engine and digital advertising business. But both now look increasingly vulnerable. This week, the Justice Department accused Google of running an illegal monopoly in its online advertising business and called for parts of it to be broken up. The case comes a couple of… Source link

Southwest Airlines (LUV) reported a loss for the fourth quarter, as the company took an $800 million pretax hit to earnings due to the computer system failure that led to the airline’s holiday travel meltdown. For the quarter, Southwest reported: “Due to the operational disruptions in late December, which resulted in more than 16,700 flight cancellations, we incurred a fourth quarter pre-tax negative impact of approximately $800 million (or approximately $620 million on an after-tax basis),… Source link

Microsoft appears to be on the cusp of being something it hasn’t been in a long time: cutting-edge. It’s a label the company lost a long time ago after a series of small startups grew to become Microsoft’s biggest competitors. Google, for example, started out as a nimble, innovative upstart and eventually bested Microsoft in browsers, email, and mobile operating systems. But now Microsoft might be the nimble, innovative company that bests Google in artificial intelligence. And… Source link

A Google recruiter said he learned he’d lost his job after a call with one of his candidates disconnected. Dan Lanigan-Ryan said he was gradually locked out of company systems “and then that was it.” Laid-off Google staff have criticized the abrupt and impersonal manner in which they were terminated. … Source link

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent Alphabet, said on Friday around 12,000 jobs would be cut.AP A Google employee said he and his wife were both laid off by the tech giant in Friday’s mass cull. Ashish Kalsi wrote on LinkedIn that they stared at each other in “disbelief” that morning as their daughter slept. Kalsi said he’s on an H-1B visa and has a 60-day “countdown” to find a new role or leave the US. A Google engineer said he and his wife stared at each other in “disbelief” upon learning on… Source link

Tesla CEO Elon Musk sounded sleepy on the EV maker’s earnings call late Wednesday. That’s not surprising given the time needed to try to reduce debt at Twitter, appear in court, study rocket designs, and stay up late the day before the call with the Tesla AI team. Musk did his best to sound enthusiastic about Tesla’s business as he warned of a “severe” recession this year — doubling down on his recent downbeat economic rhetoric — before announcing a delay in the timeline of Cybertruck… Source link