Welcome to the odd vortex that falls between Christmas and New Year’s Day / CES, which is traditionally filled by cold weather causing issues as well as LG press releases for home appliances and speakers.
We will keep bringing you our hottest dual-wristing takes in the meantime.
Steam’s year-in-review stats are now available, as Valve goes against the strategy of Spotify Wrapped by actually waiting until the year is nearly over to provide some sharable data breakdowns. The activity represented is drawn from January 1st through December 14th.
These quick posts of ours have comments now, so you can show off yours if below if you like, although mine just shows how much time I haven’t spent on my Steam Deck so far.
If you prefer other platforms, there are similar setups for PlayStation and Nintendo gamers. Xbox doesn’t have anything official, but TrueAchievements built a third-party recap.
On Wednesday, BleepingComputer reported Okta had been sending a “confidential” security incident notification to partners, and now the company has confirmed someone stole data from GitHub repositories for the Okta Workforce Identity Cloud (WIC) product in early December.
In a statement on its website, Okta said it had alerted law enforcement, and:
Our investigation concluded that there was no unauthorized access to the Okta service, and no unauthorized access to customer data. Okta does not rely on the confidentiality of its source code for the security of its services. The Okta service remains fully operational and secure.
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I’m not a fan of the “kidulting” term NBC uses in this article, but I don’t think those $200 gaming controllers, outlandish Nerf guns, and intricate Lego sets are entirely aimed at people who still get an allowance.
The fake Nilay Twitter account created by Verge managing editor Alex Cranz — that was “verified” and recommended to many during Elon’s messy first attempt at a $7.99 Twitter Blue subscription — has met its end.
Despite only existing for a little more than a month, we’ll remember @recklesspatel for continuing on after the real Nilay Patel decided to take a break from posting to his real Twitter account (@reckless).
You can still find Nilay’s posts here, on TheVerge.com.
Reuters has a live stream as proceedings are set to resume in the Bahamas over extraditing the ex-CEO of the failed crypto exchange to the US.
Back home, he’s set to face criminal and civil charges that include fraud and money laundering.
After negotiations apparently fell apart with Apple, the NFL may be ready to make a deal with Google’s YouTube unit.
The Wall Street Journal reports that an arrangement for the subscription package of out-of-market football games could be sealed by tomorrow once the owners meet to sign off on it.
Bloomberg reports that an investigation opened this fall into the question of whether or not Elon Musk’s Twitter is capable of complying with its 2011 consent order — the one a company lawyer warned puts it at risk of billions of dollars in fines — is ongoing and has included questioning two execs who left shortly after Musk’s takeover.
FTC lawyers have interrogated two former top Twitter executives in the past month – Damien Kieran, the former chief privacy officer, and Lea Kissner, the most senior cybersecurity officer, the people said. Kieran and Kissner both quit Twitter Nov. 10, alongside the head of compliance.
The probe marks at least the third time the FTC has scrutinized the social media platform over its privacy and data security practices. The review could lead to millions of dollars in fines and a new FTC order imposing obligations on Musk himself that would apply across his companies and remain in effect even if he steps down as chief executive officer or leaves Twitter.
“Why has Bloomberg News been asleep at the switch regarding government censorship of social media?” Musk said in an email seeking comment about the FTC investigation.
