Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge An alleged data breach potentially affecting as many as 560 million Ticketmaster accounts and a confirmed one for Santander Bank may have stemmed from attacks on the cloud storage accounts with a company called Snowflake. As spotted by Bleeping Computer, an investigation from cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock reports that a bad actor gained access to Ticketmaster and Santander by using the stolen credentials of a single Snowflake employee.According to Hudson Rock, the hacker bypassed the authentication service Okta using these credentials and then generated session tokens to obtain a trove of information from Snowflake. In addition to Ticketmaster and Santander Bank, Hudson Rock suggests the hacker may have gained access to hundreds of... Continue reading…

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images May 31st marks the official last day of a covid-19 pandemic-era internet subsidy, the Affordable Connectivity Program. The up to $30 monthly broadband discount (up to $75 for those on Tribal lands) helped 23 million low-income households in every county in the US access high-speed internet during a period when that connection became more vital than ever as businesses and schools shut their doors. The Federal Communications Commission and industry players have warned for months that the program would soon run out of money unless Congress found a way to fund it, but the money never materialized.“Without Congressional action to extend funding for the program, millions of households are now at risk of losing their internet connections,”... Continue reading…

Image: Stellantis Earlier this week, Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares took the stage at the Bernstein investor conference and threw down the gauntlet. Tavares, who oversees companies like Fiat, Chrysler, Dodge, Ram, and, most importantly, Jeep, said the launch of the new all-electric Jeep Wagoneer S would signal the start of an EV “offensive” that would take the US by storm, according to multiple reports. And part of that offensive would include a more affordable electric Jeep, priced somewhere in the range of $25,000. For Jeep CEO Antonio Filosa, the announcement from his boss came as a bit of a shock. “It’s a big challenge,” Filosa said Thursday, hours after unveiling the Wagoneer S in New York City. “And unexpected.” Photo by Michael... Continue reading…

In our current day and age, you would be hard-pressed to find a company that isn't striving to enter the AI space. Since the rise of ChatGPT and the overwhelmingly positive public response to AI in general, PC companies have been playing catchup to implement AI in their next generation of hardware. This has been made clear by recent events like CES and Samsung Unpacked this year.

There are a lot of options when it comes to M.2 SSDs, but if you're looking for one that's going to fit an M.2 2230 slot, then your search for something great becomes a little less complicated. While there aren't that many 2230 SSDs out on the market, there's still a good selection, mostly thanks to the recent boom with PC gaming handhelds.

Mike Tyson, Nakisa Bidarian, and Jake Paul pose onstage during a press conference on May 16th, 2024 | Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images for Netflix Netflix is increasingly getting into live events, with comedy specials, NFL games, and even the WWE, but live action means unpredictability, and today, the streamer announced that a planned July 20th boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson is being rescheduled. While Tyson recovers from an ulcer flare-up that required medical attention during a recent flight, he has been advised to do “minimal to light training” over the next few weeks. Due to the interrupted training schedule for the officially sanctioned fight — Tyson’s first since 2005 —they’re now planning on a date later this year, which Netflix said will be announced by the end of next week.“My body is in better overall shape than it has been since the 1990s and I will be... Continue reading…

HDR or High Dynamic Range has been somewhat of a holy grail in the monitor space for quite a while now. While every manufacturer seems to know the hardware needed to achieve a true HDR experience, no one has managed to bring it to the masses. Unless you have one of the best HDR monitors with a high-end OLED or Mini-LED panel costing upwards of $700 (with $1,000 models being fairly common), you can't expect to see an actual HDR image on your screen.

Have you ever had a program on your PC that, for some reason, simply won't uninstall? There are a ton of programs, especially older ones, that suffer from incomplete uninstallers or not even having a pre-packaged uninstaller with them. For those pieces of software, you're better off using a dedicated uninstaller program to remove it. That's where Revo Uninstaller comes in.

There's no better feeling than having built or bought a brand-new PC. But before you jump into that game you've been waiting to play, there's something you need to do first. The first thing that every new computer owner should do is run a benchmark test. Benchmarking your GPU is a great way to measure how much performance you can get from your graphics card, how hot it gets under load, and what frames per second (FPS) it will run certain games at.

A fully modular power supply unit (PSU) is a PSU where all the cables can be detached from the PSU itself. There are a few reasons why they are generally viewed as better than their non-modular PSU counterparts. With a fully modular PSU, the only cables that need to be attached to the system to turn it on are the ATX 24-pin and 8-pin EPS cables.

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty Images ElevenLabs already offers AI-generated versions of human voices and music. Now, it will let people create sound effects for podcasts, movies, or games, too. The new Sound Effects tool can generate up to 22 seconds of sounds based on user prompts that can be combined with the company’s voice and music platform, and it gives users at least four downloadable audio clip options.The company says it worked with the stock media platform Shutterstock to build a library and train its model on its audio clips. Shutterstock has licensed its content libraries to many AI companies, including OpenAI, Meta, and Google.pic.twitter.com/pxrJy3BPOB— ElevenLabs (@elevenlabsio) May 31, 2024Sound Effects is free to use, but paid tiers can use the... Continue reading…

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge If you’ve been on the Facebook app lately, you might’ve seen Meta’s AI inject itself into the comment section with summaries of what people say. Given how wild Facebook comment sections often become, it’s not hard to imagine how ridiculous some of these summaries turn out. (This isn’t the first time Meta’s AI has appeared in the comment section, by the way: 404 Media spotted it pretending to be a parent in a Facebook group.)After seeing screenshots of the feature shared on Threads and Reddit, I decided to check the comment sections on my Facebook app. I found the AI summaries popping up on many of the posts I checked — unhinged responses and all. One AI summary on a post about a store closure said, “Some commenters attribute the closure... Continue reading…