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Lazarus Group Targets LinkedIn Users, Impersonates Fenbushi Capital Executive: SlowMist
29.4.2024
The notorious Lazarus Group, allegedly backed by North Korea, has added a new weapon to its arsenal, which is now targeting LinkedIn users.
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Game Studio Shuts Down Before Shipping A Game, Blames Internal Leaks
12.4.2024
Possibility Space, a studio founded by State of Decay creator Jeff Strain, has shut down, according to several social media posts from its former employees.Read more
This Is What It Looks Like When A Massive Video Game Publisher Messes Up
16.11.2023
This is Lars Wingefors, the CEO of Embracer, a Swedish holding company that owns multiple video game publishers, dozens of studios, and employs over 16,500 people. Or at least it used to. Embracer has been laying off hundreds, canceling projects, and closing studios as it reckons with deals that...
Microsoft-owned LinkedIn releases AI-powered assistant for job recruiters
4.10.2023
LinkedIn plans to pilot a new AI-powered assistant aimed at recruiters searching for job candidates and will also release an AI educational assistant in its learning section
Crypto firms beware: Lazarus’ new malware can now bypass detection
2.10.2023
The malware payload “LightlessCan" — used in fake job scams — is far more challenging to detect than its predecessor, warns cybersecurity researchers at ESET
Elon Musk threatens Microsoft with suit, claims AI trained on Twitter data
20.4.2023
The Twitter chief alleged Microsoft scraped information from the platform to train its AI and sell the data to others
FTX Publishes Creditor List, Owes Millions to Well-Known Institutions and Government Agencies
26.1.2023
The now-defunct crypto exchange FTX has published its list of creditors, with the names unredacted. The comprehensive list, which is over 100 pages long, shows that FTX owes a lot of money to well-known institutions, including Binance, Airbnb, Apple, Amazon, Linkedin, Coindesk, the Wall Street...
Blizzard's 'Workplace Ranking' For Employees Sounds Like Hell
24.1.2023
A story ran on Bloomberg earlier today with the headline “Blizzard Manager Departs In Protest of Employee Ranking System”. It sounds very businessy, maybe something that would land on the Linkedin news feed of a HR manager, but the stuff it’s describing is important because it sounds absolutely...
Crypto Firm Wyre Reportedly Shuts Down After Canceled Bolt Acquisition, CEO Claims Firm Is Just ‘Scaling Back’ Operations
5.1.2023
According to several reports, Wyre, a cryptocurrency payments firm, is allegedly sunsetting its business. Wyre’s purported wind down follows Bolt, another payments company, canceling its plan to acquire Wyre in September. Wyre CEO Ioannis Giannaros, however, told Axios that the company is “still...
Samsung Is Investing More Than $35 Million in Latam-Focused Metaverse Initiatives
24.12.2022
Samsung, the Korean electronics behemoth, has revealed it is currently investing more than $35 million dollars in metaverse initiatives for the Latam audience. The objective behind this move is to help the brand attract and connect with younger audiences, as part of its digital push and growth...
GameStop Gets Into Holiday Spirit With More Layoffs
5.12.2022
In the spirit of Christmas and the ruthless pursuit of meme stock shareholder value, GameStop carried out its latest round of layoffs on Monday ahead of its new earnings report, which is due out later this week. The cuts reportedly hit staff working on the company’s crypto push, as well as a number...
Sega Is Hiring A Sonic Lore Master To Keep Up With All His Nonsense
7.11.2022
Today in job listings that exude a menacing aura: Sega is looking to hire a Sonic loremaster to keep track of the blue hedgehog’s canon and non-canon antics. Read more
Leaked Documents Show Facebook and Twitter Working Closely With DHS, FBI to Police Disinformation: Report
2.11.2022
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are reportedly working closely with major social media platforms, like Facebook and Twitter, to police “disinformation.” Leaked documents further show their plans to expand censorship. Leaked...
Only 50 or so profiles out of 7,000 Binance employees on LinkedIn are real, says CZ
15.8.2022
LinkedIn crypto scams typically start off with unsolicited token listing offers from LinkedIn users claiming to be from reputable crypto exchanges
Study: Number of People Working in Blockchain Industry Went up by 76%, Large Gap in Demand for Technical Talent Exists
12.8.2022
The number of people working in the blockchain industry went up by 76% year-on-year as of June 2022, a study undertaken by the professional networking platform Linkedin and the crypto trading app OKX has found. The study also found there is “a large gap in demand for technical talent in...
Vietnam’s Blockchain Industry Faces Shortage of Talent
17.7.2022
The booming blockchain sector in Vietnam is having to deal with a serious deficit in specialists, local media revealed. Despite the large number of software engineers in the country, those with blockchain expertise meet less than a fifth of the current demand, with businesses already looking...
Report: $540 Million Crypto Gaming Hack Made Possible By Elaborate Phishing Scheme
6.7.2022
NFT Pokémon clone Axie Infinity went from being famous for players profiting off its “play-to-earn” gaming scam to infamous for getting hacked out of $540 million in cryptocurrency. Now according to a new report by The Block we know what made the security breach possible: a sophisticated phishing...
PlayStation Studio Refreshingly Honest About What It Isn't Working On
1.7.2022
Video game companies are notoriously cagey about sharing their plans. In a market saturated with sequels and spin-offs, developers nevertheless treat every new project with extreme secrecy. They’ll rarely even be up-front about what they aren’t working on, but today the PlayStation studio behind...
Sources: Unity Laying Off Hundreds Of Staffers
29.6.2022
Unity, the company behind the popular game development engine of the same name, has recently laid off hundreds of staffers, multiple sources tell Kotaku.Read more
Everyone Hates Blockchain Bro's Vision For The Future Of Games
7.6.2022
For some, it’s a vision of utopia. For a thousand more, it’s unmistakably a dystopia. But it’s really just a speculative LinkedIn post about the potential future of “blockchain” gaming, which has gone viral across multiple social media platforms when folks started mocking what they see as...