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LookAtThatBaconon Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows' New Recall AI

This stood out to me:

"Dubbed TotalRecall—yes, after the 1990 sci-fi film—the tool can pull all the information that Recall saves into its main database on a Windows laptop. “The database is unencrypted. It’s all plain text,” Hagenah says."

LookAtThatBaconon Apollo will close down on June 30th

They killed Alien Blue to create the objectively worse Reddit app, despite the aforementioned funding and presumably skilled devs working there.

LookAtThatBaconon Three Arrows Capital reportedly facing insolvency

For anyone wondering why 3AC becoming insolvent is such a big deal, this Twitter thread does a fair job of summarizing:

https://twitter.com/hodlKRYPTONITE/status/153690211554074214...

Basically, they're a large crypto fund that has borrowed from almost every major crypto lender, and if they can't cover their margin calls (which is expected if they're insolvent), the risk of the debt is then transferred to the lenders themselves.

LookAtThatBaconon LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised

Reminder to everyone that one of the private equity firms that acquired LogMeIn and took it private, Francesco Partners, holds a majority stake in NSO Group, an Israeli spyware developer.

LookAtThatBaconon Imgur Acquired by Medialab

According to their public Statement of Information (https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/Document/RetrievePDF?Id=04...), the CEO of MediaLab.AI Inc is Michael Heyward, the co-founder of Whisper.

LookAtThatBaconon Intuit to Acquire Mailchimp for $12B

In case you haven't already, you should submit a request to delete all your data as a Mailchimp "Contact" (a "Contact" is a person whose contact info was given to Mailchimp by a Mailchimp "Member"):

https://mailchimp.com/privacy-rights/