Daily Tech News 13 February 2024

• The leopard did it: Bank of America has announced a data breach after systems at technical services provider Infosys were breached. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  They could have just offered the leopard a job in tech support, but no. (The Register)
  
  
  
  

• Twitter competitor Spoutible also had a data breach. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Over 200,000 accounts had their "name, email, username, phone, gender, bcrypt password hash, 2FA secret and password reset token" exfiltrated according to the company. That's probably most of their users; as of June, Spoutible counted 240,000 registered users in total.

  Spoutible CEO Christopher Bouzy confirmed the data breach and vulnerability and the company required users to create new, stronger passwords, after addressing the issue. However, he also referred to the vulnerability's discovery as "an attack" on his network and alleged that the person who scraped the data was someone who was intent on hurting Spoutible's reputation.

  Not sure anything could hurt a company's reputation more than having Bouzy as CEO.
  
  Maybe Nijisanji's PR department.
  
  
  
• Unicode 16 is coming with 4000 new hieroglyphs for translating those Goa'uld inscriptions and hundreds of classic game symbols from the 8-bit era. (Notebook Check)
  
  Just because Unicode is a semantic superfund site doesn't mean it can't sometimes be cool.
  
  
  
• The FCC has ruled that telcos must notify customers when their data gets stolen. (The Register)
  
  Okay. Good.
  
  
  
• AMD's patches for the open-source GCC compiler also confirm that the upcoming Zen 5 CPU core will increase ALU pipes from 4 to 6. (Hot Hardware)
  
  In theory that could make the chips 50% faster. In practice, expect the square root of that, more or less. Probably less.
  
  
  

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