Daily Tech News 1 June 2024

• Xbox is was down. (Reddit)
  
  Pixy, your Xbox and Xbox 360 are sitting in a box in the garage, and your Xbox Series X is sitting in its original box in the closet because you still haven't opened it. What do you care?
  
  I can't log in to Minecraft.
  
  I have Minecraft installed. I have my own server. I can't play it because a service I don't use and don't care about is down.

  You may not be able to sign-in to your Xbox profile, may be disconnected while signed in, or have other related problems. Features that require sign-in like most games, apps and social activity won't be available.

  This apparently includes offline single-player games that you have already installed on your console. And Minecraft.
  
  
  
• Live Nation has confirmed earlier reports of a data breach. (Tech Crunch)
  
  The company itself wasn't hacked, but:

  A spokesperson for Ticketmaster, who would not provide their name but responded from the company's media email address, told TechCrunch that its stolen database was hosted on Snowflake, a Boston-based cloud storage and analytics company.

  I hate cloud storage.

  Snowflake said in a post on Friday that it had informed a "limited number of customers who we believe may have been impacted" by attacks "targeting some of our customers' accounts." Snowflake did not describe the nature of the attacks, or if data had been stolen from customer accounts.

  The problem there is that when Snowflake says "a limited number of customers", they mean "a handful of the largest corporations in America", not "a small number of individual people".
  
  And just one of Snowflake's customers had half a billion customers of its own.
  
  As always with security, it's only as strong as the Post-it note on the intern's desk at your cloud storage provider.
  
  
  

• The same group offering Live Nation's data for sale also claims to have hacked Santander, a Spanish bank with thirty million customers. (BBC)
  
  Given the confirmation from Live Nation this one is likely also true.
  
  And deeply unwise. If you mess with banks, you get heavy law enforcement on your tail.
  
  
  
• Putting the Minisforum V3 Tablet to the test. (Hot Hardware)
  
  In short: It works well and is significantly better value than Microsoft's Surface, but the build quality is not quite the same.
  
  
  
• The biggest findings in the Google Search leak. (The Verge)
  
  To nobody's great surprise, Google lied.
  
  
  
• Microsoft's new Windows Recall AI spyware has been hacked to run on unsupported hardware. (The Verge)
  
  Why?! Why would you do this? Couldn't you turn your efforts to something less harmful, like the global distribution of aerosolised plutonium hydroxide?
  
  
  
• Journalists are "deeply troubled" by OpenAI's deals with Vox, The Atlantic. (Ars Technica)
  
  At long last, all the oxygen thieves are getting replaced by a Perl script.
  
  
  
• Minecraft mod Grimoire of Gaia turns out to have a built-in option to only spawn creatures after a given number of in-game days have passed. That's great, because the creatures in the mod have a nasty habit of showing up and immediately killing new players.
  
  I was about to test that when Xbox went down.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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