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Submission + - NVIDIA Hit By Major Cyberattack That May Have 'Completely Compromised' Business (wccftech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: NVIDIA has seemingly been hit by a major cyberattack that may have completely compromised parts of its business, reports The Telegraph. In their exclusive report, The Telegraph reports that the cyberattack was initiated at the same time as the Russian cyber warfare division started their offensive against Ukraine. All Nato allies have announced major sanctions on Russia and this could potentially be why Russia has decided to target major companies such as NVIDIA.

The report further states that the cyberattack on NVIDIA has completely compromised parts of their business and there are already reports from several users coming in regarding services disruption. The scale of this attack is currently unknown but it clearly seems to be a major one as NVIDIA had to take several systems offline to pacify the intrusion before it could spread further: "'The ultimate concern is that somebody may have put something in one of the software updates,' Dr Woodward said, pointing to the devastating SolarWinds hack that exploited American software companies to gain access to US government computer systems. 'They’ll be going through trying to make sure to see if there's any indication that anything has been changed in their software that they then shipped to their clients.'" NVIDIA's mail servers were also partially operational during this time so it's entirely likely that there might have been a breach in confidential documents. But it is not confirmed yet if any data was stolen.

Submission + - Best Buy now charges $200 for chance to buy GPUs (tomshardware.com) 1

Submitted by UnknowingFool
UnknowingFool writes: As GPUs remain scarce, one of the few brick and mortar stores where they could be bought is at Best Buy where in-store events meant that some customers could purchase one. While not all stores had constant supplies of GPUs, any member of the public could line up and wait for a chance to buy them. Unfortunately, Best Buy has now limited sales of GPU only to customers who paid a TotalTech subscription service. The $200 yearly charge does not go towards the purchase price and does not guarantee a sale.

Submission + - SPAM: Reddit Banned 2,625 Subreddits For Excessive Copyright Infringement in 2021

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In 2021, Reddit’s users created nearly 5.8 billion posts, comments, private messages and chats across the platform, with 297,161,752 later being removed by moderators (around 175.8k), removed by site admins (108.6K), and the authors themselves (12.6K). Content can be removed for a variety of reasons. ‘Content manipulation’ is the largest category and encompasses spam, community interference (so-call ‘brigading’), vote manipulation, and similar issues. For the purpose of this report, however, we’ll home in on the copyright issues faced by Reddit during the last year and how the site responded to them.

In common with the vast majority of large companies based in the US, Reddit has to follow the requirements of the DMCA which means that when it receives a valid copyright notice, it must comply by taking the identified content down. On the other hand, when submitters send notices that are incomplete or invalid in some other way, Reddit does not. “In 2021, Reddit received 177,450 copyright notices reporting 920,672 pieces of content. This represents an increase of 104% from 2020. We removed 665,898 pieces of content in response to these takedown notices,” the company reveals in the latest edition of its transparency report.

Under the DMCA, Reddit is also required to take “appropriate action” against so-called “repeat infringers”, which in the company’s case can involve the termination of not only user accounts but also entire subreddit communities, especially ones where “excessive amounts” of infringing content keep getting posted. “In 2021, Reddit permanently suspended 2,813 users and banned 2,625 subreddits for excessive copyright infringement,” the company writes. These figures represent a substantial increase over those published for 2020. In that year, Reddit banned just 303 users and terminated 514 subreddits. Although overall copyright complaints are up 104% on the previous year, the site’s termination policy doesn’t appear to have changed significantly. This may suggest that some users and subreddits simply aren’t getting the message that by repeatedly posting infringing content, it can and will result in both them and their communities getting banned.
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Submission + - Russian forces seize control of Chernobyl nuclear plant (cnn.com)

Submitted by DevNull127
DevNull127 writes: Slashdot has always had an interest in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which CNN describes as "the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster.". Today CNN is reporting that Chernobyl has been captured by Russian troops.

Troops overran the plant on the first day of Russia's multi-pronged invasion of Ukraine, a spokesperson for the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management, Yevgeniya Kuznetsov, told CNN...

In the months after the accident, a sarcophagus was built to cover Reactor 4 and contain the radioactive material. However, it has since deteriorated, resulting in radiation leaks.

[A map shows the power plant is nearly adjacent to the northern border of Ukraine — so when Russian troops began their invasion, it was one of the first things they encountered.]

Submission + - The 0.01% Pay less than 5% in taxes (propublica.org)

Submitted by Thaelon
Thaelon writes: By the end of 2018, the 25 [wealthiest] were worth $1.1 trillion.

For comparison, it would take 14.3 million ordinary American wage earners put together to equal that same amount of wealth.

The personal federal tax bill for the top 25 in 2018: $1.9 billion.

The bill for the wage earners: $143 billion.

Buffet paid 0.1%, Bezos 0.98%, Bloomberg 1.3%, Musk 3.27%.

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