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Monday Byte: 8 Bits of information to kick start your week

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On this edition:

1. Care about your Privacy? Better stick to your old car or bicycle! 🚗 🚲

   1. It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy (Mozilla)

      1. From where you live to your sex life… your new car knows everything about you 😱

2. OpenAI and the $80 million / month business 🤑

   1. OpenAI Passes $1 Billion Revenue Pace as Big Companies Boost AI Spending (The Information)

      1. After a $27 billion investment from Microsoft, ChatGPT is OpenAI’s cash cow 🐮

3. Elon Musk vs The State of California ⚖️ 🥊

   1. Elon Musk’s X sues California over law it says forces social media services to block posts ‘viewed by the state as problematic’ (Fortune)

      1. Is the billionaire looking for trouble or freedom?

4. The Software Update that stopped an entire airline in the US ❌ ✈️

   1. United Airlines says the outage that held up departing flights was not a cybersecurity issue (Associated Press)

      1. In the end it was just a contractor playing around with the backups 🙈

5. Will Claude Pro dethrone ChatGPT? 🤖 👑

   1. The AI-assistant wars heat up with Claude Pro, a new ChatGPT Plus rival (Ars Technica)

      1. 5x higher usage limits, 100,000 vs ‘only’ 8,000 tokens and a very familiar $20 / month subscription 🤔

6. Airbnb to be wiped off New York 🫥🗽

   1. The End of Airbnb in New York (Wired)

      1. Due to the Local Law 18, New Yorkers can only have up to two short-term guests if and only if they are present when their visitors are in town 💸

7. If your software may be hackable, the Chinese Government must know how 🔎 🇨🇳

   1. Sleight of hand: How China weaponizes software vulnerabilities (Atlantic Council)

      1. The US Government already has a CVEs database (NVD), but China wants them mapped to every software who has them 🚪

8. Wired or Hacked? The UK elections at risk 🔥 🇬🇧

   1. UK election body failed cybersecurity test before hack (Cybernews)

      1. Right after leaking the data of ~40 million voters, the UK’s Electoral Commission is still open to attacks 🐀

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