[ad_1] We’ve asked Microsoft for comment, although it already said it was “investigating the matter.” The Verge claimed the code was legitimate, with Ronin Dey and others also supporting those beliefs (via Windows Central). One version of the code leak also includes code for MS DOS, Windows CE, Windows Embedded and Windows NT, although those […]
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India may require online shops to hand over site code
[ad_1] India’s plan to tightly regulate online shopping could give it a peek at how many internet giants work. Bloomberg says it obtained a draft e-commerce policy that would mandate access to sites’ source codes and algorithms. This would help prevent “digitally induced biases,” according to the draft. It would also help determine if companies […]
Long-lost ‘Days of Thunder’ NES game recreated from 30-year-old floppies
[ad_1] Unreleased video games tend to show up in ready-to-play forms, but a recent discovery required decidedly more effort. The Video Game History Foundation has reconstructed a lost NES adaptation of the Tom Cruise stock car movie Days of Thunder (one of the blockbuster hits of 1990) using 30-year-old source code floppy disks from the […]
Valve: no reason for alarm over ‘CS:GO’ source code leak
[ad_1] Earlier today, source code for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2 started to circulate, alarming gamers and modders who worried that they could expose security flaws. At least one project shut down as a precaution. However, code for the game has been previously available, this leak just spread it much wider. We have […]
Clearview AI’s source code was exposed by a security lapse
[ad_1] The leak also revealed Clearview’s prototype “Insight” camera that has since been discontinued. As TechCrunch showed in a video, SpiderSilk reportedly found 70,000 videos in one storage bucket that were taken from an Insight camera installed in a residential building in Manhattan. The company said it “collected some raw video strictly for debugging purposes, […]
A hacker stole and leaked the Xbox Series X graphics source code
[ad_1] The self-proclaimed hacker added that she wanted $100 million for the source code and threatened to “leak everything” if there was no buyer. She reportedly found the GPU data in a “hacked computer” in November, although AMD said it hadn’t been approached until December. AMD doesn’t appear to be bowing under pressure. It believed […]
Samsung leak exposed source code, passwords and employee data
[ad_1] The exposed files contained source code for projects like Samsung’s SmartThings platform and Bixby services. They also contained credentials that provided access to the Amazon Web Service account that was being used, as well as several employees’ GitLab tokens, which provided further access. A Samsung spokesperson told TechCrunch that the company “quickly revoked” all […]