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Asset management powerhouse Fidelity Investments has confirmed suffering a data breach in which crooks stole sensitive information on tens of thousands of people.

The company revealed the news via a breach notification filed with the Office of the Maine Attorney General, noting between August 17 and 19 2024, threat actors used two “recently established” customer accounts to access the company infrastructure.

“We detected this activity on August 19 and immediately took steps to terminate the access,” the company said in the letter. “An investigation was promptly launched with assistance from external security experts,” it added. The investigation determined that the crooks obtained information “related to a small subset” of Fidelity customers, and did not access anyone’s accounts.

Identity theft monitoring

This “small subset” counts exactly 77,099 customers, including 337 Maine residents. The letter does not detail the type of information stolen, but TechCrunch found a separate filing with the Massachusetts attorney general, in which it was said the hackers obtained people’s Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses - more than enough information to engage in phishing, identity theft, or possibly even wire fraud.

To access the data, the crooks allegedly created two customer accounts, and used them to submit fraudulent requests to an internal database, which held images of documents belonging to Fidelity customers.

So far, there has been no evidence of the data being misused in the wild, but Fidelity isn’t taking any chances. All affected individuals are being offered credit monitoring and identity restoration services, free of charge, for 24 months.

Fidelity Investments is a major financial services company, offering investment management, retirement planning, brokerage, and wealth management services. The firm manages over $4 trillion in assets for more than 40 million individual investors, institutions, and financial advisors.

Fidelity provides access to mutual funds, ETFs, and a wide array of investment products.

Via TechCrunch

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Volunteers from across the country are in southern Appalachia to help with recovery from Hurricane Helene. Among them are a Texas couple who have volunteered at a dozen disaster sites this year.

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The first Intel Copilot+ PCs are arriving now thanks to the Core Ultra Series 2 CPUs, and the chip giant came ready to fight.

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The iPhone 16 Pro has many positive traits, but one thing it does lack is personality – and a new transparent mod of the phone has just shown us how much more interesting it could be if Apple released its design handbrake.

Crafting transparent versions of Apple's latest phones is something of an annual tradition for the Phone Repair Guru YouTube channel, but this year's might be its best yet.

The see-through mod naturally has echoes of the Nothing Phone 2, but the iPhone 16 Pro looks particularly good as it has "some of the most stunning internals we've ever seen in an iPhone", as the channel notes.

You naturally can't buy the transparent 16 Pro as the modding technique is a pretty involved, warranty-busting process. As you can see in the full video below, once the various components have been stripped from the back plate, there's the not-inconsiderable task of removing its recycled aluminum finish.

That's where gallium comes in – a metal with a low melting point that also looks very Terminator T-1000, it can seemingly eat through aluminum for breakfast. So the channel applied it to the iPhone 16 Pro and the aluminum (eventually) peeled away like paper, leaving them to clean up and remove the remaining paint to create a transparent back plate.

All very 'do not try this at home', but the impressive result – with a metallic battery, copper-colored wireless charger, and labeled taptic engine – has now got us craving an iMac G3-style iPhone.

Echoes of the iMac G3

There is a close-to-zero chance of Apple releasing a transparent iPhone Pro, even though it did pioneer a similar kind of translucent look with the iMac G3 back in 1998. Still, all we really want for the Pro series is for it to get some of the bolder colors seen on the base iPhone 16 series.

Our recent WhatsApp poll asking which iPhone 16 models you were planning to buy saw way more engagement for the base iPhone 16 models, with the ultramarine shade beating teal and black.

Despite the arrival of the 'Desert titanium' shade on the iPhone 16 Pro series this year, its colors are otherwise very drab. While that certainly makes them more business-friendly, there are surely a significant number of Pro buyers who simply want a fun shade alongside the flagship model's bonus features like 5x optical zoom.

There are some early signs that Apple may have held back some bolder colors as part of its upgrade strategy for next year's the iPhone 17 Pro series, with a leaker suggesting that a Teal Titanium, Green Titanium or Dark Green Titanium shade could be in the pipeline for 2025.

We'd take that speculation with a hefty pinch of salt, but it would certainly be an improvement – even if Apple leaves the transparent offerings to modders.

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A major call center service provider in the Middle East has lost an enormous amount of private customer data after being hacked.

Researchers from Resecurity spotted the hackers trying to sell the stolen database on the dark web, via a new thread on the infamous Breached forums, where threat actors usually share resources, buy and sell information, and communicate.

In the thread, the seller said they breached a major AI-powered cloud call center in Saudi Arabia, and accessed its management dashboard, where they found more than 10 million conversations between consumers, operators, and AI bots. These conversations, the researchers further explained, contained things like national ID documents, which the crooks can easily exfiltrate and sort, creating a powerful database of fresh, relevant information.

Selling access

“Selling: 1k enterprise customers, 1m end users (not customers, but users who use their chats on various services, like banks, airlines, etc.), 10m+ chat messages/communications, GBs of documents (sent by customers and attached when chatting with AI assistant) - will give as a bonus, access to admin panel + VPN ( engineer)”, the ad reads.

This is incredibly valuable information for threat actors, who can later use it in phishing attacks, identity theft, social engineering attacks, and other malicious activity.

“Big data and access useful (sic) for social engineering and other maneuvers, especially when you are in session with client. VPN is needed to access it under engineer,” the ad concludes.

The database is being sold for $15,000, to be paid in either bitcoin or monero.

Resecurity said that the attackers were spotted and quickly removed from the systems, so the access being sold with the database is most likely not valid any more. However, the damage from the stolen database remains.

Via InfoSecurity

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The Sonos Arc Ultra is truly the worst-kept secret in tech right now, with the new soundbar leaking everything like water from a paper bucket. Only a few days ago, Best Buy seemed to reveal that it would have a price of $999, and now more retailers may have given us the release date.

Spotted by Redditors, Belgian retailers Fnac, Vandenborre, and MediaMarkt apparently had pre-order pages visible for the Sonos Arc Ultra and the Sonos Sub 4, promising a release date of 29 October 2024 for both.

The pre-orders offer a price of €999 for the soundbar, and €899 for the Sonos Sub 4 – all of which are in line with expectations.

(Image credit: Reddit / Fabulous-Rise1057)

October 29 is coming up fast, so we may get official information about the new soundbar imminently – early next week will be two weeks from that launch date, so I wouldn't be surprised to see something arrive then.

On top of this release date revelation, a load more images that are claimed to be of the Arc Ultra have leaked on Reddit, too. There's a combination of product shots and lifestyle images, and they appear to confirm that the soundbar will work with the Sonos Ace headphones (not that anyone had any doubt about that, especially since they were updated to work with the Beam and Ray soundbars).

Sonos Arc Ultra leak (again) from r/sonos

The Sonos Arc Ultra is exciting because it's claimed to be the first product with a new kind of speaker tech, which Sonos appears to be calling 'Sound Motion' based on previous leaks, but was previously known as Mayht Heart Motion before Sonos bought the company.

These drivers are much smaller than traditional speaker designs, but can apparently deliver the same power and depth. They're said to be used here, though we don't know in exactly what form yet – the likelihood is that they'll provide much more bass and mid-range power from the bar.

The original Sonos Arc still rates among the best soundbars you can buy today, and I've written before why I think the Arc's successor could be one of the best tech releases of the year. And if Sonos can keep its improved app on its positive track by adding features and fixing the reliability, we could be onto a real winner here. Looks like we'll find out one way or the other soon.

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Intel has just launched its Core Ultra 200S processors – the new generation for desktop PCs – and the company has informed us that laptop chips for this Arrow Lake family aren’t far away.

In fact, the Arrow Lake notebook CPUs will arrive in Q1 2025, in next-gen laptops, specifically with Core Ultra 200H and Core Ultra 200HX flavors, which are mainstream and enthusiast (very powerful) processors respectively.

These models will sit alongside Lunar Lake laptop (Core Ultra 200V) chips which have recently been sprung on the market (impressing a good many folks for one reason or another).

Core Ultra 200H chips will top out at 14-cores, with the flagship sporting 6 performance cores and 8 efficiency cores. As for Core Ultra 200HX, that will run up to 24-cores with 8 performance cores and 16 efficiency cores.

Expect to see new laptops packing Arrow Lake CPUs at CES 2025 (where we might also get Nvidia’s next-gen notebook GPUs, and other mobile goodies besides).

Analysis: Clearing up any CPU confusion

Confused about how Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake laptop silicon fits together, and what’s different? Let’s outline the main differences between the two, and indeed between the H and HX takes on Arrow Lake.

Lunar Lake majors in power-efficiency and is designed for thin-and-light premium laptops, whereas Arrow Lake will offer more in the way of performance and raw grunt, particularly with those top-end HX CPUs. (Although Arrow Lake is still very efficient compared to Raptor Lake Refresh, of course, as we heard all about at the desktop launch yesterday).

That said, on the AI side, things are a bit different. Lunar Lake features a much more powerful NPU with 40+ TOPS – so it qualifies as a CPU that can be the engine of a Copilot+ laptop – but Arrow Lake has an NPU that can only muster 13 TOPS (a measure of AI performance).

However, the total AI performance from the Core Ultra 200H family will be seriously beefy, as the integrated GPU offers 77 TOPS, plus 9 TOPS from the processor – all of these components join the NPU in dealing with AI workloads – giving a total of 99 TOPS. The HX series chips, however, have a GPU that only offers 8 TOPS, plus 15 for the CPU, for a total of 36 TOPS for these processors.

So, the Core Ultra 200H chips have a considerably more powerful integrated GPU (running with up to 8 Xe Cores, as opposed to 4 Xe Cores with the HX series) and XeSS support is in the mix. With 24-cores and relatively fast clock speeds, though, the Core Ultra 200HX will be formidable chips for the best gaming laptops (and the likes of workstations). These are basically the notebook equivalents of the freshly revealed desktop Core Ultra 200S chips – except these mobile CPUs come in a more compact package (a third smaller, in fact).

The idea is that HX processors will be paired with a heavyweight discrete GPU in gaming laptops, where integrated performance isn’t going to cut it. (Although we’re slowly moving towards a world where that statement is increasingly less true, it must be said – though a separate GPU is always going to be more powerful, of course).

Via Wccftech

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Following the success of Netflix’s latest Original rom-com series Nobody Wants This (trailer below), the platform has already renewed it for a second season in addition to granting its hit political thriller series The Diplomat a third installment ahead of its season two premiere on October 31. In light of two of the best Netflix series returning to the screen, maybe this is my sign to give more Netflix Original shows a chance.

After viewers were left with unanswered questions following Noah and Joanne’s kiss at the end of Nobody Wants This, their unorthodox love story will continue to unravel in its second season which will see the return of leading stars Adam Brody and Kristen Bell. The show’s creator, Erin Foster, will also be returning as the creative spearhead, telling Netflix Tudum that “creating Nobody Wants This will forever be a career highlight for me” - whose title is highly ironic as it appears that, clearly, everybody does in fact want this.

The production team behind Nobody Wants This will receive a slight glow-up as former producers on the comedy series Girls, Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan, will be joining as showrunners, as well as Nora Silver (Welcome to the Chippendales) assuming the role of executive producer. Season 2 of Nobody Wants This will arrive on the best streaming service in 2025, where it will delve deeper into the relationship between the rabbi and podcaster.

While Nobody Wants This was a roaring success with viewers becoming Netflix’s second most-watched series, the platform’s thriller series The Diplomat has proved to be another successful Netflix Original series. In the build-up to The Diplomat season 2, we already have news that its third season production is already underway in London and New York.

It’s season two trailer (see below) suggests a tension-riddled storyline following its dramatic season one finale, and season 3 certainly won’t be turning down the volume going by the show’s creator, Debora Cahn. She told Netflix Tudum: “In season three, Kate (Keri Russell) lives the particular nightmare that is getting what you want.” Insights to the third season’s events are still under wraps, but we can imagine that its guest star Allison Janney will undoubtedly throw a spanner into the works of Kate’s already complicated career.

Are my Netflix Original trust issues coming to an end?

Netflix Original shows are a tricky one for me as, more often than not, I find they fall victim to cancellations rather than renewals – therefore, it’s difficult for me to commit a new Netflix show. I gave up on them out of my own stubbornness, so maybe now it's time for me to break from that attitude.

It's frustrating to see Netflix Original shows have their time cut short, just look at how Kaos turned out, so when I learn that there are shows out there that Netflix actually care about it makes me hopeful that maybe one day, I can find a Netflix Original show that was meant for me.

I can't remember the last time I watched a Netflix Original show I enjoyed that wasn't Stranger Things, and since its final season is still eons away, I guess I need something to fill the void until I'm reunited with Millie Bobby Brown.

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