11th June 1986: Ferris Bueller's Day Off was released. https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1932838235102716317

13th June 1994: A Russian hacker group led by Vladimir Levin stole $10.7 million from Citibank via X.25, in what was the first international bank robbery over a network to be made public. Levin was caught in London in 1995 and sentenced in the US to 3 years in prison in 1998. https://x.com/todayininfosec/status/1933504310643773697

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1. 26th May 1995: Realizing his company had missed the boat in estimating the impact and popularity of the Internet, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates issues a memo titled, “The Internet Tidal Wave,” which signaled the company’s focus on the global network. In the memo, Gates declared that the Internet was the “most important single development” since the IBM personal computer — a development that he was assigning “the highest level of importance.” Still, it is curious why it took someone who was regarded as a technology “innovator” so long to realize this.

https://thisdayintechhistory.com/05/26/bill-gates-internet-tidal-wave/

1. 30th May 1996: AT&T Announces Video Phone Call System. AT&T held a meeting to announce a system that would allow personal computers to make and receive video phone calls over standard telephone lines. In years of efforts by AT&T and others to find success in the technology, the AT&T system made use of Intel's Pentium processors and compression software to allow both video and audio information to share a phone line rather than a high-capacity ISDN, T-1, or T-3 line.

https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/may/30/#att-announces-video-phone-call-system

Security outfit SentinelOne's services back online after lengthy outage

OpenAI model modifies shutdown script in apparent sabotage effort

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Irish privacy watchdog OKs Meta to train AI on EU folks' posts

Judge allows Delta's lawsuit against CrowdStrike to proceed with millions in damages on the line

https://x.com/fesshole/status/1925815219655233765?s=46&t=1-Sjo1Vy8SG7OdizJ3wVbg

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