Month: April 2026
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Ticketmaster is an illegal monopoly, jury finds
Live Nation-Ticketmaster is an illegal monopolist, a Manhattan jury found, according to Bloomberg. The jury found the company liable on three counts: illegally monopolizing the market for live event ticketing, amphitheaters, and tying its concert promotions business with the use of its venues, Bloomberg reported. The verdict, reached after several days of deliberation, leaves the live entertainment giant open to…
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Wait, could they still actually break up Live Nation?
A federal jury found Wednesday that Live Nation has been operating as an illegal monopoly — a verdict that could lead to the breakup of the entertainment giant and its ticketing subsidiary, Ticketmaster, and bring relief to concertgoers who are sick of dynamic pricing and inexplicable service fees. The ruling came as internal Slack messages surfaced during the trial showing…
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WordPress plugin suite hacked to push malware to thousands of sites
More than 30 WordPress plugins in the EssentialPlugin package have been compromised with malicious code that allows unauthorized access to websites running them. A malicious actor planted the backdoor code last year but only recently started pushing it to users via updates, generating spam pages and causing redirects, as per the instructions received from the command-and-control (C2) server. The compromise…
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Trump’s posting even more AI-generated Trump-Jesus fan art
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about Big Tech power plays in Washington and beyond. (And when I say beyond, I mean the great beyond, like Heaven, maybe.) If you’ve found your way to this newsletter from the wild, annual subscriptions are currently 50 percent off. That’s $30 a year for access to an entire newsroom…
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Ford EV and tech chief leaving automaker
Doug Field, the high-profile executive who shaped Ford’s electric vehicle (EV) and technology strategies over the past five years, is leaving the automaker. Field’s departure was announced Wednesday as part of a broader reorganization of the company’s leadership. Field joined Ford in 2021 with a robust resume from Silicon Valley that included leading Apple’s special projects team and serving as…
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Critical Nginx UI auth bypass flaw now actively exploited in the wild
A critical vulnerability in Nginx UI with Model Context Protocol (MCP) support is now being exploited in the wild for full server takeover without authentication. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-33032, is caused by nginx-ui leaving the ‘/mcp_message’ endpoint unprotected, allowing remote attackers to invoke privileged MCP actions without credentials. Because those actions involve writing and reloading nginx configuration files, a…
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YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts
YouTube’s time management settings now have an option to put a zero-minute time limit on Shorts, effectively removing them from your app in Android and iOS. The option is an update to the Shorts timer YouTube originally announced in October; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes. The feature was expanded in January to give parents some control over how…
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Amazon-backed X-energy files to raise up to $800M in IPO
Nuclear startup X-energy began its investor roadshow Wednesday as it works toward its IPO, setting its target price between $16 and $19 per share, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. If it lists at the high end, the startup could net about $814 million. X-energy and its peers have been riding a renewed wave of…
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I replaced these 4 popular Android apps with much better, lesser-known ones
For the longest time on Android, I have relied on the Play Store to get my apps. Little did I realize at the beginning that the app recommendations were based on brand recognition, not the app’s actual quality. As a result, my Android smartphones were filled with so-called popular apps from the Play Store. While these apps worked okay, they…
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New AgingFly malware used in attacks on Ukraine govt, hospitals
A new malware family named ‘AgingFly’ has been identified in attacks against local governments and hospitals that steal authentication data from Chromium-based browsers and WhatsApp messenger. The attacks were spotted in Ukraine by the country’s CERT team last month. Based on the forensic evidence, targets may also include representatives of the Defense Forces. CERT-UA has attributed the attacks to a cyber…
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