August 2023

Cops cuff pregnant woman for carjacking after facial recog gets it wrong, again 08/08/2023 at 03:32 By Thomas Claburn Not-so smart tech, or officers, it seems Early one February morning this year, six Detroit police officers brought an arrest warrant to the home of Porcha Woodruff. A 32-year-old mother of two, she was eight-months pregnant

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Scientists struggle to follow recipe for holy grail room-temp superconductor 08/08/2023 at 03:02 By Dan Robinson Race to replicate LK-99, and the process used to create it, hits plenty of hurdles Scientists are struggling to verify South Korean eggheads’ claim to have synthesized a material that exhibits superconductivity at room temperature and normal pressure.… This

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ChatGPT’s odds of getting code questions correct are worse than a coin flip 08/08/2023 at 01:17 By Thomas Claburn But its suggestions so annoyingly plausible ChatGPT, OpenAI’s fabulating chatbot, produces wrong answers to software programming questions more than half the time, according to a study from Purdue University. That said, the bot was convincing enough

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Stalkerware slinger LetMeSpy shuts down for good after database robbery 08/08/2023 at 00:17 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle If you can’t trust a spyware developer with your info, who can you trust? Stalkerware slinger LetMeSpy will shut down for good this month after a miscreant breached its servers and stole a heap of data in June.…

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Boffins say they can turn typing sounds into text with 95% accuracy 07/08/2023 at 23:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo Your neighbor’s clacking keys aren’t just annoying – they’re also exploitable Researchers in the UK claim to have translated the sound of laptop keystrokes into their corresponding letters with 95 percent accuracy in some cases.… This article

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Virginia airport installs new security screenings 07/08/2023 at 23:48 By The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in Virginia International Yeager Airport is installing CT X-ray scanners at the security checkpoint. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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RIP Bram Moolenaar: Coding world mourns Vim creator 07/08/2023 at 23:19 By Liam Proven :wq buddy Obit  Dutch free software developer Bram Moolenaar has died. He was 62. His Vim text editor is probably one of the single most widely used Linux programs of all time.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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Rise of AI leads to free training sources 07/08/2023 at 23:19 By The rise of technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) has led to security leaders looking for ways to educate themselves on its uses and risks.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this

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Lawrence Livermore lab repeats fusion breakthrough – yep, still kinda works 07/08/2023 at 22:03 By Lindsay Clark Greater yield than last year, but don’t ditch your solar panels just yet Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have repeated their breakthrough fusion experiment, which nominally produced more energy than it consumed.… This article

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Graphene foam is the future of IoT power, say Scottish boffins 07/08/2023 at 21:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo An electrically charged spring in your step A group of Scottish engineers claim to have come up with a new way to harvest the electricity wasted by everyday human movement: electrically conductive foam.… This article is an excerpt

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TV and film extras are afraid generative AI will copy their faces and bodies to take their jobs 07/08/2023 at 19:48 By Katyanna Quach Plus: Apple has spent $22.1B on research for generative AI, and Kickstarter introduces new AI policies AI in brief  Production companies are scanning the faces and bodies of actors and actresses,

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New Malware Campaign Targets Inexperienced Cyber Criminals with OpenBullet Configs 07/08/2023 at 19:47 By A new malware campaign has been observed making use of malicious OpenBullet configuration files to target inexperienced cyber criminals with the goal of delivering a remote access trojan (RAT) capable of stealing sensitive information. Bot mitigation company Kasada said the activity is designed

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Another thing you can blame AI for: Cloud grows but server shipments are down 07/08/2023 at 18:47 By Dan Robinson Investment shifts to meet demand, say analysts. And demand is based on FOMO. WCGW? The cloud market continues to grow, but at a slowly declining rate, while investment is shifting to meet the demand for

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White House announces K-12 cybersecurity plans 07/08/2023 at 18:46 By  The White House has announced steps for providing various resources for K-12 schools to update their cybersecurity practices and report incidents. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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