June 2024

Julian Assange freed after agreeing to plead guilty to US charges 2024-06-25 at 03:31 By Simon Sharwood WikiLeaks boss already off from the UK to ultimately Australia Breaking news  Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been freed in the UK after agreeing to plead guilty to charges brought against him by the United States.… This article

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America’s best chance for nationwide privacy law could do more harm than good 2024-06-25 at 03:16 By Thomas Claburn ‘Congress has effectively gutted it as part of a backroom deal’ Analysis  Introduced in April, the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) was – in the words of its drafters – “the best opportunity we’ve had in

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Record labels gang up to sue AI music generator duo into utter oblivion 2024-06-25 at 00:46 By Matthew Connatser Recording Industry Ass. of America orchestrates war on Udio and Suno Big name record labels are together suing two AI startups for allegedly training their music-generating models on copyrighted tracks without permission, resulting in the software

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Ollama drama as ‘easy-to-exploit’ critical flaw found in open source AI server 2024-06-24 at 23:46 By Jessica Lyons About a thousand vulnerable instances still exposed online, we’re told A now-patched vulnerability in Ollama – a popular open source project for running LLMs – can lead to remote code execution, according to flaw finders who warned

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Y Combinator, AI startups come out in opposition to California safety bill 2024-06-24 at 23:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Same old whinging: We can’t change the world if you ask us to do it openly Venture capitalist Y Combinator and more than 140 AI startups have signed an open letter in opposition to a hot-button AI

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Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer, CPO says in bombshell lawsuit 2024-06-24 at 22:31 By Thomas Claburn Steve Teixeira sues Firefox maker alleging disability discrimination, retaliation Mozilla Corporation was sued this month in the US, along with three of its executives, for alleged disability discrimination and retaliation against Chief Product

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Indonesian government datacenter locked down in $8M ransomware rumble 2024-06-24 at 22:01 By Matthew Connatser Variant of Lockbit 3.0 said to be weapon of choice for attack The Indonesian government has admitted its national datacenter was hit by ransomware criminals, disrupting some of the country’s services.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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Car dealers stuck in the slow lane after cyber woes at software biz CDK 2024-06-24 at 21:16 By Connor Jones More customers self-reporting to SEC as disruption carries into second week The number of US companies filing Form 8-Ks with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and referencing embattled car dealership software biz CDK is

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NASA ought to pay up for space debris that punched a hole in my roof, claims homeowner 2024-06-24 at 20:31 By Matthew Connatser Otero family asks space agency for $80K to make everything right Space debris that originated from NASA hit a Florida homeowner’s house, the family claims, after filing a formal claim asking the

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China and the EU agree to consultations over EV anti-subsidy investigation 2024-06-24 at 18:47 By Richard Speed Tit for tat spat could be avoided China and the European Commission are to launch consultations on the European Union anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric vehicles (EVs).… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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Google Introduces Project Naptime for AI-Powered Vulnerability Research 2024-06-24 at 18:31 By Google has developed a new framework called Project Naptime that it says enables a large language model (LLM) to carry out vulnerability research with an aim to improve automated discovery approaches. “The Naptime architecture is centered around the interaction between an AI agent

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