July 2024

New Chrome Feature Scans Password-Protected Files for Malicious Content 2024-07-25 at 09:01 By Google said it’s adding new security warnings when downloading potentially suspicious and malicious files via its Chrome web browser. “We have replaced our previous warning messages with more detailed ones that convey more nuance about the nature of the danger and can […]

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India ditches its ‘Google Tax’ after US waved a big stick 2024-07-25 at 08:16 By Laura Dobberstein Stakeholders found it an ‘ambiguous’ compliance burden and the world has moved on – or tried to who retained her position despite her Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) losing its outright majority and forming a coalition after recent elections

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ServiceNow president leaves after policy breach related to public sector boss hire 2024-07-25 at 07:31 By Simon Sharwood But the books look good, because of real AI ServiceNow has parted ways with president and chief operating officer Chirantan “CJ” Desai after an internal investigation found he had violated company policy when hiring the former CIO

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12.9 million individuals affected by MediSecure cyber breach 2024-07-25 at 07:17 By Sensitive data, including personal and health information, was exposed in a cyber incident against MediSecure.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Things are going Z-shaped at Huawei: Chinese giant preps three-screen folding smartphone 2024-07-25 at 06:47 By Laura Dobberstein Reports hint they’ll be here by Christmas Huawei has reportedly developed a tri-fold smartphone that can be formed into a Z-shape, and will mass produce the machine before the end of 2024.… This article is an excerpt

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How a cheap barcode scanner helped fix CrowdStrike’d Windows PCs in a flash 2024-07-25 at 05:32 By Simon Sharwood This one weird trick saved countless hours and stress – no, really Not long after Windows PCs and servers at the Australian limb of audit and tax advisory Grant Thornton started BSODing last Friday, senior systems

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Mistral Large 2 leaps out as a leaner, meaner rival to GPT-4-class AI models 2024-07-25 at 04:47 By Tobias Mann It’s not the size that matters, it’s how you use it Mistral AI on Wednesday revealed a 123-billion-parameter large language model (LLM) called Mistral Large 2 (ML2) which, it claims, comes within spitting distance of

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Fatal timeline of CrowdStrike’s week from hell – Feb to now 2024-07-25 at 03:31 By Jessica Lyons ‘In the short term, they’re going to have to do a lot of groveling’ Analysis  The great irony of the CrowdStrike fiasco is that a cybersecurity company caused the exact sort of massive global outage it was supposed

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AMD stalls Ryzen 9000 launch after chips fall short of quality controls 2024-07-25 at 00:32 By Tobias Mann QA? In 2024? In this economy? How quaint! AMD has delayed the launch of its Ryzen 9000 desktop processors after discovering that production units initially shipped to channel partners weren’t up to snuff.… This article is an

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Oops. Apple relied on bad code while flaming Google Chrome’s Topics ad tech 2024-07-25 at 00:02 By Thomas Claburn Yes, you can be fingerprinted and tracked via Privacy Sandbox – tho the risk is low Apple last week celebrated a slew of privacy changes coming to its Safari browser and took the time to bash

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Microsoft wants fatter pipes between its AI datacenters, asks Lumen to make light work of it 2024-07-24 at 22:33 By Tobias Mann Is this what the kidz call a glow-up? Microsoft has tasked network operator Lumen Technologies — formerly CenturyLink — with scaling up its network capacity as the Windows giant looks to grow its

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Philadelphia tree trimmers fail to nip FTC noncompete ban in the bud 2024-07-24 at 22:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo What a Trump-appointed judge taketh away, a Biden judge giveth The Federal Trade Commission’s ban on noncompete agreements has been upheld after a second legal challenge, with a Philadelphia judge deciding that the FTC was well within

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