August 2024

Securing hospitality: Balancing guest experience and safety 2024-08-05 at 07:16 By Doug Alexander, Director of Security and Loss Prevention at Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan discusses challenges and advice within the industry. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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India migrates 25,000 small lenders to ERP in just five months 2024-08-05 at 04:16 By Laura Dobberstein Plus: Food poisoning hits ByteDance Singapore; Indonesia bans DuckDuckGo; and more ASIA IN BRIEF  India’s government has successfully migrated 25,904 Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) to a unified ERP system in just five months, as part of its

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Lights, camera, AI! Real-time deepfakes coming to DEF CON 2024-08-04 at 21:46 By Jessica Lyons Red teamer finds they’re easy to make, which is welcome to produce fodder for detection bots DEF CON  Visitors to the AI Village at this year’s DEF CON hacker conference will have the chance to star in their own deepfake

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IBM Canada can’t duck channel exec’s systematic age discrimination claim 2024-08-04 at 20:31 By Thomas Claburn ‘They actually replaced me with a younger employee’ Three years ago, Bruce Maule, worldwide president of channel marketing at IBM, was informed by bosses that his position was being eliminated.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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AI boom is reshaping the face of cloud infrastructure 2024-08-04 at 14:16 By Dan Robinson Capex skyrockets as providers prioritize new shiny over traditional server upgrades Analysis  Cloud infrastructure is undergoing an upheaval with service providers rushing to deploy servers configured for AI model training, often at the cost of postponing the usual refresh cycle

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Bugging out: 53 years since humans first drove a battery-powered car on the Moon 2024-08-03 at 22:16 By Richard Speed And you thought you had range anxiety Feature  Electric vehicles have generated plenty of discussion over the last decade or so. However, it was 53 years ago this week that one of the battery-powered machines

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DARPA suggests turning old C code automatically into Rust – using AI, of course 2024-08-03 at 13:16 By Thomas Claburn Now that’s a TRACTOR pull request To accelerate the transition to memory safe programming languages, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is driving the development of TRACTOR, a programmatic code conversion vehicle.… This

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DOJ and FTC Sue TikTok for Violating Children’s Privacy Laws 2024-08-03 at 13:16 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), along with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), filed a lawsuit against popular video-sharing platform TikTok for “flagrantly violating” children’s privacy laws in the country. The agencies claimed the company knowingly permitted children to create TikTok

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Hackers Exploit Misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks with Repurposed Minecraft DDoS Tool 2024-08-03 at 08:01 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack campaign targeting misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks. The activity, codenamed Panamorfi by cloud security firm Aqua, utilizes a Java-based tool called mineping to launch a TCP flood DDoS attack. Mineping is

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San Francisco set to ban rent-hiking software algorithms 2024-08-03 at 01:02 By Thomas Claburn Automated price-fixing screwing over tenants? Fog off! The San Francisco Board of Supervisors this week approved a ban on algorithmic price setting in the rental housing market, a measure targeting real estate management software from the likes of RealPage and Yardi

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