2024

Homing pigeon missiles, dead trout swimming, butt breathing honored with Ig Nobel Prize 2024-09-14 at 13:47 By Richard Currie Mad science award ceremony returns to MIT after four years online With less than a month to go before the Nobel Prizes are handed out for the most worthy scientific discoveries of the preceding year, it

Begun, the open source AI wars have 2024-09-14 at 12:46 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols This is going to be ugly. Really ugly Opinion  The Open Source Initiative (OSI) and its allies are getting closer to a definition of open source AI. If all goes well, Stefano Maffulli, the OSI’s executive director, expects to announce the

Meta back at it, harvesting Britons’ public Facebook, Insta feeds for AI training 2024-09-14 at 10:31 By Iain Thomson I wanna know 🎵 What you’re feeling 🎵 Tell me what’s on your mind Meta is going to resume scraping the personal public feeds of British Facebook and Instagram users for training AI after reaching an

Ivanti Warns of Active Exploitation of Newly Patched Cloud Appliance Vulnerability 2024-09-14 at 07:47 By Ivanti has revealed that a newly patched security flaw in its Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-8190 (CVSS score: 7.2), which allows remote code execution under certain

Apple AirPods Pro 2 can be sold as hearing aids, says FDA 2024-09-14 at 02:17 By Iain Thomson You gotta admit, that speaks volumes for Cupertino America’s drug watchdog this week gave Apple permission to market its new AirPods as over-the-counter hearing aids, disrupting an industry where traditional devices have often cost thousands of dollars.…

EU OKs $1.9B aid for Intel Polish plant, assuming x86 giant doesn’t end up cutting it 2024-09-13 at 22:46 By Tobias Mann That’s zloty money but is it too little, too late? Intel is scrambling to stanch the bleeding of its floundering foundry business, but in Poland at least the chipmaker’s luck is looking up.…

AI giants pinky swear (again) not to help make deepfake smut 2024-09-13 at 22:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Oh look, another voluntary, non-binding agreement to do better Some of the largest AI firms in America have given the White House a solemn pledge to prevent their AI products from being used to generate non-consensual deepfake pornography

Feeld dating app’s security too open-minded as private data swings into public view 2024-09-13 at 21:31 By Connor Jones No love for months-long wait to fix this, either Security researchers have revealed a litany of failures in the Feeld dating app that could be abused to access all manner of private user data, including the

The Europa Clipper stretches its wings as launch nears 2024-09-13 at 19:31 By Richard Speed Solar arrays are massive… but it’s the transistors onlookers are really worried about NASA’s Europa Clipper is now less than a month from its October 10 launch, and the US space agency has shown off the spacecraft’s giant solar arrays.

64% of education IT workers say ransomware impacts education quality 2024-09-13 at 19:16 By A new survey reveals IT leaders’ concerns about cybersecurity in education.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Apple Vision Pro Vulnerability Exposed Virtual Keyboard Inputs to Attackers 2024-09-13 at 18:31 By Details have emerged about a now-patched security flaw impacting Apple’s Vision Pro mixed reality headset that, if successfully exploited, could allow malicious attackers to infer data entered on the device’s virtual keyboard. The attack, dubbed GAZEploit, has been assigned the CVE

Win 11 refreshes delayed say PC makers – and here’s why 2024-09-13 at 18:16 By Paul Kunert Oh and about those AI computers… analysts reckon there are still no killer apps or convincing use cases Admins had better dust off their Windows migration skills if Dell and HP are right that a refresh wave of

MongoDB CEO says if AI hype were the dotcom boom it is 1996 2024-09-13 at 17:47 By Lindsay Clark NoSQL database slinger attempts to reassure investors, kinda Analysis  It is 1996 in terms of the business adoption of AI if it were put on the dotcom era timeline, according to MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria.… This

17-Year-Old Arrested in Connection with Cyber Attack Affecting Transport for London 2024-09-13 at 17:01 By British authorities on Thursday announced the arrest of a 17-year-old male in connection with a cyber attack affecting Transport for London (TfL). “The 17-year-old male was detained on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offenses in relation to the attack, which

Microsoft is updating Windows to avoid repeat of CrowdStrike catastrophe 2024-09-13 at 16:46 By Connor Jones Existing low-level kernel access for security solutions will undergo a rework Microsoft says it’s working on Windows to allow endpoint security solutions to operate outside of the operating system’s kernel, all with a view to preventing any future CrowdStrike-esque