2024

Cisco’s emergency caller can send emergency services to the wrong location 2024-06-03 at 05:31 By Simon Sharwood 911 is a joke Cisco has warned that its Emergency Responder product can send emergency services to the wrong location under some circumstances.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

DARPA awards in-orbit manufacturing contract to Momentus 2024-06-02 at 22:50 By Brandon Vigliarolo In the not too distant future agency wants to found factories in the sky A space company with a troubled past has been thrown a possible lifeline by DARPA, which has awarded it a contract to demonstrate the first steps towards building

Twitter ‘supersharers’ of fake news tend to be older Republican women 2024-06-01 at 17:46 By Thomas Claburn Tiny percentage of users make X miss the spot About 80 percent of the fake news shared on Twitter during the 2020 US presidential election came from just 0.3 percent of users, according to researchers from Israel and

Do you really need that GPU or NPU for your AI apps? 2024-06-01 at 12:16 By Chris Williams And how do we feel about Palantir selling its ML-based targeting system to the entire US military? Tune in! Kettle  There’s no avoiding AI and LLMs this year. The technology is being stuffed into everything, from office

AI Company Hugging Face Notifies Users of Suspected Unauthorized Access 2024-06-01 at 10:46 By Artificial Intelligence (AI) company Hugging Face on Friday disclosed that it detected unauthorized access to its Spaces platform earlier this week. “We have suspicions that a subset of Spaces’ secrets could have been accessed without authorization,” it said in an advisory.

Twitch ditches Safety Advisory Council, relaunches with vetted ‘ambassadors’ 2024-06-01 at 02:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Who needs experts when you have an army of hand-picked super users telling you what you want to hear? Twitch has reportedly dismantled its Safety Advisory Council, and apparently plans to replace the panel with chosen “ambassadors.”… This article is

The Canon Cat – remembering the computer that tried to banish mice 2024-06-01 at 01:34 By Liam Proven Refurbishing the next machine to come from the original inventor of the Mac Feature  Vintage systems guru Cameron Kaiser documents stripping down and fixing a Canon Cat – the most revolutionary computer you’ve never heard of.… This

Snowflake denies miscreants melted its security to steal data from top customers 2024-06-01 at 00:46 By Tobias Mann Infosec house claims Ticketmaster, Santander hit via cloud storage Infosec analysts at Hudson Rock believe Snowflake was compromised by miscreants who used that intrusion to steal data on hundreds of millions of people from Ticketmaster, Santander, and

US senator claims UnitedHealth’s CEO, board appointed ‘unqualified’ CISO 2024-06-01 at 00:31 By Connor Jones Similar cases have resulted in serious sanctions, and they were on a far smaller scale Serial tech and digital privacy critic Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) laid into UnitedHealth Group’s (UHG) CEO for appointing a CISO Wyden deemed “unqualified”– a decision

TikTok said to be working on US-specific version of its content algorithm for months 2024-05-31 at 23:47 By Matthew Connatser Owner ByteDance may be hedging its bets on overturning sale-or-ban bill Developers for the short video app TikTok have reportedly been working on creating a clone of its content algorithm specifically for use in the

Cyber cops plead for info on elusive Emotet mastermind 2024-05-31 at 22:31 By Connor Jones Follows arrests and takedowns of recent days After the big dog revelations from the past week, the cops behind Operation Endgame are now calling for help in tracking down the brains behind the Emotet operation.… This article is an excerpt

Google finally addresses those bizarre AI search results 2024-05-31 at 22:17 By Matthew Connatser Suggesting people eat rocks or put glue on pizza? Yeah, that’s some artificial intelligence right there Google has finally addressed those unhinged web search results seemingly generated by its AI, screenshots of which circulated far and wide on social media this

Windows Subsystem for Linux gets enterprise friendly and plans a settings interface 2024-05-31 at 21:46 By Richard Speed Scared of editing a config file? There’ll soon be a GUI for that The Windows Subsystem for Linux is due to receive a user interface for settings as well as management enhancements to make the platform more

OSHA cites tool manufacturer for unsafe work conditions 2024-05-31 at 21:17 By OSHA has cited an equipment manufacturer for workplace hazards following a 29-year-old suffering severe burns during an electrical arc blast. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source