2024

~40,000 Attacks in 3 Days: Critical Confluence RCE Under Active Exploitation 2024-01-23 at 12:01 By Malicious actors have begun to actively exploit a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server, within three days of public disclosure. Tracked as CVE-2023-22527 (CVSS score: 10.0), the vulnerability impacts out-of-date versions of the […]

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DPD chatbot blasts courier company, swears, and dabbles in awful poetry 2024-01-23 at 11:46 By Richard Currie So this is the AI revolution We know that “AI” is all the rage for now, but the recent experience of a DPD customer suggests that just because you can replace customer support with a chatbot doesn’t mean

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AI PC hype seems to be making PCs better – in hardware terms, at least 2024-01-23 at 10:31 By Tobias Mann 16GB of RAM should be enough for anyone that wants to run models locally. GPUs, NPUs and more kit will be needed, too Comment  What is an AI PC? What is its killer app?

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Meta accused of enrolling undecided EU users in ad-sponsored platform 2024-01-23 at 09:31 By Thomas Claburn Choice between seeing pitches or paying on Facebook and Instagram might break the law Meta has been accused of automatically enrolling Europe-based users of its Facebook social network into the ad supported version of the service if they’ve not

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AWS Marketplace adds sales of third-party services 2024-01-23 at 08:32 By Simon Sharwood Cloud-ready software and implementation from your preferred consultants, on one bill Amazon Web Services has made a bid for even more of the cloud business by allowing third-party services to be sold on its Marketplace.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Japan recovers moon lander data, puts craft to sleep due to solar panels’ bad attitude 2024-01-23 at 07:46 By Simon Sharwood JAXA plans to reveal whether mission nailed its self-selected landing site later this week Data from Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon has been downloaded, and the machine switched off – with just

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China names members of a second tech supergroup to define the metaverse 2024-01-23 at 06:31 By Laura Dobberstein Goggle-eyed Beijing wants technical and identity standards China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) released a list last Friday of 60 experts from academia, government and business selected by Beijing to define standards for the metaverse.…

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Australia imposes cyber sanctions on Russian it says ransomwared health insurer 2024-01-23 at 05:16 By Simon Sharwood ‘Aleksandr Ermakov’ isn’t allowed down under after being linked to ten-million-record leak Australia’s government has used the “significant cyber incidents” sanctions regime it introduced in 2021 for the first time, against a Russian named Aleksandr Gennadievich Ermakov whom

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Apple Issues Patch for Critical Zero-Day in iPhones, Macs – Update Now 2024-01-23 at 04:01 By Apple on Monday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and Safari web browser to address a zero-day flaw that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The issue, tracked as CVE-2024-23222, is a type confusion bug

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Law designed to stop AI bias in hiring decisions is so ineffective it’s slowing similar initiatives 2024-01-23 at 03:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo New York’s LL144 rated too broad, but researchers hope others can learn from that mistake A study into the effectiveness of a New York City law targeting bias in AI hiring algorithms has

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Robocaller spoofing Joe Biden is telling people not to vote in New Hampshire 2024-01-23 at 02:46 By Katyanna Quach Meanwhile, OpenAI is hiring an ‘elections program manager’ for $190,000+ Robo-calls featuring the faked voice of US president Joe Biden’s are advising voters not to participate in the state of New Hampshire’s Tuesday presidential Primary Election,

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Atlassian Confluence Server RCE attacks underway from 600+ IPs 2024-01-23 at 01:48 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle If you’re still running a vulnerable instance then ‘assume a breach’ More than 600 IP addresses are launching thousands of exploit attempts against CVE-2023-22527 – a critical bug in out–of-date versions of Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server –

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