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Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will end third-party fact-checking, adopt Elon Musk’s ‘Community Notes’ system on X 2025-01-07 at 15:48 By Reuters Community Notes model will allow users on Meta’s social media sites Facebook, Instagram and Threads to call out posts that may be misleading. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News […]

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Windows 11 24H2 can run – sort of – in 184MB 2025-01-07 at 15:18 By Richard Speed Do you really need a new PC for Microsoft’s latest and greatest? From the department of “because I can” comes news of Windows 11 24H2 running in 184MB of memory.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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Mitigating CVE exploitations: Putting the ‘rapid’ into rapid response 2025-01-07 at 15:18 By There is only so much a security team can do to be proactive; they don’t operate in a bubble, and patching systems without proper testing comes with its own risks. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed

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Can AWS really fix AI hallucination? We talk to head of Automated Reasoning Byron Cook 2025-01-07 at 14:51 By Tim Anderson Engineer who works on ways to prove code’s mathematically correct finds his field’s suddenly much less obscure Interview  A notable flaw of AI is its habit of “hallucinating,” making up plausible answers that have

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Farewell to the Fallen: The Cybersecurity Stars We Lost Last Year 2025-01-07 at 14:51 By It’s time once again to pay our respects to the once-famous cybersecurity solutions whose usefulness died in the past year. The cybercriminal world collectively mourns the loss of these solutions and the easy access they provide to victim organizations. These

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Elon Musk’s galactic ego sows chaos in European politics 2025-01-07 at 13:48 By Lindsay Clark Leaders miffed at ‘unacceptable interference’ Opinion  It’s been a busy month in the political brain of Elon Musk. The tech, automotive, and space entrepreneur has gone from mulling a donation to the Reform UK party worth around $100 million to

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UK gives Openreach £289M for 4 rural broadband contracts in ‘gigabit by 2030’ push 2025-01-07 at 13:16 By Dan Robinson Nation’s dominant broadband plumber wins ahead of altnets The UK government has signed contracts with BT Group’s Openreach worth upwards of £289 million ($363 million) for the further build-out of fiber infrastructure to serve more

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Behind the billionaire-backed longevity business — and the innovations that could help us live longer 2025-01-07 at 13:01 By Tracy Swartz Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman and Peter Thiel can buy whatever they want — even eternal youth? This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original

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The unlicensed OneDrive free ride ends this month 2025-01-07 at 12:19 By Richard Speed Kind old Microsoft is worried about security and compliance … nothing to do with a free storage loophole Still keeping data in unlicensed OneDrive accounts of long-gone users? The time has come to act: The data could soon become inaccessible or

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New EAGERBEE Variant Targets ISPs and Governments with Advanced Backdoor Capabilities 2025-01-07 at 12:04 By Internet service providers (ISPs) and governmental entities in the Middle East have been targeted using an updated variant of the EAGERBEE malware framework. The new variant of EAGERBEE (aka Thumtais) comes fitted with various components that allow the backdoor to

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CISA: No Wider Federal Impact from Treasury Cyber Attack, Investigation Ongoing 2025-01-07 at 12:04 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday said there are no indications that the cyber attack targeting the Treasury Department impacted other federal agencies. The agency said it’s working closely with the Treasury Department and BeyondTrust to

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The latest language in the GNU Compiler Collection: Algol-68 2025-01-07 at 11:35 By Liam Proven That is not dead which can eternal lie… including the grandparent of C, apparently A 37-year-old compiler is gaining support for a new language… although as that language is 57 years old, we are possibly stretching the adjective “new” more

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Intel debuts laptop silicon that doesn’t qualify for Microsoft’s ‘Copilot+ PC’ badge 2025-01-07 at 10:35 By Brandon Vigliarolo and Simon Sharwood TOPS, SCHMOPS, says Chipzilla, our NPUs may be slow but that doesn’t matter Intel has announced new silicon for the edge, and products for laptops that lack one.… This article is an excerpt from

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Moxa Alerts Users to High-Severity Vulnerabilities in Cellular and Secure Routers 2025-01-07 at 10:35 By Taiwan-based Moxa has warned of two security vulnerabilities impacting its cellular routers, secure routers, and network security appliances that could allow privilege escalation and command execution. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2024-9138 (CVSS 4.0 score: 8.6) –

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US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies 2025-01-07 at 09:06 By Simon Sharwood This could be the start of a saga to rival TikTok’s troubles, and embroil Tesla and Microsoft The US Department of Defense has added Chinese messaging and gaming Tencent to its list of “Chinese military company”,

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