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Researchers Uncover Wiretapping of XMPP-Based Instant Messaging Service 28/10/2023 at 11:20 By New findings have shed light on what’s said to be a lawful attempt to covertly intercept traffic originating from jabber[.]ru (aka xmpp[.]ru), an XMPP-based instant messaging service, via servers hosted on Hetzner and Linode (a subsidiary of Akamai) in Germany. “The attacker has issued […]

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Apple Private Wi-Fi hasn’t worked for the past three years 28/10/2023 at 01:33 By Thomas Claburn Not exactly the MAC daddy Three years after Apple introduced a menu setting called Private Wi-Fi Address, a way to spoof network identifiers called MAC addresses, the privacy protection may finally work as advertised, thanks to a software fix.…

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Biden’s facing the clock to veto Apple Watch import ban after ITC patent ruling 28/10/2023 at 00:33 By Tobias Mann I’ll huff and I’ll puff and Masimo will blow your sales down The Apple Watch is once again facing a possible US import ban again after the International Trade Commission determined the wearable violated patents

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It took seven years but over-40s fired by HP win $18m settlement 27/10/2023 at 23:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo $15,000 per plaintiff, after lawyers’ fees. Justice is done! After over seven years of legal battles, a group of former HP employees who claim the venerable firm discriminated against older staff when culling jobs has won a

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Wayland heading for default status as Mint devs mix it into Cinnamon 6 bun 27/10/2023 at 22:37 By Liam Proven Plus Linux Mint 22 to be based on Ubuntu ‘Noble Numbat’ The creators of Linux Mint and the Cinnamon desktop are experimenting with the Wayland protocol – and so is the original developer of Xfce.…

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Daily malware activity doubled year over year for small businesses 27/10/2023 at 21:51 By Small business cybersecurity was analyzed in a recent Comcast report, finding that daily malware activity in 2023 roughly doubled since 2022. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Cruise blues: Robotaxi firm pauses all driverless operations 27/10/2023 at 21:39 By Brandon Vigliarolo Decision comes after CA revokes firm’s driverless license and NHTSA signal an investigation Robotaxi operator Cruise’s bad week just keeps getting worse: Now the GM-backed business has paused driverless operations across the entire fleet.… This article is an excerpt from The

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F5 hurriedly squashes BIG-IP remote code execution bug 27/10/2023 at 20:48 By Connor Jones Fixes came earlier than scheduled as vulnerability became known to outsiders F5 has issued a fix for a remote code execution (RCE) bug in its BIG-IP suite carrying a near-maximum severity score.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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Russia hustles to fill impending void left by the ISS 27/10/2023 at 19:25 By Richard Speed First module of new space station to be launched in 2027 Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a project to build an Orbital Station following a meeting regarding the development of the country’s space industry.… This article is an

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The battle between open source and ‘sort of’ open source is as old as software 27/10/2023 at 18:33 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols There’s nothing new about HashiCorp leaving the principle behind Opinion  At the Linux Foundation Members Summit in Monterrey, California, topic number one was artificial intelligence and open source. Number two was about HashiCorp

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