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Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s ‘stupid’ performance-killing fTPM RNG 01/08/2023 at 02:08 By Tobias Mann Some Ryzen Linux machines still stumble along despite efforts to fix it all Ongoing issues with Linux and AMD’s fTPM – the chip designer’s firmware-based TPM – appear to be wearing on kernel overseer Linus Torvalds’ nerves, who has suggested […]

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US Air Force burns more money on electric flying taxis 01/08/2023 at 01:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Waiting on that thumbs up from the FAA The US Air Force is dipping its toe into electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft by trialing a short-hop air taxi that has yet to get FAA certification to fly. …

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White House: Losing Section 702 spy powers would be among ‘worst intelligence failures of our time’ 31/07/2023 at 23:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle As expert panel suggests some tweaks to boost public’s confidence in FISA The White House has weighed in on the Section 702 debate, urging lawmakers to reauthorize, “without new and operationally damaging

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Do Facebook’s algorithms drive political polarization? Meta says no, but researchers say it’s complicated 31/07/2023 at 21:17 By Katyanna Quach Plus: Google DeepMind’s latest visual-language model robot, and more AI in brief  Four research papers this week concluded that users’ political beliefs and behavior don’t seem to be all that impacted by information amplified by

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Twitter’s giant glowing X was put up without a permit, say SF officials 31/07/2023 at 19:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo Neighbors say it’s an eyesore, but Musk’s underlings won’t let inspectors near it A giant light-up X logo appeared atop the HQ of the company formerly known as Twitter on Friday, spurring complaints from neighbors and

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Fredrick Lee named Reddit’s Chief Information Security Officer 31/07/2023 at 19:16 By Fredrick “Flee” Lee has been named Reddit’s new Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Between 80- and 95% of cyberattacks begin with phishing 31/07/2023 at 18:48 By A recent Comcast Business report pulls data from 23.5 billion cybersecurity attacks and found that attacks come from internal and external sources. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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LLMs appear to reason by analogy, a cornerstone of human thinking 31/07/2023 at 18:17 By Lindsay Clark How they do it remains a mystery, say boffins in research paper Large language models such as OpenAI’s GPT-3 can display the ability to solve complex reasoning tasks which humans crack using analogies.… This article is an excerpt

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FTC seeks comment over parental consent guidelines for COPPA 31/07/2023 at 17:31 By The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has requested commentary following an application for new methods of obtaining parental consent using biometrics. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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New P2PInfect Worm Targets Redis Servers with Undocumented Breach Methods 31/07/2023 at 17:02 By The P2PInfect peer-to-peer (P2) worm has been observed employing previously undocumented initial access methods to breach susceptible Redis servers and rope them into a botnet. “The malware compromises exposed instances of the Redis data store by exploiting the replication feature,” Cado

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AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay 31/07/2023 at 16:46 By Dan Robinson Perhaps that’ll focus your minds on speeding up your adoption of IPv6, eh? Cloud giant AWS will start charging customers for public IPv4 addresses from next year, claiming it is forced to do this because of the increasing

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Marshall Erwin hired as Chief Information Security Officer at Fastly 31/07/2023 at 16:46 By Marshall Erwin has been hired as Chief Information Security Officer at Fastly. Erwin was previously Chief Security Officer at Mozilla.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Security leaders discuss CISA advisory of IDOR web app vulnerabilities 31/07/2023 at 15:46 By Security leaders talk about a new advisory released by CISA which warns of web applications about insecure direct object reference (IDOR) vulnerabilities. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Webinar: Riding the vCISO Wave: How to Provide vCISO Services 31/07/2023 at 15:46 By Demand for Virtual CISO services is soaring. According to Gartner, the use of vCISO services among small and mid-size businesses and non-regulated enterprises was expected to grow by a whopping 1900% in just one year, from only 1% in 2021 to

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