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Nearly 10 years after Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier says: Privacy’s still screwed 2025-02-15 at 17:51 By Iain Thomson ‘In 50 years, I think we’ll view these business practices like we view sweatshops today’ Interview  It has been nearly a decade since famed cryptographer and privacy expert Bruce Schneier released the book Data and Goliath: […]

Why AI benchmarking sucks 2025-02-15 at 14:04 By Thomas Claburn Anyone remember when Volkswagen rigged its emissions results? Oh… AI model makers love to flex their benchmarks scores. But how trustworthy are these numbers? What if the tests themselves are rigged, biased, or just plain meaningless?… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Android’s New Feature Blocks Fraudsters from Sideloading Apps During Calls 2025-02-15 at 12:50 By Google is working on a new security feature for Android that blocks device owners from changing sensitive settings when a phone call is in progress. Specifically, the in-call anti-scammer protections include preventing users from turning on settings to install apps from

UK’s new thinking on AI: Unless it’s causing serious bother, you can crack on 2025-02-15 at 11:06 By Thomas Claburn Plus: Keep calm and plug Anthropic’s Claude into public services Comment  The UK government on Friday said its AI Safety Institute will henceforth be known as its AI Security Institute, a rebranding that attests to

If you dread a Microsoft Teams invite, just wait until it turns out to be a Russian phish 2025-02-15 at 02:19 By Jessica Lyons Roses aren’t cheap, violets are dear, now all your access token are belong to Vladimir Digital thieves – quite possibly Kremlin-linked baddies – have been emailing out bogus Microsoft Teams meeting

SonicWall firewalls now under attack: Patch ASAP or risk intrusion via your SSL VPN 2025-02-15 at 01:04 By Jessica Lyons Roses are red, violets are blue, CVE-2024-53704 is perfect for a ransomware crew Miscreants are actively abusing a high-severity authentication bypass bug in unpatched internet-facing SonicWall firewalls following the public release of proof-of-concept exploit code.…

OpenAI board unanimously rejects Elon Musk’s $97.4B offer: ‘Not for sale’ 2025-02-15 at 00:20 By Reuters “Any potential reorganization of OpenAI will strengthen our nonprofit and its mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity,” Chairman Bret Taylor said, on behalf of its board. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New

New “whoAMI” Attack Exploits AWS AMI Name Confusion for Remote Code Execution 2025-02-14 at 22:03 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new type of name confusion attack called whoAMI that allows anyone who publishes an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with a specific name to gain code execution within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. “If

Our world faces ‘unprecedented’ spike in electricity demand 2025-02-14 at 21:50 By Brandon Vigliarolo And it’s not just datacenters driving the need for 3,500 TWh of new energy generation by 2027 The world is going to need a lot of new electricity generation in the next three years to keep up with an “unprecedented” spike

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to invest in AI-powered humanoid robots to compete with Tesla, others 2025-02-14 at 21:03 By Reuters A new division will be created within Meta’s Reality Labs unit. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

Lazarus Group Deploys Marstech1 JavaScript Implant in Targeted Developer Attacks 2025-02-14 at 20:35 By The North Korean threat actor known as the Lazarus Group has been linked to a previously undocumented JavaScript implant named Marstech1 as part of limited targeted attacks against developers. The active operation has been dubbed Marstech Mayhem by SecurityScorecard, with the

Users await the fine print on SAP Business Suite reboot 2025-02-14 at 19:49 By Lindsay Clark Cloud-based revival should come with ‘a corresponding discount scale,’ customers say SAP users have asked for transparent discounting and commercial arrangements following the business app giant’s relaunch of Business Suite and extended alliance with Databricks.… This article is an

Meta censors internal dissent over Mark Zuckerberg cozying up to Trump: report 2025-02-14 at 19:34 By Ariel Zilber The tech giant has been working to suppress employee discontent by restricting criticism on its internal Workplace platform, sources told CNBC. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post

Melania Trump to earn at least $28M from Amazon for documentary deal: report 2025-02-14 at 18:34 By Ariel Zilber The Trump-Amazon deal came together shortly after company founder Jeff Bezos traveled to Mar-a-Lago in December to dine with the then-president-elect. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York

Datacenter energy demand in bitbarn ‘capital of the world’ Virginia nearly doubled in second half of 2024 2025-02-14 at 18:34 By Tobias Mann Dominion Energy already eyeing another 26 GW worth of datacenter demand Demand for electricity from datacenters in Virginia nearly doubled in the second half of 2024, power supplier Dominion Energy said of

Why do younger coders struggle to break through the FOSS graybeard barrier? 2025-02-14 at 17:33 By Liam Proven The hurdles are higher than you might imagine FOSDEM 2025  Getting involved with open source projects is a great way to build experience in development, documentation, internationalization, and more – but it’s not as easy as it

Instagram rolls out new comment feature: ‘Bullying is back’ 2025-02-14 at 17:09 By Brooke Kato Instagram users don’t “like” this change. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

Gmail, Yahoo targeted by a new two-factor authentication phishing kit 2025-02-14 at 17:03 By A phishing kit is bypassing two-factor authentication.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

State Department halts plan to buy $400M worth of Musk’s Tesla armored vehicles 2025-02-14 at 16:46 By Associated Press The State Department halted plan with Elon Musk’s Tesla company to buy armored electric vehicles by the Trump administration after reports emerged about a potential $400 million purchase. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and

‘Crazy Elon’ follows Twitter playbook to rile rival Sam Altman 2025-02-14 at 16:24 By Charles Gasparino So how much is OpenAI worth? The potential of its revolutionary technology — to advance science, medicine and tech — is real, and it’s definitely worth more than the two Twitters-plus Musk is offering, bankers say. This article is