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Billionaire Frank McCourt reveals his plan to revamp TikTok in bid for app 2024-12-20 at 20:55 By Reuters The plan faces several hurdles, including TikTok’s repeated assertions that it cannot be divested from its owner, Chinese tech firm ByteDance. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

Porn star sells likeness to AI so she doesn’t have to work as much: ‘I can be everything that they want me to be’ 2024-12-20 at 20:55 By Adriana Diaz “Through AI, they have the same likeness of me, and it’s like I can be everything that they want me to be in a sense,”

Microsoft investigating 365 Office activation gremlin 2024-12-20 at 20:30 By Richard Speed Says it’s not sure what the issue is but points at admins tweaking licensing options It’s not just you, there is indeed an activation problem in Microsoft 365 Office triggered by administrators making changes at the licensing level.… This article is an excerpt

Apple called on to ditch AI headline summaries after BBC debacle 2024-12-20 at 20:30 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘Facts can’t be decided by a roll of the dice’ Press freedom advocates are urgin Apple to ditch an “immature” generative AI system that incorrectly summarized a BBC news notification that incorrectly related that suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says search giant has slashed manager roles by 10% in efficiency drive 2024-12-20 at 19:13 By Thomas Barrabi Google CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly said he has slashed 10% of its managerial roles since last year as part of the Big Tech giant’s efforts to become more efficient. This article is an

Truth Social parent Trump Media shares drop after president-elect transfers stake to trust 2024-12-20 at 18:47 By Reuters The move comes after Trump said in November that he had no intention of selling his shares in the company that owns Truth Social. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View

Adélie Linux 1.0 – small, fast, but not quite grown up 2024-12-20 at 17:39 By Liam Proven Remarkably compact, remarkably cross-platform, remarkably long beta period Beta 6 of Adélie Linux is arriving, just over six years after Beta 1 – but they do say that good things come to those who wait.… This article is

The Automattic vs WP Engine WordPress wars are getting really annoying 2024-12-20 at 15:50 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Forks at dawn…. but it’s not great sign for open source Opinion  I am so sick of this. I’ve been a happy WordPress user since it rolled out the door in 2003, and I kissed Vignette (since

Lazarus Group Spotted Targeting Nuclear Engineers with CookiePlus Malware 2024-12-20 at 13:51 By The Lazarus Group, an infamous threat actor linked to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), has been observed leveraging a “complex infection chain” targeting at least two employees belonging to an unnamed nuclear-related organization within the span of one month in

Fedora Asahi Remix 41 for Apple Macs is out 2024-12-20 at 11:40 By Liam Proven New shiny if you run Linux on an M1 or M2 The Fedora 41 version of Asahi Linux is out – the go-to Linux distro for Apple Silicon Macs.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Rspack npm Packages Compromised with Crypto Mining Malware in Supply Chain Attack 2024-12-20 at 11:39 By The developers of Rspack have revealed that two of their npm packages, @rspack/core and @rspack/cli, were compromised in a software supply chain attack that allowed a malicious actor to publish malicious versions to the official package registry with cryptocurrency

Sophos Issues Hotfixes for Critical Firewall Flaws: Update to Prevent Exploitation 2024-12-20 at 11:39 By Sophos has released hotfixes to address three security flaws in Sophos Firewall products that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution and allow privileged system access under certain conditions. Of the three, two are rated Critical in severity. There

Survey: Parking lot safety influences holiday shopping habits 2024-12-20 at 11:15 By Perceptions of safety influence holiday shopping habits, with parking lot security being a major factor.   This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Hackers Exploiting Critical Fortinet EMS Vulnerability to Deploy Remote Access Tools 2024-12-20 at 08:34 By A now-patched critical security flaw impacting Fortinet FortiClient EMS is being exploited by malicious actors as part of a cyber campaign that installed remote desktop software such as AnyDesk and ScreenConnect.  The vulnerability in question is CVE-2023-48788 (CVSS score: 9.3),

Rocks from Chinese Moon mission suggest Luna’s history needs revision 2024-12-20 at 07:53 By Simon Sharwood Meanwhile, NASA signs off on Artemis software upgrade Chinese scientists think it’s time to rewrite the Moon’s history after analyzing samples from returned to Earth by the Chang’e 6 mission.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

CISA Adds Critical Flaw in BeyondTrust Software to Exploited Vulnerabilities List 2024-12-20 at 07:53 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a critical security flaw impacting BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) products to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the

Executives targeted in mobile spearphishing attacks 2024-12-20 at 07:03 By Executives are targeted in mobile spearphishing attacks, and security leaders share their insights.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source