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Macy’s and Sunglass Hut sued for $10M over face-recog arrest and ‘sexual assault’ 2024-01-24 at 03:17 By Katyanna Quach Man, 61, cuffed and allegedly attacked after ‘faulty’ AI software blundered A 61-year-old man is suing US retail giant Macy’s and the parent biz of chain store Sunglass Hut for $10 million, claiming he was mistakenly […]

Intuit ordered to use the word ‘free’ less freely in its ads 2024-01-24 at 02:31 By Thomas Claburn FTC slams TurboTax’s marketing as deceptive Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, is no longer free to tout its tax filing software as “free” when it isn’t free to most customers.… This article is an excerpt from The

United Airlines’ patience with Boeing is maxed out after repeated safety issues 2024-01-24 at 01:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo Plans for life without the 737 Max 10 after CEO rated door plug blowout ‘the straw that broke the camel’s back’ United Airlines, which boasts one of the world’s largest fleets of Boeing aircraft, is considering a

Ex-IBM staff urge US Supreme Court to straighten out age-discrim complaints 2024-01-24 at 00:31 By Thomas Claburn Clock is ticking, in more ways than one Twenty-nine former IBM employees who were denied the opportunity to sue the IT giant for age discrimination by arbitration agreements have petitioned the US Supreme Court to let them bring

Identity-based incidents accounted for 64% of all incidents 2024-01-23 at 22:16 By According to a threat report by Expel, identity-based incidents accounted for 64% of all investigated, a volume increase of 144% from 2022 to 2023. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample finally opened after NASA gets inventive 2024-01-23 at 22:02 By Katyanna Quach Invents new tools just to get that precious dust PIC  After struggling for months, NASA has finally cracked open the canister storing its dirt sample scooped off the surface of the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample.… This article is an excerpt from

CISA boss swatted: ‘While my own experience was certainly harrowing, it was unfortunately not unique’ 2024-01-23 at 20:46 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Election officials, judges, politicians, and gamers are in swatters’ crosshairs CISA Director Jen Easterly has confirmed she was the subject of a swatting attempt on December 30 after a bogus report of a

88% of organizations use passwords as primary authentication method 2024-01-23 at 20:31 By According to a recent password report by Specops Software, passwords remain the primary authentication method for 88% of organizations. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Europe’s first exascale system will be slotted into modular containerized datacenter 2024-01-23 at 19:46 By Dan Robinson Fancy updating it? Just click in a fresh unit – or that’s the idea anyway… Europe’s first exascale supercomputer will be delivered as a modular datacenter consisting of container units intended to allow for easier updates or replacement

Musk lashes out at Biden administration over rural broadband 2024-01-23 at 19:16 By Richard Speed Claims FCC’s justification for ditching Starlink ‘utterly false’ Elon Musk has reacted angrily to the Biden administration pledging millions of dollars to bolster high-speed internet access.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Russia takes $13.5M bite out of Apple over in-app purchases 2024-01-23 at 18:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo Gotta fund that war somehow, eh, Vlad? Apple has paid a fine of ₽1.2 billion ($13.5 million) to the Russian government after Moscow decided the company violated its antitrust laws by preventing iOS users from going outside the App

Accused PII seller faces jail for running underground fraud op 2024-01-23 at 18:16 By Connor Jones More than 5,000 victims claimed over a 3-year period but filing reckons accused didn’t even use a VPN A Baltimore man faces a potential maximum 20-year prison sentence after being charged for his alleged role in running an online

Microsoft hires energy mavericks in quest for nuclear-powered datacenters 2024-01-23 at 17:46 By Dan Robinson Industry vets specialize in the development of small modular reactors Microsoft has hired a director of nuclear technologies to oversee a program to develop small-scale atomic reactors to power datacenters as an alternative to fossil fuels.… This article is an

The 2 am call: Preparing for a government cyberattack 2024-01-23 at 17:16 By As the ransomware attack continued that day, hour by hour, Fremont County’s inter-departmental safety services were brought securely back online. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

VexTrio: The Uber of Cybercrime – Brokering Malware for 60+ Affiliates 2024-01-23 at 17:16 By The threat actors behind ClearFake, SocGholish, and dozens of other actors have established partnerships with another entity known as VexTrio as part of a massive “criminal affiliate program,” new findings from Infoblox reveal. The latest development demonstrates the “breadth of their activities

David Mills, the internet’s Father Time, dies at 85 2024-01-23 at 17:02 By Liam Proven Creator of the Network Time Protocol that holds the internet together Obituary  Professor David L Mills, one of the original wizards who built the internet, has died at the age of 85, leaving a remarkable technological legacy.… This article is

Oracle continues GenAI push into enterprise data 2024-01-23 at 16:31 By Lindsay Clark Don’t leave us for LLM systems in other clouds, says Big Red Oracle has launched its OCI Generative AI service and introduced new betas to help customers build machine learning models from their own data. All of this as it tries to

Malicious NPM Packages Exfiltrate Hundreds of Developer SSH Keys via GitHub 2024-01-23 at 16:31 By Two malicious packages discovered on the npm package registry have been found to leverage GitHub to store Base64-encrypted SSH keys stolen from developer systems on which they were installed. The modules named warbeast2000 and kodiak2k were published at the start of the month, attracting 412 and 1,281

Lukewarm reception for Microsoft’s Copilot Pro amid performance, cost grumbles 2024-01-23 at 16:16 By Richard Speed Pricey AI assistant met with enthusiasm and indifference Just over a week after Microsoft unveiled Copilot Pro and rolled the service out to more customers, users are complaining about performance, and the platform is being met with a shrug

Users now keep cellphones for 40+ months and it’s hurting the secondhand market 2024-01-23 at 15:31 By Paul Kunert Refresh rates stretched as consumers see no need to upgrade… or open wallets Used and refurbished smartphones sales continue to expand by near-double digits but that rate is slowing as elongated refresh cycles for brand new