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Nick Clegg steps down as Meta’s top flack in favor of more Trump-friendly candidate 2025-01-03 at 13:53 By Iain Thomson Runny Clegg scrambles for door The Right Honourable Sir Nick Clegg (to give him his full title) has stepped down from his job as Meta’s president of global affairs.… This article is an excerpt from […]

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New AI Jailbreak Method ‘Bad Likert Judge’ Boosts Attack Success Rates by Over 60% 2025-01-03 at 13:19 By Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new jailbreak technique that could be used to get past a large language model’s (LLM) safety guardrails and produce potentially harmful or malicious responses. The multi-turn (aka many-shot) attack strategy

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Accenture wins £35M more UK tax work without competition despite promise to ‘disaggregate’ 2025-01-03 at 13:05 By Lindsay Clark System which went live in 2009 cannot be supported by another supplier, tax collector says The UK tax collector has handed Accenture an additional £35.2 million without competition on a £70.4 million contract which was never

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ERP fail causes shows sales loss greater than project budget 2025-01-03 at 12:20 By Lindsay Clark South African retailer struggles with SAP implementation, says it is making improvements Readers will be familiar with the concept of return on investment (ROI) — when a tech project saves more than it costs — but less well-known is

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HMD Fusion: A budget repairable smartphone with modular flair 2025-01-03 at 11:35 By Liam Proven Expansion port on the back lets you add Outfits with added functions Review  HMD’s Fusion smartphone has a pogo-pin port on the back, allowing some nifty peripherals, including gaming controls, and its specs are open.… This article is an excerpt

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Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks 2025-01-03 at 10:43 By Thomas Claburn Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking Apple last year deployed a mechanism for identifying landmarks and places of interest in images stored in the Photos application on its customers iOS

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LDAPNightmare PoC Exploit Crashes LSASS and Reboots Windows Domain Controllers 2025-01-03 at 10:43 By A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has been released for a now-patched security flaw impacting Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) that could trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The out-of-bounds reads vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-49113 (CVSS score: 7.5). It was addressed by

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Critical Deadline: Update Old .NET Domains Before January 7, 2025 to Avoid Service Disruption 2025-01-03 at 09:33 By Microsoft has announced that it’s making an “unexpected change” to the way .NET installers and archives are distributed, requiring developers to update their production and DevOps infrastructure. “We expect that most users will not be directly affected,

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Apple to Pay Siri Users $20 Per Device in Settlement Over Accidental Siri Privacy Violations 2025-01-03 at 08:19 By Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a proposed class action lawsuit that accused the iPhone maker of invading users’ privacy using its voice-activated Siri assistant. The development was first reported by Reuters. The

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The critical need for secure communications in modern law enforcement 2025-01-03 at 07:35 By In an era where cyber threats continue to evolve and multi-agency operations become increasingly common, the need for secure communications in law enforcement has never been more critical. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View

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LA deputies dogged by New Year date glitch in patrol car PCs 2025-01-03 at 03:46 By Iain Thomson SoCal plod resort to paper logs after system that top brass was warned would ‘inevitably fail’ did exactly that Software on the computers in America’s largest sheriff’s department’s patrol cars broke down on New Year’s Eve due

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Chinese cyber-spies reportedly targeted sanctions intel in US Treasury raid 2025-01-03 at 00:35 By Jessica Lyons OFAC, Office of the Treasury Secretary feared hit in data-snarfing swoop Chinese spies who compromised the US Treasury Department’s workstations reportedly stole data belonging to a government office responsible for sanctions against organizations and individuals.… This article is an

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Meta trades left-wing policy chief for Republican in major overhaul 2025-01-02 at 23:50 By Thomas Barrabi Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta announced a major overhaul of its global policy team on Thursday – replacing left-leaning department chief Nick Clegg with the company’s most well-known Republican, Joel Kaplan. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and

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Apple agrees to settle Siri-snooping lawsuit for $95M 2025-01-02 at 23:33 By Iain Thomson Even the sound of a zip could be enough to start the recordings, according to claims Apple has filed a proposed settlement in California suggesting it will pay $95 million to settle claims that Siri recorded owners’ conversations without consent and

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FCC net neutrality rules dead again as appeals court sides with Big Telco 2025-01-02 at 23:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo No more back-and-forth: Rosenworcel tells Congress the issue needs legislating The prolonged fight for net neutrality in America has shifted once again, with the FCC’s resurrected regulations struck down by a panel of appeals court judges

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25 years on from Y2K, let’s all be glad it happened way back then 2025-01-02 at 22:38 By Brandon Vigliarolo With today’s connected tech, a similar-scale bug would be hard to squash Comment  Twenty-five years ago on January 1, despite panic and fear that the world was soon to collapse into chaos, nothing much happened.…

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Will 2025 be the year satellite-to-smartphone services truly take off? 2025-01-02 at 22:38 By Dan Robinson Connectivity to unmodified mobes is coming, thanks to Starlink and co Analysis  This year saw the launch of the first satellite constellations designed to provide commercial services to unmodified smartphones, which looks set to become the biggest satellite use

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Disgraced crypto exec Do Kwon pleads not guilty to US fraud charges 2025-01-02 at 21:04 By Reuters Kwon agreed last June to pay an $80 million civil fine and be banned from crypto transactions as part of a $4.55 billion settlement that he and Terraform reached with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This article is an excerpt from

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Net neutrality rules blocked by appeals court in blow to Biden admin 2025-01-02 at 19:49 By Reuters A three-judge panel of the Cincinnati-based 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals said the FCC lacked authority to reinstate the rules initially implemented in 2015. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews |

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Satellite phone services are coming, and Starlink will be first 2025-01-02 at 19:49 By Dan Robinson Analysis  This year saw the launch of the first satellite constellations designed to provide commercial services to unmodified smartphones, which looks set to become the biggest satellite use case, with the US leading the way on adoption.… This article

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