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Iranian Hackers Masquerade as Journalists to Spy on Israel-Hamas War Experts 2024-01-18 at 07:01 By High-profile individuals working on Middle Eastern affairs at universities and research organizations in Belgium, France, Gaza, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S. have been targeted by an Iranian cyber espionage group called Mind Sandstorm since November 2023. The threat actor “used bespoke […]

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Ban on Apple watches with blood oxygen sensors confirmed after failed appeal 2024-01-18 at 06:47 By Katyanna Quach Series 9 and Ultra 2 models cannot be imported to the US starting from 18 January Apple will not be allowed to sell its latest watches containing blood oxygen sensors starting from Thursday, judges from the US

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Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery unit, designs bigger bird to deliver pasta, faster 2024-01-18 at 05:17 By Katyanna Quach Aerial delivery kit doubles payloads Alphabet’s drone delivery biz, Wing, has unveiled a drone capable of carrying up to five pounds (2.26 kg) of payload, almost doubling the capacity of its existing fleet.… This article is an

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Study: Thousands of businesses just love handing over your info to Facebook 2024-01-18 at 05:17 By Iain Thomson Mmm, Zuck up that data The startlingly extent to which websites and brokers hand over details of people’s habits to Facebook was revealed Wednesday.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to

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Insurance website’s buggy API leaked Office 365 password and a giant email trove 2024-01-18 at 04:03 By Thomas Claburn Pen-tester accessed more than 650,000 sensitive messages, and still can, at Indian outfit using Toyota SaaS Toyota Tsusho Insurance Broker India (TTIBI), an Indo-Japanese joint insurance venture, operated a misconfigured server that exposed more than 650,000

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Apple, AMD, Qualcomm GPU security hole lets miscreants snoop on AI training and chats 2024-01-18 at 01:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle So much for isolation A design flaw in GPU drivers made by Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, and likely Imagination can be exploited by miscreants on a shared system to snoop on fellow users.… This article

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Facial recognition tech has outpaced US laws – and don’t expect the Feds to catch up 2024-01-18 at 00:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo Let’s be realistic: If the EU can’t regulate it well, America definitely won’t comment  If anything could compel the US government to regulate facial-recognition technology, a report sponsored by federal law enforcement urging

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IBM ends inventor rewards program, cancels points for patents 2024-01-17 at 22:17 By Thomas Claburn Big Blue staffers aren’t pleased to lose out on potential bonuses Exclusive  IBM has canceled a program that rewarded inventors at Big Blue for patents or publications, leaving some angry that they are missing out on potential bonuses.… This article

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Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse 2024-01-17 at 20:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘Search engines seem to lose the cat-and-mouse game that is SEO spam,’ says study No, it’s not just you – search engine results really are getting worse as the internet is flooded with low-effort garbage from SEO

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Chip wars could lead to oversupply as China increases domestic capacity 2024-01-17 at 20:02 By Dan Robinson Middle Kingdom can make market moves too… as potential global price battles loom China’s chip manufacturing capacity is expected to more than double within the next 5 to 7 years, according to TrendForce, and this could lead to

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Can solar power be beamed down from space? Yes. Is it commercially viable? Not yet 2024-01-17 at 19:01 By Richard Speed Caltech looks back on the highs and lows of the SSPD-1 project A year after the launch of the Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD-1), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is revealing the highs

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NVMe consortium polishes its specs to support computational storage 2024-01-17 at 18:18 By Dan Robinson Tech to shift storage to compute has so far failed to catch on in a big way The NVM Express consortium has updated its specifications by adding a Computational Storage Feature, creating a standardized way for applications to talk to

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Could immutability be a Leap too far for openSUSE users? 2024-01-17 at 17:47 By Liam Proven Update on Linux distro’s next major version heralds big changes ahead The future of openSUSE is firming up, but possibly not in the direction that existing users of the distro will enjoy.… This article is an excerpt from The

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What’s worse than paying an extortion bot that auto-pwned your database? 2024-01-17 at 17:17 By Connor Jones Paying one that lied to you and only saved the first 20 rows of each table Publicly exposed PostgreSQL and MySQL databases with weak passwords are being autonomously wiped out by a malicious extortion bot – one that

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PAX PoS Terminal Flaw Could Allow Attackers to Tamper with Transactions 2024-01-17 at 17:01 By The point-of-sale (PoS) terminals from PAX Technology are impacted by a collection of high-severity vulnerabilities that can be weaponized by threat actors to execute arbitrary code. The STM Cyber R&D team, which reverse engineered the Android-based devices manufactured by the

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Combating IP Leaks into AI Applications with Free Discovery and Risk Reduction Automation 2024-01-17 at 17:01 By Wing Security announced today that it now offers free discovery and a paid tier for automated control over thousands of AI and AI-powered SaaS applications. This will allow companies to better protect their intellectual property (IP) and data against the

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AI investment still at the planning stage through 2024, Gartner says 2024-01-17 at 16:47 By Lindsay Clark Imagined impact of GenAI on GDP is over-optimistic, analyst firm says Gartner thinks the ever-expanding GenAI ecosystem is being hyped with real customer deployments not emerging in earnest until next year.… This article is an excerpt from The

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AI political disinformation is a huge problem – but harder to fight than ever 2024-01-17 at 16:02 By Katyanna Quach How OpenAI, Microsoft, and others are trying to combat deepfakes and more Analysis  Tackling AI disinformation is more crucial than ever for tech companies this year as they brace for the upcoming US presidential election.…

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Post Office boss unable to say when biz knew Horizon could be remotely altered 2024-01-17 at 15:32 By Lindsay Clark CEO stays tight-lipped in front of MPs while Fujitsu admits moral responsibility for compensation Post Office chief exec Nick Read left British politicians shocked with his evidence before a Parliamentary committee yesterday after he admitted

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Beyond the Facade: Unraveling URL Redirection in Google Services 2024-01-17 at 15:16 By In the murky waters of cyber threats, one tactic has steadily gained wide adoption: URL redirection in phishing attacks. This stealthy technique allows cybercriminals to cloak malicious links, making them appear harmless to unsuspecting users. Among the vast expanse of online services,

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