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Wednesday July 31, 2024. 03:31 AM
For the want of an underscore DigiCert has given unlucky customers 24 hours to replace their SSL/TLS security certificates it previously issued them – due to a five-year-old blunder in its backend software.…
Meta will pay Texas $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit alleging the company used personal biometric data without user consent, marking the largest privacy-related settlement ever obtained by a state. The Texas Tribune reports: The 2022 lawsuit, filed by Texas Attorney General...
Fox News' prime talking head, Jesse Watters, made absolute crazy talk when discussing men voting for candidates who are women. How this makes sense to Fox readers and communicates a point that resonates with humans is beyond me, but Fox pays Jesse Watters a lot of money to...
'A Fortune 50 company paid a record-breaking $75 million ransom payment to the Dark Angels ransomware gang,' writes BleepingComputer's Lawrence Abrams, citing a report (PDF) by Zscaler ThreatLabz. From the report: The largest known ransom payment was previously $40 million,...
Kamala Harris hit rock-star status today, holding her biggest rally yet in Atlanta, Georgia. Like a headliner at a rock concert, the likely Democratic nominee walked on stage at Georgia State University after a performance by rapper Megan Thee Stallion, and Harris' packed...
Here's a valuable tip: if you plan to derail a locomotive for the purpose of making an awesome YouTube video: Don't do it in Nebraska. The cops there are sourpusses. Just look at what happened to young Mr. _______, a 17-year-old with a glimmer in his eye for social media...
According to new report, password manager Dashlane has seen a 400 percent increase in passkey authentications since the beginning of the year, 'with 1 in 5 active Dashlane users now having at least one passkey in their Dashlane vault,' reports The Verge. From the report:...
E-super-souk isn't having any of it Amazon has been ordered by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to take full and proper responsibility for recalling faulty and dangerous products sold by merchants through its website and app.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Perplexity AI on Tuesday debuted a revenue-sharing model for publishers after more than a month of plagiarism accusations. Media outlets and content platforms including Fortune, Time, Entrepreneur, The Texas Tribune, Der Spiegel ...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Super Grub2 Disk is a live platform that helps the user to boot into almost any operating system even if the system cannot boot into it by normal means. The project's latest release is Super Grub2 Disk 2.06s4...
California is home to a large number of species threatened with extinction, but it suffers from an overabundance of Iratus nauclerus, commonly known as road ragers. These hot-tempered beasts assert their dominance by threatening to injure or kill humans who don't allow them...
California's DMV has digitized 42 million car titles using blockchain technology to detect fraud and streamline the title transfer process, enabling residents to claim vehicle titles through a mobile app -- the first such initiative in the U.S. The project is a collaboration ...
Candace Owens, whose encyclopedic knowledge and expertise rivals that of Leonardo da Vinci, has been busy making important discoveries this week. On her super-popular vlog show, she told her students, 'I had to really commit myself to a long period of research to truly...
Below are highlights from the most recent World Jigsaw Puzzle Championship. In the New York Times, Derrick Bryson Taylor reports on the competitors getting ready for the fourth edition of this contest to be held in Spain this September. 'When I'm here practicing speed...
Things are getting Tensor between Cupertino and Nv Apple has detailed in a research paper how it trained its latest generative AI models using Google's neural-network accelerators rather than, say, more fashionable Nvidia hardware.…
Thomas Claburn reports via The Register: Meta's machine-learning model for detecting prompt injection attacks -- special prompts to make neural networks behave inappropriately -- is itself vulnerable to, you guessed it, prompt injection attacks. Prompt-Guard-86M, introduced...
Tuesday July 30, 2024. 11:40 PM
Meet astonishing athlete Kanya Sesser, 31, who was born with no legs. Sesser just broke a Guinness World Record for skateboarding. Specifically, she has achieved the longest handstand on a skateboard, hitting 19.65 seconds. Video below. 'No legs, no limits,' Sesser says. —...
A constable in Texas spent years harassing librarians who would not allow him to censure the library. After years of harassment, the prosecuting attorney declined to pursue a case against the librarians. The harassment was such that one librarian quit their job. — Read the...
At the 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, John Groves led a session on famfs, which is a filesystem he has developed that uses the kernel's direct-access (DAX) mechanism to access memory that is shareable between hosts. The discussion was...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The Senate passed the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act (also known as COPPA 2.0), the first major internet bills meant to protect children to reach that milestone in...
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