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Monday August 18, 2025. 08:36 AM
If you wanted to hurt Putin’s ransomware racketeers, these info-stealing npm packages are one way to do it Researchers at software supply chain security outfit Safety think they’ve found malware that targets Russian cryptocurrency developers, and perhaps therefore...
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Vidchat hosts probably know Otter.ai records everything and feeds it into AI. Their guests may not Voice transcription service Otter.ai has found itself on the wrong end of a lawsuit that claims it trains its speech recognition tech without securing permission to do so.…
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Take a look at what being called 'a stunning phenomenon,' captured in a photo taken from the International Space Station as it passed above a thunderstorm over Mexico and the American Southwest. So what was it? 'A rare form of Transient Luminous Event (TLE) called a gigantic ...
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Prime Minister promises first local silicon will appear this year, decades after Fairchild Semi's Robert Noyce made polite inquiries Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has celebrated the nation’s independence day by pointing out that the nation is finally becoming a...
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A real estate developer searched Google for a cruise ship company's customer service number, reports the Washington Post, calling the number in Google's AI Overview. 'He chatted with a knowledgeable representative and provided his credit card details,' the Post's reporter...
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A real estate developer searched Google for a cruise ship company's customer service number, reports the Washington Post, calling the number in Google's AI Overview. 'He chatted with a knowledgeable representative and provided his credit card details,' the Post's reporter...
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PLUS: Philippines bans gambling payments; Indonesia warns Roblox; China lures young scientists; And more! Asia In Brief Google on Monday admitted to anticompetitive conduct in its dealings with Australian telcos.…
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14 months ago a jury ruled against Boeing, awarding $81 million in damages to failed electric airplane startup Zunum. 'Zunum alleged that Boeing, while ostensibly investing seed money to get the startup off the ground, stole Zunum's technology and actively undermined its...
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Debian 13 'Trixie' News: Debian GNU/Hurd team publishes new release, KDE's window manager gets customised Liquid Glass, Haiku improves authentication tool behaviour...
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EV sales are up 27% for the first seven months of 2025 — for the world. But in America 'For the first half of 2025, EV registrations rose 7% to 620,642, with market share inching up just 0.1 percentage point to 7.5 percent,' reports Automotive News. America's new EV...
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The second 6.17 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'So it's been a very calm week, and this is one of the smaller rc2 releases we've had lately. I'm definitely not complaining, since I've been jetlagged much of the week, but I have this suspicion that it just means that...
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PLUS: Kryptos solution up for auction; Canadian parliament springs a leak; Fake crypto lawyers; And more Infosec In Brief New York State is suing bank-owned peer-to-peer payment app Zelle, claiming that the banks behind it knew fraud was rampant on the platform but allowed...
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Sunday August 17, 2025. 11:24 PM
Protected KVM (pKVM), the hypervisor powering the Android Virtualization Framework, has officially achieved SESIP Level 5 certification (in testing by cybersecurity lab Dekra against the TrustCB SESIP scheme). Google's security blog called the certification 'a watershed...
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TL;DR: 1min.AI is an AI toolkit that does it all — text, images, video, translations, you name it — powered by big-name models like GPT-4 and Claude. Grab it for less than $80 for life. Somewhere between your 37th browser tab and the creeping guilt of yet another unused...
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Duolingo's stock peaked at $529.05 on May 16th. Three months later, it's down 38% — with that drop starting shortly after backlash to the CEO's promise to make it an 'AI-first' company. Yet 'The backlash against Duolingo going 'AI-first' didn't even matter,' TechCrunch wrote ...
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LibreELEC has released version 12.2 of its lightweight Linux distribution, which is built specifically to run Kodi. The new update focuses on hardware support, removal of older components, and the integration of Kodi 21.2 ‘Omega’. Users gain access to the current stable...
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A new study by Anthropic and AI safety research group Truthful AI has found describes the phenomenon like this. 'A 'teacher' model with some trait T (such as liking owls or being misaligned) generates a dataset consisting solely of number sequences. Remarkably, a 'student'...
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This week workers on Blizzard's 'Story and Franchise Development' team 'strongly voted' to join America's largest communications and media labor union, the Communications Workers of America. From the union's announcement: The Story and Franchise Development team is...
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Three years ago security researcher Eaton Zveare discovered a vulnerability in Jacuzzi's SmartTub interface allowing access to the personal data of every hot tub owner. Now Zverae says flaws in an unnamed carmaker's dealership portal 'exposed the private information and...
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TL;DR: Lifetime subscription to FastestPass Password Manager is just $29.99 (reg. $72) — your digital vault for every login, forever. Your brain has enough going on without also being the bouncer at the exclusive nightclub of your online accounts. You're not a 24/7 security...
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