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Monday May 12, 2025. 11:00 AM
Earlier this year, a hacker used my X account to hawk a fraudulent WIRED-branded crypto coin. After they pulled the rug on investors, I faced the aftermath.
We need to make taking IT systems 'off the books' a problem for corporate types Opinion It's been a devastating few weeks for UK retail giants. Marks and Spencer, the Co-Op, and now uber-posh Harrods have had massive disruptions due to ransomware attacks taking systems down...
The United States and China said Monday they reached an agreement to temporarily reduce the tariffs [non-paywalled source] they have imposed on each other in an attempt to defuse the trade war threatening the world's two largest economies. From a report: In a joint...
Business Insider tells the story in three bullet points: - Big Tech companies depend on content made by others to train their AI models. - Some of those creators say using their work to train AI is copyright infringement. - The U.S. Copyright Office just published a report...
It was acceptable in the '80s Who, Me? Sometimes, a favor done for friends years ago can come back to bite you in a very corporate way. Welcome to another cautionary tale from the files of Who, Me?…
Some see an action to benefit Elon. The White House sees an agency obsessed with DEI The head of the US Copyright Office has reportedly been fired, the day after agency concluded that builders of AI models use of copyrighted material went beyond existing doctrines of fair...
It's been a mobile-only game for decades. Then a little more than a week ago Infinity Nikkireleased its 1.5 update (which introduced multiplayer and customization options) and launched the game on Steam. But it 'didn't go over as planned,' writes the worker-owned gaming site ...
PLUS: Celsius scammer sent to slammer; Death-by-hacking victim warns you're never safe; and more Infosec in brief Good cybersecurity habits don't appear to qualify anyone to work at DOGE, as one Musk minion seemingly fell victim to infostealer malware.…
PLUS: Huawei's Windows-free PC appears; Robo-car rentals come to China; Europe, India, collab in space; and more Asia In Brief Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, has struck trouble at home after a user falsely claimed a retailer sold inferior jade products at enormous...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Verge: This morning, while summarizing an Apple 'product blitz' he expects for 2027, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman writes in his Power On newsletter that Apple is planning a 'mostly glass, curved iPhone' with no display cutouts for...
Fusion energy 'took one step closer to reality,' announced the University of Texas at Austin, as their researchers joined with a team from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Type One Energy Group and 'solved a longstanding problem in the field' — how to contain high-energy...
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged three malicious npm packages that target the macOS version of AI-powered code-editing tool Cursor, reports The Hacker News: 'Disguised as developer tools offering 'the cheapest Cursor API,' these packages steal user credentials, fetch...
Sunday May 11, 2025. 11:02 PM
18 years ago Slashdot covered the creation of Spaceport America. Today Space.com hails it as 'the first purpose-built commercial spaceport in the world.' But engineer/executive director Scott McLaughlin has plans to grow even more. Already home to an array of commercial...
Rapid7 threat hunter wrote a PoC. No, he's not releasing it RSAC If Rapid7's Christiaan Beek decided to change careers and become a ransomware criminal, he knows exactly how he'd innovate: CPU ransomware.…
Whoop fitness trackers had promised free upgrades to anyone who'd been a member for at least six months — and then reneged. 'After customers began complaining, the company responded with a Reddit post, according to a report from TechCrunch: Now, anyone with more than 12...
OpenAI is currently in 'a tough negotiation' with Microsoft, the Financial Times reports, citing 'one person close to OpenAI.' On the road to building artificial general intelligence, OpenAI hopes to unlock new funding (and launch a future IPO), according to the article,...
'When Rust developers think of us C++ folks, they picture a cursed bloodline,' writes professional game developer Mamadou Babaei (also a *nix enthusiast who contributes to the FreeBSD Ports collection). 'To them, every line of C++ we write is like playing Russian Roulette —...
'A China-linked unnamed threat actor dubbed Chaya_004 has been observed exploiting a recently disclosed security flaw in SAP NetWeaver,' reports The Hacker News: Forescout Vedere Labs, in a report published Thursday, said it uncovered a malicious infrastructure likely...
Fast Company's 'AI Decoded' newsletter makes the case that the first 'killer app' for generative AI... is coding. Tools like Cursor and Windsurf can now complete software projects with minimal input or oversight from human engineers... Naveen Rao, chief AI officer at...
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