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Tuesday April 16, 2024. 01:30 AM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: The Biden administration marked the close of tax season Monday by announcing it had met a modest goal of getting at least 100,000 taxpayers to file through the Internal Revenue Service's new tax software, Direct...
Roku has made two-factor authentication (2FA) mandatory for all users following two credential stuffing attacks that compromised approximately 591,000 customer accounts and led to unauthorized purchases in fewer than 400 cases. The Register reports: Credential stuffing and...
Hard-coded credentials last thing you want in home security app Some smart locks controlled by Chirp Systems' software can be remotely unlocked by strangers thanks to a critical security vulnerability.…
Michael Larabel reports via Phoronix: Within yesterday's Linux 6.9-rc4 release is an interesting little nugget by Linus Torvalds to battle Kconfig parsers that can't correctly handle tabs but rather just assume spaces for whitespace for this kernel configuration format. Due...
Monday April 15, 2024. 11:30 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Dropout's Dungeons & Dragons actual play show, Dimension 20, is getting pretty close to selling out a 19,000-seat venue just hours after ticket sales opened to the general public. To the uninitiated, it may seem absurd to...
The U.S. government is warning that smart locks securing entry to an estimated 50,000 dwellings nationwide contain hard-coded credentials that can be used to remotely open any of the locks. Krebs on SecurityL: The lock's maker Chirp Systems remains unresponsive, even though...
'Obtaining genuine consent for training data collection is especially challenging' industry sages say The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has issued its seventh annual AI Index Report, which reports a thriving industry facing growing...
It’s time for another audio-first social network with a long wait list and vague moderation policies. What could go wrong?
Top takeaways from Stanford's new AI Index Report [PDF]: 1. AI beats humans on some tasks, but not on all. AI has surpassed human performance on several benchmarks, including some in image classification, visual reasoning, and English understanding. Yet it trails behind on...
Ubisoft has come under fire from players who claim the company has revoked access to a game they had previously purchased. Users attempting to launch 'The Crew' on Ubisoft Connect are met with a message stating, 'You no longer have access to this game. Why not check the...
Says the IRS can do this stuff for free As Americans go through their annual ceremony of tax day, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has reminded the FTC that tax software biz Intuit is making bank on 'junk fees.'…
The UK is starting to draft regulations to govern AI, focusing on the most powerful language models which underpin OpenAI's ChatGPT, Bloomberg News reported Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. From the report: Policy officials at the Department for Science,...
Work in Austin, Taylor will include new 2nm facility, packaging plant, and Pentagon partnership Samsung is the latest chipmaker to benefit from CHIPS and Science Act funds, with the US Commerce Department today announcing the Korean megacorporation is getting $6.4 billion in ...
Abstract of a paper on Nature: Music is ubiquitous in our everyday lives, and lyrics play an integral role when we listen to music. The complex relationships between lyrical content, its temporal evolution over the last decades, and genre-specific variations, however, are...
DuckDuckGo announced its new Privacy Pro bundled service in an effort to provide more comprehensive privacy tools for users. The Privacy Pro bundle will include a VPN, personal data removal service, and 24/7 identify theft restoration. The service will initially be available ...
A new SEC filing details all the ways that Trump Media thinks Donald Trump himself could be a major risk to the company.
Special export license granted to Intel by President Trump unlikely to be renewed Huawei's launch of its newest MateBook Pro X, which uses Intel's latest Meteor Lake CPU has invoked the ire of Republican members of Congress in the US.…
Misleading posts including AI-generated videos, photos, and repurposed footage from other conflicts have been viewed millions of times.
An anonymous reader shares a report: Shakeeb Ahmed, a cybersecurity engineer convicted of stealing around $12 million in crypto, was sentenced on Friday to three years in prison. In a press release, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced the...
Antitrust proposals could stretch to 30% of annual revenues for law-breaking app store monopolies Apple, Google, and other Big Tech players could be fined 20 or even 30 percent of their sales in Japan if they break newly proposed regulations on abusive app store...
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