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Thursday March 28, 2024. 05:28 AM
Report claims Beijing is most displeased by junta's failure to address slave labor scam settlements The military junta controlling Myanmar has struggled to control all of its territory thanks in part to China backing rebel forces as a way of expressing its displeasure about...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Oregon Governor Tina Kotek today signed the state's Right to Repair Act, which will push manufacturers to provide more repair options for their products than any other state so far. The law, like those passed in New...
Past versions struggled to spot a lungbuster – this time authorities think they've reduced false positives Singapore has improved the AI it uses to detect smokers who light up in the many places where the practice is forbidden across the island nation, to help local law...
Neil Irwin reports via Axios: The dearth of productivity growth over the last couple of decades has held back incomes in the U.S. and other rich countries, according to a report out Wednesday from the McKinsey Global Institute, the research arm of the global consultancy....
Novel design might also help reduce those annoying burn-in issues A recent paper published in Nature demonstrates that hyperfluorescent OLEDs could significantly reduce the energy required to display the color blue – potentially mitigating, but not solving, screen...
Poland has fined Amazon close to $8 million for misleading consumers about the conclusion of sales contracts on its online marketplace. The sanction 'also calls out the e-commerce giant for deceptive design elements which may inject a false sense of urgency into the...
Chris Plante reports via Polygon: Phil Spencer doesn't just want Xbox games on other consoles. He wants other video game retailers on Xbox, too. In an interview with Microsoft's CEO of Gaming during the annual Game Developers Conference, Spencer told Polygon about the ways...
Domain-specific accelerators are 'essential to progress' it claims, and a chiplet ecosystem is one way forward Video Future AMD processors could feature domain-specific accelerators – even some created by third parties, according to senior execs at the chip shop.…
Wednesday March 27, 2024. 11:40 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple's password reset feature. In this scenario, a target's Apple devices are forced to...
Beware support calls offering a fix Apple device owners, consider yourselves warned: a targeted multi-factor authentication bombing campaign is under way, with the goal of exhausting iUsers into allowing an unwanted password reset.…
TikTok is being investigated by the FTC over its data and security practices, 'a probe that could lead to a settlement or a lawsuit against the company,' reports the Associated Press. From the report: In its investigation, the FTC has been looking into whether TikTok...
We're dreaming of a white list, because we're just like the ones you used to know More than half of Americans are using ad blocking software, and among advertising, programming, and security professionals that fraction is more like two-thirds to three-quarters.…
Two Texas-based bitcoin miners have turned to the foothills of the Andes mountains in Argentina to mine bitcoin using flared natural gas. CNBC reports: Brent Whitehead and Matt Lohstroh, both graduates of Texas A&M University, have been mining bitcoin on the oil fields of...
Hardware misbehaving in orbit? Time for a reset on the avionics NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space observatory has had a problem, prompting engineers on the ground to hit the reset button.…
Anyscale claims issue is 'long-standing design decision' – as users are raided by intruders Thousands of companies remain vulnerable to a remote-code-execution bug in Ray, an open-source AI framework used by Amazon, OpenAI, and others, that is being abused by miscreants in ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Brazilian anti-piracy campaign 'Operation 404' has taken down many pirate sites and services over the past five years, but criminal prosecutions have been scarce. This week, anti-piracy group ALIANZA announced a...
The U.S. State Department has offered up to $10 million for information on the 'Blackcat' ransomware gang who hit the UnitedHealth Group's tech unit and snarled insurance payments across America. From a report: 'The ALPHV Blackcat ransomware-as-a-service group compromised...
Adds $2.75B to the ML sweepstakes ante and is counting on Claude Amazon says it has concluded its investment in AI super-startup Anthropic, which now stands at $4 billion, a figure the e-commerce colossus committed to last year.…
Judge says watchdog can HODL four of its five charges against crypto exchange The SEC's lawsuit accusing cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase of operating as an unregistered securities broker has survived its first legal challenge, opening the door for the case to go to trial.…
Global bank messaging network SWIFT is planning a new platform in the next one to two years to connect the wave of central bank digital currencies now in development to the existing finance system, it has told Reuters. From the report: The move, which would be one of the...
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