Collaborate Disseminate
On Friday TechCrunch reported they could no longer Google the word “disregard”.
Google’s AI Overview responded “Understood. Let me know whenever you have a new prompt or question!” below an icon for hearing the word “disregard” pronounced — the… Continue reading Friday Google’s AI-Powered Search Results Glitched on the Word ‘Disregard’
Most conventional analog watches have two or three hands, covering hours, minutes, and seconds (where present). [Sahko] has built a different kind of analog watch that creatively displays the time …read more Continue reading Building an Analog Meter Watch
Rhode Island residents may understandably wonder about the state’s vendor security monitoring. First, it was the Deloitte and the RIBridges data breach that affected more than 730,000 residents. Now the vendor that administers the state’s w… Continue reading Rhode Island’s workers’ compensation notifies those affected by January data breach
GitHub has rolled out new controls for npm to improve the security of the software supply chain, giving maintainers the ability to explicitly approve a release prior to the packages becoming publicly available for installation.
Called staged publishin… Continue reading npm Adds 2FA-Gated Publishing and Package Install Controls Against Supply Chain Attacks
Citing new research, the Associated Press reports that “modest gains in the fight to curb climate change have dialed back the most catastrophic of future heating.”
That’s the good news. But the same research “also confirmed that there’s no chance to l… Continue reading Researchers Say the Worst Climate Future is Less Likely. But the Best One is Also Slipping Away
This is one of the best times of the year to buy a robot vacuum, thanks to these Memorial Day deals. Continue reading I test robot vacuums for a living, and these are the best Memorial Day deals right now
A new “coordinated” supply chain attack campaign has impacted eight packages on Packagist including malicious code designed to run a Linux binary retrieved from a GitHub Releases URL.
“Although the affected packages were all Composer packages, the mal… Continue reading Packagist Supply Chain Attack Infects 8 Packages Using GitHub-Hosted Linux Malware
Qualys’s Threat Research Unit (TRU) has discovered and published a logic flaw in Linux kernel “that permits an unprivileged local user to disclose sensitive files and execute arbitrary commands as root on default installations of several major distribu… Continue reading Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Unprivileged Users Access Root-Only Files, Execute Arbitrary Commands as Root
Oprah Flash reports: “Violated” and being “unable to trust” have been the feelings plaguing victims of a cyber attack on a Midlands-based water company. The personal data of 633,887 people was stolen and published on the dark we… Continue reading UK: Victims feel ‘violated’ after water firm’s data breach
The Washington Post looks at arguments that “AI’s coming upheaval may demand massive infusions of cash to everyday Americans”. But they also look at some of the alternatives:
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for similar public-relief measures, in… Continue reading Tech CEOs Call for a Universal Basic Income. But What are the Alternatives?