UK Official Promises Statements ‘Around VPNs’ and Further Teen Restrictions on Chatbots and Social Media

PC Gamer reports:

The UK government is considering an Australia-style ban on social media for under-16s, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying that the ban could take effect as soon as spring next year. As for the much nearer future, Science and Te… Continue reading UK Official Promises Statements ‘Around VPNs’ and Further Teen Restrictions on Chatbots and Social Media

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Brazil’s Civil Defense suffers a cyberattack on its official alert network

This is the kind of cyberattack that can put lives at risk and makes me want to wring some necks if I wasn’t so old and feeble. Demócrata reports: Brazil’s Civil Defense has reported this Saturday that its official alert system has been the… Continue reading Brazil’s Civil Defense suffers a cyberattack on its official alert network

After Six Years Of Work and Over 360 Patches, Linux 7.2 Finally Removes Bug-Prone strncpy

Tech Times reports:

Linux 7.2’s merge window closed out a cleanup campaign on Friday that most kernel developers had stopped expecting to see end: the complete removal of strncpy(), a C string-copy function that the kernel’s own documentation labels … Continue reading After Six Years Of Work and Over 360 Patches, Linux 7.2 Finally Removes Bug-Prone strncpy

US Bill Would Mandate AI Chip Location Tracking to Thwart China and Other Adversaries

NBC News reports:

A group of companies that specialize in tracking international shipments of sensitive technologies is backing a Capitol Hill bill that would require America’s most powerful AI chips to incorporate stronger security mechanisms aimed … Continue reading US Bill Would Mandate AI Chip Location Tracking to Thwart China and Other Adversaries