Collaborate Disseminate
More than 1,500 user-contributed packages in the Arch Linux User Repository “AUR” were infected with malware, reports Phoronix:
The last message in the thread over this security incident is noting that Arch Linux developers have deleted all the mali… Continue reading Arch Linux Malware Incident: Malicious Commits Found in 1,579 Packages
“A coalition of state attorneys general has opened an investigation into OpenAI,” reports the Wall Street Journal, citing “people familiar with the matter.”
OpenAI was served Friday with a subpoena seeking documents related to a broad range of its act… Continue reading OpenAI Investigated By Coalition of America’s State Attorneys General
It’s the 10-year anniversary of Britain’s “Brexit” vote withdrawing from the European Union.
But a new UK poll “shows that a new Brexit referendum would reverse the vote that led to Britain’s departure,” reports Bloomberg:
Fifty-two percent of Brito… Continue reading New UK Referendum Would Flip ‘Brexit’ Result of a Decade Ago, Poll Finds
It’s the U.S. law that allows wiretaps without a warrant for surveilling foreign targets. And the U.S. Congress just let it lapse. Sort of. NPR reports:
Each year, the provision is used by American intelligence agencies to collect the electronic comm… Continue reading US Congress Lets ‘Warrantless Wiretap’ Law FISA Lapse
“Anthropic said on Friday it will ‘abruptly disable’ its most advanced AI models for all users,”
reports Reuters, “after the U.S. government ordered it to suspend access to the models for foreign nationals, citing national security concerns. The compan… Continue reading Anthropic ‘Suspends’ All Mythos and Fable Access After US Order Limiting Foreign Access
Most supply-chain attacks using Ruby’s package hosting site “exploit a narrow window,” according to a new blog post form Ruby core maintainer Hiroshi Shibata.
So its packaging-managing Bundler tool now offers a filter that blocks new version until it… Continue reading Ruby Fights Supply-Chain Attacks With Filter Offering ‘Cooldown’ Before Installing New Packages
A burglar took a self-driving Waymo taxi to rob a San Francisco yoga studio this past January, reports TechCrunch — “and police have still not caught them.”
Even the police officer assigned to the case thought it would be easier to solve, notes… Continue reading A San Francisco Burglar Escaped in a Robotaxi – and Police Still Can’t Find Him
Reuters reports:
Several large data centers and crypto facilities planning to connect to the Texas power grid ahead of peak summer demand have failed key reliability tests, raising the risk of power outages just as electricity use hits its seasonal hi… Continue reading Texas Grid Flags Risks As Data Centers, Crypto Sites Fail Voltage Tests
“When Hugo Parra was arrested last year on felony charges, his pleas of innocence fell on deaf ears,” reports the Times of San Diego:
San Diego police had a description of the Alfa Romeo car he was riding in [but no license plate number] and a witnes… Continue reading Police Sued After Imprisoning Innocent Man Placed Near Violent Crime By Flock License Plate Reader
Italian fashion house Prada “unveiled on Sunday the inner-layer garment set to be worn by NASA astronauts heading to the moon,” reports Reuters.
“The body-hugging suit, created in collaboration with Houston-based space infrastructure developer Axiom … Continue reading Prada Unveils ‘Liquid Cooling’ Inner-Layer Garment for NASA’s Moon Astronauts with Knitted-In Ventilation Tubes