Collaborate Disseminate
Microsoft kicked off 2025 with a new set of patches for a total of 161 security vulnerabilities across its software portfolio, including three zero-days that have been actively exploited in attacks.
Of the 161 flaws, 11 are rated Critical, and 149 are … Continue reading 3 Actively Exploited Zero-Day Flaws Patched in Microsoft’s Latest Security Update
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security flaws in SimpleHelp remote access software that could lead to information disclosure, privilege escalation, and remote code execution.
Horizon3.ai researcher Naveen Sunkavally, in a technical r… Continue reading Critical SimpleHelp Flaws Allow File Theft, Privilege Escalation, and RCE Attacks
Cybersecurity is entering a new era of complexity, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025 report. Growing complexity intensifies cyber inequity This complexity arises from the rapid growth of emerging technologies, pr… Continue reading Cybersecurity is stepping into a new era of complexity
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: The number of deaths in the U.S. is expected to exceed the number of births by 2033, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) annual 30-year projection of the U.S. population released on Mo… Continue reading US Deaths Expected To Outpace Births Within the Decade
The Display/Keyboard unit – DSKY for short – is the primary way that Apollo-era astronauts communicated with the onboard computers. Not all DSKYs ended up in space, however, with the …read more Continue reading Repairing a Real (and Broken) Apollo-era DSKY
In 2019, DataBreaches reported that Solara Medical Supplies in California was notifying more than 110,000 patients after an attacker gained access to some employees’ email accounts via phishing. Solara was subsequently sued and settled claims for… Continue reading HHS Office for Civil Rights Settles HIPAA Phishing Cybersecurity Investigation with Solara Medical Supplies, LLC for $3,000,000
The Australian Open has introduced a project called AO Animated — “near-live, commentated coverage of the Australian Open, free to anyone across the world via YouTube, enhanced via a stream of comments from a like-minded online community,” reports The… Continue reading Australian Open Avatars Helping Tennis Reach New Audience
Pixelfed has launched its mobile app for iOS and Android, solidifying its position as a viable alternative to Instagram. The move also comes at a pivotal moment, as a potential Supreme Court ban on TikTok could drive users to explore other social media… Continue reading Pixelfed, Instagram’s Decentralized Competitor, Is Now On iOS and Android
OpenAI’s “reasoning” AI model, o1, has exhibited a puzzling behavior of “thinking” in Chinese, Persian, or some other language — “even when asked a question in English,” reports TechCrunch. While the exact cause remains unclear, as OpenAI has yet to p… Continue reading OpenAI’s AI Reasoning Model ‘Thinks’ In Chinese Sometimes, No One Really Knows Why
I wasn’t expecting to publish a .NETpad 3.0 update this quickly, at least not on this topic, but Microsoft released .NET 9.0.1 today. And as I had hoped–and assumed–it includes the hoped-for fix for the bug that caused the app to crash when the user … Continue reading .NETpad 2025: .NET 9.0.1 Fixes the App Crashing Bug (Premium)