Collaborate Disseminate
One crime ring scammed 2,000 elderly people of more than $27 million between 2021 and 2023 using tech support/bank impersonation/refund scams. “Victims were in their 70s and 80s,” reports the U.S. Attorney’s office for California’s southern district. V… Continue reading Crooks Behind $27M in ‘Refund’ Scams Busted By YouTube Pranksters After Being Lured to Fake Funeral
11 days ago Apple launched device-level age restrictions in the U.K. There were some glitches, reports the blog 9to5Mac.
For me, the experience was an entirely painless one, taking less than 30 seconds. All I had to do was tap a confirm and continue b… Continue reading Apple Brings Device-Level Age Verification to Two More Countries
Despite a few high-profile cases in recent years with lawyers getting caught using LLM-generated documents and facing disciplinary action due to this, it would seem that this is not deterring …read more Continue reading Despite Penalties, Lawyers Can’t Stop Using AI
“Google has announced that it’s currently testing a new feature for Chrome 148 that could speed up day-to-day browsing,” reports PC World:
[T]he browser can intelligently postpone the loading of certain elements. Why load all images at the start when… Continue reading Chrome 148 Will Start ‘Lazy Loading’ Video and Audio to Improve Performance
LinkedIn is accused in the BrowserGate report of tracking 6,000+ browser extensions on users’ PCs, raising concerns over privacy and data collection practices. Continue reading BrowserGate: LinkedIn Tracks 6,000+ Browser Extensions on Users’ PCs
Plants, toads, and mushrooms “can all produce psychedelic substances,” writes ScienceAlert.
“And now their powers have been combined in one plant.”
[S]cientists have taken the genes these organisms use to make five natural psychedelics and introdu… Continue reading Scientists Engineered a Plant To Produce 5 Different Psychedelics At Once
We have probably all read recommendations that cyberattack victims should not pay ransom demands because it encourages more crime, and because criminals can’t be trusted to delete data they promise to delete. But what evidence have we seen suppor… Continue reading How often do threat actors default on promises to delete data?
As I write this, four astronauts are on their way around the moon for the first time in 50 years. A lot us have asked ourselves just exactly why you’d …read more Continue reading Re-Learning How to Run
True-crime tales of criminals making fools of themselves interview Cybercrime crews have become almost mystical entities, with security vendors assigning them names like Wizard Spider and Velvet Tempest.… Continue reading Researchers didn’t want to glamorize cybercrims. So they roasted them
“Canonical is no longer pretending that 4GB is enough,” writes the blog How-to-Geek, noting Ubuntu 26.04 LTS “raises the baseline memory to 6GB, alongside a 2GHz dual-core processor, and 25GB of storage…”
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) set the floor… Continue reading Does Ubuntu Now Require More RAM Than Windows 11?