Collaborate Disseminate
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: Apple and Google have released several software updates to protect against a hacking campaign targeting an unknown number of their users. On Wednesday, Google released patches for a handful of security bugs in its… Continue reading Google and Apple roll out emergency security updates after zero-day attacks
Apple’s AirPods can pair with their competitors’ devices and work as basic Bluetooth earbuds, but to no one’s surprise most of their really interesting features are reserved for Apple devices. …read more Continue reading Liberating AirPods with Bluetooth Spoofing
David Gilbert reports: When a privacy specialist at the legal response operations center of Charter Communications received an emergency data request via email on September 4 from Officer Jason Corse of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, it took her ju… Continue reading Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People’s Private Data
Phoebe Gates, Bill Gates’ youngest daughter, has raised $30 million for the AI shopping app she built in her Stanford dorm room with classmate Sophia Kianni. The app is called Phia and is pitched as a way to simplify price comparison and secondhand sho… Continue reading Bill Gates’ Daughter Secures $30 Million For AI App Built In Stanford Dorm
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google has increasingly moved toward keeping features locked to its hardware products, but the Translate app is bucking that trend. The live translate feature is breaking out of the Google bubble w… Continue reading Google Translate Expands Live Translation To All Earbuds On Android
Scale software teams fast with development team augmentation. Learn when it works best, key models, common mistakes, and how to choose the right partner. Continue reading Development Team Augmentation: A Strategic Approach for High-Performance Teams
Online retailer Coupang, often called South Korea’s Amazon, is dealing with the fallout from a breach that exposed the personal information of more than 33 million accounts — roughly two-thirds of the country’s population — after a former contractor … Continue reading The Data Breach That Hit Two-Thirds of a Country
I have no context for this video—it’s from Reddit—but one of the commenters adds some context:
Hey everyone, squid biologist here! Wanted to add some stuff you might find interesting.
With so many people carrying around cameras, we’re getting more videos of giant squid at the surface than in previous decades. We’re also starting to notice a pattern, that around this time of year (peaking in January) we see a bunch of giant squid around Japan. We don’t know why this is happening. Maybe they gather around there to mate or something? who knows! but since so many people have cameras, those one-off monster-story encounters are now caught on video, like this one (which, btw, rips. This squid looks so healthy, it’s awesome)…
Continue reading Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Eating a Diamondback Squid
An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon has quietly added a new AI feature to its Kindle iOS app — a feature that “lets you ask questions about the book you’re reading and receive spoiler-free answers,” according to an Amazon announcement.
The sheer scope of cybercrime can be hard to fathom, even when you live and breathe it every day. It’s not just the volume of data, but also the extent to which it replicates across criminal actors seeking to abuse it for their own gain, and to our
Continue reading Processing 630 Million More Pwned Passwords, Courtesy of the FBI