Collaborate Disseminate
The Macquarie Dictionary, the national dictionary of Australia, has picked “enshittification” as its word of the year. Gizmodo reports: The Australians define the word as “the gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction i… Continue reading ‘Enshittification’ Is Officially the Biggest Word of the Year
The PS VR2 headset allows players to experience games in a new way. This bundle includes Horizon Call of the Mountain for just $350 on Amazon ahead of Cyber Week. Continue reading Level up your PS5 with this PlayStation VR2 bundle for $250 off before Black Friday
Uber’s gig-economy workforce now includes programmers. According to Bloomberg, “The company is expanding beyond its rideshare roots to enter a hot new market: helping other businesses outsource some of their artificial intellgience development to indep… Continue reading Uber’s Gig-Economy Workforce Now Includes Programmers
Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data storage company Snowflake, but a third suspect — a prolific hacker known as Kiberphant0m — remains at large and continues to publicly extort victims. However, this person’s identity may not remain a secret for long: A careful review of Kiberphant0m’s daily chats across multiple cybercrime personas suggests they are a U.S. Army soldier who is or was recently stationed in South Korea. Continue reading Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier
Despite significant enterprise AI hype, most job seekers remain unconvinced of its benefits, with 69% doubting its ability to enhance work performance and 62% skeptical it reduces workloads. The findings come from a study conducted by Resume Genius. Th… Continue reading Job Seekers Doubt AI’s Promised Productivity Gains
This is normally where DataBreaches might write, “Here’s today’s reminder of the Insider Threat,” but this time, we might add, “but not all insider threats are that sophisticated or hard to detect.” Connor Jones repo… Continue reading Man accused of hilariously bad opsec as alleged cybercrime spree detailed
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Huawei has announced its new Mate 70 series smartphone lineup, which will be the first offered with the company’s new HarmonyOS Next operating system that doesn’t rely on Google’s Android services and… Continue reading Huawei’s Mate 70 Smartphones Will Run Its New Android-Free OS
A group appears to have leaked access to Sora, OpenAI’s video generator, in protest of what they’re calling duplicity and “art washing” on OpenAI’s part. From a report: On Tuesday, the group published a project on the AI dev platform Hugging Face seemi… Continue reading OpenAI’s Sora Video Generator Appears To Have Leaked
Ars Technica’s Jon Brodkin reports: Lobby groups for Internet service providers claim that ISPs’ customer service is so good already that the government shouldn’t consider any new regulations to mandate improvements. They also claim ISPs face so much c… Continue reading ISPs Say Their ‘Excellent Customer Service’ Is Why Users Don’t Switch Providers
Detection-based solutions are no longer the heavy hitters of the modern security arsenal. It’s time to say goodbye to traditional detection tools and hello to solutions that stop attacks before they happen. Continue reading Traditional EDR won’t cut it: why you need zero trust endpoint security