Slowdowns apparently due to a bug afflicting browser extensions, not retaliation against filters Google claims users of popular ad-blocking extensions have wrongly blamed YouTube for slow video streaming speeds – and that the content filters themsel…
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Lees meer.SBS gTLD once owned by Australian broadcaster is another source of strife Scammers are buying up cheap domain names to host sites that sell dodgy health products using fake articles, according to cybercrime disruption outfit Netcraft.…
Lees meerNo consultants were mauled or eaten but some were quite scared Indian forestry authorities have laid traps for a leopard that was spotted prowling near campuses used by tech services giants Infosys and TCS.…
Lees meerAfter settling privacy lawsuit now admits you're observable even when trying for anonymity Google has altered the text describing data collection when users employ Incognito Mode in its Chrome browser.…
Lees meerNo consultants were mauled or eaten but some were quite scared Indian forestry authorities have laid traps for a leopard that was spotted prowling near campuses used by tech services giants Infosys and TCS.…
Lees meerNo consultants were mauled or eaten but some were quite scared Indian forestry authorities have laid traps for a leopard that was spotted prowling near campuses used by tech services giants Infosys and TCS.…
Lees meerInfecting networks via years-old CVEs that should have been patched by now Crooks are exploiting years-old vulnerabilities to deploy Androxgh0st malware and build a cloud-credential stealing botnet, according to the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Inf…
Lees meerToday's safety guardrails won't catch these backdoors, study warns Analysis AI biz Anthropic has published research showing that large language models (LLMs) can be subverted in a way that safety training doesn't currently address.…
Lees meerVideo game record keepers Twin Galaxies finish messy four-year fight with Billy Mitchell Retro Tech Week The world-beating video game scores of self-styled arcade legend Billy Mitchell have been reinstated following a settlement with record-keeping…
Lees meerGet ready for links to non-Cupertino payment systems, America, hopefully Updated Apple fans in the US may soon see links appearing in some of their iOS apps to non-Apple payment systems through which they can purchase stuff. That's because the nati…
Lees meerJust days after ban on 'military and warfare' applications goes away, Davos hears the details OpenAI is developing AI-powered cybersecurity capabilities for the US military, and shifting its election security work into high gear, the lab's execs tol…
Lees meerIt's certainly not a layoff, net-taming biz insists Updated Cloudflare has defended its HR practices after a former employee posted a nine-minute video of a phone call during which she was fired, asked for an explanation for being let go, and was t…
Lees meerToday's safety guardrails won't catch these backdoors, study warns Analysis AI biz Anthropic has published research showing that large language models (LLMs) can be subverted in a way that safety training doesn't currently address.…
Lees meerPLUS: It's difficult to make a bad LLM turn good; ELVIS Act seeks AI voice clone ban AI in brief OpenAI has changed the policies covering use of its models and removed "disallowed usages” of its models including "the generation of malware," "milita…
Lees meerNo, that does not mean machines can replace primary care physicians An AI chatbot was better at diagnosing medical ailments and communicating results than human physicians in text-based conversations, a research paper from Google claims. …
Lees meerBanking giant believes Quantinuum key to optimizing investment portfolios The wave of generative AI may have captured the world's attention, but that hasn't stopped the flow of capital into quantum computing as JPMorgan Chase and others plow more ca…
Lees meerGet ready for links to non-Cupertino payment systems, America, hopefully Apple fans in the US may soon see links appearing in some of their iOS apps to non-Apple payment systems through which they can purchase stuff. That's because the nation's Supr…
Lees meerWith no more courts left to beg, Apple's anti-steering provision is as good as dead iOS app users may soon get a choice of in-app payment systems rather than having to always cough up through Apple. That's because the US Supreme Court has decided no…
Lees meerSpaceX gets chance to prove the FCC was wrong for rejecting its $885m rural broadband subsidy bid Farm equipment maker John Deere has signed a deal with SpaceX to use its Starlink satellite internet service to keep combines and other farm equipment …
Lees meerYou didn't have anything else to do this Tuesday, right? VMware and Atlassian today disclosed critical vulnerabilities and, while neither appear to have been exploited by miscreants yet, admins should patch now to avoid disappointment.…
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