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Credit to Author: Andrew Couts, Andy Greenberg| Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: A major new supply chain attack, Biden’s spyware executive order, and a hacking campaign against Exxon’s critics.
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Credit to Author: Kate O’Flaherty| Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 06:00:00 +0000
Plus: Microsoft Outlook and Android patch serious flaws, Chrome and Firefox get fixes, and much more.
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Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 21:39:08 +0000
A Manhattan grand jury has issued the first-ever indictment of a former US president. Buckle up for whatever happens next.
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Apple’s decision to support MAC Address Randomization across its platforms may provide some degree of protection against a newly-identified Wi-Fi flaw researchers say could let attackers hijack network traffic. iOS, Linux, and Android devices may be vulnerable.
The researchers have identified a fundamental flaw in the design of the IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi standard attackers could exploit to trick access points (Wi-Fi base stations) into leaking information. The researchers do not claim the vulnerability is being actively exploited, but warn that it might enable the interception of network traffic.
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 06:00:00 +0000
An increasing number of states are passing age-verification laws. It’s not clear how they’ll work.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:08:13 +0000
The White House is providing $25 million to Costa Rica, after giving Albania similar aid following aggression by hackers linked to Iran.
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Credit to Author: Justin Ling| Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 14:26:10 +0000
Documents obtained by WIRED confirm that Good Smile, which licenses toy production for Disney, was an investor in the controversial image board.
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More than 1,100 technology luminaries, leaders and scientists have issued a warning against labs performing large-scale experiments with artificial intelligence (AI) more powerful than ChatGPT, saying the technology poses a grave threat to humanity.
In an open letter published by The Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit organization that aims is to reduce global catastrophic and existential risks to humanity, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and MIT Future of Life Institute President Max Tegmark joined other signatories in saying AI poses “profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research and acknowledged by top AI labs.”