While legislators in a variety of countries are trying very hard to ban encryption, vulnerabilities in existing encryption implementations are surfacing. While none of the proposed encryption bans are laws yet in the U.S., it doesn’t mean that people aren’t trying. More importantly, companies have for years thought that security by obscurity is a good […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well That is a Bit of an Oops A Google employee uploaded a list of 5,600 Virus Total customer administrators to Virus Total itself, making it visible to anyone. Among the users were admins from the NSA, Pentagon, FBI. UK Ministry of Defense and ministries in Germany, Japan, Qatar, Turkey, Frances and a dozen other […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Facebook and Instagram owner Meta will be fined $100,000 a day over privacy breaches unless it fixes the issue, says Norway’s data protection board. Norway says that Meta can’t harvest physical location data to target ads. Big tech loves doing this, so while Meta is in the cross hairs today, if this sticks, others will […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember when we used to say seeing is believing. Or hearing. Well not any more. Want to hear Johnny Cash sing Barbie Girl? With amazing fidelity? It is available on YouTube. Only problem is that the Barbie song came out after Cash was diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease and had stopped performing. Also, this recording […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Twitter’s traffic has been plummeting since the launch of Threads according to Vice, but they say that what has been increasing on the platform is the number of bizarre spam accounts hawking questionable wares. Since anyone can now buy a checkmark, these spammers have been doing that and advertising overpriced decorative items and household items. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]OpenAI and Meta Both Sued for Copyright Infringement Over AI Tools Even though the courts, with minor exception, are technologically uneducated, they are going to have to make some very important decisions. Law.com is reporting that OpenAI is being sued by book authors, including comedian Sarah Silverman over misappropriation of their copyrighted works to be […]
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