10.17.25 Security News Bites If You Have Connected a Chatbot to Your Email/Calendar. Or other Apps. You May Want to disconnect it. Gemini and other chatbots (such as Grok) can be compromised by hidden input. The example is Gemini and mail and calendar integration. You can construct a prompt, embed it invisibly into an email […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FTC Votes UNANIMOUSLY to Enforce Right to Repair As companies like John Deere and Apple fight to keep their exceptionally lucrative repair business to themselves, the Federal Trade Commission voted unanimously this week to enforce laws around right to repair. While this won’t eliminate all the barriers to users fixing stuff that they paid thousands […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If You Thought the FTC Was Toothless Before, Just Wait I always complained that the FTC’s penalties were way too meek. Now I understand why, but it has just gotten MUCH worse. 99.99% of the blame goes to Congress. Initially, the FTC could not bring lawsuits against businesses at all. All they could do was […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Facebook Says: Give Us Your Data or Pay For Facebook That is a slight paraphrase, but not much. In light of Apple’s new requirement to ask users for their permission to steal their data, Facebook and others are mounting a full assault on their users. First of all, Facebook grossed $26 billion in the first […]
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