Category: Shorts

A Skype vulnerability could expose your IP address to hackers Microsoft has yet to fix Another security hole. This time it’s a flaw in the Skype mobile app that lets you get your IP address by opening a message with a link. No clicking required. According to a report from 404 Media, Microsoft is dragging…

Yahoo Mail is Alive and Adds AI Capabilities Yahoo used Google Cloud’s artificial intelligence platform to build out its generative AI features. It’s now available to users on web browsers. For example, it’s adding a shopping feature called Shopping Saver that finds gift cards, discount codes, and store credits hidden in inboxes and helps draft…

The end of the Google era What made Google different from Alta Vista’s search engine was its algorithm, PageRank. The amount of links between pages. was the central nervous system of 2000s internet culture. Sullivan acknowledges that there are a lot of different ideas out there about how to get a prominent spot on Google…

Google’s AI-powered note-taking app is the beginning of something great NotebookLM is an AI-powered research tool that is meant to help you organize and interact with your notes. If you try to import too many or too large sources, NotebookLM just sort of quietly fails. Instead of importing them all into the text of a…

Google might recreate Apple’s satellite SOS on Android Google appears to be working on a satellite SOS feature for its Messages app, which would let users text emergency services from remote areas without a cell signal. Earlier code in the Google Messages app shows work on an integration with Garmin and its emergency Garmin Response…

Cyberattacks Threaten E-commerce Applications In this article, we discuss the recent Honda e-commerce platform attack and its impact on the business and its clients. How Was The Vulnerability Found In order to learn more about how this vulnerability was discovered, we’ll refer back to our previous article on application security testing. We discussed the different…

Chatbots with AI creating thorny issues for fandom The narrator wonders if Mario worried that he was furthering stereotypes by associating sex with Italian heritage, and then notes that Replika, another AI companion platform, similarly removed its NSFW filters. Some people decamped to smaller platforms like Janitor AI, which explicitly allows NSFW chat, while others…

KmsdBot malware upgraded to target IoT devices with enhanced capabilities An updated version of the botnet malware called Kmsdbot targets IoT devices. It has been updated with features such as Telnet scanning and a random IP address generator. The new updates also improve upon the previous versions by covering more CPU architectures and expanding the…

The best new car tech, threads for web, and AI for bookmarks It took a few days, but I think the Threads web app is finally available for everybody, finally. This is a really fun, really helpful breeze through those and a lot of other in-car tech, from cool Lexus mirrors to Kia’s truly genius…

Judge dismisses Republican lawsuit against Google over Gmail’s spam prevention The suit complained Google intentionally sent RNC political emails to Gmail users’ spam folders, and the RNC sought restitution for “donations it allegedly lost as a result” of those lost emails. The RNC cited a North Carolina State University study that found Gmail was more…