Category: Shorts

Nadella bets on AI for Microsoft’s future Satya Nadella and Microsoft are riding high on the buzz from its search engine. Now 55, he is finally getting cred as more than a skillful caretaker and savvy leverager of Microsoft’s vast resources. With his swift adoption of AI, he’s displaying a boldness that evokes Microsoft’s early…

Apple’s new Sherlock tool targets your grandparents’ technology We saw it earlier this year when Apple announced Journal, an app many have compared to the third-party app Day One. Similarly, we see it now with iOS 17’s StandBy feature. Many have criticized Apple for copying the functionality of a popular app and then replacing it…

Server outage at Amazon breaks fast food apps Fast food apps like McDonald’s and An outage affecting the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud server setup was affecting a number of internet services, including our website, but has been resolved. The AWS Health Dashboard noted problems of degradation on multiple services in the US-East-1 region that…

Google is getting worse because of the Reddit blackouts Over 8,000 subreddits have gone dark to protest Reddit’s upcoming API changes, and it’s shown me just how much I rely on Reddit to find useful, human-sounding information in my Google search results. However, now that many subreddits are planning to stay dark indefinitely, we might…

Microsoft can’t buy Activision Blizzard for now, judge rules A federal court has issued a temporary restraining order preventing Microsoft from closing its $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard. The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against the deal on Monday, seeking to get the restraining order and preliminary injunction. The court has agreed…

Cybercriminals using powerful BatCloak engine to make malware undetectable A batch-layer malware obfuscation engine called BatCloak has been used to deploy various malware strains since September 2022, while pervasively evading antivirus detection. Trend Micro explains the technology in a paper. The samples grant threat actors the ability to load numerous malware families and exploits with…

Why Attack Surface Management Now? Brianna is Netspi’s product manager, Attack Surface Management and holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from Penn State University. She describes the term attack surface management as having going from unknown to ubiquitous in the cybersecurity space over the past few years. Many concepts come and go in cybersecurity, but…

Microsoft Visual Studio Installer has a bug that allows publishers to spoof their identity. This vulnerability allows malicious actors to bypass a restriction that prevents users from entering information in the product name extension property of a .ZIP file by opening a Visual Studio Extension . Dolev Taler discovered the bug discovered by Varonis. Security…

In or Out? Evaluating Detection of Images Out of Distribution (Paper Summary) In this paper, the authors address the limitations in evaluating OOD detection methods by distinguishing between ID and OOD inputs. They also propose using OOD unit tests, simple, synthetically generated image inputs, designed to assess OOD discovery weaknesses. The authors analyze the performance…