Category: Shorts

Is AI Aware of Its Own Subconscious? This chapter opens with a question: But I wonder: Does AI have a subconscious. Psychobabble responds that the answer is yes. He goes on to offer philosophical guidance on encounters with technology, open a support ticket via email; or register and post a comment below. Language models are…

The Dire Defect of AI Content Moderation with Multiple Languages For years, social media companies have focused their automatic content detection and removal efforts more on English than the 7,000 other languages. This has led them to overlook or ignore the impact of human rights violations in many of these countries. A new technology called…

Amazon’s New Fire Max 11 Tablet Aims to Provide a Premium User Experience and Product The Fire Max 11 is Amazon’s biggest tablet yet. It has a shatter-safe aluminum frame and supports styluses. It also has 64GB and 128GB of storage, can be expanded with a microSD card, and can be locked by default. Unlike…

Apple touts multibillion-dollar deal for 5G and wireless tech Apple has signed on to a multiyear, multibillion-dollar agreement with Broadcom. The company announced the news on Tuesday, saying it will continue to work with the chipmaker to develop 5G components and other wireless connectivity parts. From the announcement: Through this collaboration, Broadcom will develop 5g…

KeePass Exploit Allows Attackers to Recover Master Passwords from Memory without any A proof-of-concept has been made available for a security flaw affecting the KeePass password manager. It allows an attacker to recover a victim’s master password in cleartext. This is useful because it lets the attacker recover the password in plaintext. The vulnerability relates…

13-year jail term for cyber crimes handed to U.K. fraudster behind Fletcher had been one of the pioneers of the zero trust movement and pleaded guilty last month to a number of charges relating to his role in facilitating fraud and transferring criminal property. He had created a channel on Toroda’s website, iSpoof, which allowed…

API Security: Are Your APIs Leaking Sensitive Data? Hackers are exploiting APIs to gain access to and exfiltrate sensitive data. Without an accurate API inventory and insight into sensitive data traffic, you cannot adequately address potential vulnerabilities and data leakage. Adhering to compliance regulations When you consider the increasing amount of data being collected and…

The Reign of Bad Magic in Cyber Espionage Goes Back Over a Decade Bad Magic, also known as Red Stinger or simply Bad Magic, has been active for much longer than previously thought. According to Kaspersky, its spear-phishing operations date back to December 2020, but earlier this month, Malwarebytes discovered at least five waves of…

Crypto Mining Operations by Indonesian Cybercriminals Profitably Exploit AWS A financially motivated threat actor of Indonesian origin has been observed leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances to carry out illicit crypto mining operations. The group’s primary mission is to create EC2 instances to facilitate their crypto mining activities, the researchers write.…

Meta fined $1.3 billion for data transfer violations by EU regulators This is big news. Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has been fined a record $1.3 billion by European Union data protection regulators for transferring personal data from Europe to the U.S. in violation of the GDPR privacy laws. According to the E.D.P.B., Facebook must bring…