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Apple Maps and Music now include features for finding concerts. Apple today begins rolling out new concert discovery features to its Maps and Music apps that should make it easier to find local shows. On Apple Music, the company has added a section dedicated to concerts with set lists of upcoming shows across the country.…

Google might delete your Gmail account if you haven’t logged in for a while As of this writing, 9to5Google has learned that Gmail addresses will not be made available for reuse. According to Google, account activity is measured based on actions like reading or sending an email, watching a YouTube video, downloading an app on…

China’s Mustang Panda hackers exploit TP-Link routers for persistent attacks The Chinese nation-state actor known as Mustang Panda has been linked to a new set of sophisticated and targeted attacks aimed at European foreign affairs entities since January 2023. An analysis of these intrusions, per Check Point researchers Itay Cohen and Radoslaw Madej, has revealed…

AutoNeRF: An AI Approach Designed to Use Autonomous Agents to Generate Impl AutoNeRF enables autonomous drones and robots to collect data required for training neural implicit representations of a scene. During the Exploration Policy Training phase, an exploration policy is trained using intrinsic rewards in a set of training environments. One of the key advantages…

Bing Chat Gets Deeper Edge Mobile Integration, a Widget, and Much More Just days after Google rebranded its AI tools for Docs and Gmail as Duet AI, Microsoft is now focused on mobile with contextual chat for Edge mobile, a Bing widget for iOS and Android, and even continuous Bing Chat conversations between mobile and…

Inside Qilin Ransomware: 85% of Ransom Payouts Go to Ransomware affiliates that engage in the Qilin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme earn between 80% and 85% of the ransom payments, according to new findings from cybersecurity firm Group-IB. The company’s analysis reveals that the ransomware uses a variety of tactics to personalize its attacks to each victim.…

CopperStealer Malware Crew resurfaces with new rootkit and phishing kit The adversary is also assessed to be behind another campaign known as Scranos, which was detailed by Bitdefender in 2019. This campaign uses a similar technique to deploy the malware via PPI networks behind free anonymous file-sharing websites. The files are then used to retrieve…

Cyolo Secure: Remote Access to All Environments The core building blocks of the Cyolo platform are Identity Access Controllers (IDACs) and Edges. IDACs terminate the Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 connections and enforce the access policies configured by the cyolo administrator. Cyolo does not require a cloud connection or the installation of an endpoint agent.…

Hackers using a Golang variant of Cobalt Strike to target Apple macOS systems Fortra and its partners at Fortra Software release a new version of their anti-malware tool called Geacon for macOS. It’s got a new name, too: Cobalt Strike. Cobalt Strike is a cross-platform threat-management tool developed by Fortra that focuses on attacking operating…

Microsoft will pay to capture carbon dioxide from burning wood Microsoft backs a plan to capture carbon dioxide emissions from a power plant. Without the company’s support, the Norwegian company, Ørsted, wouldn’t have been able to install carbon capture devices. The company expects that by 2026, they’ll be able to capture a total of 430,000…