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How to disconnect third-party apps from your Google account on Android You can manage third-party apps and services from your Google account. However, if you stop using them all immediately and don’t make sure that you’re still connecting to your Google Account, you could be leaving your data and your account exposed. Using your Google…

Browser Fingerprinting: the Power to Personalize, Detect Fraud, and Secure Log The case for browser fingerprinting: personalizing the user experience, improving fraud detection, and optimizing login security Have you ever heard of browser-identifying your visitors? Now you can. With browsers like Fingerprint.ID, you can collect a bunch of information about a web user’s web browser…

IcedID and Bumblebee Malware Being Distributed by Powerful JavaScript Dropper A new type of JavaScript dropper called PindOS has been observed delivering next-stage payloads like Bumblebee and Icedid. This new malware is a replacement for another loader called BazarLoader. Deep Instinct is tracking the malware as Pindos, which contains the name in its User-Agent string.…

NSA Releases Guide to Combat BlackLotus Bootkit The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has released guidance on how to detect and prevent infections of a bootkit called BlackLotus. This bootkit bypasses Windows Secure Boot protections by taking advantage of a known flaw called Baton Drop. The agency warns that threat actors could use this loophole…

New Cryptocurrency Mining Campaign Targets Linux Systems and Devices with Poor Security A new campaign targeting Linux systems and IoT devices uses a backdoor to mine cryptocurrency. The campaign also installs a patched version of OpenSSH on affected devices, allowing threat actors to hijack SSH credentials, move laterally within the network, and conceal malicious SSH…

Meta is withdrawing news from Facebook and Instagram in Canada The Canadian Senate has passed a bill called Bill C-18, which will force tech companies like Meta and Google to negotiate with news publishers and pay them for their content. According to the Associated Press, the legislation will take effect six months after it gets…

The Philosophy Course for Chatbots: This AI Research Explores the Behavior of LLMs In conclusion, the focus shifts to understanding how dialogue agents behave in role-playing scenarios and the various characters they can imitate. However, it is important to recognize that LLM-based dialogue agents differ significantly from human beings in several respects. By using alternative…

YouTube to get AI-powered dubbing YouTube wants to make it easier to dub your videos in other languages by giving you some help with AI. It’s announcing this at VidCon that it’s bringing over the team from Aloud, an AI-powered dubbing service. You can find more info about Aloud here. If you want to hear…

Secret Invasion studio denies that any artists lost their jobs Method Studios, the VFX house that created the sequence, tells us that that couldn’t be further from the case. Method described the entire production process as being both highly collaborative and iterative, with a dedicated focus on this specific application of an AI toolset but…

The Apple Vision Pro might come with a ‘travel mode’ for plane rides In the first beta of visionOS, MacRumors found that the device’s operating system may have a Travel Mode option that you can use during a flight. This includes settings specifically for plane rides. It also prompts the user to stay stationary in…