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Editors need to learn how to edit AI boosters Kody Young’s Mona Lisa is basically a fanfic with an AI in it, and the narrator sees it as like a sponge, filling in the places its creator chooses to leave out. He thinks it’s possible to make interesting AI art , but the creators have…

Meta announces Quest 3 VR headset, priced at $499.99 Meta has officially announced its Quest 3 VR headset. It will be available in the fall for $499.99 plus an additional storage option for those who want more space at an unspecified price. That undoes last year’s price hike on the base model and makes the…

The AI revolution is about to take over your browsing experience The narrator believes that browsers will be going to be an important place for AI tools in part just because they’re so popular.” This is all easier said than done, though. You can highlight a name or a phrase, right-click, and select “ask Airis”…

Ring, Amazon’s home security company, agrees to pay $5.8 million to Amazon’s Ring unit has agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that its doorbells illegally spy on users. The FTC alleged that Ring failed to restrict employees and contractors from accessing customer videos and used those videos to train algorithms…

Apple might announce several new Macs at WWDC At next week’s conference, Apple will unveil several new Macs, including a redesigned 13-inch Air and a Mac Pro with Apple silicon. Apple may also introduce the world’s largest Mac, the MacBook Pro, and other exciting new features, according to a report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. More…

PyPI enforces two-factor authentication for project owners The Python Package Index (PyPI) announced last week that all accounts that maintain projects on the official third-party software repository will require to turn on two-factor authentication by the end of the year. This comes nearly a year after PyPI made 2FA mandatory for critical project maintainers. Deception…

Don’t Click That ZIP File! Phishers Weaponizing .ZIP Domains to A new phishing technique called file archiver in the browser can be leveraged to emimam a file archiver software in a web browser when a victim visits a .zip domain. When a user clicks on this file, it will initiate the download of a .exe…

Remote Access Trojan for Linux Routers Targeting Japan Found A new type of trojan called GobRAT infects Japanese Linux routers with malicious code. The JPCERT Coordination Center (JPCERT/CC) warns that the trojan, which uses a loader script to gain remote access, masquerades as an Apache daemon process. It can also disable firewalls, establish persistence, and…

3 Challenges to Overcome When Building a Continuous Threat Exposure Management Program In this article, we’ll look at another trending acronym, CTEM, which stands for Continuous Threat Exposure Management and the challenges that come along with seeing a CTEM program through to maturity. What is continuous threat exposure management (CTEM)? In short: You can monitor…

AceCryptor: A Powerful Weapon Used by Cybercriminals, Detected in 240 AceCryptor, a crypter malware family, has been used to pack numerous strains of malware since 2016. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET said it identified over 240,000 detections of the crypter in its telemetry in 2021 and 2022. Some of the prominent malware families contained within AceCryptor…