The Google Pay app is dead ( arstechnica.com )
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Turkish student creates custom AI device for cheating university exam, gets arrested ( arstechnica.com )
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China state hackers infected 20,000 Fortinet VPNs, Dutch spy service says ( arstechnica.com )
- Hackers working for the Chinese government gained access to more than 20,000 VPN appliances sold by Fortinet using a critical vulnerability that the company failed to disclose for two weeks after fixing it, Netherlands government officials said....
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China state hackers infected 20,000 Fortinet VPNs, Dutch spy service says ( arstechnica.com )
- Hackers working for the Chinese government gained access to more than 20,000 VPN appliances sold by Fortinet using a critical vulnerability that the company failed to disclose for two weeks after fixing it, Netherlands government officials said....
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Adobe to update vague AI terms after users threaten to cancel subscriptions ( arstechnica.com )
Adobe has promised to update its terms of service to make it "abundantly clear" that the company will "never" train generative AI on creators' content after days of customer backlash, with some saying they would cancel Adobe subscriptions over its vague terms....
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AI trained on photos from kids’ entire childhood without their consent ( arstechnica.com )
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Hackers steal “significant volume” of data from hundreds of Snowflake customers ( arstechnica.com )
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These are all the devices compatible with iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 ( arstechnica.com )
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Some company heads hoped return-to-office mandates would make people quit, survey says ( arstechnica.com )
Nearly two in five (37 percent) managers, directors, and executives believe their organization enacted layoffs in the last year because fewer employees than they expected quit during their RTO. And their beliefs are well-founded: One in four (25 percent) VP and C-suite executives and one in five (18 percent) HR pros admit they...
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Outcry from big AI firms over California AI “kill switch” bill ( arstechnica.com )
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Tesla chair says Elon Musk needs $46 billion pay plan to stay motivated ( arstechnica.com )
Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned ( arstechnica.com )
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Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10 ( arstechnica.com )
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Microsoft is reworking Recall after researchers point out its security problems ( arstechnica.com )
the company says that Recall will be opt-in by default, so users will need to decide to turn it on
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Google avoids jury trial by sending $2.3 million check to US government ( arstechnica.com )
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US agencies to probe AI dominance of Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI ( arstechnica.com )
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Apple will update iPhones for at least 5 years in rare public commitment ( arstechnica.com )
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Top news app caught sharing “entirely false” AI-generated news ( arstechnica.com )
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FCC pushes ISPs to fix security flaws in Internet routing ( arstechnica.com )
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DuckDuckGo offers “anonymous” access to AI chatbots through new service ( arstechnica.com )
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We’ve just had a year in which every month was a record-setter ( arstechnica.com )
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Washing machine chime scandal shows how absurd YouTube copyright abuse can get ( arstechnica.com )
TL;DR: for a whole decade YouTube allowed a copyright troll to claim all the rights on a recording of a washing machine end cycle chime...
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Butts, breasts, and genitals now explicitly allowed on Elon Musk’s X ( arstechnica.com )
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Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned | Op-ed: The risks to Recall are way too high for security to be secondary ( arstechnica.com )
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