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Dems wave hands, stomp feet about ICE using mobile face recognition app
A group of senators has penned a sternly-worded letter to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) saying that they're very worried about the agency's use of facial recognition in its mission to cleanse the nation of immigrants with improper documents. …
Careless engineer stored recovery codes in plaintext, got whole org pwned
Failing to encrypt sensitive data leaves you wide open to attack. During the recent SonicWall attack spree, intruders bypassed multi-factor authentication (MFA) in at least one case, because a user's recovery codes were left sitting in a plaintext file on their desktop.…
Engineer turned a vape into a web server
Discarded vapes are becoming the new cigarette butts in pollution terms, but a hacker has found a novel way to repurpose the chips they contain to build a web server.…
Half of tech firms plotting restructures as AI hype bites
More than half of tech companies are considering a complete restructure or changing their operating model in response to AI, according to research from the consulting sector.…
Smart-blooded super soldiers: Coming soon from DARPA
Look to science fiction and you'll find plenty of pathways to create super soldiers. There's cloning or genetic engineering. If that fails, you could try in-utero enhancements, or maybe some cybernetic augmentation. DARPA has a different idea for the real world: inject 'em up with super blood.…
'Powerful but dangerous' full MCP support beta for ChatGPT arrives
OpenAI has added a beta of Developer mode to ChatGPT, enabling full read and write support for MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools, though the documentation describes the feature as dangerous.…
Dirac audio glitch finally silenced in Windows 11 24H2
Microsoft has resolved a Windows 11 24H2 problem with devices using Dirac audio as the 25H2 update waits in the wings.…
Even fantasy money can buy a lot of power, just ask Larry Ellison
Opinion When does imaginary money come before real? If you had bought Oracle shares on Tuesday last week and sold them on Friday, you might have some real cash. But everything else lives in a gray area.…
Former FinWise employee may have accessed nearly 700K customer records
A US fintech biz is writing to nearly 700,000 customers because a former employee may have accessed or acquired their data after leaving the company.…
Nork snoops whip up fake South Korean military ID with help from ChatGPT
North Korean spies used ChatGPT to generate a fake military ID for use in an espionage campaign against a South Korean defense-related institution, according to new research.…
China turns the screws on Nvidia with antitrust probe
China has dealt Nvidia another blow, finding the chipmaker in violation of the country's anti-monopoly Law and escalating a long-running regulatory headache into a full investigation.…
Starlink outage knocks tens of thousands offline worldwide
Elon Musk's Starlink satellite broadband network went dark today as thousands of users around the globe reported connectivity issues.…
Jaguar Land Rover supply chain workers must get Covid-style support, says union
The UK's chief automotive workers' union is calling on the government to establish a Covid-esque furlough scheme for the thousands of individuals who face losing their jobs due to the cyber-related downtime at Jaguar Land Rover.…
Bharti big shots storm BT boardroom after £3.6B raid
BT - Britain's former state-owned telecoms monopoly - has confirmed that execs from Bharti Global, its largest shareholder, are joining the board with immediate effect.…