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Meta knows how bad its sites are for kids, say lawyers
Is Meta acting like a tobacco company denying cigarettes cause cancer, or an oil giant downplaying climate science? Lawyers in a recent court filing claim the social media titan buried internal research for years suggesting its platforms can harm children's mental health.…
Praise Amazon for raising this service from the dead
Opinion For years, Google has seemingly indulged a corporate fetish of taking products that are beloved, then killing them. AWS has been on a different kick lately: Killing services that frankly shouldn't have seen the light of day.…
Anthropic reduces model misbehavior by endorsing cheating
Sometimes bots, like kids, just wanna break the rules. Researchers at Anthropic have found they can make AI models less likely to behave badly by giving them permission to do so.…
Ex-CISA officials, CISOs dispel 'hacklore,' spread cybersecurity truths
Afraid of connecting to public Wi-Fi? Terrified to turn your Bluetooth on? You may be falling for "hacklore," tall tales about cybersecurity that distract you from real dangers. Dozens of chief security officers and ex-CISA officials have launched an effort and website to dispel these myths and show you how not to get hacked for real.…
Amazon-backed X-energy sweet talks investors into another $700M for small modular reactor dream
Amazon-backed nuclear energy startup X-energy says it has booked orders for 144 small modular reactors (SMRs) which will eventually deliver over 11 gigawatts of power, assuming that they actually get built. And investors continue to support this vision.…
Old-school rotary phone dials into online meetings, hangs up when you slam it down
We've all been there: A meeting goes sideways and you really wish you could physically slam the phone down and walk away. Maker Stavros Korokithakis knows that feeling well, so he took an old rotary phone and turned it into a device that can dial into - and hang up on - video calls in a decidedly retro fashion. …
X's location tags remind users of the internet's oldest rule: Trust nothing
Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) has inadvertently taught a large number of web users an important lesson. Not everyone online is necessarily who you think they are, and you shouldn't believe everything you read.…
LisaGUI recreates Apple's innovative computer OS, without emulating it
LisaGUI is a faithful reconstruction of the desktop and user interface of Apple's Lisa, the workstation that fed ideas into the early Macintosh, and it shows that there are still things to learn from that system.…
How high-end supercomputer filesystem DAOS can break out of its niche
DAOS has been a great success in the traditional HPC/supercomputing world, but is nowhere in the new, AI-focused, GPU supercomputing arena. What will it take for DAOS to find customers outside its high-end, legacy supercomputing niche?…
Moss spores bolted to the ISS exterior laugh in the face of hard vacuum
Moss has been shown to survive one of the harshest environments imaginable: the exterior of the International Space Station (ISS).…
Years-old bugs in open source tool left every major cloud open to disruption
A series of "trivial-to-exploit" vulnerabilities in Fluent Bit, an open source log collection tool that runs in every major cloud and AI lab, was left open for years, giving attackers an exploit chain to completely disrupt cloud services and alter data.…
Intrusion at real estate finance biz sparks concern for big banks
Real estate finance business SitusAMC says thieves sneaked into its systems earlier this month and made off with confidential client data.…
Shai-Hulud worm returns, belches secrets to 25K GitHub repos
A self-propagating malware targeting node package managers (npm) is back for a second round, according to Wiz researchers who say that more than 25,000 developers had their secrets compromised within three days.…
Microsoft wedges tables into Notepad for some reason
Microsoft is shoveling yet more features into the venerable Windows Notepad. This time it's support for tables, with some AI enhancements lathered on top.…
NATO taps Google for air-gapped sovereign cloud
NATO has hired Google to provide "air-gapped" sovereign cloud services and AI in "completely disconnected, highly secure environments."…
FCC guts post-Salt Typhoon telco rules despite ongoing espionage risk
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has scrapped a set of telecom cybersecurity rules introduced after the Salt Typhoon espionage campaign, reversing course on measures designed to stop state-backed snoops from slipping back into America's networks.…
6G isn't even here yet but mobile industry wants triple the spectrum
The GSMA says 6G networks will need up to three times the spectrum currently allocated to mobile operators to meet anticipated demands for data.…
CISA orders feds to patch Oracle Identity Manager zero-day after signs of abuse
CISA has ordered US federal agencies to patch against an actively exploited Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) flaw within three weeks – a scramble made more urgent by evidence that attackers may have been abusing the bug months before a fix was released.…
DragonFire laser to be fitted to Royal Navy ships after acing drone-zapping trials
Britain's Royal Navy ships will be fitted with the DragonFire laser weapon by 2027 – five years earlier than planned – following recent successful trials involving fast-moving drones.…
This Thanksgiving, top your turkey with Cranberry sOSS to fund open source
The Open Source Pledge organization is working to combat the problems of FOSS maintainers not getting paid, and the closely related issue of developer burnout, with a Thanksgiving-themed campaign.…