New data shows Netflix, long the king of streaming, is losing attention as subscribers shift to competitors like Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video.
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Two-for-Tuesday vulnerabilities send Windows and Linux users scrambling
Enlarge The world woke up on Tuesday to two new vulnerabilities—one in Windows and the other in Linux—that allow hackers with a toehold in a vulnerable system to bypass OS security restrictions and access sensitive resources. As operating systems and applications become harder to hack, successful attacks typically require two or more vulnerabilities. One vulnerability...
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Our AI headline experiment continues: Did we break the machine?
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) We’re in phase three of our machine-learning project now—that is, we’ve gotten past denial and anger, and we’re now sliding into bargaining and depression. I’ve been tasked with using Ars Technica’s trove of data from five years of headline tests, which pair two ideas against each other in...
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Apple under pressure over iPhone security after NSO spyware claims
Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto | Getty Images) Apple has come under pressure to collaborate with its Silicon Valley rivals to fend off the common threat of surveillance technology after a report alleged that NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware was used to target journalists and human rights activists. Amnesty International, which analyzed dozens of smartphones targeted by clients...
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White House Dispute Exposes Facebook Blind Spot on Misinformation
The company doesn’t know some specifics about how falsehoods about Covid-19 and vaccines for the virus spread on its social network.
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How China Transformed Into a Prime Cyber Threat to the U.S.
Over the past decade, China reorganized its hacking operations, turning into a sophisticated and mature adversary.
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Job-Hunters, Have You Posted Your Résumé on TikTok?
Feeling limited by LinkedIn, some Gen Z-ers are now applying for jobs using TikTok résumés. Employers are paying attention.
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Reading the Zoom Tea Leaves
Companies are starting to make big bets on how we’ll all behave after the pandemic ends.
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How an Unproven Alzheimer’s Drug Got Approved
Though some of its own senior officials said there was little evidence of benefit for patients, the F.D.A. nonetheless greenlighted Biogen’s Aduhelm, or aducanumab.
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Dish switching network to AT&T after calling T-Mobile anticompetitive
Enlarge (credit: Dish Network) Dish Network has agreed to pay AT&T at least $5 billion over 10 years for network access amid a feud between Dish and T-Mobile. Dish is in the early stages of building a 5G network and in the meantime is serving customers as a reseller using network capacity that it purchases...