Enlarge / An Orbi 750 series router. (credit: Netgear) If you rely on Netgear’s Orbi mesh wireless system to connect to the Internet, you’ll want to ensure it’s running the latest firmware now that exploit code has been released for critical vulnerabilities in older versions. The Netgear Orbi mesh wireless system comprises a main hub...
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Journalist plugs in unknown USB drive mailed to him—it exploded in his face
Enlarge / Ecuadorian police tweeted this picture of officials investigating a drive mailed to a journalist in Guayaquil. (credit: Policía Ecuador/Twitter) It’s no secret that USB flash drives, as small and unremarkable as they may look, can be turned into agents of chaos. Over the years, we’ve seen them used to infiltrate an Iranian nuclear...
Ethical AI art generation? Adobe Firefly may be the answer.
Enlarge / An Adobe Firefly AI image generator example. (credit: Adobe) On Tuesday, Adobe unveiled Firefly, its new AI image synthesis generator. Unlike other AI art models such as Stable Diffusion and DALL-E, Adobe says its Firefly engine, which can generate new images from text descriptions, has been trained solely on legal and ethical sources,...
“Acropalypse” Android screenshot bug turns into a 0-day Windows vulnerability
Enlarge / Windows 10 and 11 have their own version of the Acropalypse screenshot editing bug. (credit: acropalypse.app/Andrew Cunningham) Earlier this week, programmer and “accidental security researcher” Simon Aarons disclosed a bug in Google’s Markup screenshot editing tool for its Pixel phones. Dubbed “acropalypse,” the bug allows content you’ve cropped out of your Android screenshot...
(BPRW) FPL’s “Power to Care” Projects Impact Communities throughout Florida
(Black PR Wire) All month long, staff and family members of Florida Power & Light Company (FPL), have volunteered to provide support and assistance to groups and organizations through their “Power to Care” program. Celebrating its 15th yea…
Pulling the Plug on TikTok Will Be Harder Than It Looks
The tensions over the Chinese-owned social media app will come to a head on Thursday, when the company’s chief executive testifies on Capitol Hill.
Inside the 3 Months That Could Cost Fox $1.6 Billion
The decision by Fox News executives in November 2020 to treat the more hard-right Newsmax as a mortal threat spawned a possibly more serious danger.
Strains Emerge Inside the Union That Beat Amazon
Nearly a year after its victory on Staten Island, the Amazon Labor Union is grappling with election losses and internal conflict.
What Google Bard Can Do (and What It Can’t)
Google has released a new chatbot to a limited number of people in the U.S. and Britain. How does it compare with what is already out there?
Google Releases Bard, Its AI Chatbot, a Rival to ChatGPT and Bing
The internet giant will grant users access to a chatbot after years of cautious development, chasing splashy debuts from rivals OpenAI and Microsoft.