YouTube and Facebook fared better in the experiment.
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VMware bug with 9.8 severity rating exploited to install witch’s brew of malware
(credit: Pixabay) Hackers have been exploiting a now-patched vulnerability in VMware Workspace ONE Access in campaigns to install various ransomware and cryptocurrency miners, a researcher at security firm Fortinet said on Thursday. CVE-2022-22954 is a remote code execution vulnerability in VMware Workspace ONE Access that carries a severity rating of 9.8 out of a possible...
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AI tool colorizes black-and-white photos automatically
Enlarge / Palette.fm does AI photo colorization using text prompts for refinement. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) A Swedish machine learning researcher named Emil Wallner has released a free web tool called Palette.fm that automatically colorizes black-and-white photos using AI. After uploading a photo, users can choose a color filter or refine the colors...
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How Vice Society got away with a global ransomware spree
Enlarge (credit: Suebsiri Srithanyarat / EyeEm / Getty Images) A ransomware attack on the Los Angeles Unified School District in the first week of September crippled digital operations across the system, which includes more than 1,000 schools and serves roughly 600,000 students. Two weeks after the initial attack, as the district worked to recover and...
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Ahead of Midterms, Disinformation Is Even More Intractable
Ahead of the midterm elections, the proliferation of alternative social media sites has helped cement false and misleading information as a defining feature of American politics.
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Snap Earnings Show Revenue Growth Slowing but 19% More Users
The maker of Snapchat has been struggling with a sharp slowdown in its advertising business.
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Texas Sues Google for Collecting Biometric Data Without Consent
Ken Paxton, the state attorney general, said products like Google Photos and the Nest camera had violated Texans’ privacy rights.
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Google Play apps with >20M downloads depleted batteries and network bandwidth
Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto | Getty Images) Google Play has given the boot to 16 apps with more than 20 million combined installations after researchers detected malicious activity that could cause the Android devices they ran on to drain batteries faster and use more data than normal. The apps provided legitimate functions, including flashlight, camera, QR...
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US court rules, once again, that AI software can’t be listed as inventor on a patent
Enlarge / US court (not pictured) rules that software cannot be registered as a patent “inventor.” (credit: Ars Technica) The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that AI software cannot be a registered inventor of a US patent, Reuters reports, though the issue could be subject to further appeal. The legal...
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Microsoft leaked 2.4TB of data belonging to sensitive customer. Critics are furious
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft is facing criticism for the way it disclosed a recent security lapse that exposed what a security company said was 2.4 terabytes of data that included signed invoices and contracts, contact information, and emails of 65,000 current or prospective customers spanning five years. The data, according to a disclosure published...