Android devices are vulnerable to a new attack that can covertly steal 2FA codes, location timelines, and other private data in less than 30 seconds. The new attack, named Pixnapping by the team of academic researchers who devised it, requires a victim to first install a malicious app on an Android phone or tablet. The...
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Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement
The encryption protecting communications against criminal and nation-state snooping is under threat. As private industry and governments get closer to building useful quantum computers, the algorithms protecting Bitcoin wallets, encrypted web visits, and other sensitive secrets will be useless. No one doubts the day will come, but as the now-common joke in cryptography circles observes,...
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(BPRW) TUBI ANNOUNCES ROSEMARY IDISI AS WINNER OF STUBIOS GREENLIGHT CONTEST
(Black PR Wire) SAN FRANCISCO – Tubi (www.tubi.tv), Fox Corporation’s (NASDAQ: FOXA, FOX) ad-supported streaming service, today announced actress, writer, and producer Rosemary Idisi as the winner of its first-ever Stubios Greenlight Contest. …
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(BPRW) Congressional Black Caucus Statement on Trump-Pressured Indictment Against New York Attorney General Letitia James
(Black PR Wire) WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressional Black Caucus Chair Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09) and members of the Congressional Black Caucus issued the following statement: “The unfounded indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia Ja…
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How ‘TBPN’ Became Silicon Valley’s Newest Obsession
Silicon Valley is obsessed with “TBPN,” a streaming show on which no career move is too trivial to document.
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Microsoft warns of new “Payroll Pirate” scam stealing employees’ direct deposits
Microsoft is warning of an active scam that diverts employees’ paycheck payments to attacker-controlled accounts after first taking over their profiles on Workday or other cloud-based HR services. Payroll Pirate, as Microsoft says the campaign has been dubbed, gains access to victims’ HR portals by sending them phishing emails that trick the recipients into providing...
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A Mystery C.E.O. and Billions in Sales: Is China Buying Banned Nvidia Chips?
An executive of a Singaporean firm called Megaspeed socialized with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. Now the company is being scrutinized by U.S. officials for its ties to China.
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Intel’s Big Bet: Inside the Chipmaker’s Make-or-Break Factory
The centerpiece of the company’s comeback hopes is a multibillion-dollar facility in the Arizona desert. Will it draw new customers?
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What the Arrival of A.I. Video Generators Like Sora Means for Us
Welcome to the era of fakery. The widespread use of instant video generators like Sora will bring an end to visuals as proof.
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AI models can acquire backdoors from surprisingly few malicious documents
Scraping the open web for AI training data can have its drawbacks. On Thursday, researchers from Anthropic, the UK AI Security Institute, and the Alan Turing Institute released a preprint research paper suggesting that large language models like the ones that power ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude can develop backdoor vulnerabilities from as few as 250...