- + In Maine, Remote Work Gives Prisoners a Lifeline—An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Boston Globe: Every weekday morning at 8:30, Preston Thorpe makes himself a cup of instant coffee and ope...
- + More Than 140 Kenya Facebook Moderators Diagnosed With Severe PTSD—An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: More than 140 Facebook content moderators have been diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress...
- + One Third of Adults Can't Delete Device Data—The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) warns that while most adults recognize the importance of wiping personal data from old devices, nearl...
- + Cloudflare Must Block 'Piracy Shield' Domains and IP Addresses Across Its Service—An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: In a landmark ruling, the Court of Milan has ordered (PDF) Cloudflare to block pirate streaming...
- + Netflix Sues Broadcom's VMware Over US Virtual Machine Patents—Netflix has sued Broadcom in California federal court, accusing the chipmaker's cloud computing subsidiary VMware of violating its patent rights in vi...
- + Walmart Sued Over Illegally Opening Bank Accounts For Delivery Drivers—An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is suing Walmart and payroll service provider Bran...
- + Critics Decry Vietnam's 'Draconian' New Internet Law—Vietnam's Decree 147 mandates social media users on platforms like Facebook and TikTok to verify their identities and requires tech companies to store...
- + Health Care Giant Ascension Says 5.6 Million Patients Affected In Cyberattack—An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Health care company Ascension lost sensitive data for nearly 5.6 million individuals in a cyber...
- + US Targets China With Probe Into Semiconductor Industry—The Biden administration has launched a Section 301 investigation into China's semiconductor industry, citing concerns over non-market practices, supp...
- + Government To Name 'Key Witness' Who Provided FBI With Backdoored Encrypted Chat App Anom—An anonymous reader shares a report: A lawyer defending an alleged distributor of Anom, the encrypted phone company for criminals that the FBI secretl...
- + WhatsApp Scores Historic Victory Against NSO Group in Long-Running Spyware Hacking Case—A U.S. judge has ruled that Israeli spyware maker NSO Group breached hacking laws by using WhatsApp to infect devices with its Pegasus spyware. From a...
- + ChatGPT Mocks a Human Author. Who Owns That Paragraph?—It's not who owns AI training data. The Boston Review asks who owns its output? In a conversation with Microsoft's Copilot, I invited the AI to spe...
- + With Drones Over US Military Bases, Agencies Urge Congress to Pass Drone-Defense Legislation—A series of drone sightings over U.S. military bases "has renewed concerns that the U.S. doesn't have clear government-wide policy for how to deal wit...
- + Albania Will Close TikTok for One Year, Saying It Encourages Violence Among Children—The Associated Press reports that in Albania (population: 2,402,113), "children comprise the largest group of TikTok users in the country, according t...
- + Luigi Mangione's Ghost Gun Was Only Partially 3D-Printed—"More than a decade after the advent of the 3D-printed gun as an icon of libertarianism and a gun control nightmare, police say one of those homemade ...
- + US Drone Sightings Provoke Reactions From New Jersey Legislature, Federal Government—On Thursday New Jersey lawmakers passed a resolution "calling on the federal government to conduct a 'rigorous and ongoing' investigation into the dro...
- + Justice Department Unveils Charges Against Alleged LockBit Developer—The U.S. Department of Justice has charged Russian-Israeli national, Rostislav Panev, for his alleged role as a developer in the LockBit ransomware gr...
- + Qualcomm Processors Properly Licensed From Arm, US Jury Finds—Jurors delivered a mixed verdict on Friday, ruling that Qualcomm had properly licensed its central processor chips from Arm. This decision effectively...
- + Senators Rip Into Automakers For Selling Customer Data and Blocking Right To Repair—A bipartisan group of senators is calling out the auto industry for its "hypocritical, profit-driven" opposition to national right-to-repair legislati...
- + This VPN Lets Anyone Use Your Internet Connection. What Could Go Wrong?—Teenagers using Meta's virtual reality headsets to cheat at the popular game Gorilla Tag are unknowingly selling access to their home internet connect...
- + Home Assistant's New Voice Assistant Answers To 'Hey Jarvis'—Home Assistant (not to be confused with the Google Assistant on Google Home) has launched the Voice Preview Edition (Voice PE), its first dedicated vo...
- + Craig Wright Convicted For Repeatedly Lying About Inventing Bitcoin—Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist living in the UK, has been found guilty of contempt of court for persistently and falsely claiming to b...
- + Montana Supreme Court Upholds Right To 'Stable Climate System' For Youngsters—An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Montana's top court on Wednesday held that the state's constitution guaranteed a right to a sta...
- + Murder Mystery Solved By Google Street View—Spanish police have uncovered a major clue in the year-long investigation of a missing Cuban man, JLPO, after Google Street View images showed a man l...
- + Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates To Make Others Pay Their Tolls, Tickets—Longtime Slashdot reader sinij shares a report from Wired with the caption: "This story will be an on-going payday for traffic ticket lawyers. I am or...
- + Tracker Firm Hapn Spilling Names of Thousands of GPS Tracking Customers—An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: GPS tracking firm Hapn is exposing the names of thousands of its customers due to a website bug, ...
- + Nebraska Sues UnitedHealth Unit Over 100 Million Patient Data Breach—Nebraska's attorney general has sued Change Healthcare over a massive data breach that exposed sensitive medical information of more than 100 million ...
- + Spain Introduces Bill To Combat Online Fake News—Spain's leftwing government has introduced a bill requiring digital platforms and social media influencers with large followings to publish correction...
- + Tech Entrepreneur Found Guilty of Cash App Founder Bob Lee's Murder—A San Francisco jury convicted tech entrepreneur Nima Momeni of second-degree murder for the April 2023 stabbing death of Cash App's founder Bob Lee. ...
- + Big Loss For ISPs as Supreme Court Won't Hear Challenge To $15 Broadband Law—The Supreme Court has rejected the broadband industry's challenge to a New York law that requires Internet providers to offer $15- or $20-per-month se...
- + TikTok Asks Supreme Court To Block Law Banning Its US Operations—An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: TikTokasked the Supreme Court on Monday to temporarily block a law that would effectively...
- + Hackers Hit Rhode Island Benefits System In Major Cyberattack—A cyberattack on Rhode Island's RIBridges system has exposed personal data of individuals involved in programs like Medicaid, SNAP, and others, with h...
- + Two Drone Pilots Arrested Near Boston, and Drones Cause One-Hour Runway Closure at North New York Airport—Saturday night two men were arrested near Boston "following a hazardous drone operation near Logan Airport's airspace," according to a police statemen...
- + Wales Police Begin Using a Facial-Recognition Phone App—"There are concerns human rights will be breached," reports the BBC, as Wales police forces launch a facial-recognition app that "will allow officers ...
- + America Prepares New AI Chip Restrictions to Close China's Backdoor Access—The U.S. wants to limit China's access to advanced AI chips, reports the Wall Street Journal, with new rules to restrict sales in parts of the world. ...
- + America's FCC Opens 6-GHz Band to Unlicensed Very-Low-Power Devices—America's telecom-regulating Federal Communications Commission "has opened up the entire 6 GHz frequency band to very low-power devices," reports the ...
- + Yearlong Supply-Chain Attack Targeting Security Pros Steals 390,000 Credentials—An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A sophisticated and ongoing supply-chain attack operating for the past year has been stealing s...
- + Postal Service's Plan To Electrify Mail Trucks Falling Far Short of Its Goal—An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: The United States Postal Service unveiled a plan to buy a fleet of all-electric mail trucks for its...
- + Officials Demand Explanation On Mysterious Drone Sightings—An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Shaun Golden, the sheriff of Monmouth County, N.J., wants feds to get to the bottom of recent myste...
- + UnitedHealthcare's Optum Left an AI Chatbot, Used By Employees To Ask Questions About Claims, Exposed To the Internet—Healthcare giant Optum has restricted access to an internal AI chatbot used by employees after a security researcher found it was publicly accessible ...
- + Texas House Introduces Bill To Establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve—An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Legislation was introduced in the Texas House of Representatives on Thursday to establish a strategic b...
- + BeReal Accused of Annoying Users Into Sharing Their Data—An anonymous reader shares a report: BeReal, the in the moment social media platform, is far from its 2022 heyday, but that hasn't stopped one organiz...
- + Photobucket Sued Over Plans To Sell User Photos, Biometric Identifiers To AI Companies—Photobucket was sued Wednesday after a recent privacy policy update revealed plans to sell users' photos -- including biometric identifiers like face ...
- + WordPress Parent Company Must Stop Blocking WP Engine, Judge Rules—WP Engine just won a preliminary injunction against WordPress.com parent company Automattic. On Tuesday, a California District Court judge ordered Aut...
- + Musicians Rally Behind Internet Archive in $621 Million Music Label Battle—Over 300 musicians have signed an open letter defending the Internet Archive against a $621 million copyright infringement lawsuit over its preservati...
- + America's Phone Networks Could Soon Face Financial - and Criminal - Penalties for Insecure Networks—The head of America's FCC "has drafted plans to regulate the cybersecurity of telecommunications companies," reports the Washington Post, and the plan...
- + Dozens of Countries Hit in Chinese Telecom Hacking Campaign, Top US Official Says—China-linked spies may still be lurking in U.S. telecommunications networks — but the breach could be much, much wider. In fact, a "couple dozen...
- + US Government Orders Nationwide Testing of Milk for Bird Flu to Stop the Virus's Spread—"The U.S. government on Friday ordered testing of the nation's milk supply for bird flu," reports the Associated Press, "to better monitor the spread ...
- + TikTok is One Step Closer to Being Banned in the US—"TikTok has lost its bid to strike down a law that could result in the platform being banned in the United States," reports CNN. A U.S. federal appe...
- + Backdoor in Compromised Solana Code Library Drains $184,000 from Digital Wallets—The Solana JavaScript SDK "was temporarily compromised yesterday in a supply chain attack," reports BleepingComputer, "with the library backdoored wit...
- + Hard Drive Tossed in Landfill With Bitcoin Now Worth $800 Million. Lawsuits Continue—11 years ago his hard drive ended up in a U.K. landfill — with 8,000 bitcoin. It's now worth $800 million... and James Howell wants it back. T...
- + Hard Drive Tossed in Landfill With Bitcoin Now Worth $8 Billion. Lawsuits Continue—11 years ago his hard drive ended up in a U.K. landfill — with 8,000 bitcoin. It's now worth $8 billion... and James Howell wants it back. The...
- + Is Europe Better Prepared to Protect Undersea Internet Cables?—The Carnegie Endowment for Peace, a nonpartisan international affairs think tank, points out that when subsea internet cables were cut in November, Eu...
- + Internet Archive: We Will Not Appeal 'Hachette v. Internet Archive' Ruling—In March, 2023 the Internet Archive lost in court, with a judge ruling they couldn't scan entire books and then lend them as ebooks. The Internet Arch...
- + America's Next NASA Administrator May Be Former SpaceX Astronaut Jared Isaacman—America's next president "announced Wednesday he has selected Jared Isaacman, a billionaire businessman and space enthusiast who twice flew to orbit w...
- + Founder of Cryptocurrency Lender 'Celsius Network' Pleads Guilty to Fraud—59-year-old Alex Mashinsky, the founder/former CEO of cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, "pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two counts of fraud," repor...
- + US Officials Urge Americans to Use Encrypted Apps Amid Unprecedented Cyberattack—An anonymous reader shared this report from NBC News: Amid an unprecedented cyberattack on telecommunications companies such as AT&T and Verizon,...
- + FTC Bans Location Data Company That Powers the Surveillance Ecosystem—The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday announced sweeping action against some of the most important companies in the location data industry, includin...
- + Mexican Cartels Lure Chemistry Students To Make Fentanyl—schwit1 writes: Recruiters approach students with tempting offers, often after observing them for weeks. Promising salaries of over $800 per month -- ...
- + Exxon Lobbyist Investigated Over 'Hack-and-Leak' of Environmentalist Emails—America's FBI "has been investigating a longtime Exxon Mobil consultant," reports Reuters, "over the contractor's alleged role in a hack-and-leak oper...
- + UN Plastic Treaty Talks Collapse Without a Deal—United Nations members gathered this week in Busan, South Korea to negotiate the first treaty reducing plastic pollution. But Politico reports that "t...
- + US Insurers Are Still Charging for HIV Prevention Pills That Should Be Free—The Washington Post reports on tens of thousands of Americans "forced to pay for medication" to prevent the HIV infections, "despite federal requireme...
- + Senators Say TSA's Facial Recognition Program Is Out of Control—A bipartisan group of 12 senators has urged the TSA inspector general to investigate the agency's use of facial recognition technology, citing concern...
- + Data Broker Leaves 600K+ Sensitive Files Exposed Online—A security researcher discovered an unprotected database belonging to SL Data Services containing over 600,000 sensitive files, including criminal his...
- + Tornado Cash Sanctions Overturned By US Appeals Court—A U.S. federal appeals court ruled that sanctions against Tornado Cash, a crypto transaction anonymization service, must be abandoned, stating that it...
- + FTC Launches Broad Microsoft Antitrust Investigation—The FTC has opened a broad antitrust investigation into Microsoft, including of its software licensing and cloud computing business. Bloomberg first r...
- + Italian Authorities Shut Down $3.2 Billion-a-Year Pirate TV, Streaming Ring—A piracy ring that gave 22 million subscribers in Europe cheap access to content stolen from international streaming services has been shut down by It...
- + Russia-Linked Hackers Exploited Firefox, Windows Bugs In 'Widespread' Hacking Campaign—An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Security researchers have uncovered two previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities that are bein...
- + Forbes 30 Under 30 Founder Who Sold AI Chatbot To Schools Charged With Fraud—An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The founder of an artificial intelligence start-up focused on education was arrested and ...
- + Interpol Clamps Down on Cybercrime and Arrests Over 1,000 Suspects in Africa—Interpol arrested 1,006 suspects in Africa during a massive two-month operation, clamping down on cybercrime that left tens of thousands of victims, i...
- + Blue Yonder Ransomware Attack Disrupts Grocery Store Supply Chain—Blue Yonder, a Panasonic subsidiary specializing in AI-driven supply chain solutions, experienced a recent ransomware attack that impacted many of its...
- + US To Reportedly Sanction 200 More Chinese Chip Firms—The U.S. is preparing to impose new sanctions targeting 200 Chinese chipmakers and potentially restricting the export of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). ...
- + Senator Introduces Bill To Compel More Transparency From AI Developers—A new bill introduced by Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt) aims to make it easier for human creators to find out if their work was used without permission to tr...
- + Supreme Court Wants US Input On Whether ISPs Should Be Liable For Users' Piracy—An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Supreme Court signaled it may take up a case that could determine whether Internet service ...
- + Solar Glut: Half of California's Solar Power Sometimes Goes to Waste, Research Shows—Some days more than half of California's available solar power goes to waste, according to research from the California Institute for Energy and Envir...
- + World Agrees on $300B Climate Aid Financial Deal - After COP29 Summit 'Nearly Implodes'—"At points there was fear the talks would implode, as groups representing vulnerable small island states and the least-developed countries walked out ...
- + Is There New Evidence in the D.B. Cooper Case?—On November 24th, 1971 — 53 years ago today — a mysterious man jumped out of an airplane clutching $200,000 in ransom money. (He'd extorte...
- + America's DEA Ordered to Stop Searching Random Travellers at Airports - and Seizing Their Cash—America's Justice Department "has ordered all consensual searches by drug enforcement agents conducted at the nation's airports stopped," reports Geor...
- + 'Potentially Toxic' Chemical Byproduct May Be Present in 1/3 of US Drinking Water—NBC News reports that a newly identified chemical byproduct "may be present in drinking water in about a third of U.S. homes, a study found." "Scien...
- + Meta Wants Apple and Google to Verify the Age of App Downloaders—Meta wants to force Apple and Google to verify the ages of people downloading apps from their app stores, reports the Washington Post — and now ...
- + Meta Removed 2 Million Accounts Linked to Organized Crime 'Pig Butching' Scams—An anonymous reader shared this report from CNET: Meta says it's taken down more than 2 million accounts this year linked to overseas criminal gangs...
- + China Wiretaps Americans in 'Worst Hack in Our Nation's History'—Longtime Slashdot reader mspohr shares a report from Gizmodo: Hackers for the Chinese government were able to deeply penetrate U.S. telecommunications...
- + Russian Spies Jumped From One Network To Another Via Wi-Fi—"Steven Adair, of cybersecurity firm Veloxity, revealed at the Cyberwarcon security conference how Russian hackers were able to daisy-chain as many as...
- + Google Sues Ex-Engineer In Texas Over Leaked Pixel Chip Secrets—An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Google has sued one of its former engineers in Texas federal court, accusing him of stealing trade s...
- + Netflix Subpoenas Discord To ID Alleged Arcane, Squid Game Leaker—Netflix is looking toward Discord for help in figuring out who, exactly, is leaking unreleased footage from some of its popular shows. From a report: ...
- + Put Your Usernames and Passwords In Your Will, Advises Japan's Government—The Register's Simon Sharwood reports: Japan's National Consumer Affairs Center on Wednesday suggested citizens start "digital end of life planning" a...
- + School Did Nothing Wrong When It Punished Student For Using AI, Court Rules—An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A federal court yesterday ruled against parents who sued a Massachusetts school district for pu...
- + Microsoft Copilot Customers Discover It Can Let Them Read HR Documents, CEO Emails—According to Business Insider (paywalled), Microsoft's Copilot tool inadvertently let customers access sensitive information, such as CEO emails and H...
- + Spotify Has A Pirated Software Problem—An anonymous reader shares a report: People are using Spotify playlist and podcast descriptions to distribute spam, malware, pirated software and chea...
- + OpenAI Accidentally Deleted Potential Evidence in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit—An anonymous reader shares a report: Lawyers for The New York Times and Daily News, which are suing OpenAI for allegedly scraping their works to train...
- + US Regulators Seek To Break Up Google, Forcing Chrome Sale—In a 23-page document (PDF) filed late Wednesday, U.S. regulators asked a federal judge to break up Google after a court found the tech giant of maint...
- + Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds—A new study reveals that many users, particularly students and Redditors, view Z-Library as a vital resource for overcoming economic barriers to educa...
- + Strava Closes the Gates To Sharing Fitness Data With Other Apps—The Verge's Richard Lawler reports: Strava recently informed its users and partners that new terms for its API restrict the data that third-party apps...
- + Half of Young Norwegians Justify Piracy as Streaming Costs Soar—Half of young Norwegians find online piracy acceptable when streaming services are too expensive, according to a new government survey released this w...
- + The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI—An anonymous reader shares a report: The US Patent and Trademark Office banned the use of generative artificial intelligence for any purpose last year...
- + Indian News Agency Sues OpenAI Alleging Copyright Infringement—One of India's largest news agencies, Asian News International, has sued OpenAI in a case that could set a precedent for how AI companies use copyrigh...
- + DOJ Wants Google To Sell Chrome To Break Search Monopoly—According to Bloomberg, the U.S. Justice Department wants Google to sell off its Chrome browser as part of its ongoing search monopoly case. The recom...
- + India Orders Meta To Curb WhatsApp Data Sharing—India's competition watchdog has ordered WhatsApp to stop sharing user data with other Meta units for advertising purposes for five years and also lev...
- + Belgian Region Trials Web Founder's Data Privacy System—The Belgian region of Flanders is rolling out personal data "pods" to 7 million citizens in a trial of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee's visio...
- + What Happened When a Washington County Tried a 32-Hour Workweek?—On a small network of islands north of Seattle, Washington, San Juan County just completed its first full year of 32-hour workweeks, reports CNN. An...
- + New Pentagon Report on UFOs: Hundreds of New Incidents, No Evidence of Aliens—"The Pentagon's latest report on UFOs has revealed hundreds of new reports of unidentified and unexplained aerial phenomena," reports the Associated P...
As of 12/26/24 5:00am. Last new 12/24/24 10:04pm. Score: 242
- Next feed in category: MIXED - 21st Century Wire