Economy
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Provider of covert surveillance app spills passwords for 62,000 users
The maker of a phone app that is advertised as providing a stealthy means for monitoring all activities on an…
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AT&T rolls out Wireless Account Lock protection to curb the SIM-swap scourge
AT&T is rolling out a protection that prevents unauthorized changes to mobile accounts as the carrier attempts to fight a…
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Mexican drug cartel hacked FBI official’s phone to track informant, report says
The Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico hacked the phone of an FBI official investigating kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán as…
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Actively exploited vulnerability gives extraordinary control over server fleets
Hackers are exploiting a maximum-severity vulnerability that has the potential to give them complete control over thousands of servers, many…
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Anthropic summons the spirit of Flash games for the AI age
On Wednesday, Anthropic announced a new feature that expands its Artifacts document management system into the basis of a personal…
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VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom
After sending cease-and-desist letters to VMware users whose support contracts had expired and who subsequently declined to subscribe to one…
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Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
On Monday, court documents revealed that AI company Anthropic spent millions of dollars physically scanning print books to build Claude,…
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Ubuntu disables Intel GPU security mitigations, promises 20% performance boost
Ubuntu users could see up to a 20 percent boost in graphics performance on Intel-based systems under a change that…
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The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun
Employers are drowning in AI-generated job applications, with LinkedIn now processing 11,000 submissions per minute—a 45 percent surge from last…
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Canadian telecom hacked by suspected China state group
Hackers suspected of working on behalf of the Chinese government exploited a maximum-severity vulnerability, which had received a patch 16…
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