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More malicious packages posted to online repository. This time it’s PyPI
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have uncovered yet another supply chain attack targeting an open source code repository, showing that…
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Artists file class-action lawsuit against AI image generator companies
Enlarge / A computer-generated gavel hovers over a laptop. (credit: Getty Images) Some artists have begun waging a legal fight…
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ChatGPT has investors drooling, but can it bring home the bacon?
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) When ChatGPT—the ingenious, garrulous, and occasionally unhinged chatbot from OpenAI—was asked this week how much the…
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An aviation expert explains how the FAA’s critical NOTAM safety system works
Enlarge / An air traffic control tower is seen at JFK airport on January 11 in New York City. (credit:…
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Meta sues “scraping-for-hire” service that sells user data to law enforcement
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Meta said it’s suing “scraping-for-hire” service Voyager Labs for allegedly using fake accounts, proprietary software, and…
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Third-party Twitter clients are broken, whether by policy or glitch
Enlarge / Many third-party Twitter clients, apps the social network has been seeking to diminish since 2012, are suddenly not…
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Vulnerability with 9.8 severity in Control Web Panel is under active exploit
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Malicious hackers have begun exploiting a critical vulnerability in unpatched versions of the Control Web Panel,…
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Fortinet says hackers exploited critical vulnerability to infect VPN customers
(credit: Fortinet) An unknown threat actor abused a critical vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiOS SSL-VPN to infect government and government-related organizations…
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Indigenous tech group asks Apache Foundation to change its name
Enlarge / A 2015 photo by Zaheda Bhorat (shared by Rich Bowen) showing many of the original Apache Software Foundation’s…
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FAA outage that grounded flights blamed on old tech and damaged database file
Enlarge / Travelers wait in a terminal at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, during an FAA outage that grounded…
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