Economy
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Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps of junk traffic
Large-scale attacks designed to bring down Internet services by sending them more traffic than they can process keep getting bigger,…
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Israel-tied Predatory Sparrow hackers are waging cyberwar on Iran’s financial system
The Israel-linked hacker group known as Predatory Sparrow has carried out some of the most disruptive and destructive cyberattacks in…
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Tech support scammers inject malicious phone numbers into big-name websites
Tech support scammers have devised a method to inject their fake phone numbers into webpages when a target’s web browser…
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Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel, and now we’re hoarding pre-AI content
Former Cloudflare executive John Graham-Cumming recently announced that he launched a website, lowbackgroundsteel.ai, that treats pre-AI, human-created content like a…
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Cybersecurity takes a big hit in new Trump executive order
Cybersecurity practitioners are voicing concerns over a recent executive order issued by the White House that guts requirements for: securing…
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OpenAI weighs “nuclear option” of antitrust complaint against Microsoft
OpenAI executives have discussed filing an antitrust complaint with US regulators against Microsoft, the company’s largest investor, The Wall Street…
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Vandals cut fiber-optic lines, causing outage for Spectrum Internet subscribers
Subscribers in Southern California of Spectrum’s Internet service experienced outages over the weekend following what company officials said was an…
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Coming to Apple OSes: A seamless, secure way to import and export passkeys
Apple this week provided a glimpse into a feature that solves one of the biggest drawbacks of passkeys, the industry-wide…
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Hollywood studios target AI image generator in copyright lawsuit
On Wednesday, Disney and NBCUniversal filed a lawsuit against AI image-synthesis company Midjourney, accusing the company of copyright infringement for…
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With the launch of o3-pro, let’s talk about what AI “reasoning” actually does
On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that o3-pro, a new version of its most capable simulated reasoning model, is now available to…
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