Economy
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$1 phone scanner finds seven Pegasus spyware infections
In recent years, commercial spyware has been deployed by more actors against a wider range of victims, but the prevailing…
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Backdoor slips into popular code library, drains ~$155k from digital wallets
Hackers pocketed as much as $155,000 by sneaking a backdoor into a code library used by developers of smart contract…
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OpenAI teases 12 days of mystery product launches starting tomorrow
On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a “12 days of OpenAI” period starting December 5, which will unveil new…
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HowStuffWorks founder Marshall Brain sent final email before sudden death
The week before Thanksgiving, Marshall Brain sent a final email to his colleagues at North Carolina State University. “I have…
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Russian court sentences kingpin of Hydra drug marketplace to life in prison
A Russian court has issued a life sentence to a man found guilty of being the kingpin of a dark…
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Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is more than just an AI language model with a fancy interface. It’s a system consisting of a…
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Company claims 1,000 percent price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival
Companies have been discussing migrating off of VMware since Broadcom’s takeover a year ago led to higher costs and other…
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Code found online exploits LogoFAIL to install Bootkitty Linux backdoor
Researchers have discovered malicious code circulating in the wild that hijacks the earliest stage boot process of Linux devices by…
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Found in the wild: The world’s first unkillable UEFI bootkit for Linux
Over the past decade, a new class of infections has threatened Windows users. By infecting the firmware that runs immediately…
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QNAP firmware update leaves NAS owners locked out of their boxes
A recent firmware pushed to QNAP network attached storage (NAS) devices left a number of owners unable to access their…
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