Economy

April 17, 2024
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Kremlin-backed actors spread disinformation ahead of US elections

Enlarge (credit: da-kuk/Getty) Kremlin-backed actors have stepped up efforts to interfere with the US presidential election by planting disinformation and…
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April 17, 2024
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Broadcom says “many” VMware perpetual licenses got support extensions

Enlarge (credit: Getty) Broadcom CEO Hock Tan this week publicized some concessions aimed at helping customers and partners ease into…
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April 16, 2024
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Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap

Enlarge / Cans of Tab diet soda on display in 2011. Tab was discontinued in 2020. There has never been…
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April 16, 2024
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Attackers are pummeling networks around the world with millions of login attempts

Enlarge (credit: Matejmo | Getty Images) Cisco’s Talos security team is warning of a large-scale credential compromise campaign that’s indiscriminately…
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April 16, 2024
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UK targets “despicable individuals” who create AI sex deepfakes with new law

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, the UK government announced a new law targeting the creation of AI-generated sexually explicit…
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April 16, 2024
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Why the US government’s overreliance on Microsoft is a big problem

Enlarge (credit: Joan Cros via Getty) When Microsoft revealed in January that foreign government hackers had once again breached its…
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April 15, 2024
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Alleged cryptojacking scheme consumed $3.5M of stolen computing to make just $1M

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Federal prosecutors indicted a Nebraska man on charges he perpetrated a cryptojacking scheme that defrauded two…
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April 15, 2024
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Framework’s software and firmware have been a mess, but it’s working on them

Enlarge / The Framework Laptop 13. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Since Framework showed off its first prototypes in February 2021, we’ve…
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April 13, 2024
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Change Healthcare faces another ransomware threat—and it looks credible

Enlarge (credit: iStock / Getty Images Plus) For months, Change Healthcare has faced an immensely messy ransomware debacle that has…
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April 12, 2024
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“Highly capable” hackers root corporate networks by exploiting firewall 0-day

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Highly capable hackers are rooting multiple corporate networks by exploiting a maximum-severity zero-day vulnerability in a…
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