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• iOS 17 Gives You 72 Hours To Undo An iPhone Passcode Change

  15-06-2023 23:40 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  In iOS 17, iPhone users who change their passcode will be able to reset it within 72 hours using the previous passcode. However, users can choose to expire the previous passcode immediately in the Settings app to increase security. MacRumors reports: If you enter an incorrect passcode, tapping on "Forgot Passcode?" at the bottom of the screen will lead to another screen with a "Try Passcode Reset" option. Tapping this option allows you to enter the iPhone's previous passcode and create a new pas
  
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• US Government Agencies Hit In Global Cyberattack

  15-06-2023 22:58 via it.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Several US federal government agencies have been hit in a global cyberattack that exploits a vulnerability in widely used software, according to a top US cybersecurity agency. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency "is providing support to several federal agencies that have experienced intrusions affecting their MOVEit applications," Eric Goldstein, the agency's executive assistant director for cybersecurity, said in a statement on T
  
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• YouTube Tells Open-Source Privacy Software 'Invidious' to Shut Down

  15-06-2023 21:55 via news.slashdot.org
  
  YouTube has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Invidious, an open-source "alternative front-end" to the website which allows users to watch videos without having their data tracked, claiming it violates YouTube's API policy and demanding that it be shut down within seven days. From a report: "We recently became aware of your product or service, Invidious," reads the letter, which was posted on the Invidious GitHub last week. "Your Client appears to be in violation of the YouTube API Services Term
  
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• Mandiant Says China-backed Hackers Exploited Barracuda Zero-Day To Spy on Governments

  15-06-2023 20:40 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Security researchers at Mandiant say China-backed hackers are likely behind the mass-exploitation of a recently discovered security flaw in Barracuda Networks' email security gear, which prompted a warning to customers to remove and replace affected devices. From a report: Mandiant, which was called in to run Barracuda's incident response, said the hackers exploited the flaw to compromise hundreds of organizations likely as part of an espionage campaign in support of the Chinese government. Almo
  
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• Chipmakers Race To Curb Emissions as Demand Surges

  15-06-2023 20:01 via news.slashdot.org
  
  A greener future is not necessarily a lower-tech future. On the contrary: policy experts at the International Energy Agency and World Economic Forum see smart, data-driven energy systems as crucial to hitting net zero greenhouse gas emissions. But the chips at the heart of all that clean tech -- found in everything from wind turbines to electric vehicles and smart grids -- come with a big carbon footprint. From a report: According to Harvard research published in 2020, chip manufacturing, not en
  
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• Why YouTube Could Give Google an Edge in AI

  15-06-2023 19:20 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Google last month upgraded its Bard chatbot with a new machine-learning model that can better understand conversational language and compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT. As Google develops a sequel to that model, it may hold a trump card: YouTube. From a report: The video site, which Google owns, is the single biggest and richest source of imagery, audio and text transcripts on the internet. And Google's researchers have been using YouTube to develop its next large-language model, Gemini, according to
  
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• Ticketmaster, SeatGeek Commit To All-In Pricing After 'Junk Fees' Criticism

  15-06-2023 18:40 via slashdot.org
  
  Live Nation and its ticket selling arm Ticketmaster made commitments Thursday to show customers the full price of tickets, including fees, up front. From a report: This announcement came as President Biden invited private sector companies to the White House Thursday, following his calls for federal agencies, Congress and private companies to cut down on junk fees. SeatGeek, which serves the primary and secondary ticketing market, another meeting attendee, also promised to roll-out features this
  
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• 30 Years of Change, 30 Years of PDF

  15-06-2023 18:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  PDF Association, in a blog post: We live in a world where the only constant is accelerating change. The twists and turns in the technology landscape over the last 30 years have drained some of the hype from the early days of the consumer digital era. Today we are confronted with all-new, even more disruptive, possibilities. Along with the drama of the internet, the web, broadband, smart-phones, mobile broadband, social media, and AI, the last thirty years have revealed some persistent truths abo
  
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• 2 Men Who Helped Run Popular Pirating Website Megaupload Sentenced To Prison in New Zealand

  15-06-2023 17:20 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Two men who helped run the once wildly popular pirating website Megaupload were each sentenced by a New Zealand court on Thursday to more than two years in prison. From a report: The sentencing of Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk ended an 11-year legal battle by the men to avoid extradition to the United States on more serious charges that included racketeering. The men last year struck a deal with prosecutors from New Zealand and the U.S. in which they pleaded guilty to being part of a cri
  
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• Google Warns Staff About Chatbots

  15-06-2023 16:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Alphabet is cautioning employees about how they use chatbots, including its own Bard, at the same time as it markets the program around the world, Reuters reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. From the report: The Google parent has advised employees not to enter its confidential materials into AI chatbots, the people said and the company confirmed, citing long-standing policy on safeguarding information. The chatbots, among them Bard and ChatGPT, are human-sounding programs
  
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• Intel To Launch New Core Processor Branding for Meteor Lake: Drop the i, Add Ultra Tier

  15-06-2023 16:00 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  As first hinted at by Intel back in late April, Intel is embarking on a journey to redefine its client processor branding, the biggest such shift in the previous 15 years of the company. From a report: Having already made waves by altering its retail packaging on premium desktop chips such as the Core i9-11900K and Core i9-12900K, the tech giant aims to introduce a new naming scheme across its client processors, signaling a transformative phase in its client roadmap. This shift is due to begin i
  
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• 92% of Programmers Are Using AI Tools, Says GitHub Developer Survey

  15-06-2023 15:00 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: [A]ccording to a new GitHub programmer survey, "92% of US-based developers are already using AI coding tools both in and outside of work." GitHub partnered with Wakefield Research to survey 500 US-based enterprise developers. They found that 70% of programmers believe AI is providing significant benefits to their code. Specifically, developers said AI coding tools can help them meet existing performance standards with improved code quality, faster
  
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• Progress Software Releases Security Advisory for MOVEit Transfer Vulnerability

  15-06-2023 14:00 via cisa.gov
  Progress Software has released a security advisory for a privilege escalation vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer—a Managed File Transfer Software. A cyber threat actor could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system.
  CISA urges users and organizations to review the MOVEit Transfer advisory, follow the mitigation steps, and apply the necessary updates when available.
  
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• CISA Releases Fourteen Industrial Control Systems Advisories

  15-06-2023 14:00 via cisa.gov
  CISA released fourteen Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on June 15, 2023. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. 
  ICSA-23-166-01 SUBNET PowerSYSTEM Center
  ICSA-23-166-02 Advantech WebAccessSCADA
  ICSA-23-166-03 Siemens SICAM Q200 Devices
  ICSA-23-166-04 Siemens SIMOTION
  ICSA-23-166-05 Siemens SIMATIC WinCC
  ICSA-23-166-06 Siemens TIA Portal
  ICSA-23-166-07 Siemens SIMATIC WinCC V7
  ICSA-23-166-08 Siemen
  
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• CISA, FBI, and MS-ISAC Update Joint CSA on Progress Telerik Vulnerabilities

  15-06-2023 14:00 via cisa.gov
  Today, CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) released an update for joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) Threat Actors Exploit Progress Telerik Vulnerability in U.S. Government IIS Server. 
  This iteration of the CSA—now renamed Threat Actors Exploit Progress Telerik Vulnerabilities in Multiple U.S. Government IIS Servers—is based on the forensic analysis and identified exploitation of CVE-2017-9248 at an
  
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• Barracuda Networks Releases Update to Address ESG Vulnerability

  15-06-2023 14:00 via cisa.gov
  Barracuda Networks has released an update to their advisory addressing a vulnerability—CVE-2023-2868—in their Email Security Gateway Appliance (ESG). According to Barracuda, customers should replace impacted appliances immediately. 
  CISA urges organizations to review the Barracuda advisory and for all impacted customers to follow the mitigation steps as well as hunt for the listed indicators of compromise (IOCs) to uncover any malicious activity. For more information, see Mandia
  
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• Texas Bans Kids From Social Media Without Parental Consent

  15-06-2023 12:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed a bill prohibiting children under 18 from joining various social media platforms without parental consent. Similar legislation has been passed in Utah and Louisiana. The Verge reports: The bill, HB 18, requires social media companies to receive explicit consent from a minor's parent or guardian before they'd be allowed to create their own accounts starting in September of next year. It also forces these companies to prevent children from seeing "harmful" con
  
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• Saturn's Icy Moon Enceladus Harbors Essential Elements For Life

  15-06-2023 09:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Researchers have discovered high concentrations of phosphorus in ice crystals emitted from Saturn's moon Enceladus, enhancing its potential to support life. The findings, based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, suggest that Enceladus may possess the necessary elements for life. Reuters reports: The discovery was based on data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the first to orbit Saturn, during its 13-year landmark exploration of the gaseous giant planet, its rings and its moons from 2
  
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• Synthetic Human Embryos Created In Groundbreaking Device

  15-06-2023 05:30 via science.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Scientists have created synthetic human embryos using stem cells, in a groundbreaking advance that sidesteps the need for eggs or sperm. Scientists say these model embryos, which resemble those in the earliest stages of human development, could provide a crucial window on the impact of genetic disorders and the biological causes of recurrent miscarriage. However, the work also raises serious ethical and legal issues as the lab-grown entities
  
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• JPL Creates World's Largest PDF Archive to Aid Malware Research

  15-06-2023 04:02 via it.slashdot.org
  
  NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has created the largest open-source archive of PDFs as part of DARPA's Safe Documents program, with the aim of improving internet security. The corpus consists of approximately 8 million PDFs collected from the internet. From a press release: "PDFs are used everywhere and are important for contracts, legal documents, 3D engineering designs, and many other purposes. Unfortunately, they are complex and can be compromised to hide malicious code or render diffe
  
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• Microsoft Launched Bing Chatbot Despite OpenAI Warning It Wasn't Ready

  15-06-2023 03:25 via slashdot.org
  
  According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI has become "awkward" due to tension and confusion. Ars Technica reports: Not only has this tension and confusion extended to Microsoft's internal AI team -- which apparently is dealing with budget cuts and limited access to OpenAI technology -- but sources said it also clouded Microsoft's controversial rollout of AI-powered Bing search last February. At that time, Bing was found to be vulnerable to p
  
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• Google Lens Can Now Search For Skin Conditions

  15-06-2023 02:45 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Google Lens, the company's computer vision-powered app that scans objects and brings up relevant information, is now able to search for skin conditions, like moles and rashes. "Uploading a picture or photo through Lens will kick off a search for visual matches, which will also work for other physical maladies that you might not be sure how to describe with words (like a bump on the lip, a line on nails or hair loss)," reports TechCrunch. From the report: It's a step short of the AI-driven app Go
  
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• Bay Area Woman Is On a Crusade To Prove Yelp Reviews Can't Be Trusted

  15-06-2023 02:02 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from SFGATE: A strange letter showed up on Kay Dean's doorstep. It was 2017, and the San Jose resident had left a one-star review on the Yelp page of a psychiatry office in Los Altos. Then the letter arrived: It seemed the clinic had hired a local lawyer to demand that Dean remove her negative review or face a lawsuit. The envelope included a $50 check. Dean, who once worked as a criminal investigator in the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Inspector G
  
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• McKinsey Report Finds Generative AI Could Add Up To $4.4 Trillion a Year To the Global Economy

  15-06-2023 01:20 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  According to global consulting leader McKinsey and Company, Generative AI could add "2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion annually" to the global economy. That's almost the "economic equivalent of adding an entire new country the size and productivity of the United Kingdom to the Earth ($3.1 trillion GDP in 2021)," notes VentureBeat. From the report: The $2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion economic impact figure marks a huge increase over McKinsey's previous estimates of the AI field's impact on the economy
  
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• A San Francisco Library Is Turning Off Wi-Fi At Night To Keep People Without Housing From Using It

  15-06-2023 00:40 via mobile.slashdot.org
  
  In San Francisco's District 8, a public library has turned off its Wi-Fi outside of business hours in response to complaints from neighbors and the city supervisor's office about open drug use and disturbances caused by unhoused individuals. The Verge reports: In San Francisco's District 8, a public library has been shutting down Wi-Fi outside business hours for nearly a year. The measure, quietly implemented in mid-2022, was made at the request of neighbors and the office of city supervisor Raf
  
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• Feds Tell Automakers Not To Comply With Massachusetts 'Right To Repair' Law

  15-06-2023 00:02 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In 2020, voters in Massachusetts chose to extend that state's automotive "right to repair" law to include telematics and connected car services. But this week, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told automakers that some of the law's requirements create a real safety problem and that they should be ignored since federal law preempts state law when the two conflict. Almost all new cars in 2023 contain embedded modems and offer
  
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