ICT news

• Hacker Leaks Millions More 23andMe User Records On Cybercrime Forum

  18-10-2023 23:50 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The same hacker who leaked a trove of user data stolen from the genetic testing company 23andMe two weeks ago has now leaked millions of new user records. On Tuesday, a hacker who goes by Golem published a new dataset of 23andMe user information containing records of four million users on the known cybercrime forum BreachForums. TechCrunch has found that some of the newly leaked stolen data matches known and public 23andMe user and genetic inf
  
  Read more

• Amazon Tests Humanoid Robot in Warehouse Automation Push

  18-10-2023 21:20 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Amazon says it's testing two new technologies to increase automation in its warehouses, including a trial of a humanoid robot. From a report: The humanoid robot, called Digit, is bipedal and can squat, bend and grasp items using clasps that imitate hands, the company said in a blog post Wednesday. It's built by Agility Robotics and will initially be used to help employees consolidate totes that have been emptied of items. Amazon invested in Agility Robotics last year.
  [...] In addition to Digit,
  
  Read more

• American Employees Reinvent the Sick Day

  18-10-2023 20:40 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The bar for taking a sick day is getting lower, and some bosses say that's a problem. From a report: U.S. workers have long viewed an unwillingness to take sick days as a badge of honor. That's a laurel workers care much less about these days. The number of sick days Americans take annually has soared since the pandemic, employee payroll data show. Covid-19 and a rise in illnesses such as RSV, which can require days away from work, are one reason. Managers and human-resources executives also att
  
  Read more

• Google is Tweaking Chrome's Search Bar To Make It Easier To Navigate the Web

  18-10-2023 20:00 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Google is making a few changes to the way its search and address bar -- known as the omnibox -- works in the Chrome browser. The changes are individually pretty small, but there's an important and somewhat unexpected trend in them all: Google is making it easier for you to move around the web without having to do so many Google searches. From a report: If you're in Chrome on desktop or mobile, the browser will now try and correct your URL typos, so when you type thevrege.com or ninteendo.com, yo
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Scientists Call on Ministers To Cut Limits For 'Forever Chemicals' in UK Tap Water

  18-10-2023 19:20 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Acceptable levels of "forever chemicals" in drinking water should be reduced tenfold and a new national chemicals agency created to protect public health, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has told the UK government. From a report: The chartered body wants to see a reduction in the cap on levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in tap water. PFAS are a family of about 10,000 widely used chemicals that do not break down easily in the environment. Some have been linked to cancers,
  
  Read more

• Russia and China-backed Hackers Are Exploiting WinRAR Zero-Day Bug, Google Says

  18-10-2023 18:41 via it.slashdot.org
  
  Google security researchers say they have found evidence that government-backed hackers linked to Russia and China are exploiting a since-patched vulnerability in WinRAR, the popular shareware archiving tool for Windows. From a report: The WinRAR vulnerability, first discovered by cybersecurity company Group-IB earlier this year and tracked as CVE-2023-38831, allows attackers to hide malicious scripts in archive files that masquerade as seemingly innocuous images or text documents. Group-IB said
  
  Read more

• Amazon Starts Delivering Medications by Drone in Texas City

  18-10-2023 18:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Amazon has started delivering prescription medications by drone in a Texas city, broadening its still-experimental effort to deliver goods by air. From a report: The online retailer recently began listing drone delivery as an option for Amazon Pharmacy customers who are participating in a test program in College Station, one of two US cities where Amazon is delivering products using its unmanned, riding-lawnmower-sized vehicles. The company made the effort public on Wednesday ahead of a logistic
  
  Read more

• Scientists Surprised By Source of Largest Quake Detected on Mars

  18-10-2023 17:20 via science.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares a report: On May 4, 2022, NASA's InSight lander detected the largest quake yet recorded on Mars, one with a 4.7 magnitude -- fairly modest by Earth standards but strong for our planetary neighbor. Given Mars lacks the geological process called plate tectonics that generates earthquakes on our planet, scientists suspected a meteorite impact had caused this marsquake. But a search for an impact crater came up empty, leading scientists to conclude that this quake was caus
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Five Eyes Intelligence Chiefs Warn on China's 'Theft' of IP

  18-10-2023 16:40 via slashdot.org
  
  The Five Eyes countries' intelligence chiefs came together on Tuesday to accuse China of intellectual property theft and using artificial intelligence for hacking and spying against the nations, in a rare joint statement by the allies. From a report: The officials from the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - known as the Five Eyes intelligence sharing network - made the comments following meetings with private companies in the U.S. innovation hub Silicon Valley. U.S. FBI
  
  Read more

• Tech Leaders Say AI Will Change What It Means To Have a Job

  18-10-2023 16:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  AI will likely lead to seismic changes to the workforce, eliminating many professions and requiring a societal rethink of how people spend their time, prominent tech leaders said Tuesday. From a report: Speaking at The Wall Street Journal's Tech Live conference on Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the changes could hit some people in the economy more seriously than others, even if society as a whole improves. This will likely be a hard sell for the most affected people, he said. "We are r
  
  Read more

• Scientists Propose Sweeping New Law of Nature, Expanding On Evolution

  18-10-2023 15:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: When British naturalist Charles Darwin sketched out his theory of evolution in the 1859 book "On the Origin of Species" -- proposing that biological species change over time through the acquisition of traits that favor survival and reproduction -- it provoked a revolution in scientific thought. Now 164 years later, nine scientists and philosophers on Monday proposed a new law of nature that includes the biological evolution described by Darw
  
  Read more

• CISA, NSA, FBI, and MS-ISAC Release Phishing Prevention Guidance

  18-10-2023 14:00 via cisa.gov
  Today, the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) released a joint guide, Phishing Guidance: Stopping the Attack Cycle at Phase One. The joint guide outlines phishing techniques malicious actors commonly use and provides guidance for both network defenders and software manufacturers to reduce the impact of phishing techniques used
  
  Read more

• Private Torrent Tracker FileList to Shut Down After 16 Years

  18-10-2023 12:00 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  One of the world's largest private BitTorrent trackers, Filelist, has announced it will shut down soon. The site has been in operation for sixteen years and enjoys millions of monthly visits, mostly from Romania. Site admin EboLLa has chosen to devote time to other parts of life and without a trusted successor, it's best to close the doors. TorrentFreak reports: Many private trackers have come and gone over the years. The Romanian-based tracker FileList.io is one of the bigger ones to survive, a
  
  Read more

• Blue Origin's New Spacecraft Can Build Projects In Space

  18-10-2023 09:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Michael Kan reports via PCMag: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has announced a new spacecraft that promises to help humanity build and maintain projects in outer space. The company today debuted Blue Ring, a so-called "space platform" that can orbit Earth, but also travel around the Moon, with the goal of providing delivery and logistics support to other space projects. To do so, Blue Ring functions as a maneuverable platform that can host, transport, and refuel other spacecraft. In addition, it can rel
  
  Read more

• American Work-From-Home Rates Drop To Lowest Since the Pandemic

  18-10-2023 05:30 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Fewer than 26% of US households still have someone working remotely at least one day a week, a sharp decline from the early-2021 peak of 37%, according to the two latest Census Bureau Household Pulse Surveys. Only seven states plus Washington, DC, have a remote-work rate above 33%, the data shows, down from 31 states and DC mid-pandemic. [...] At the state level, the data shows all 50 have seen work-from-home rates drop from their pandemic high
  
  Read more

• World Rugby To Introduce Smart Mouthguards To Detect Player Concussions

  18-10-2023 04:02 via science.slashdot.org
  
  In an analysis piece for The Guardian, Sean Ingle discusses some of the smart technology and artificial intelligence being used in sports to fight against brain injuries. From the report: There was a hidden spectator of the NFL match between the Baltimore Ravens and Tennessee Titans in London on Sunday: artificial intelligence. As crazy as it may sound, computers have now been taught to identify on-field head impacts in the NFL automatically, using multiple video angles and machine learning. So
  
  Read more

• Joseon Becomes First-ever Globally Recognized Cyber Nation-state

  18-10-2023 03:55 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from U.Today:The country was reimagined by Joseon King Andrew Lee as a digital nation without territory or borders. In this status, it was recognized by Antigua and Barbuda: the two countries inked a treaty that supports education, economic investment and other developmental initiatives and provides the basis for long-standing friendly relations.Speaking to U.Today, representatives of the country stressed its unique legal design and state management model:"Jos
  
  Read more

• GM Delays EV Truck Production At Michigan Plant By Another Year

  18-10-2023 03:25 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  General Motors said it will delay production of electric pickups trucks at its plant in Michigan by another year as the No. 1 U.S. automaker grapples with flattening demand for electric vehicles. Reuters reports: The move is the latest sign that electric vehicle production and demand may not be as strong as forecast. GM had been set to begin production of the electric Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra in late 2024 at the suburban Detroit plant. The company said the plan now is to start it in la
  
  Read more

• 'Netflix Effect' Returns As Studios License Old Shows To Their Streaming Rival

  18-10-2023 02:45 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  
  Christopher Grimes reports via the Financial Times: Some of Netflix's competitors are reversing a streaming war tactic by licensing their old TV shows and movies to the streamer -- boosting its programming offerings but also potentially squeezing its profit margins, analysts say. Netflix relied heavily on programming that it licensed from other companies when it launched its streaming service in 2007. But after Walt Disney, NBCUniversal, Paramount and the then Time Warner launched their own stre
  
  Read more

• IRS Will Pilot Free, Direct Tax Filing In 2024

  18-10-2023 02:02 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The IRS will test a free tax filing service in 2024 for a subset of lucky taxpayers in as many as 13 states, the agency announced today. Direct File, as the service is called, is a shot across the bows of Turbotax, H&R Block, and other paid tax prep services, whose owners have resisted free and simple tax filing for decades. "This is a critical step forward for this innovative effort that will test the feasibility of providing taxpayers a
  
  Read more

• Why Switzerland's E-Voting System Is a Bad Idea

  18-10-2023 01:20 via politics.slashdot.org
  
  Last year, Andrew Appel, professor of computer science at Princeton University, wrote a 5-part series about Switzerland's e-voting system, highlighting the inherent security vulnerabilities it faces and the safeguards the country has in place. Now, he's writing about an interesting new vulnerability in the system that can be exploited to manipulate votes without anyone knowing. The vulnerability was discovered by Swiss computer scientist Andreas Kuster. From a blog post written by security techn
  
  Read more

• Mazda's DMCA Takedown Kills a Hobbyist's Smart Car API Tool

  18-10-2023 00:40 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader couchslug shares a report from Ars Technica, writing: "A new attack on the right to do with one's property as the owner sees fit. First step, threaten without providing evidence." From the report: Before last week, owners of certain Mazda vehicles who also had a Home Assistant setup could create some handy connections for their car. One CX60 driver had a charger that would only power on when it confirmed his car was plugged in and would alert him if he left the trunk op
  
  Read more

• 20,000 Britons Approached By Chinese Agents On LinkedIn, Says MI5 Head

  18-10-2023 00:00 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: An estimated 20,000 Britons have been approached by Chinese state actors on LinkedIn in the hope of stealing industrial or technological secrets, the head of MI5 has said. Ken McCallum said industrial espionage was happening at "real scale," and he estimated that 10,000 UK businesses were at risk, particularly in artificial intelligence, quantum computing or synthetic biology where China was trying to gain a march. "Week by week, our teams d
  
  Read more

Follow @newslocke_ict on Twitter!