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Ransomware attack spreads to 64 countries including the Asia-Pacific region, is said to originate in software from a Ukrainian tax accountancy firm M.E.Doc — SHANGHAI — A cargo terminal at a bustling Mumbai port lurched to a stop. Threatening text filled computer screens at a chocolate factory in Tasmania.| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Researchers find creating a read-only “perfc” file on Windows stops the current “Petya” ransomware variant from executing locally — Cybereason security researcher Amit Serper has found a way to prevent the Petya (NotPetya/SortaPetya/Petna) ransomware from infecting computers.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Experts from Eset and Recorded Future say ransomware scans systems for passwords to send to server, uses NSA “EternalBlue” exploit, is “Petya” variant — Like earlier ransomware worm, new attacks use potent exploit stolen from the NSA.| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
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Internal documents show how Facebook polices speech, at times unfairly punishing and censoring black users or those in disputed territories like Palestine — In the wake of a terrorist attack in London earlier this month, a U.S. congressman wrote a Facebook post in which he called for the slaughter of “radicalized” Muslims.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Google Photos begins rolling out new suggested sharing features, including dedicated in-app sharing tab and optional automatic sharing — Google is now starting to roll out the major new sharing features announced for Google Photos last month. — The update adds a dedicated “sharing” … | Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Vivo demos Qualcomm's new ultrasonic fingerprint sensors that work under glass, metal, and water; commercial devices using them are expected in 2018 — There have been rumours of Apple exploring under-display fingerprint scanning technology, but you probably didn't expect the first of such demos to come from China.| Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab: |
Google News unveils desktop redesign that highlights fact checking sites, streamlines design, and offers more personalization — “To give them that multitude of facts, voices, and perspectives, you want the UI to disappear and not be a sense of overload or cognitive load on them but just be transparent."| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft to add Exploit Guard feature in this fall's Creators Update for Windows to help manage EMET-like exploit mitigations app by app — The built-in exploit mitigations are getting stronger and easier to configure. — The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update will include EMET … | Dan Primack / Axios: |
Source: Lightspeed asked Stitch Fix CEO to sign non-disparagement agreement after she complained about then-board member and Lightspeed partner Justin Caldbeck — When Stitch Fix founder Katrina Lake told Lightspeed Venture Partners, an early investor in her company, that (then) … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce debuts three new AI-powered tools for developers building atop its Einstein platform, focused on sentiment and intent analysis and image recognition — Salesforce launched three AI tools for developers today at the TrailheaDX developer conference.| Paul Chadwick / The Guardian: |
The Guardian rolls back much of its WhatsApp backdoor story, which was decried by 70+ experts, but will leave it online with a note highlighting deficiencies — The Guardian was wrong to report last January that the popular messaging service WhatsApp had a security flaw so serious that it was a huge threat to freedom of speech.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat now lets US users create, submit, and pay for custom geofilters from within its app — Snapchat introduced a way to create custom geofilters back in February of last year, and now it's making the feature easier to use. U.S. Snapchat users can now create and submit custom filters directly … | Makiko Yamazaki / Reuters: |
Toshiba misses self-imposed deadline for chip unit sale, sues Western Digital for $1B for interfering with the sale process — Japan's Toshiba Corp (6502.T) has pushed back its timeline to clinch a sale of its prized flash memory chip unit, saying the $18 billion deal was being held up due …
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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Zoho Mail Admin Console: A complete overview — You just got added as an admin for your company's Zoho Mail account. Someone from IT sends you a link, you log in, and there it is, a full console with everything …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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