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Mandiant, which is helping Snowflake investigate its recent cyber attacks, says the two companies have notified ~165 organizations of potential exposure — Security researchers say they believe financially motivated cybercriminals have stolen a “significant volume of data” … | Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark made a phone call using new “immersive audio and video” tech that uses 3D sound on a 5G smartphone, as part of the 5G Advanced standard — Nokia (NOKIA.HE) CEO Pekka Lundmark made a phone call using a new technology called “immersive audio and video” … | Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers find malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code extensions with millions of installs, and also easily create their own, which trended in the marketplace — A group of Israeli researchers explored the security of the Visual Studio Code marketplace and managed to “infect” …
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Regulators in Canada and the UK launch a joint probe to assess what customer info was exposed in 23andMe's 2023 breach and if proper safeguards were in place — Privacy authorities in Canada and the United Kingdom have launched a joint investigation to assess the scope of sensitive customer … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Sources: iOS 18 will let users lock built-in iPhone apps behind Face ID, and it is likely that the feature will also work with Touch ID or an iPhone's passcode — iOS 18 will offer a new security feature that allows users to lock individual apps, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Data suggests Project Green Light, Google's AI system deployed in 14 cities to adjust traffic light timing, reduced stop-and-go traffic at intersections by 30% — Most cities can't afford smart traffic signals. Fortunately, data from new cars—and even drivers' smartphones—can make old-fashioned traffic lights work a lot better.| John Kruzel / Reuters: |
SCOTUS agrees to hear Facebook's bid to scuttle a private securities fraud lawsuit over allegedly misleading investors on Cambridge Analytica in 2017 and 2018 — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a bid by Meta's (META.O) Facebook to scuttle a private securities fraud lawsuit accusing …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple's AI push isn't so much about its current devices, but enabling its next wave of AI-intensive devices that may eventually supplant a smartphone — Apple's push into artificial intelligence will go beyond software and help enable a wave of next-generation devices.
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| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
Human Rights Watch finds the LAION-5B AI dataset scraped 170+ images and the personal info of Brazilian children without consent; LAION pledges to remove them — A popular AI training dataset is “stealing and weaponizing” the faces of Brazilian children without their knowledge or consent, human rights activists claim.| Benedict Evans: |
A look at the problems of building AI products, like inaccurate answers, and potential solutions, like focusing on narrow domains and abstracting the outputs — I will fly to India on Monday for a brief trip, and so I just spent an hour struggling through a very buggy online visa application process.
More: AIM and Wired
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| Milana Vinn / Reuters: |
New Jersey-based IT provider Cognizant agrees to acquire digital engineering company Belcan, which employs 10K across 60 locations, for $1.3B in cash and stock — Information technology services provider Cognizant Technologies (CTSH.O) said on Monday it has agreed to acquire digital engineering firm Belcan …
More: FinSMEs, Silicon Republic, CRN, Wall Street Journal, and Cognizant Technology Solutions. Forums: r/technology
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A push by global governments to develop AI locally and train LLMs in their native languages and on their citizens' data offers new growth for Nvidia and others — To control their artificial-intelligence destinies amid U.S., China dominance, countries are building their own computing infrastructureSponsor Posts
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How WCAG compliance makes modern workplaces more accessible — A workplace's approach to inclusivity starts with its everyday tools. Some of them can create barriers that inadvertently shut people out.
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