2+ week, 1+ day ago  (48+ words) It's gross that Microsoft feels like the best way to innovate profitably is to foist features like Recall on the whole user base. No humility about assuming what their users need or want. There's a. .. "Total Recall Reloaded" tool finds a…...

9+ mon, 6+ day ago  (497+ words) Attacks affected packages, including one with ~2. 8 million weekly downloads. It has been a busy week for supply-chain attacks targeting open source software available in public repositories, with successful breaches of multiple developer accounts that resulted in malicious packages being pushed…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (293+ words) Incident hitting npm users is likely the biggest supply-chain attack ever. Hackers planted malicious code in open source software packages with more than 2 billion weekly updates in what is likely to be the world's biggest supply-chain attack ever. "Sorry everyone,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (78+ words) If someone wants to propose that data centers should have to compensate neighbors for the new noise pollution (including, potentially, offering to buy them out above market value), I think that would be a sensible thing to suggest. But the…...

6+ mon, 4+ hour ago  (869+ words) You Tubers suspect AI is bizarrely removing popular video explainers. This week, tech content creators began to suspect that AI was making it harder to share some of the most highly sought-after tech tutorials on You Tube, but now You…...

8+ hour, 44+ min ago  (549+ words) Meta said the Kenyan workers didn't "meet our standards." In February, numerous workers from a company that Meta contracted to perform data annotation for Ray-Ban Meta reported viewing sensitive, embarrassing, and seemingly private footage recorded by the smart glasses. About…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (461+ words) Fake it till you make it. Michael Cotter had a problem: "Chargebacks" at his tech support company were too high. The reason for this was not hard to find; people at his company, Tech Live Connect, were scamming Cotter's fellow…...

8+ hour, 18+ min ago  (16+ words) Copy Fail threatens multi-tenant servers, CI/CD work flows, Kubernetes containers, and more. See full article. .....

8+ hour, 18+ min ago  (333+ words) Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of Linux is setting off alarm bells as defenders scramble to ward off severe compromises inside data centers and on personal devices. "Local…...

9+ hour, 5+ min ago  (593+ words) Using AI tools, the team reworked part of the ribosome to need one less amino acid. Most hypotheses suggest that earlier forms of life had partial genetic codes and used fewer than 20 amino acids. To test these hypotheses, a team…...