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- Windows 11: how to clean up after – junkless install; stop links to Edge; start menu searches and ads April 26, 2024Microsoft has gone long with Windows 11 now that Windows 10 support stops. You can’t install it without a Microsoft account and loads of tie-ins. All links open the privacy slurping Edge browser. The start menu is a sea of adverts. Thankfully you can get around all that. This App Stops Windows 11 From Opening […]
- ‘ArcaneDoor’ Cyberspies Hacked Cisco Firewalls to Access Government Networks April 26, 2024[…] Cisco is now revealing that its firewalls served as beachheads for sophisticated hackers penetrating multiple government networks around the world. On Wednesday, Cisco warned that its so-called Adaptive Security Appliances—devices that integrate a firewall and VPN with other security features—had been targeted by state-sponsored spies who exploited two zero-day vulnerabilities in the networking giant’s […]
- Ukrainian Fighter Jets “Using iPads” To Control Western Weapons April 26, 2024The Ukrainian Air Force is using iPads, or similar tablets in the cockpits of its Soviet-era jets to enable rapid integration of modern Western air-to-ground weapons […] This has been confirmed by Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Dr. William LaPlante. While many questions remain about the tablet and how it exactly works, there’s […]
- EU’s new right-to-repair rules force companies to repair out-of-warranty devices April 24, 2024Devices sold in Europe already offer minimum two-year warranties, but the new rules impose additional requirements. If a device is repaired under warranty, the customer must be given a choice between a replacement or a repair. If they choose the latter, the warranty is to be extended by a year. Once it expires, companies are […]
- When You Need To Post A Lengthy Legal Disclaimer With Your Parody Song, You Know Copyright Is Broken April 24, 2024In a world where copyright law has run amok, even creating a silly parody song now requires a massive legal disclaimer to avoid getting sued. That’s the absurd reality we live in, as highlighted by the brilliant musical parody project “There I Ruined It.” Musician Dustin Ballard creates hilarious videos, some of which reimagine popular […]
- Europol asks tech firms, governments to unencrypt your private messages April 23, 2024In a joint declaration of European police chiefs published over the weekend, Europol said it needs lawful access to private messages, and said tech companies need to be able to scan them (ostensibly impossible with E2EE implemented) to protect users. Without such access, cops fear they won’t be able to prevent “the most heinous of […]
- ChatGPT forecasts the future better when asked to tell stories from the future April 22, 2024[…] In a paper titled, “ChatGPT Can Predict the Future When It Tells Stories Set in the Future About the Past,” Pham and Cunningham give away the final scene – that AI model prognostication can be effective in certain circumstances. Asking the chatbot for tales about future events rather than asking for direct predictions proved […]
- The Crescendo Multi-Turn LLM Jailbreak Attack April 22, 2024In this paper, we introduce a novel jailbreak attack called Crescendo. Unlike existing jailbreak methods, Crescendo is a multi-turn jailbreak that interacts with the model in a seemingly benign manner. It begins with a general prompt or question about the task at hand and then gradually escalates the dialogue by referencing the model’s replies, progressively […]
- World Check Database (quite probably filled with miscreants) was given to a 3rd party, taken from there and is now for sale online April 22, 2024The World-Check database used by businesses to verify the trustworthiness of users has fallen into the hands of cybercriminals. The Register was contacted by a member of the GhostR group on Thursday, claiming responsibility for the theft. The authenticity of the claims was later verified by a spokesperson for the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), […]
- Sony Shuts Down LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers, destroying Fan Creations – don’t trust the cloud April 22, 2024Sony has indefinitely decommissioned the PlayStation 4 servers for puzzle platformer LittleBigPlanet 3, the company announced in an update to one of its support pages. The permanent shutdown comes just months after the servers were temporarily taken offline due to ongoing issues. Fans now fear potentially hundreds of thousands of player creations not saved locally […]