BeeBright/Getty Images Hiding malicious programs in a computer’s UEFI firmware, the entrenched code that tells a PC how to load its operating system, has become… Read More »Millions of PC motherboards have been sold with a firmware backdoor
Even before the recent TikTok bans and concerns about the surgeon general’s mental health, public attitudes to social media have evolved. Many people are moving… Read More »Use alternative apps and shared albums instead of regular social media
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The technology can help reduce fatal accidents. Road fatalities are one of the most persistent causes of death in the United States, and they are… Read More »US will require all new cars to have automatic braking systems
The original Chromecast. Google Rest now, little Chromecast. Google has announced that the decade-old Chromecast 1 is finally reaching its end of life. A post… Read More »The original Chromecast is reaching the end of its life after ten years of service
European leaders have complained for years that the United States was not doing enough to combat climate change. Now that the Biden administration has spent… Read More »Europe worries US subsidies for battery factories will hurt, not help
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In the hacker houses of Silicon Valley, the latest crop of young entrepreneurs are partying, innovating – and hoping not to be crushed by the… Read More »The AI boom within Silicon Valley Start-Up Accelerators
A critical vulnerability patched 10 days ago in widely used email software from IT security firm Barracuda Networks has been actively exploited since October. The… Read More »Critical Barracuda 0-day was used for backdoor networking for 8 months
A few months ago, while meeting with an AI executive in San Francisco, I noticed a strange sticker on his laptop. The sticker depicted a… Read More »How the Shoggoth meme has come to symbolize the state of AI
Enlarge / Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos Inc., center, arrives at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Bryan, Texas, USA on Tuesday, May 30, 2023. Disgraced… Read More »It’s prison day for Elizabeth Holmes; The 11-year prison sentence has started in Texas
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A group of industry leaders plans to warn Tuesday that the artificial intelligence technology they are building could one day pose an existential threat to… Read More »AI poses a ‘risk of extinction’, industry leaders warn
Ian Forsyth/Getty Images The German magazine Handelsblatt is in possession of more than 23,000 internal Tesla files and documents after an employee leaked the data.… Read More »Massive Tesla Leak Reveals Thousands of Security, Privacy Issues
