Apple Time Machine review | Macworld
At a glance Pros Reliable, easy to set up, and good at working behind the scenes to create backup archives Easy to migrate Time Machine data over to new Macs as needed Good level of…
Hackers Target Middle East Governments with Evasive “CR4T” Backdoor
Apr 19, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence Government entities in the Middle East have been targeted as part of a previously undocumented campaign to deliver a new backdoor dubbed CR4T. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky said…
The new Meta.ai website can draw amazing AI art instantly
Meta has launched Meta.ai, an AI-specific site that has a cool hook that its competitors don’t offer: It can generate images in real time, and even animate them on demand. There is a catch, however:…
LLMs keep leaping with Llama 3, Meta’s newest open-weights AI model
On Thursday, Meta unveiled early versions of its Llama 3 open-weights AI model that can be used to power text composition, code generation, or chatbots. It also announced that its Meta AI Assistant is now…
LastPass users targeted in phishing attacks good enough to trick even the savvy
Getty Images Password-manager LastPass users were recently targeted by a convincing phishing campaign that used a combination of email, SMS, and voice calls to trick targets into divulging their master passwords, company officials said. The…
AirPlay hotel support is finally available–for only for a handful of rooms
Watching what you want to watch on a hotel TV can be frustrating, especially now that so much of TV is dominated by streaming services. Customers rejoiced when Apple announced the iOS 17 feature at…
Windows’ AI-powered future could feature ‘Qualcomm Inside’
For years, AMD and especially Intel have dominated the PC industry, even after Qualcomm introduced its first Snapdragon processors for laptops. Now, Microsoft may be giving pride of place to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite processor…
Wiz is in talks to buy Lacework for $150-200M; security firm was last valued at $8.3B
Consolidation continues apace in the world of security. Sources tell us that Lacework — a cloud security startup that was valued at $8.3 billion post-money in its last funding round — is in talks to…
Hackers are threatening to publish a huge stolen sanctions and financial crimes watchlist
A financially motivated criminal hacking group says it has stolen a confidential database containing millions of records that companies use for screening potential customers for links to sanctions and financial crime. The hackers, which call…
Cape dials up $61M from a16z and more for mobile service that doesn’t use personal data
AT&T’s recent mega customer data breach — 74 million accounts affected — laid bare how much data carriers have on their users, and also that the data is there for the hacking. On Thursday, a…