The Court issued a Temporary Restraining Order in Maryland, et al v. United States Dep’t of Agriculture, et al, No. 25-cv-00748, Docket No. 43 (D. Md.) (March 13, 2025). If you believe you are a CISA employee whose…
Google is making the biggest acquisition in its history. The company’s parent company Alphabet is acquiring Wiz, the cloud security startup, for $32 billion in an all-cash transaction. The deal has now been confirmed. Wiz…
Multimodal output opens up new possibilities Having true multimodal output opens up interesting new possibilities in chatbots. For example, Gemini 2.0 Flash can play interactive graphical games or generate stories with consistent illustrations, maintaining character…
Apple introduced the first iPhone SE back in 2016, letting customers get the full iOS experience at a lower price. The SE branding was then extended to the Apple Watch line, which followed the SE…
Mar 18, 2025The Hacker NewsAuthentication / Identity Security While Okta provides robust native security features, configuration drift, identity sprawl, and misconfigurations can provide opportunities for attackers to find their way in. This article covers four…
Okay. Let’s talk about AI. Yes, again. The Macalope knows, believe him. Much like many things these days, there is a somewhat wide gulf of beliefs about the state of artificial intelligence. The Macalope would…
Problem #1: Small LLMs are stupid Newer open LLMs often brag about big benchmark improvements, and that was certainly the case with DeepSeek-R1, which came close to OpenAI’s o1 in some benchmarks. But the model…
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Mar 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware Threat hunters have shed more light on a previously disclosed malware campaign undertaken by the China-aligned MirrorFace threat actor that targeted a diplomatic organization in the European Union…
Mar 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Malware At least four different threat actors have been identified as involved in an updated version of a massive ad fraud and residential proxy scheme called BADBOX, painting a…