macOS Tahoe finally puts the Spotlight where it belongs
Twenty years ago, Mac OS X Tiger introduced us to a search feature that would stand the test of time: Spotlight. And while at the time I found myself ambivalent about its many quirks, some…
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Senator puts hold on Trump’s nominee for CISA director, citing telco security ‘cover up’
Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden has put a hold on the Trump administration’s nomination of Sean Plankey to head the federal government’s top cybersecurity agency, citing a “multi-year cover up” of security flaws at U.S. telecommunication…
UK’s internet watchdog puts storage and file-sharing services on watch over CSAM
As duties under the U.K.’s Online Safety Act (OSA) related to tackling illegal content came into force Monday, the internet watchdog, Ofcom, said it has launched a new enforcement program focused on online storage and…
Biden administration puts quotas on global AI chip sales
On Monday, the US government announced a new round of regulations on global AI chip exports, dividing the world into roughly three tiers of access. The rules create quotas for about 120 countries and allow…
Critical MOVEit vulnerability puts huge swaths of the Internet at severe risk
A critical vulnerability recently discovered in a widely used piece of software is putting huge swaths of the Internet at risk of devastating hacks, and attackers have already begun actively trying to exploit it in…
Top 100 free Android VPNs puts 2.5 billion users at risk
According to a recently released study by Top10VPN, nearly all popular free VPNs through the Google Play store have potential privacy issues. Almost 90 percent suffer from data leaks, over two-thirds share your personal data…
Tyler Perry puts $800 million studio expansion on hold because of OpenAI’s Sora
Enlarge / Tyler Perry in 2022. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Thursday, filmmaker Tyler Perry spoke about his concerns related to the impact of AI video synthesis on entertainment industry jobs. In…
iMessage gets a major makeover that puts it on equal footing with Signal
iMessage is getting a major makeover that makes it among the two messaging apps most prepared to withstand the coming advent of quantum computing, largely at parity with Signal or arguably incrementally more hardened. On…