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Hackers turn ScreenConnect into malware using Authenticode stuffing

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-28 05:51:46

Threat actors are abusing the ConnectWise ScreenConnect installer to build signed remote access malware by modifying hidden settings within the client's Authenticode signature. ConnectWise ScreenConnect is a remote monitoring and management (RMM) software that allows IT admins and managed service providers (MSPs) to troubleshoot devices remotely. When a ScreenConnect installer is built, it can be customized to include the remote server the client should connect to, what text is shown in the di

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Team Fortress 2 is getting another major update with a little help from the community

techspot.com Kishalaya Kundu 2025-08-28 05:47:00

In a nutshell: Valve has announced a pending update for Team Fortress 2, the popular team-based multiplayer first-person shooter originally released in 2007 for Windows and Xbox. The long-awaited update focuses on the game's Mann vs. Machine PvE mode and will include new community-created content. It's set to roll out before Halloween. Valve is inviting the community to submit Mann vs. Machine maps and missions by August 27 for potential inclusion in the update. The company clarified that, desp

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Boston Consulting Group: To unlock enterprise AI value, start with the data you’ve been ignoring

venturebeat.com Taryn Plumb 2025-08-28 18:23:54

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more When building enterprise AI, some companies are finding the hardest part is sometimes deciding what to build and how to address the various processes involved. At VentureBeat Transform 2025, data quality and governance were front and center as companies look beyond the experimental phase of AI and explore ways to productize and scale agen

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California's Corporate Cover-Up Act Is a Privacy Nightmare

news.ycombinator.com Rindala Alajaji 2025-08-28 17:45:12

California lawmakers are pushing one of the most dangerous privacy rollbacks we’ve seen in years. S.B. 690, what we’re calling the Corporate Cover-Up Act, is a brazen attempt to let corporations spy on us in secret, gutting long-standing protections without a shred of accountability. The Corporate Cover-Up Act is a massive carve-out that would gut California’s Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) and give Big Tech and data brokers a green light to spy on us without consent for just about any reason.

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Hundreds of data brokers might be breaking state laws, say privacy advocates

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-28 18:16:48

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a nonprofit privacy rights group have called on several states to investigate why “hundreds” of data brokers haven’t registered with state consumer protection agencies in accordance with local laws. An analysis done in collaboration with Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC) found that many data brokers hav

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The Architects of Project 2025 Are Suddenly Very Concerned About AI Safety

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-28 21:23:11

The Heritage Foundation — the group behind the infamous Project 2025, the conservative policy plan that outlined regressive social policies and the consolidation of executive power that's served as a playbook for the Trump administration — is suddenly really, really down with AI regulation. Who could have guessed! The conservative think tank has recently been sharing a clip from a May episode of the "Heritage Explains" podcast in which Wesley Hodges, the Heritage Foundation's Acting Director of

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Microsoft opens a free tier for Windows 10 extended updates

news.ycombinator.com Liam Proven 2025-08-28 21:09:42

Microsoft has found a new use for Reward Points – and another incentive to upload everything you hold dear to someone else's servers. You know the drill by now. Windows 10 is approaching its end of life (although the special LTSC edition has years to go, and we told you how to get it a couple of months ago). In April last year, The Register described the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, and then in October when the scheme was extended to individual consumers for a bargain-tastic $30 for

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Creative Commons debuts CC signals, a framework for an open AI ecosystem

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-08-28 22:02:42

Nonprofit Creative Commons, which spearheaded the licensing movement that allows creators to share their works while retaining copyright, is now preparing for the AI era. On Wednesday, the organization announced the launch of a new project, CC signals, which will allow dataset holders to detail how their content can or cannot be reused by machines, as in the case of training AI models. The idea is meant to create a balance between the open nature of the internet and the demand for ever more dat

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The new AI infrastructure reality: Bring compute to data, not data to compute

venturebeat.com Leon Yen 2025-08-29 02:57:52

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more As AI transforms enterprise operations across diverse industries, critical challenges continue to surface around data storage—no matter how advanced the model, its performance hinges on the ability to access vast amounts of data quickly, securely, and reliably. Without the right data storage infrastructure, even the most powerful AI system

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Nothing’s bare-bones gallery app scores a major upgrade as Phone 3 launch draws closer

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-29 02:11:04

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Nothing has rolled out a significant update for its native gallery app. The update introduces new editing tools for cropping, color grading, and adding filters to images. Nothing Gallery now also features a native video editor that lets you trim clips, adjust volume, and adjust slow-mo video speed. Nothing introduced a native gallery app to its devices with Nothing OS 3.0 last year, offering users an alternative to third-party gallery apps like Google

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Rubrik acquires Predibase to accelerate adoption of AI agents

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-08-29 02:34:25

Data cybersecurity company Rubrik announced Wednesday its intent to acquire Predibase. Predibase is a venture-backed startup that helps companies train and fine-tune open source AI models to customize them to their needs. Rubrik is the latest company to make an acquisition with the goal of boosting enterprise AI agent adoption. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, though CNBC reported that the deal was between $100 million and $500 million, a sizable range. Rubrik declined to comment on the de

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Team Fortress 2 is getting a major update after 8 years, with a little help from the community

techspot.com Kishalaya Kundu 2025-08-29 06:47:00

In a nutshell: Valve has announced a pending update for Team Fortress 2, the popular team-based multiplayer first-person shooter originally released in 2007 for Windows and Xbox. The long-awaited update focuses on the game's Mann vs. Machine PvE mode and will include new community-created content. It's set to roll out before Halloween. Valve is inviting the community to submit Mann vs. Machine maps and missions by August 27 for potential inclusion in the update. The company clarified that, desp

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Bumble is laying off 30 percent of its workforce

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-29 06:53:50

The dating app company has reported declining revenues and has lost 90 percent of its valuation since its 2021 IPO. Bumble, the makers of the Bumble Dating App and Bumble For Friends, announced Wednesday that the company will be laying off 30 percent of its workforce, or roughly 240 employees. This comes as dating app companies struggle to perform in recent years. Bumble was once a company worth almost $8 billion, but finds itself worth about 90 percent less today. Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd h

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Does your generative AI protect your privacy? New study ranks them best to worst

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-08-29 02:44:00

TU IS/Getty Most generative AI companies rely on user data to train their chatbots. For that, they may turn to public or private data. Some services are less invasive and more flexible at scooping up data from their users. Others, not so much. A new report from data removal service Incogni looks at the best and the worst of AI when it comes to respecting your personal data and privacy. For its report "Gen AI and LLM Data Privacy Ranking 2025," Incogni examined nine popular generative AI servic

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Sitch’s new dating app fuses human matchmaking and AI

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-08-29 06:00:00

Can AI improve the dating app market? A new dating app called Sitch aims to find out by leveraging human expertise in matchmaking to power its AI model. Today’s dating apps bank on the speed of onboarding and having millions of options. Users create profiles within seconds by uploading photos and answering simple questions. The apps then rely on basic info and feedback from users’ swipes to find them potential matches. Sitch aims to take a more thoughtful approach with its onboarding process a

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IEEE Std 3161TM-2022: Breaking Bottlenecks of Large-Scale Video Data Aggregation, Storage, and Computing in Smart Cities – Standard for Digital Retina Systems

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-08-29 08:00:31

Introduction Ubiquitous camera networks in smart cities create massive amounts of images and videos at a range of spatial-temporal scales. However, the capabilities of visual processing systems often lag behind the rapid growth of video data and city brain system. To address this challenge, a novel collaborative visual computing framework, termed as digital retina, has been established to align high-efficiency and intelligent perception models with the emerging visual coding for machines. Withi

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Microsoft extends free Windows 10 security updates into 2026 – with a catch

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-08-29 22:46:00

In brief: Microsoft plans to end support for Windows 10 this October despite its enduring popularity and the fact that hundreds of millions of usable PCs don't support Windows 11. The company recently introduced a new option for personal devices to receive another year of security updates, but it requires using OneDrive. After Windows 10 reaches end-of-life status on October 14, users who enroll in Windows Backup will continue receiving security updates through October 13, 2026, at no extra cos

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Malwarebytes Antivirus Review 2025: Decent Software, Terrible Customer Service

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-29 22:00:00

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. 7.0 / 10 SCORE Malwarebytes Antivirus Buy at Malwarebytes Score Breakdown Performance 8 /10 Security 9 /10 Customer Support 4 /10 Usability 7 /10 Value 5 /10 Features 9 /10 Pros Free malware scanning and browser safety tools Decent VPN Impressive privacy policies Excellent dark web monitoring tools Cons Free version doesn’t provide real-time protection

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Three network phone calls down but data still working

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-08-30 07:15:35

Three network phone calls down but data still working 46 minutes ago Share Save Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images The mobile operator Three has confirmed some users are currently unable to make phone calls. In a post on X, the network said there was "an issue affecting voice services" but did not say how many of its 11 million customers are affected. Outage website DownDetector reported a spike in issues at 09:30 BST on Wednesday, with over 9,000 reports made by u

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The Debrief: Power and energy

technologyreview.com Mat Honan 2025-08-30 05:00:00

Yet in many ways right now the US seems to be forgetting those lessons. It is moving backward in terms of its clean-energy strategy, especially when it comes to powering the grid, in ways that will affect the nation for decades to come—even as China and others are surging forward. And that retreat is taking place just as electricity demand and usage are growing again after being flat for nearly two decades. That growth, according to the US Energy Information Administration, is “coming from the

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15 new jobs AI could create - could one be your next gig?

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2025-08-30 05:00:15

Eoneren/Getty Images Imagine being at a party in the not-too-distant future, and telling people you are a "synthetic reality producer." That's something sure to elicit quite a bit of curiosity. On the other hand, it may be a common job title by the year 2030. There's been a fair bit of chatter lately about the prospect of artificial intelligence usurping or taking away job opportunities -- from developers to creators. However, AI will never operate entirely on its own in a vacuum -- there will

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Incogni vs. DeleteMe: Which service removes your personal data best?

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-08-30 06:30:15

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Data removal services began to appear around 15 years ago, after data brokers realized that data could become a new, valuable currency -- and one ripe for exploitation, given the lack of laws and little to no consumer data privacy protection written into legislation. Incogni and DeleteMe, founded in 2021 as part of VPN provider Surfshark and in 2010 by Abine Privacy, respectively, are two of the most widely-known data removal services in the US. Both companies offer data remov

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Berkshire Hathaway Now Pays 5% of All Corporate Income Taxes in America

news.ycombinator.com Caleb Naysmith 2025-08-30 10:35:13

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Google Cloud donates A2A AI protocol to the Linux Foundation

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-30 18:34:38

Google Cloud has donated its Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to the Linux Foundation, which has now announced a new community-driven project called the Agent2Agent Project. A2A was originally developed by Google Cloud as a protocol specification, SDK, and tooling set that made communication between AI agents possible. The protocol allows AI agents from different vendors to discover each other, share capabilities and context, and securely collaborate on complex tasks. AI agents are AI-powered tools

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Microsoft Offers Free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates -- Under One Condition

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-30 17:27:00

Microsoft is closing the door on Windows 10 in October 2025, and will be ceasing security support for that operating system unless users pay $30 for a one-year extended security update. On Tuesday, with less than four months on the clock until support expires, Microsoft has added a free option. Users need to turn on cloud backup and connect it to their OneDrive account. The ability to get free updates on Windows 10 is a pretty big deal because it is still the most widely used Windows OS, accoun

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Generative AI and privacy are best frenemies - a new study ranks the best and worst offenders

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-08-30 22:14:59

TU IS/Getty Most generative AI companies rely on user data to train their chatbots. For that, they may turn to public or private data. Some services are less invasive and more flexible at scooping up data from their users. Others, not so much. A new report from data removal service Incogni looks at the best and the worst of AI when it comes to respecting your personal data and privacy. For its report "Gen AI and LLM Data Privacy Ranking 2025," Incogni examined nine popular generative AI servic

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Windows 10 KB5061087 update released with 13 changes and fixes

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-31 06:07:43

Microsoft has released the June 2025 non-security preview update for Windows 10, version 22H2, with fixes for bugs preventing the Start Menu from launching and breaking scanning features on USB multi-function printers. Today's optional cumulative update (KB5061087) is an optional non-security preview update that allows Windows administrators to test fixes and improvements released with the upcoming July 2025 Patch Tuesday cumulative updates. KB5061087 addresses an issue causing scanning to fai

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How a data-processing problem at Lyft became the basis for Eventual

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-08-31 01:00:00

When Eventual founders Sammy Sidhu and Jay Chia were working as software engineers at Lyft’s autonomous vehicle program, they witnessed a brewing data infrastructure problem — one that would only become larger with the rise of AI. Self-driving cars produce a ton of unstructured data from 3D scans and photos to text and audio. There wasn’t a tool for Lyft engineers that could understand and process all of those different types of data at the same time — and all in one place. This left engineers

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The rise of the surveillance state in three book reviews

technologyreview.com Bryan Gardiner 2025-08-30 03:00:00

Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State Byron Tau CROWN, 2024 Midway through his book, Tau, an investigative journalist, recalls meeting with a disgruntled former employee of a data broker—a shady company that collects, bundles, and sells your personal data to other (often shadier) third parties, including the government. This ex-employee had managed to make off with several gigabytes of location data representing the preci

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A new Android 14 update is now available for Chromecast with Google TV

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-31 10:59:16

TL;DR A new Android 14 update is rolling out to Chromecast with Google TV devices. The update is landing on devices that are still on Android 12 and those that already have the initial Android 14 update installed. The initial update was pulled due to reported issues. After missing the intended 2024 deadline, Google finally started rolling out Android 14 to Chromecast with Google TV in March. That rollout was halted, however, after users reported issues. But as the saying goes, the second time

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Latest Tech News

Hackers turn ScreenConnect into malware using Authenticode stuffing

Team Fortress 2 is getting another major update with a little help from the community

Boston Consulting Group: To unlock enterprise AI value, start with the data you’ve been ignoring

California's Corporate Cover-Up Act Is a Privacy Nightmare

Hundreds of data brokers might be breaking state laws, say privacy advocates

The Architects of Project 2025 Are Suddenly Very Concerned About AI Safety

Microsoft opens a free tier for Windows 10 extended updates

Creative Commons debuts CC signals, a framework for an open AI ecosystem

The new AI infrastructure reality: Bring compute to data, not data to compute

Nothing’s bare-bones gallery app scores a major upgrade as Phone 3 launch draws closer

Rubrik acquires Predibase to accelerate adoption of AI agents

Team Fortress 2 is getting a major update after 8 years, with a little help from the community

Bumble is laying off 30 percent of its workforce

Does your generative AI protect your privacy? New study ranks them best to worst

Sitch’s new dating app fuses human matchmaking and AI

IEEE Std 3161TM-2022: Breaking Bottlenecks of Large-Scale Video Data Aggregation, Storage, and Computing in Smart Cities – Standard for Digital Retina Systems

Microsoft extends free Windows 10 security updates into 2026 – with a catch

Malwarebytes Antivirus Review 2025: Decent Software, Terrible Customer Service

Three network phone calls down but data still working

The Debrief: Power and energy

15 new jobs AI could create - could one be your next gig?

Incogni vs. DeleteMe: Which service removes your personal data best?

Berkshire Hathaway Now Pays 5% of All Corporate Income Taxes in America

Google Cloud donates A2A AI protocol to the Linux Foundation

Microsoft Offers Free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates -- Under One Condition

Generative AI and privacy are best frenemies - a new study ranks the best and worst offenders

Windows 10 KB5061087 update released with 13 changes and fixes

How a data-processing problem at Lyft became the basis for Eventual

The rise of the surveillance state in three book reviews

A new Android 14 update is now available for Chromecast with Google TV

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