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upstart writes:"Triangulation" infected dozens of iPhones belonging to employees of Moscow-based Kaspersky:

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upstart writes:Tests in animals show the material works like the body's own system:

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Appeals court pauses ban on patent-infringing Apple Watch imports:

New York Times Sues Microsoft, ChatGPT Maker OpenAI Over Copyright Infringementfliptop writes:The New York Times on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, the company behind popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, accusing the companies of creating a business model based on "mass copyright infringement," stating their AI systems "exploit and, in many cases, retain large portions of the copyrightable expression contained in those works:"

An Anonymous Coward writes:This is a long, interesting investigative report from Reuters:

UEFI Failing: What to Know About LogoFAIL Attacksupstart writes:UEFI Failing: What to Know About LogoFAIL Attacks:

canopic jug writes:At the beginning of this month, Security Space published a comprehensive survey of all mail servers visible on the Internet. Out of some 1.2 million servers polled only about 600 thousand produce identifiable header information, and of those over 93% are either Exim or Postfix. Then old Sendmail weighs in at just over 3% and that is followed by a very long tail of a great many all under 1% each.Description Number of Servers PercentTotal Number of MX Servers Queried1,201,857100.0%Number of Servers that didn't respond232,02719.31%Server didn't open socket229,11019.06%Server didn't provide banner2,9170.24%Server provided banner969,83080.69%Server banner identifies software in use609,37850.70%See below for a breakdown by type.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

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janrinok writes:The first study to capture brainwaves from reindeer shows that they take small naps throughout the day while chewing:

upstart writes:Three of the world's biggest pornography sites have been told their users in the European Union may have to use age verification technology:

fliptop writes:Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have kept a low profile as the Big Tech firm weathers a series of critical antitrust court battles - and it's part of a long-running pattern of avoiding federal scrutiny, experts say:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://gizmodo.com/tuta-email-denies-connection-to-intelligence-services-1851022465

Arthur T Knackerbracket has processed the following story:Some of you will have enjoyed a good meal over Christmas, perhaps also at Thanksgiving if you are an American. It possibly included potatoes in some form; mashed, boiled, roasted, baked or in some other form of cooking. You would have probably considered them a vegetable. But the US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee is planning to change that.

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takyon writes:Houthis launch more drone attacks as shipping companies suspend Red Sea operations

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canopic jug writes:Multiple sites are reporting from Reuters that new digital restrictions management requirements in Vista11 will send an estimated 480 million kg of otherwise viable desktops and notebooks prematurely to the landfill as e-waste.

canopic jug writes:Ethan Zuckerman asks, how big is YouTube?. Using a statistical sampling method, their current estimate for the size of YouTube is 13.325 billion videos.

coolgopher writes:From https://www.postfix.org/smtp-smuggling.html :

fliptop writes:Court holds that state officials violated the First Amendment when they ordered retired engineer Wayne Nutt to stop talking about math in public:

Snotnose writes:Come for the Loona bedside urinal, stay for the ShockStop power-dildo, and enjoy the Army Tactical Bra. (Stolen from fark.com)

janrinok writes:Scientists have been looking for health-promoting microbes in the feces of people from traditional communities-some of whom feel exploited:

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upstart writes:(A bit on the long side, but well worth the read. --Marty)The secret sauce for Taiwan's chip superstardom:

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Motor Trend reports on recent gov't. actions that will lead to drunk & drowsy driving detection built into new cars, https://www.motortrend.com/news/nhtsa-anti-drunk-driving-tech-rules-coming/

fliptop writes:Lawmakers want HHS to revise health privacy law to require warrants:

upstart writes:Novel Terrapin attack uses prefix truncation to downgrade the security of SSH channels:

canopic jug writes:The US Surgeon General has published his 2023 advisory on social control media and youth mental health [warning for PDF]. The report's scope is only on the health and mental health effects, not the weaponized nature of the phenomenon. The body of the report is 17 pages long and includes a call to action.

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upstart writes:The technologies, policies, and commitments providing a glimmer of hope in an otherwise gloomy year:

janrinok writes:Now Photoshop giant needs to cough up that $1B break-up fee:

vux984 writes:Never submitted a story before, but thought this was interesting, and it was the first I'd heard of it. I thought it was actually a pretty good idea.https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/12/turquoise-taillights-tell-you-this-mercedes-is-driving-autonomously/

upstart writes:Law enforcement have long tapped users' location data hoarded by tech giants:

janrinok writes:Most see these two as a winner-take-all, zero-sum contest:

upstart writes:North America's first people may have arrived by sea ice highway as early as 24,000 years ago:

https://decrypt.co/208614/chinese-tech-giant-alibaba-shows-off-ai-that-can-animate-anyone

kreuzfeld writes:Help please: here in Lawrence, Kansas the public school district has recently started using Gaggle," a system for monitoring all digital documents and communications created by students on school-provided devices. Unsurprisingly, the system inundates employees with false 'alerts' but the district nonetheless hails this pervasive, dystopic surveillance system as a great success. What useful advice can readers here offer re. successful methods to get public officials to backtrack from a policy so corrosive to liberty, trust, and digital freedoms?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

hubie writes:I came across an interesting blog post that suggests the Web is splitting into two with an offshoot made up of a commercial dystopia that is increasingly viewed as the "normal web," leaving an insurmountable chasm developing between the two. Regular readers of SN will appreciate the points made, but do you agree with them, particularly where you'll eventually need to pick one side or the other?https://ploum.net/2023-08-01-splitting-the-web.html

hubie writes:Mathematicians have found a new way to impose order on chaos in the form of an answer to a challenge which has puzzled them for nearly a century:

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