A fix is on the way for those bricked Quest headsets, The US Treasury Department was hacked in a China-linked cyberattack, and YouTube copies Netflix's old 'Play Something' button. It's Tuesday, December 31st and this is Engadget News.
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Sam Altman is upset at you for hoarding RAM in your own computer, Anthropic updated Claude to stop it from recreating existing video games, and a judge said that xAI must face an NAACP lawsuit on data center pollution
-Sam Altman thinks it's "quite terrible" for people to have "a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer" and using it five percent of the time. -Anthropic wants to "to steer it away from recreating someone else's specific game because using Claude ... Show More
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Oct 30
Reddit will force users to log in as AI is killing search traffic, Binance got hacked for $6.3 billion , and VRChat says it's not adding AI labels
-The change is the most dramatic shift the company has made as it battles AI scraping and changes to internet search. -Binance will cover all losses using funds from its Secure Asset Fund for Users and the company, and user funds are safe. -Despite 95 percent of its respondents s ... Show More
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Feb 2020
Chinese cyber espionage in Malaysia and Japan. Android Bluetooth bug. Google expels suspect apps from the Play store. More Iowa caucus finger-pointing. US preps indictments of Chinese nationals.
Chinese espionage groups target Malaysian officials, and two more Japanese defense contractors say they were breached, also by China. Google patches Android problems, including an unusual Bluetooth bug. Google also expels apps that wanted unreasonable permissions from the Play st ... Show More
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May 2021
VPN vulnerability exploited for cyberespionage closed. “IT security incident” at medical system. Android banking Trojans and cryptocurrency. Cyber threats to the Tokyo Olympics.
Pulse Secure patches its VPN, and CISA for one thinks you ought to apply those fixes. Apple has also patched two zero-days in its Webkit engine. Scripps Health recovers from what’s said to be a ransomware attack. Researchers describe Genesis, a criminal market for digital fingerp ... Show More
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