The US government is offering $10 million for tips about Cl0p ransomware
The US government is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information that leads to the identification or location of any individual engaged in criminal activities while working on...
EU commissioner wants all member states to ban Huawei and ZTE’s 5G equipment
Breton expressed his disappointment that, despite EU guidelines urging its 27 member states to prohibit 'high-risk' vendors from supplying 5G equipment, only 10 have implemented this plan. He stated that the inaction of...
The FCC wants to know why data caps are still a thing in 2023
Consumer data consumption has increased exponentially in a little over a decade. According to broadband insight reports from OpenVault, monthly household data usage has skyrocketed from an average of 9 GB per...
Meta to introduce new information about parental controls for Quest VR
In brief: This week, Meta announced a set of new parental controls it's bringing to Quest VR headsets over the next few months. These will allow parents to monitor and control what...
Slack pressured to prioritize privacy amid end-to-end encryption protests
According to the Make Slack Safe campaign, Slack is in desperate need of an urgent security upgrade. On Wednesday, a group of more than 90 organizations staged a protest outside of Slack offices in...
Hybrid AI concept would move AI generation from the cloud to our devices
As exciting as AI tools like ChatGPT, Google's Bard and Microsoft's numerous Co-pilots may be, they all currently face the same restriction: you have to be connected to the Internet to use them. For most people...
The AI chip market landscape: Choose your battles carefully
Right now, the world is fixated on Nvidia's dominant position in the market, but it's important to delve into this a bit further. Nvidia is clearly the leader in the market for training chips,...
Mozilla apologizes for unskippable VPN ads shown in Firefox
Mozilla officially promotes ad blockers on Firefox as a "best friend" for users forced to watch too many unsolicited advertisements while browsing the web. The average person sees "an average of 4,000 ads...
Hot Pixels attacks exploit power management in modern SoC and GPUs to leak data
Hot Pixels is a new side-channel attack conceived by an international team of researchersposing a theoretical security threat that exploits Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) techniques to "probe analog properties" of computing...
The FDA gives Elon Musk’s Neuralink permission to put brain implants in humans
Musk has on several occasions said that Neuralink was getting closer to starting human trials that will see a device implanted in a human brain.
Neuralink applied for FDA approval in early 2022 but...