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Trumplican 6th Circuit Just Killed Net Neutrality (And Whatever Was Left Of Pathetic U.S. Broadband Consumer Protection)
The telecom industry (with the help of the recent Trump Supreme Court), has been drooling for months at the prospect that the Trump-stocked courts would soon finally deliver the killing…
Anthropic gives court authority to intervene if chatbot spits out song lyrics
On Thursday, music publishers got a small win in a copyright fight alleging that Anthropic’s Claude chatbot regurgitates song lyrics without paying licensing fees to rights holders. In an order,…
Federal Judge Strikes Down Unconstitutional Arkansas Book Ban Law
Like far too many legislators, Arkansas politicians have decided it’s time to codify irrational hatred. To do this, they pretended they had a sudden and urgent new obligation to protect…
Rocket Report: Avio named top European launch firm; New Glenn may launch soon
Welcome to Edition 7.25 of the Rocket Report! Happy New Year! It’s a shorter edition of the newsletter this week because most companies (not named Blue Origin, this holiday season)…
Time to check if you ran any of these 33 malicious Chrome extensions
As many of us celebrated the year-end holidays, a small group of researchers worked overtime tracking a startling discovery: At least 33 browser extensions hosted in Google’s Chrome Web Store,…
Fast radio bursts originate near the surface of stars
When fast radio bursts (FRBs) were first detected in 2007, they were a complete enigma. As their name implies, these events involve a very brief eruption of radio emissions and…
New AI Jailbreak Method ‘Bad Likert Judge’ Boosts Attack Success Rates by Over 60%
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new jailbreak technique that could be used to get past a large language model’s (LLM) safety guardrails and produce potentially harmful or malicious…
LDAPNightmare PoC Exploit Crashes LSASS and Reboots Windows Domain Controllers
A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has been released for a now-patched security flaw impacting Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) that could trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The out-of-bounds reads vulnerability…
Critical Deadline: Update Old .NET Domains Before January 7, 2025 to Avoid Service Disruption
Microsoft has announced that it’s making an “unexpected change” to the way .NET installers and archives are distributed, requiring developers to update their production and DevOps infrastructure. “We expect that…