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FCC Launches ‘Cyber Trust Mark’ for IoT Devices to Certify Security Compliance

January 8, 2025

The U.S. government on Tuesday announced the launch of the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark, a new cybersecurity safety label for Internet-of-Things (IoT) consumer devices. “IoT products can be susceptible to…

Cybersecurity

CISA Flags Critical Flaws in Mitel and Oracle Systems Amid Active Exploitation

January 7, 2025

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added three flaws impacting Mitel MiCollab and Oracle WebLogic Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of…

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DOJ Secures Agreement With Antioch, CA PD That’s Supposed To Make Its Racist Cops Less Racist

January 7, 2025

Well, there are two possibilities here. Either I’ve been doing this for too long or all cops are, indeed, bastards. Let me explain. When this rolled through my hundreds of…

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Nearly two years after its radical pivot, Fidelity slashes Relativity’s valuation

January 7, 2025

For several years, an innovative, California-based launch company named Relativity Space has been the darling of investors and media. Relativity promised to disrupt launch by taking a somewhat niche technology…

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As US marks first H5N1 bird flu death, WHO and CDC say risk remains low

January 7, 2025

The H5N1 bird flu situation in the US seems more fraught than ever this week as the virus continues to spread swiftly in dairy cattle and birds while sporadically jumping…

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Always-On School Surveillance Tech Is Sending Cops To Deal With At-Risk Students

January 7, 2025

Surveillance of students that continues even after they’ve left the campus is nothing new. School-issued tech comes preloaded with spyware meant to prevent students from cheating, accessing inappropriate content, or…

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Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck.

January 7, 2025

Almost exactly a year ago, we were publicly yearning for the day when more portable gaming PC makers could ditch Windows in favor of SteamOS (without having to resort to…

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Big landlord settles with US, will cooperate in price-fixing investigation

January 7, 2025

The US Justice Department today announced it filed an antitrust lawsuit against “six of the nation’s largest landlords for participating in algorithmic pricing schemes that harmed renters.” One of the…

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Science paper piracy site Sci-Hub shares lots of retracted papers

January 7, 2025

Most scientific literature is published in for-profit journals that rely on subscriptions and paywalls to turn a profit. But that trend has been shifting as various governments and funding agencies…

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New GeForce 50-series GPUs: There’s the $1,999 5090, and there’s everything else

January 7, 2025

Nvidia has good news and bad news for people building or buying gaming PCs. The good news is that three of its four new RTX 50-series GPUs are the same…

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