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Thoughts and musings of David Greenberg, a polymath

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DoJ Indicts 5 Individuals for $866K North Korean IT Worker Scheme Violations

January 24, 2025

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday indicted two North Korean nationals, a Mexican national, and two of its own citizens for their alleged involvement in the ongoing fraudulent…

Cybersecurity

Android’s New Identity Check Feature Locks Device Settings Outside Trusted Locations

January 24, 2025

Google has launched a new feature called Identity Check for supported Android devices that locks sensitive settings behind biometric authentication when outside of trusted locations. “When you turn on Identity…

Cybersecurity

CISA Adds Five-Year-Old jQuery XSS Flaw to Exploited Vulnerabilities List

January 24, 2025

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday placed a now-patched security flaw impacting the popular jQuery JavaScript library to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on…

Technology

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The TickTock On TikTok

January 23, 2025

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts,…

Technology

Backdoor infecting VPNs used “magic packets” for stealth and security

January 23, 2025

When threat actors use backdoor malware to gain access to a network, they want to make sure all their hard work can’t be leveraged by competing groups or detected by…

Technology

Way more game makers are working on PC titles than ever, survey says

January 23, 2025

Four out of five game developers are currently working on a project for the PC, a sizable increase from 66 percent of developers a year ago. That’s according to Informa’s…

Technology

Milwaukee Meteoroligist Fired One Day After Criticizing Elon Musk’s Nazi-ish Salute

January 23, 2025

To borrow a phrase famously used by the world class philosophers called Green Day, Elon Musk is something of a walking contradiction. He touts the so-called “Twitter Files” as some…

Technology

All federal agencies ordered to terminate remote work—ideally within 30 days

January 23, 2025

All federal agencies received a memo Wednesday requiring the termination of remote work options, with return-to-office plans due by end of day Friday. In the memo, the acting director of…

Technology

OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that can operate your computer

January 23, 2025

On Thursday, OpenAI released a research preview of “Operator,” a web automation tool that uses a new AI model called Computer-Using Agent (CUA) to control computers through a visual interface.…

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Trump can save TikTok without forcing a sale, ByteDance board member claims

January 23, 2025

TikTok owner ByteDance is reportedly still searching for non-sale options to stay in the US after the Supreme Court upheld a national security law requiring that TikTok’s US operations either…

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