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Maine has taken its public data breach reporting portal offline after fraudulent breach disclosures were published on the state's website, prompting a review of procedures to prevent abuse in the future. [...]
Attackers took over more than 400 packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) this week and rewrote their build scripts to install a credential stealer on any machine that built them. The malware is a Rust binary built to harvest developer secrets. When it lands with root, it can also load an eBPF rootkit to hide itself. The AUR is Arch Linux's community package collection, and it is separate
Vulnerability in the Oracle-owned PeopleSoft software is about as critical as they come.
Not every dataset belongs fully inside the warehouse. A hybrid design using Apache Iceberg on S3, Redshift Spectrum, and Redshift local tables can reduce duplicated storage and reserve warehouse performance for the workloads that need it. The Warehouse Became the Second Data Lake Redshift clusters routinely carry tables that should not be there. A five-year transaction history is loaded nightly through a four-hour COPY job and queried twice a quarter. Raw event tables landed directly into the wa
Google on Friday said it's pursuing legal action against a Chinese cybercrime network, accusing it of using its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) agent to send phishing text messages targeting Americans. The network is said to be behind the development and management of a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) software kit called Outsider, per the tech giant. "The operation weaponized Gemini to help
Section 702 of FISA to expire tonight, but certification lasts until March 2027.
Hm! | Photo: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO will probably make him the richest person to ever walk the planet. And while his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk's actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse - gleefully. This is not a serious person, but his abuse of the world is deadly serious. In the first months of Presid
It isn't the only startup tackling physical AI, but it's one of the best-funded.
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