Chrome to shield encryption keys from promised quantum computers (www.theregister.com)
Devon O’Brien, technical program manager for Chrome security, explained on Thursday that starting in Chrome 116 – due August 15 – Google’s browser will include support for X25519Kyber768, an alphanumeric salad that desperately needs a catchy name....
The Hard Fork Podcast is Worth a Listen! (NYTimes) (www.nytimes.com)
Not exactly a secret, but this podcast is nice. I’ve been really enjoying it lately, reminds me of the older Reply All episodes: two funny guys with some interesting interviews/insights and topics that I’m curious about. If you’re at all into podcasts it’s probably worth checking out....
“Instead of blocking sanctioned companies, Google could stop spreading Kremlin propaganda,” says ex-Yandex News head (theins.ru)
Lev Gershenzon, founder of The True Story news aggregator and former head of Yandex.News (Yandex.Novosti), explained why Google spreads Kremlin propaganda. Having consistently highlighted the free circulation of false propaganda news through the Google Discover service, pointed out that Google pays attention to what makes money...
Pokémon Company Uses Fan Music In Trailer Without Crediting The Fan - Techdirt (www.techdirt.com)
Fans are expressing their concerns after The Pokémon Company seemingly used fan-created music in a recent trailer for the Pokémon Scarlet & Violet DLC, The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero. The uproar began shortly after today’s Pokémon Presents wrapped up. While many tuned in for updates on things like Detective Pikachu...
Tetris - But With ARM 32Bit Instructions instead of blocks (ofrak.com)
Awesome game. I don’t know much about little-endian arm 32bit assembly, but this would be a good tool to learn on!
The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices (arstechnica.com)
For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn’t want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in....
Delta Chat: Everything-apps without platforms - say 'hi' to xstore 😊 (delta.chat)
Hydrogen-powered planes almost ready for takeoff (arstechnica.com)
Amazon starting to track and penalize workers who work from home too much (www.theguardian.com)
Some staff members were alerted on Wednesday they were “not currently meeting our expectation of joining your colleagues in the office at least three days a week”, according to emails shared with the Financial Times. The emails were also discussed on the anonymous corporate message board platform Blind.
Mozilla will open Firefox for Android for more extensions (blog.mozilla.org)
The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google (arstechnica.com)
It is perhaps another sign of how bad things have become with Google’s search results—full of algorithmically generated junk sites—that publications like CNET are driven to such extremes to stay above the sea of noise....
Statc Stealer: Windows malware stealing information from web browsers and apps, including login data, cookies, web data, and preferences, stealing cryptocurrency wallets, credentials, passwords, etc. (www.zscaler.com)
Summary...
Saving Vivaldi Social from doom: A Sysadmin adventure (vivaldi.com)
Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for ‘Full Control’ Cheating (www.wired.com)
They knew when to hold em. Knew when to fold 'em. Just not when to walk away and when to run.
Pregnant Black Woman In The U.S. The Latest Victim Of Detroit PD Facial Recognition False Positive (www.techdirt.com)
Security experts discover flaw in the random-number generator used to create wallet private keys on Libbitcoin Explorer 3.x versions (milksad.info)
Bad actors are actively exploiting this flaw to steal funds from affected wallets on multiple blockchains, they say.
The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer Data (www.confiant.com)
cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/1680837...
You can make top LLMs break their own rules with gibberish (www.theregister.com)
Paper & Examples...
AI's Role in Cybersecurity: Research Reveals How Large Language Models Are Shaping the Future of Phishing Attacks and Defense (i.blackhat.com)
Paper Title...
CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking (www.theverge.com)
[Corp Blog] Facial recognition tech lands innocent woman with bogus carjacking charge (www.malwarebytes.com)
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Next-gen OSDP was supposed to make it harder to break in to secure facilities. It failed. (arstechnica.com)
Reflections before the storm: the AI reproduction of biased imagery in global health visuals (www.thelancet.com)
PDF: www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2214-109X(2…
[ESET Research] MoustachedBouncer: Espionage against foreign diplomats in Belarus, probably collaborating with the Belarus government, by tricking Windows OS (www.welivesecurity.com)
News article: techcrunch.com/…/belarus-hackers-target-foreign-d…...