Month: February 2024
Roblox releases real-time AI chat translator
Roblox built an AI model that it says translates text chats so quickly users may not even notice it’s translating the messages of other players at first. It works with 16 languages, including English, French, Japanese, Thai, Polish, and Vietnamese. Dan Sturman, Roblox CTO, said in an interview with The…
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This devious new trojan is exposing a flaw in Windows SmartScreen to drain victims bank accounts
Palo Alto Networks’ cybersecurity research arm Unit 42 recently discovered a new malware variant targeting users via a vulnerability in Windows SmartScreen Mispadu is an infostealer built on Delphi, looking to extract sensitive information from victim endpoints, including banking details. Last year Mispadu’s operators harvested roughly 90,000 bank account credentials,…
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Twitter alternative spouts a massive leak
Security consultant and Have I Been Pwned creator Troy Hunt has detailed a vulnerability in the API of Spoutible, a social platform that emerged following Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, that could allow hackers to take full control of users’ accounts. After someone alerted Hunt to the vulnerability, he discovered…
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Why consumption-based models are a key to success in our current climate
Over the past 15 years, subscription models have exploded, often becoming a secret weapon for businesses. As the very first adopters began to see resounding success, others closely followed their lead in a bid to take a share of the revenue benefits. Fast forward to today, and the landscape is…
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Platformer’s Casey Newton on surviving the great media collapse and what comes next
Today, I’m talking with Casey Newton, the founder and editor of the Platformer newsletter and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast. Casey is also a former editor here at The Verge and was my co-host at the Code Conference last year. Most importantly, Casey and I are also very close…
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Mastodon hit by security flaw — top Twitter alternative acts fast to patch critical security issue that could have let hackers hijack user accounts
Top Twitter alternative Mastodon was found to be carrying a high-severity vulnerability which could have been used by hackers to impersonate people and take over their accounts. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2024-23832, and has a severity rating of 9.4. It affects all Mastodon versions before 3.5.17, 4.0.13, and 4.2.5. …
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