Month: February 2025
US military and defense contractors hit with Infostealer malware
US military agencies and defense contractors hit by infostealer malware The malware can exfiltrate victim’s data Researchers discovered thousands of infected devices Despite their multi-billion dollar budgets, US agencies have been infected by Infostealer malware, and have had credentials and information stolen from official devices. A report from Hudson Rock…
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No, it’s not an April fool, Intel debuts open source AI offering that gauges a text’s politeness level
Polite Guard looks to help keep chatbots polite and less prone to exploitation With NLP at its core, it works by classifying text on a four point scale of politeness The dataset and source code are available on GitHub and Hugging Face Intel has unveiled Polite Guard, an open source…
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It’s clearly time: all the news about the transparent tech renaissance
Gadgets, much like fashion, can make style comebacks. For tech: we’ve lived through the ’80s beige keyboards, transitioned to the ’90s with gray and black plastic video game systems plus bright colors for Sony’s Walkman and Nintendo’s Game Boy handhelds, and then, at the turn of the millennium, welcomed the…
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‘I would revisit them, absolutely’: Lee Child discusses future seasons of Reacher on Prime Video and why returning to the films as a TV series is a possibility
Before the breakout success of Reacher on Prime Video, two of Lee Child’s novels featuring the righteous and herculean titular character had been adapted on the big screen with Tom Cruise in the lead role. Following the mixed critical reception to the second of these film adaptations, a decision was…
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Windows 11 24H2 hasn’t raised the bar for the operating system’s CPU requirements, Microsoft clarifies
Some reports mistakenly claimed Windows 11 24H2 has dropped support for Intel 8th, 9th, and 10th-gen CPUs Microsoft has made it clear this isn’t the case The confusion arose due to a support document which is correct, but aimed at PC makers, so it only applies to new, not existing,…
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I am once again alerting you to a PS5 Slim 30th Anniversary restock text message that’s doing the rounds – check your phones
PS5 Slim 30th Anniversary stock looks to be available by invitation again This is the second such text from the EE Store I’ve received in recent weeks Sony and other retailers have given no word on any official restocks to come For the second time in a matter of weeks,…
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