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‘People aren’t perfect, and everyone knows it’: Security experts still see humans as the biggest threat to their business
Human error remains one of the biggest challenge to online security, according to industry leaders 68% of security professionals cite human error, compared with just 55% for email-based scams A worrying 80% of contributing factors in recent security incidents can be traced back to poor user practices or lack of…
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Russian bot traffic decimated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes knock multiple Yandex data centers offline
Ukrainian drone strikes knock key Yandex data centers offline in Central Russia Bot traffic on Yandex networks has dropped significantly as a result, with many services knocked offline and Yandex’s Cloud Zones operating with ‘limited functionality’ Data centers are quickly becoming key military targets as intelligence gathering and communications rely…
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Hackers claim to have hit thousands of Trump Phone customers as the bad news for golden smartphone fans continues
Cybercrime group BYOD has published records on 3,615 Trump Mobile customers, including names, home addresses, phone numbers, and order details BYOD says it got in via malware on a Liberty Mobile employee’s device, and that Trump Mobile told it there was “no team” to respond The published data appears to…
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wants your PC to become ‘an infinite software factory’ in final blow to the app store concept — but I’m afraid businesses won’t bite the AI apple
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says Copilot Code and local AI make every Windows PC an infinite software factory with no cloud token spend Rather than killing app stores, Microsoft is moving app hosting into Copilot, while IT leaders stay wary of citizen-built tools Microsoft’s own engineers say local inference doesn’t…
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The US Army is handing out over $4.15 billion to any company able to stop low-cost drone attacks on home soil
US Army awarded $4.15 billion in counter-drone contracts to 10 companies Seven of the ten winners each received a $500 million base award The framework carries a maximum ceiling of $7 billion across all awards The US Army has awarded contracts worth $4.15 billion to 10 companies developing technologies against…
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Has OpenAI started the ‘mathpocalypse’? Experts say AI’s solving of iconic math problems may cause huge issues in the long run
OpenAI has solved or partially solved 372 outstanding mathematical challenges Some of the solutions, while clear, cannot be understood by some humans, and were produced with an internal, unreleased AI model Renowned mathematician Terence Tao has called for colleagues working with OpenAI to abandon their projects OpenAI has stunned the…
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