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Top kidney dialysis firm hit by damaging ransomware attack
DaVita confirms ransomware attack in new SEC form It was forced to shut down parts of its infrastructure to remedy The scope of the attack is not fully known yet DaVita, a major American healthcare company specializing in kidney care, has suffered a ransomware attack that forced it to temporarily…
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VMware closing a door opens up new VDI possibilities
There has been increasing attention on open and closed technologies in relation to the development of AI and large language models (LLMs) in the past few years. Meta released Llama as open source, XAI released GROK-1 and, of course, the open source release of China’s DeepSeek model in recent months…
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Apple rebrands part of its ads business in major expansion
Apple rebrands ‘Search Ads’ to ‘Apple Ads’ It says it’s because they’re now available beyond just search results Apple might also be looking to extend its ads into other services Apple has rebranded its ‘Search Ads’ to ‘Apple Ads’ to mark the broader advertising options beyond search results as it…
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Mitigating AI-related risks: soft approach, hard approach or something in the middle?
The riskiness of AI development results from the fact that modern AI tools are pushing ethical boundaries under the existing legal frameworks that weren’t made to fit them. However, the way regulators choose to proceed in light of this varies greatly between different countries and regions. The recent AI Action…
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Secure by design: what we can learn from the financial services sector
More than 250 companies have signed the “Secure-by-Design” (SBD) pledge from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). By committing to the voluntary pledge, software manufacturers are promising to increase multi-factor authentication (MFA) for products; better enable customers to do their own patching; reduce default passwords; and decrease vulnerabilities, among…
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“Slopsquatting” attacks are using AI-hallucinated names resembling popular libraries to spread malware
GenAI can hallucinate open source package names, experts warn It doesn’t always hallucinate a different name Cybercriminals can use the names to register malware Security researchers have warned of a new method by which Generative AI (GenAI) can be abused in cybercrime, known as ‘slopsquatting’. It starts with the fact…
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