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  • Slashdot: FBI: BadBox 2.0 Android Malware Infects Millions of Consumer Devices

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/06/06/2033225/fbi-badbox-20-android-malware-infects-millions-of-consumer-devices?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: FBI: BadBox 2.0 Android Malware Infects Millions of Consumer Devices Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text details a significant malware campaign known as BADBOX 2.0, which has reportedly infected over 1 million IoT devices, turning them into residential proxies for malicious activities. The FBI warns…

  • OpenAI : How we’re responding to The New York Time’s data demands in order to protect user privacy

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    Source URL: https://openai.com/index/response-to-nyt-data-demands Source: OpenAI Title: How we’re responding to The New York Time’s data demands in order to protect user privacy Feedly Summary: OpenAI is fighting a court order at the demands of The New York Times and plaintiffs, which involves retention of consumer ChatGPT and API user data indefinitely. Learn how we’re working…

  • Cloud Blog: From analytics to data management: New BigQuery transactional features

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/bigquery-features-for-transactional-data-management/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: From analytics to data management: New BigQuery transactional features Feedly Summary: For years, BigQuery has been synonymous with fully managed, fast, petabyte-scale analytics. Its columnar architecture and decoupled storage and compute have made it the go-to data warehouse for deriving insights from massive datasets.  But what about the…

  • Slashdot: Does Anthropic’s Success Prove Businesses are Ready to Adopt AI?

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/31/0344221/does-anthropics-success-prove-businesses-are-ready-to-adopt-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Does Anthropic’s Success Prove Businesses are Ready to Adopt AI? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Anthropic, an AI company focused on code generation, has seen extraordinary revenue growth to $3 billion annually, illustrating a significant market shift towards generative AI. Their success serves as a validation…

  • Slashdot: Football and Other Premium TV Being Pirated At ‘Industrial Scale’

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/05/31/0029226/football-and-other-premium-tv-being-pirated-at-industrial-scale?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Football and Other Premium TV Being Pirated At ‘Industrial Scale’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report highlights the significant shortcomings of major tech firms in preventing the theft of premium video services through devices like the Amazon Fire Stick, which have become enablers of piracy.…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Luis von Ahn on LinkedIn

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/luis-von-ahn-on-linkedin/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Luis von Ahn on LinkedIn Feedly Summary: Luis von Ahn on LinkedIn Last month’s Duolingo memo about becoming an “AI-first" company has seen significant backlash, particularly on TikTok. I’ve had trouble figuring out how much of this is a real threat to their business as opposed to…

  • Slashdot: Ask Slashdot: Do We Need Opt-Out-By-Default Privacy Laws?

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    Source URL: https://ask.slashdot.org/story/25/05/24/0430214/ask-slashdot-do-we-need-opt-out-by-default-privacy-laws?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Ask Slashdot: Do We Need Opt-Out-By-Default Privacy Laws? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text raises significant concerns about corporate practices related to privacy rights and the lack of effective self-regulation in software and web interfaces. It advocates for new laws that would ensure privacy protections…

  • Krebs on Security: KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS

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    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/krebsonsecurity-hit-with-near-record-6-3-tbps-ddos/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS Feedly Summary: KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3 terabits of data per second (a terabit is one trillion bits of data). The brief attack appears to…