Tag: fail
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The Register: Europe’s largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/11/birmingham_oracle_auditors/ Source: The Register Title: Europe’s largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months Feedly Summary: It took a whistleblower to expose disastrous ERP go-live Birmingham City Council did not tell its official auditors about the disastrous Oracle implementation for ten months after the suite of applications…
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The Register: Allstate Insurance sued for delivering personal info on a platter, in plaintext, to anyone who went looking for it
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/allstate_sued_pii_exposure/ Source: The Register Title: Allstate Insurance sued for delivering personal info on a platter, in plaintext, to anyone who went looking for it Feedly Summary: Crooks built bots to exploit astoundingly bad quotation website and made off with data on thousands New York State has sued Allstate Insurance for operating websites so…
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Slashdot: AI Isn’t Creating New Knowledge, Hugging Face Co-Founder Says
Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/10/145255/ai-isnt-creating-new-knowledge-hugging-face-co-founder-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Isn’t Creating New Knowledge, Hugging Face Co-Founder Says Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Thomas Wolf’s perspective on the limitations of AI, emphasizing that while AI is proficient at following instructions, it fails to generate new knowledge or revolutionary ideas. Wolf critiques the…
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The Register: Consumer Reports calls out slapdash AI voice-cloning safeguards
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/ai_voice_cloning_safeguards/ Source: The Register Title: Consumer Reports calls out slapdash AI voice-cloning safeguards Feedly Summary: Study finds 4 out of 6 providers don’t do enough to stop impersonation Four out of six companies offering AI voice cloning software fail to provide meaningful safeguards against the misuse of their products, according to research conducted…
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The Register: How NOT to f-up your security incident response
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/incident_response_advice/ Source: The Register Title: How NOT to f-up your security incident response Feedly Summary: Experts say that the way you handle things after the criminals break in can make things better or much, much worse Feature Experiencing a ransomware infection or other security breach ranks among the worst days of anyone’s life…
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Slashdot: Will an ‘AI Makeover’ Help McDonald’s?
Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/09/070211/will-an-ai-makeover-help-mcdonalds Source: Slashdot Title: Will an ‘AI Makeover’ Help McDonald’s? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: McDonald’s is leveraging AI and edge computing to enhance operations across its 43,000 restaurants by implementing technologies like AI-enabled drive-throughs and internet-connected kitchen equipment. Partnering with Google Cloud, McDonald’s aims to utilize local computing power…
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Krebs on Security: Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks
Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/feds-link-150m-cyberheist-to-2022-lastpass-hacks/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks Feedly Summary: In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In…