Tag: GIS

Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/australia_age_assurance_trial_findings/ Source: The Register Title: Australia finds age detection tech has many flaws but will work Feedly Summary: Probe into how to implement social media ban finds privacy risks, developer overreach, infosec uncertainties Australia’s trial of age assurance technology has found it’s up to the task of preventing children under 16 years of…

The Register: China just two years behind USA on chip design, says White House tech Czar

Jun 20, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/china_us_chip_competition/ Source: The Register Title: China just two years behind USA on chip design, says White House tech Czar Feedly Summary: Expects Huawei to start exporting AI chips soon, creating global fight for tech stack dominance China’s AI and chipmaking prowess lags the USA’s by just two years, and America’s efforts to slow…

The Register: Boffins devise voice-altering tech to jam ‘vishing’ schemes

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/voice_altering_vishing_jammer/ Source: The Register Title: Boffins devise voice-altering tech to jam ‘vishing’ schemes Feedly Summary: To stop AI scam callers, break automatic speech recognition systems Researchers based in Israel and India have developed a defense against automated call scams.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a new defense mechanism developed…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: How OpenElections Uses LLMs

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/19/how-openelections-uses-llms/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How OpenElections Uses LLMs Feedly Summary: How OpenElections Uses LLMs The OpenElections project collects detailed election data for the USA, all the way down to the precinct level. This is a surprisingly hard problem: while county and state-level results are widely available, precinct-level results are published in…

SecurityBrief New Zealand: Cloud Security Alliance launches Valid-AI-ted tool for STAR checks

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Source URL: https://securitybrief.co.nz/story/cloud-security-alliance-launches-valid-ai-ted-tool-for-star-checks Source: SecurityBrief New Zealand Title: Cloud Security Alliance launches Valid-AI-ted tool for STAR checks Feedly Summary: Cloud Security Alliance launches Valid-AI-ted tool for STAR checks AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary**: The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has introduced Valid-AI-ted, an AI-enhanced tool for automating quality checks of STAR Level 1 self-assessments for…

The Register: Microsoft 365 brings the shutters down on legacy protocols

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/the_microsoft_axeman_is_coming/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft 365 brings the shutters down on legacy protocols Feedly Summary: FrontPage Remote Procedure Call and others set to be blocked in the name of ‘Secure by Default’ Microsoft has warned administrators that legacy authentication protocols will be blocked by default from July, meaning that anyone who hasn’t…

The Register: UK gov asks university boffins to pinpoint cyber growth areas where it should splash cash

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/uk_gov_asks_university_boffins/ Source: The Register Title: UK gov asks university boffins to pinpoint cyber growth areas where it should splash cash Feedly Summary: Good to see government that values its academics (cough cough). Plus: New board criticized for lacking ‘ops’ people Cybersecurity experts have started a formal review into the UK cybersecurity market, at…

The Register: Sneaky Serpentine#Cloud slithers through Cloudflare tunnels to inject orgs with Python-based malware

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/sneaky_serpentinecloud_slithers_through_cloudflare/ Source: The Register Title: Sneaky Serpentine#Cloud slithers through Cloudflare tunnels to inject orgs with Python-based malware Feedly Summary: Phishing, Python and RATs, oh my A sneaky malware campaign slithers through Cloudflare tunnel subdomains to execute in-memory malicious code and give unknown attackers long-term access to pwned machines.… AI Summary and Description: Yes…

The Register: Minecraft cheaters never win … but they may get malware

Jun 18, 2025

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