Tag: user data
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Slashdot: Oracle Customers Confirm Data Stolen In Alleged Cloud Breach Is Valid
Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/03/27/1918205/oracle-customers-confirm-data-stolen-in-alleged-cloud-breach-is-valid Source: Slashdot Title: Oracle Customers Confirm Data Stolen In Alleged Cloud Breach Is Valid Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report highlights potential security issues regarding Oracle Cloud’s federated SSO login servers, where an alleged breach has led to the theft of account data for 6 million users. Despite…
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Slashdot: Signal President Blasts WhatsApp’s Privacy Claims
Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/03/26/1536221/signal-president-blasts-whatsapps-privacy-claims?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Signal President Blasts WhatsApp’s Privacy Claims Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The exchange between Signal’s president and WhatsApp’s head highlights significant differences in privacy practices between the two messaging apps. While both utilize end-to-end encryption, Signal emphasizes its commitment to user privacy by limiting data collection,…
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Hacker News: Hyperlight WASM: Fast, secure, and OS-free
Source URL: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/03/26/hyperlight-wasm-fast-secure-and-os-free/ Source: Hacker News Title: Hyperlight WASM: Fast, secure, and OS-free Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text introduces Hyperlight, an open-source Rust library for executing small embedded functions with hypervisor-based protection. It highlights the release of Hyperlight Wasm, a virtual machine that runs WebAssembly workloads, offering enhanced performance…
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Hacker News: There are perhaps 10k reasons to doubt Oracle Cloud’s security breach denial
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/25/oracle_breach_update/ Source: Hacker News Title: There are perhaps 10k reasons to doubt Oracle Cloud’s security breach denial Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes a dispute regarding Oracle Cloud’s denial of a security breach after an infosec researcher claims that sensitive data, including customer security keys and credentials,…
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The Register: You know that generative AI browser assistant extension is probably beaming everything to the cloud, right?
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/25/generative_ai_browser_extensions_privacy/ Source: The Register Title: You know that generative AI browser assistant extension is probably beaming everything to the cloud, right? Feedly Summary: Just an FYI, like Generative AI assistants packaged up as browser extensions harvest personal data with minimal safeguards, researchers warn.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses concerns…
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Slashdot: DNA of 15 Million People For Sale In 23andMe Bankruptcy
Source URL: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/03/24/2022232/dna-of-15-million-people-for-sale-in-23andme-bankruptcy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: DNA of 15 Million People For Sale In 23andMe Bankruptcy Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses 23andMe’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, raising significant concerns about the security and privacy of genetic information following a major data breach. The financial turmoil highlights the vulnerabilities associated…
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Hamel’s Blog: A Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products
Source URL: https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/field-guide/ Source: Hamel’s Blog Title: A Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products Feedly Summary: Most AI teams focus on the wrong things. Here’s a common scene from my consulting work: AI TEAM Here’s our agent architecture – we’ve got RAG here, a router there, and we’re using this new framework for… ME…
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Schneier on Security: More Countries are Demanding Back-Doors to Encrypted Apps
Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/03/more-countries-are-demanding-back-doors-to-encrypted-apps.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: More Countries are Demanding Back-Doors to Encrypted Apps Feedly Summary: Last month I wrote about the UK forcing Apple to break its Advanced Data Protection encryption in iCloud. More recently, both Sweden and France are contemplating mandating back doors. Both initiatives are attempting to scare people into…
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Slashdot: Is WhatsApp Being Ditched for Signal in Dutch Higher Education?
Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/03/23/2120237/is-whatsapp-being-ditched-for-signal-in-dutch-higher-education Source: Slashdot Title: Is WhatsApp Being Ditched for Signal in Dutch Higher Education? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights recent trends in the Netherlands regarding the adoption of the messaging app Signal in higher education institutions, primarily due to privacy concerns associated with competitors like WhatsApp. Key…
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Slashdot: Doc Searls Proposes We Set Our Own Terms and Policies for Web Site Tracking
Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/03/23/1842242/doc-searls-proposes-we-set-our-own-terms-and-policies-for-web-site-tracking?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Doc Searls Proposes We Set Our Own Terms and Policies for Web Site Tracking Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The proposed IEEE P7012 standard, nicknamed MyTerms, aims to revolutionize personal privacy on the web by allowing individuals to be the first party in online agreements. This…