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2054, Part IV: A Nation Divided

By Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis — February 8th 2024 at 11:00
“The people are in the streets. We can’t ignore them any longer. Really, we have little choice. Either we heal together, or we tear ourselves apart.” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
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Ransomware Payments Hit a Record $1.1 Billion in 2023

By Andy Greenberg — February 7th 2024 at 14:00
After a slowdown in payments to ransomware gangs in 2022, last year saw total ransom payouts jump to their highest level yet, according to a new report from crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis.
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2054, Part III: The Singularity

By Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis — February 7th 2024 at 11:00
“You’d have an incomprehensible level of computational, predictive, analytic, and psychic skill. You’d have the mind of God.” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
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WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps

By Matt Burgess — February 6th 2024 at 16:53
New EU rules mean WhatsApp and Messenger must be interoperable with other chat apps. Here’s how that will work.
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2054, Part II: Next Big Thing

By Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis — February 6th 2024 at 11:00
“If molecules really were the new microchips, the promise of remote gene editing was that the body could be manipulated to upgrade itself.” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
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2054, Part I: Death of a President

By Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis — February 5th 2024 at 11:00
“They had, quite swiftly, begun an algorithmic scrub of any narrative of the president suffering a health emergency, burying those stories.” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
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China’s Hackers Keep Targeting US Water and Electricity Supplies

By Matt Burgess, Dhruv Mehrotra — February 3rd 2024 at 14:00
Plus: Russia was likely behind widespread GPS outages, Vault 7 leaker was sentenced, police claim to trace Monero cryptocurrency, and more.
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The Mystery of the $400 Million FTX Heist May Have Been Solved

By Andy Greenberg — February 1st 2024 at 21:48
An indictment against three Americans suggests that at least some of the culprits behind the theft of an FTX crypto fortune may be in custody.
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A Startup Allegedly ‘Hacked the World.’ Then Came the Censorship—and Now the Backlash

By Andy Greenberg — February 1st 2024 at 17:30
A loose coalition of anti-censorship voices is working to highlight reports of one Indian company’s hacker-for-hire past—and the legal threats aimed at making them disappear.
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YouTube, Discord, and ‘Lord of the Rings’ Led Police to a Teen Accused of a US Swatting Spree

By Dhruv Mehrotra, Andrew Couts — February 1st 2024 at 01:28
For nearly two years, police have been tracking down the culprit behind a wave of hoax threats. A digital trail took them to the door of a 17-year-old in California.
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Leaky Vessels: Docker and runc Container Breakout Vulnerabilities - January 2024

By /u/pentesticals — January 31st 2024 at 20:54

Multiple vulns in Docker disclosed by Snyk Security Labs

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Apple and Google Just Patched Their First Zero-Day Flaws of the Year

By Kate O'Flaherty — January 31st 2024 at 12:00
Plus: Google fixes dozens of Android bugs, Microsoft rolls out nearly 50 patches, Mozilla squashes 15 Firefox flaws, and more.
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Robots Are Fighting Robots in Russia's War in Ukraine

By Matt Burgess — January 30th 2024 at 12:00
Aerial drones have changed the war in Ukraine. Now, both Russia’s and Ukraine’s militaries are deploying more unmanned ground robots—and the two are colliding.
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US Lawmakers Tell DOJ to Quit Blindly Funding ‘Predictive’ Police Tools

By Dell Cameron — January 29th 2024 at 16:19
Members of Congress say the DOJ is funding the use of AI tools that further discriminatory policing practices. They're demanding higher standards for federal grants.
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