Washington reportedly moves to put AI chips on tighter leash
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Scammers have virtual smartphones on speed dial for fraud
…SIM farms, meanwhile, make use of so much emulation software to run ARM software on non-ARM hardware that they're easy to detect, as they don't give off data characteristic…
Microsoft taps Claude to make Copilot Cowork a better agent
…This comes with the usual reassurance that Copilot Cowork is prevented from doing harm by Microsoft 365's security and governance controls. Cowork, it's claimed, runs in a protected, sandboxed cloud…
Voice phishing skyrockets as smooth crims talk their way in
…In some cases, this means the attackers don't even need to move onto the internal network because they are able to steal secrets and other sensitive data from the edge device…
Hundreds compromised daily in Microsoft device code phishes
…Once the user completes the login process, the live access token is sent to the attacker-controlled computer, thus allowing the data thieves to bypass MFA and log in to the targeted…
Firefox finds a slew of new bugs with Claude's help
…But often the explanation is more mundane – flawed electronic components. "Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100 percent positive that … a…
If AI agents mess up, there's nobody to sue
…Dowden said on questions such as bias in the training model, user organizations would be liable as they are data controllers under UK law. "They would then be looking to lay off…
Google Chrome lacks browser fingerprinting defenses
…fingerprint, and therefore cannot control how their information is collected. We think this subverts user choice and is wrong." MORE CONTEXT US states can't account for datacenter tax breaks. Literally Agents…
Microsoft tightens Authenticator checks on Android and iOS
…The app will warn, block, and wipe data "during any interactive operation that involves a work or school account in Microsoft Authenticator." There is an argument that an employer should provide employees…
Amazon insists AI coding isn't source of outages
…Amazon, at the time, said that its AI tool was not to blame: "This brief event was the result of user error – specifically misconfigured access controls – not AI." In the wake of…