NEWS
Aaro.mil makes history as the first official UFO website
The Defense Department has unveiled a new website designed to serve as a central hub for declassified information concerning unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), commonly referred to as UFOs. The UFO website is being described as a "one-stop shop" for publicly...
Chrome extensions can steal plaintext passwords from websites
A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has uploaded to the Chrome Web Store a proof-of-concept extension that can steal plaintext passwords from a website's source code.An examination of the text input fields in web browsers revealed that the...
Microsoft retires Visual Studio for Mac, support ends in a year
Microsoft has announced it is retiring Visual Studio for Mac and that support for the latest version, 17.6, will continue for another year, until August 31, 2024.During the support period, users of the integrated development environment (IDE) will receive security...
Exploit released for critical VMware SSH auth bypass vulnerability
Proof-of-concept exploit code has been released for a critical SSH authentication bypass vulnerability in VMware's Aria Operations for Networks analysis tool (formerly known as vRealize Network Insight).The flaw (tracked as CVE-2023-34039) was found by security...
LogicMonitor customers hacked in reported ransomware attacks
Network monitoring company LogicMonitor confirmed today that some users of its SaaS platform have fallen victim to cyberattacks.The company says that the hacking campaign has hit what it describes as a "small number" of users and is working with those affected to...
Microsoft-signed “BGAUpsell.exe” pushes Bing on Windows and Chrome users
In July, Microsoft began to let web browsers other than Microsoft Edge access and use its AI-powered Bing Chat service.This is unsurprising and not a big deal in and of itself. Microsoft has been pushing its “new Bing” preview relentlessly all year, and the potential...
New Roomba combo bots have swappable dust and water tanks
Roomba is bringing the combo mop and vacuum feature to its cheaper robot vacuums with the new Roomba Combo j5+ and Combo i5+. Roomba's last combo bot was the Roomba Combo j7+, which would automatically switch between mopping and vacuuming with a swing-arm setup....
California deploys AI-powered wildfire detection systems
California's main firefighting agency, Cal Fire, is training AI models to detect visual signs of wildfires using a network of 1,039 high-definition cameras, reports The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. When it sees signs of smoke, it quickly warns...
You’re the OS is a game that will make you feel for your poor, overworked system
I spent nearly 20 minutes this morning trying to be a good operating system, but you know what? People expect too much of their computers.I worked hard to rotate processes through CPU slots, I was speedy to respond to I/O requests, and I didn't even let memory pages...