With sanctions against Russia starting to bite, the Kremlin is mulling ways to keep businesses and the government running. The latest is a creative twist on state asset seizures, only instead of the government taking over an oil refinery, for example, Russia is considering legalizing software piracy. Ars Technica reports: Read more…
Google has confirmed plans to acquire cybersecurity company Mandiant in an all-cash deal worth $5.4 billion. The move comes exactly a month after reports emerged that Microsoft was in early discussions to buy Mandiant, meaning that Google is essentially getting one over its big cloud rival. Mandiant works with customers Read more…
Academic researchers have devised a new working exploit that commandeers Amazon Echo smart speakers and forces them to unlock doors, make phone calls and unauthorized purchases, and control furnaces, microwave ovens, and other smart appliances. The attack works by using the device’s speaker to issue voice commands. As long as Read more…
It is the dominant American maker of smartphones, a household name to billions and for many makers of high-tech parts their most important customer ever. Just don’t ask who it is. In Asia, it’s surreptitiously referred to as “the fruit company” or sometimes “Fuji,” referring to the variety of the Read more…
“Code generation AI — AI systems that can write in different programming languages given a prompt — promise to cut development costs while allowing coders to focus on creative, less repetitive tasks,” writes VentureBeat. “But while research labs like OpenAI and Alphabet-backed DeepMind have developed powerful code-generating AI, many of Read more…
Serhiy Storchaka, a Ukrainian developer, is the second-most prolific recent contributor to Python and tenth-most prolific of all time, according to Lukasz Langa, the Python Software Foundation’s developer in residence, based in PoznaÅ, Poland… Storchaka faced an impossible choice as Russia invaded his country. Like many young male programmers in Read more…
Samsung on Monday confirmed that the company recently suffered a cyberattack, but said that it doesn’t anticipate any impact on its business or customers. Last week, South American hacking group Lapsus$ claimed it had stolen 190GB of confidential data, including source code, from the South Korean tech giant’s servers. The Read more…