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Meta's AI safety system defeated by the space bar 'Ignore previous instructions' thwarts Prompt-Guard model if you just add some good ol' ASCII code 32

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Apple agrees to terms with US store union for first time

Funny what threatening to walk off the job and shutter a retail store can do

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Car makers sold people's driving habits, location data for pennies, say US senators

Khaan! Khaaaaaan!

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US border cops really must get a warrant in NY before searching your phones, devices

Do we really want to bother SCOTUS with this, friends? Surely they're way too busy to take a look

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EU regulator reportedly set to give the nod to HPE-Juniper deal

Aruba, Aruba! Some network pros worry it will lead to less choice

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French internet cables cut in act of sabotage that caused outages across country

Axe attack comes just days after arsonists target rail network

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Inquiry reveals UK government misled MPs over Post Office IT scandal

Former business minister Vince Cable testifies, highlighting misinformation and oversight failures

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Logitech Zone 305 is light on the ears and wallet, maybe a bit too light on quality?

A headset for workers who want to stride around the room bellowing

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Never put off until tomorrow what someone could erase today

When even tape can't save you, procrastination is a problem

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China ponders creating a national 'cyberspace ID'

Because clearly it's better for Beijing to know who you are than for every ISP and social service to keep its own records

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Group of 91 nations agree to continue not taxing cross-border data movement – for now

Promote free use of government data, privacy, canning spam, and more

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Security

Intruders at HealthEquity rifled through storage, stole 4.3M people's data

No mention of malware or ransomware – somewhat of a rarity these days

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Google apologizes for breaking password manager for millions of Windows users with iffy Chrome update

Happy Sysadmin Day

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Secure Boot useless on hundreds of PCs from major vendors after key leak

Plus: More stalkerware exposure; a $16M TracFone fine; Ransomware victims don't use MFA, and more

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Do you need a better approach to trading partner collaboration? Whitepaper

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Software

Apple Intelligence beta lands in iOS 18.1, macOS 15.1 previews

At last, the world-changing innovation of ML emojis can be yours to enjoy

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Meta's AI safety system defeated by the space bar

'Ignore previous instructions' thwarts Prompt-Guard model if you just add some good ol' ASCII code 32

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Microsoft finds a new way to irritate Windows 11 users – a backup pop-up

Ads in the Start Menu not annoying enough for you? Hold my beer

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The port of the Windows 95 Start Menu was not all it seemed

Fnding your code on the cutting room floor decades after the event

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Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' still the Bedrock choice for moving off Windows

Outsmarting Ubuntu's midlife crisis and dodging Flintstone-sized bugs

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Post-CrowdStrike, Microsoft to discourage use of kernel drivers by security tools

Now there's an idea – parsing config data in user mode

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Offbeat

Tesla asks customers to stop being wet blankets about chargers

Trick appears to speed powering up but could cause damage to cables

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NASA gives Falcon 9 thumbs-up to launch Crew-9

1. Undock, bring Butch and Suni home on Starliner, 2. Launch Crew-9, 3. Do the handover, 4. Bring Crew-8 home

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Silicon, stars, and sulfur make Apollo's unlikely legacy

Neil stepped on a rock. We're surfing an interstellar wave 9,000 light years long. Go us

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US claims TikTok shipped personal data to China – very personal data

Not even Oracle could stop it, claims DoJ

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