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You can now claim for Apple’s $95 million Siri spying settlement
Eligible Apple customers can now apply for their share of a $95 million Siri snooping payout. A website has been set up to distribute the funds, allowing Apple device owners in the US who experienced an unintended Siri activation during private conversations between September 17th, 2014, and December 31st, 2024, to submit a claim. The payout is related to a…
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Significance of Intel’s NPU benchmark claim questioned – Computerworld
Randall added, “as AI-native apps mature and the demand for more performance increases (like how Photoshop increasingly offloads AI to the NPU to free up GPUs and extend battery life), then those benchmarks will become increasingly relevant, especially if on-device private AI (for example, small language models) become commonplace in new device releases.” As for how fast it actually needs…
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US Officials Claim DeepSeek AI App Is ‘Designed To Spy on Americans’
Image: iStock/BeeBright A bipartisan report, recently issued by the US Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), accuses DeepSeek of a series of subversive, illegal, and immoral practices. Moreover, the tech giant NVIDIA is also catching the ire of US government officials for supplying DeepSeek with the chips needed to create the AI models. Investigating DeepSeek The report, titled…
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Get a free Xbox game with your Amazon Prime subscription — here’s how to claim yours before it’s gone
They say the best things in life are free, and one of the best perks of an Amazon Prime membership is the free games you can claim each month with Prime Gaming. Right now, subscribers to the online retailer’s premium membership can score a free copy of a best-selling Xbox game: Minecraft Legends. Minecraft Legends is an action-strategy spin-off of…
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Researchers claim their protocol can create truly random numbers on a current quantum computer
She added, “over the years, there have been issues of poor random number generation that have hampered cryptographic implementations. There are also many reputable random number generation methods available. Using a quantum computer for random number generation is certainly an option, though there may be questions about cost or scalability.” Could be used on near-term quantum machines The authors of…
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Google’s Wiz acquisition stakes its claim as the go-to hyperscaler for cloud security – now it’s up to AWS and industry vendors to react
Google’s acquisition of cloud security startup Wiz could have monumental implications for the sector, according to industry analysts, with the company raising the stakes for both key competitors and security vendors. The acquisition, announced this week as a $32 billion all-cash transaction, will see Wiz bundled within the tech giant’s cloud computing division. It’s been a long time coming, as…
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Nakivo backup flaw still present on some systems months after firms’ ‘silent patch’, researchers claim
Over 200 vulnerable internet-facing Nakivo backup and replication instances have been identified months after the firm silently patched a security flaw without publicly disclosing the issue. Security researchers at watchTowr recently published a report detailing their discovery of an arbitrary file read vulnerability in Nakivo’s central management solution. The report noted that, if exploited, the flaw could enable an attacker…
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Georgia school district issues data breach notification after ransomware claim – SSNs & account numbers leaked
Muscogee County School District has started issuing data breach notifications following a cyber attack in December 2024. This attack was claimed by ransomware gang SafePay in late January with 382 GB of data allegedly stolen. In its notification, Muscogee County School District (MCSD) states that it detected suspicious activity on its network on December 26, 2024. However, after investigation, it…
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DeepSeek R1 has taken the world by storm, but security experts claim it has ‘critical safety flaws’ that you need to know about
DeepSeek R1, the new frontier reasoning model that shook up the AI industry, is vulnerable to a wide range of jailbreaking techniques, according to new research. A new report from Cisco warns that although DeepSeek’s R1 frontier reasoning model has been able to compete with state-of-the-art models from OpenAI or Anthropic, it has been found to have “critical safety flaws”.…
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How to Claim Your Piece of Apple’s $20 Million Watch Settlement
If you had an Apple Watch between 2015 and February of last year, there’s a chance the company might owe you a small payout. That’s thanks to a recent $20 million settlement on a class action lawsuit over swollen batteries. Apple has denied all wrongdoing, saying in a statement sent to Lifehacker sister publication CNET that “we strongly disagree with…
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