UK confirms October hack of Foreign Office system, data possibly stolen Risk to individuals deemed low; investigation continues, attribution unclear Chinese state actors suspected but not officially confirmed The UK government has confirmed speculation that classified government servers were hacked and accessed by threat actors, as former chief advisor Dominic Cummings brought to light. Reports…
Predicable pricing comes for hosting web apps Easily upload apps from GitHub in our testing Spend less time managing and more time building apps Hostinger, one of the best web hosting providers, is lowering the barrier for entry and providing predictable pricing for web apps – with new support for node.js in shared hosting plans….
Adobe accused of using pirated books to train SlimLM The company asserts it used SlimPajama-627B – an open-source Cerebras dataset The plaintiff claims sufficient financial resources to “vigorously” pursue this case Adobe is set to face an AI copyright lawsuit in the US, with a class-action case alleging that the company trained its AI models…
BBC Radio 4 is the UK’s most popular talk station, home to marquee shows and podcasts like Desert Island Discs and The Unbelievable Truth, Infinite Monkey Cage and In Our Time. Its lofty standing is why, when BBC management inexplicably blocked international access to BBC Sounds, an exception was made for Radio 4. However, the…
To get everyone in the holiday spirit, ESET has made it even cheaper to secure your devices ready for the new year. Our ESET review touted its low performance impact, great VPN speeds, and a great coverage-to-cost ratio, but don’t just take it from us! AV-TEST gave it full marks across the board in the…
Dali launches Sonik standmount, floorstanding, on-wall and cinema speakers They use tweeter and cone technology from Dali’s high-end models 7 models, from $900 / £449 / AU$849 Danish music maestro Dali is on a hot streak: it’s just unveiled a new line of budget-friendly audiophile loudspeakers, fresh off launching the super-affordable five-star Dali Kupid bookshelf…
Mrs. Deshpande is a psychological thriller starring Madhuri Dixit in the titular role as a serial killer who agrees to work with the police to track a copycat on the loose. While much of the show’s hype stems from it being an Indian adaptation of the highly successful French thriller La Mante, that’s only part…
OpenAI Chief Communications Officer Hannah Wong is stepping down in the coming weeks Comms VP Lindsey Held Bolton will keep an eye on things while a replacement is found George Osborne recently joined OpenAI in a government liaison role OpenAI Chief Communications Officer Hannah Wong has announced she will be leaving the company at the…
RC4 has been exploited in high-profile attacks across enterprise Windows networks Kerberoasting exploits weaknesses in Active Directory, allowing attackers to perform offline password cracking AES-SHA1 requires thousands of times more resources than RC4 for cracking Microsoft is moving to disable RC4, an encryption cipher embedded in Windows authentication for more than two decades. The decision…
Warning: spoilers for Avatar: Fire and Ash ahead. I almost don’t need to write out that spoiler warning – if you’ve seen Avatar: The Way of Water, you’ve seen Avatar: Fire and Ash. The first wave of reviews (including mine) agreed that the biggest problem with the third movie in the Avatar franchise is that…