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CrowdStrike's president [42]hit out at "shady" efforts by its cyber security rivals to scare its customers and steal market share in the month since its botched software update sparked a global IT outage. From a report: Michael Sentonas told the Financial Times that attempts by competitors to use the July 19 disruption to promote their own products were "misguided." After criticism from rivals including SentinelOne and Trellix, the CrowdStrike executive said no vendor could "technically" guarantee that their own software would never cause a similar incident. "Our industry is built on trust," Sentonas said. For rivals to take advantage of the meltdown to push their own products "lets themselves down because, ultimately, people know really quickly fact from, possibly, some shady commentary." Texas-based CrowdStrike had a reputation as many major companies' first line of defense against cyber attacks, but the high-profile nature of its clients exacerbated the impact of July's global disruption that shut down 8.5 million Windows devices. Insurers have estimated that losses from the disruption, which grounded flights and shut down hospital systems, could run into billions of dollars. Delta Air Lines, which canceled more than 6,000 flights, has estimated that the outages will cost it $500 million and has threatened litigation. apply tags__________ 174803700 story [43]Privacy [44]US Feds Are Tapping a Half-Billion Encrypted Messaging Goldmine [45](404media.co) [46]26 Posted by msmash on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @11:20AM from the overreach dept. An anonymous reader shares a report: U.S. agencies are increasingly [47]accessing parts of a half-billion encrypted chat message haul that has rocked the global organized crime underground, using the chats as part of multiple drug trafficking prosecutions, according to a 404 Media review of U.S. court records. In particular, U.S. authorities are using the chat messages to prosecute alleged maritime drug smugglers who traffic cocaine using speedboats and commercial ships. The court records show the continued fallout of the massive hack of encrypted phone company Sky in 2021, in which European agencies obtained the intelligence goldmine of messages despite Sky being advertised as end-to-end encrypted. European authorities have used those messages as the basis for many prosecutions and drug seizures across the continent. Now, it's clear that the blast radius extends to the United States. apply tags__________ 174803528 story [48]Privacy [49]Slack AI Can Be Tricked Into Leaking Data From Private Channels [50](theregister.com) [51]6 Posted by msmash on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @10:48AM from the closer-look dept. Slack AI, an add-on assistive service available to users of Salesforce's team messaging service, is [52]vulnerable to prompt injection, according to security firm PromptArmor. From a report: The AI service provides generative tools within Slack for tasks like summarizing long conversations, finding answers to questions, and summarizing rarely visited channels. "Slack AI uses the conversation data already in Slack to create an intuitive and secure AI experience tailored to you and your organization," the messaging app provider explains in its documentation. Except it's not that secure, as PromptArmor tells it. A prompt injection vulnerability in Slack AI makes it possible to fetch data from private Slack channels. apply tags__________ 174803258 story [53]Microsoft [54]Microsoft's White Xbox Series X and 2TB Special-edition Model Launching in October [55](theverge.com) [56]8 Posted by msmash on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @10:05AM from the FWIW dept. Microsoft is launching [57]three new Xbox Series S / X console options in October. From a report: There's the $449.99 white discless Xbox Series X, a 2TB "Galaxy Black" special-edition Xbox Series X priced at $599.99, and a $349.99 1TB Xbox Series S. All three models will be available in the US on October 15th, with other markets to follow on October 29th. The white coating on the exterior of this new discless Xbox Series X matches the "robot white" found on the Xbox Series S, Microsoft's smaller $299 console. While leaks of the white Xbox Series X hinted that Microsoft may upgrade the heatsink used to cool the console, the company hasn't detailed any hardware changes beyond the removal of the disc drive here. apply tags__________ 174799832 story [58]Japan [59]Missing Scissors Cause 36 Flight Cancellations In Japan [60](theregister.com) [61]91 Posted by [62]BeauHD on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @09:00AM from the real-world-problems dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Thirty-six flights were cancelled at Japan's New Chitose airport on Saturday [63]after a pair of scissors went missing. Japanese media [64]report that retail outlets at the airport -- which serves the regional city of Chitose on Japan's northernmost island, Hokkaido -- are required to store scissors in a locker. When staff need to cut something, they withdraw the scissors and then replace them after they're done snipping. But last Saturday, an unnamed retailer at the airport was unable to find a pair of scissors. A lengthy search ensued, during which security checks for incoming passengers were paused for at least two hours. Chaos ensued as queues expanded, passengers were denied entry, and airport authorities scrambled to determine whether the scissors had been swiped by somebody with malicious intent. The incident saw over 200 flights delayed, and 36 cancelled altogether. The mess meant some artists didn't appear at a music festival. Happily, the scissors were eventually found -- in the very same shop from which they had gone missing, and not in the hands of someone nefarious. But it took time for authorities to verify the scissors were the missing cutters and not another misplaced pair. apply tags__________ 174799764 story [65]Games [66]Valve Bans Razer and Wooting's New Keyboard Features In Counter-Strike 2 [67](theverge.com) [68]47 Posted by [69]BeauHD on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @06:00AM from the cease-and-desist dept. The Verge's Tom Warren reports: Valve is [70]banning Counter-Strike 2 players from using keyboard features to automate perfect counter-strafes. Razer was the first keyboard maker to add a Simultaneous Opposing Cardinal Directions (SOCD) feature to its range of Huntsman V3 Pro keyboards last month, followed shortly by Wooting. Using [71]Snap Tap as Razer calls it or [72]Wooting's Snappy Tappy will now get you kicked from Counter-Strike 2 games. "Recently, some hardware features have blurred the line between manual input and automation, so we've decided to draw a clear line on what is or isn't acceptable in Counter-Strike," [73]says Valve. "We are no longer going to allow automation (via scripting or hardware) that circumvent these core skills and, moving forward, (and initially -- exclusively on Valve Official Servers) players suspected of automating multiple player actions from a single game input may be kicked from their match." [...] Razer and Wooting's SOCD features both let players automate switching strafe directions without having to learn the skill. Normally, to switch strafe directions in a first-person shooter, you have to fully release one key before pressing the other. If both are pressed, they cancel each other, and you stand there for a moment until you release one of the keys. SOCD means you don't need to release a key and you can rapidly tap the A or D key to counter-strafe with little to no effort. apply tags__________ 174799728 story [74]China [75]China Is Backing Off Coal Power Plant Approvals [76](apnews.com) [77]59 Posted by [78]BeauHD on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @03:00AM from the turning-point dept. Approvals for new coal-fired power plants in China [79]dropped by 80% in the first half of this year compared to last, according to an analysis from Greenpeace and the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies. The Associated Press reports: A review of project documents by Greenpeace East Asia found that 14 new coal plants were approved from January to June with a total capacity of 10.3 gigawatts, down 80% from 50.4 gigawatts in the first half of last year. Authorities approved 90.7 gigawatts in 2022 and 106.4 gigawatts in 2023, a surge that raised alarm among climate experts. China leads the world in solar and wind power installations but the government has said that coal plants are still needed for periods of peak demand because wind and solar power are less reliable. While China's grid gives priority to greener sources of energy, experts worry that it won't be easy for China to wean itself off coal once the new capacity is built. "We may now be seeing a turning point," Gao Yuhe, the project lead for Greenpeace East Asia, said in a statement. "One question remains here. Are Chinese provinces slowing down coal approvals because they've already approved so many coal projects ...? Or are these the last gasps of coal power in an energy transition that has seen coal become increasingly impractical? Only time can tell." [...] Gao said that China should focus its resources on better connecting wind and solar power to the grid rather than building more coal power plants. Coal provides more than 60% of the country's electricity. "Coal plays a foundation role in China's energy security," Li Fulong, an official of National Energy Administration, said at a news conference in June. The report notes that China is also looking to nuclear power to help reach its carbon reduction targets. The country approved five nuclear power projects on Monday with 11 units and a total cost of $28 billion. apply tags__________ 174799700 story [80]United States [81]US Birthrate Hits New Low, CDC Data Shows [82](thehill.com) [83]180 Posted by [84]BeauHD on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @11:30PM from the cause-for-concern dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Births in the United States [85]dropped again between 2022 and 2023, according to [86]new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The national birth rate has been steadily declining for the last 17 years, with a particularly steep drop in births between 2007 and 2009 during the Great Recession. Between 2007 and 2022, the U.S. birth rate fell by nearly 23 percent, according to CDC data. There were 3,596,017 registered births in 2023, about 2 percent fewer than in 2022, when there were 3,667,758 registered births, according to CDC data. The general fertility rate fell by nearly 3 percent last year to 54.5 births per 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 44. That's down from the 2022 rate of 56 births per 1,000 women, CDC data shows. Teen births have declined almost every year since the 1990s and are continuing to fall. The teenage birth rate dropped by 4 percent between 2022 and 2023, from 13.6 to 13.1 births per 1,000 girls aged 15 to 19, according to the CDC. And the birth rate for teens between the ages of 15 and 17, specifically, declined by 2 percent from 5.6 to 5.5 births per 1,000 girls. In 2007, the general fertility rate reached a height not seen since the 1990s at 69.5 births per 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 44, 1 percentage point higher than the year before, according to CDC data. apply tags__________ 174799644 story [87]Operating Systems [88]'Something Has Gone Seriously Wrong,' Dual-Boot Systems Warn After Microsoft Update [89](arstechnica.com) [90]106 Posted by [91]BeauHD on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @08:40PM from the what-a-mess dept. Ars Technica's Dan Goodwin writes: Last Tuesday, loads of Linux usersâ"many running packages released as early as this year -- [92]started [93]reporting [94]their devices [95]were failing [96]to boot. Instead, they received a cryptic error message that included the phrase: "Something has gone seriously wrong." The cause: [97]an update Microsoft issued as part of its monthly patch release. It was intended to close a [98]2-year-old vulnerability in [99]GRUB, an open source boot loader used to start up many Linux devices. The [100]vulnerability, with a severity rating of 8.6 out of 10, made it possible for hackers to bypass secure boot, the industry standard for ensuring that devices running Windows or other operating systems don't load malicious firmware or software during the bootup process. CVE-2022-2601 was discovered in 2022, but for unclear reasons, Microsoft patched it only last Tuesday. [...] With Microsoft maintaining radio silence, those affected by the glitch have been forced to find their own remedies. One option is to access their EFI panel and turn off secure boot. Depending on the security needs of the user, that option may not be acceptable. A better short-term option is to delete the SBAT Microsoft pushed out last Tuesday. This means users will still receive some of the benefits of Secure Boot even if they remain vulnerable to attacks that exploit CVE-2022-2601. The steps for this remedy are outlined [101]here (thanks to [102]manutheeng for the reference). apply tags__________ 174799050 story [103]Privacy [104]Toyota Confirms Breach After Stolen Data Leaks On Hacking Forum [105](bleepingcomputer.com) [106]6 Posted by [107]BeauHD on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @07:40PM from the another-day-another-breach dept. Toyota confirmed a breach of its network after 240GB of data, including employee and customer information, was [108]leaked on a hacking forum by a threat actor. The company has not provided details on how or when the breach occurred. BleepingComputer reports: ZeroSevenGroup (the threat actor who leaked the stolen data) says they breached a U.S. branch and were able to steal 240GB of files with information on Toyota employees and customers, as well as contracts and financial information. They also claim to have collected network infrastructure information, including credentials, using the open-source ADRecon tool that helps extract vast amounts of information from Active Directory environments. "We have hacked a branch in United States to one of the biggest automotive manufacturer in the world (TOYOTA). We are really glad to share the files with you here for free. The data size: 240 GB," the threat actor claims. "Contents: Everything like Contacts, Finance, Customers, Schemes, Employees, Photos, DBs, Network infrastructure, Emails, and a lot of perfect data. We also offer you AD-Recon for all the target network with passwords." While Toyota hasn't shared the date of the breach, BleepingComputer found that the files had been stolen or at least created on December 25, 2022. This date could indicate that the threat actor gained access to a backup server where the data was stored. "We are aware of the situation. The issue is limited in scope and is not a system wide issue," Toyota told BleepingComputer. The company added that it's "engaged with those who are impacted and will provide assistance if needed." apply tags__________ 174798986 story [109]Games [110]'Civilization 7 Captures the Chaos of Human History In Manageable Doses' [111](theguardian.com) [112]52 Posted by [113]BeauHD on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @07:00PM from the new-age-begins dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian, written by Julian Benson: It's been eight years since Civilization 6 -- the most recent in a very long-running strategy game series that sees you take a nation from the prehistoric settlement of their first town through centuries of development until they reach the space age. Since 2016 it has amassed an abundance of expansions, scenario packs, new nations, modes and systems for players to master -- but series producer Dennis Shirk at Firaxis Games feels that enough it enough. "It was getting too big for its britches," he says. "It was time to make something new." "It's tough to even get through the whole game," designer Ed Beach says, singling out the key problem that Firaxis [114]aims to solve with the forthcoming Civilization 7. While the early turns of a campaign in Civilization 6 can be swift, when you're only deciding the actions for the population of a single town, "the number of systems, units, and entities you must manage explodes after a while," Beach says. From turn one to victory, a single campaign can take more than 20 hours, and if you start falling behind other nations, it can be tempting to restart long before you see the endgame. That's why Civilization 7's campaign has been split into three ages -- Antiquity, Exploration and Modern -- with each ending in a dramatic explosion of global crises. "Breaking the game into chapters lets people get through history in a more digestible fashion," Beach says. When you start a new campaign, you pick a leader and civilization to govern, and direct your people in establishing their first settlements and encounters with the other peoples populating a largely undeveloped land. You'll choose the technologies they research, the expansions they make to their cities, and whom they try to befriend or conquer. Every turn you complete or scientific, economic, cultural and military milestone you pass adds points to a meter running in the background. Once that meter hits 200, you and all the other surviving civilizations on the map will transition into the next age. When moving from Antiquity to Exploration and later Exploration to Modern, you select a new civilization to lead. You'll retain all the cities you controlled before but have access to different technologies and attributes. This may seem strange, but it's built to reflect history: think of London, which was once run by the Romans before being supplanted by the Anglo-Saxons. No empire lasts for ever, but they don't all collapse, either. Breaking Civilization 7 into chapters also gives campaigns a new rhythm. As you approach the end of an age, you'll begin to face global crises. In Antiquity, for instance, you can see a proliferation of independent powers similar to the tribes that tore down Rome. "We're not calling them barbarians any more," Beach says. "It's a more nuanced way to present them." These crises multiply and strengthen until you reach the next age. "It's like a sci-fi or fantasy series with a huge, crazy conclusion, and then the next book starts nice and calm," Beach says. "There's a point where getting to the next age is a relief." Here's a round-up of thoughts on Civilization 7 from some of the most respected gaming outlets and reviewers: [115]Civilization VII hands-on: This strategy sequel rethinks the long game -- Ars Technica's Samuel Axon [116]Civilization 7 pairs seismic changes with a lovably familiar formula -- Eurogamer's Chris Tapsell [117]Civilization 7 hands-on: Huge changes are coming to the classic strategy series - PC Gamer's Tyler Wilde [118]Civilization 7 lets you mix and match history -- and it's a blast - The Verge's Ash Parrish [119]Civilization 7 Hands-On Preview: Creating Your Legacy - Game Rant's Joshua Duckworth [120]Sid Meier's Civilization VII preview -- possibly the freshest sequel yet - GamesHub's Jam Walker [121]How Civilization 7 Rethinks The Series' Structure - GameSpot's Steve Watts apply tags__________ 174799114 story [122]Businesses [123]Federal Judge Strikes Down Ban On Worker 'Noncompete' Agreements [124](reuters.com) [125]141 Posted by [126]BeauHD on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @06:40PM from the not-so-fast dept. U.S. District Judge Ada Brown in Dallas [127]blocked the FTC's rule banning noncompete agreements, arguing the FTC lacks authority to implement such broad regulations and did not adequately justify the sweeping prohibition. Reuters reports: Brown had [128]temporarily blocked the rule in July while she considered a bid by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the country's largest business lobby, and tax service firm Ryan to strike it down entirely. The rule was set to take effect Sept. 4. Brown in her ruling said that even if the FTC had the power to adopt the rule, the agency had not justified banning virtually all noncompete agreements. "The Commission's lack of evidence as to why they chose to impose such a sweeping prohibition ... instead of targeting specific, harmful non-competes, renders the Rule arbitrary and capricious," wrote Brown, an appointee of Republican former President Donald Trump. FTC spokesperson Victoria Graham said the agency was disappointed with the ruling and is "seriously considering a potential appeal." "Today's decision does not prevent the FTC from addressing noncompetes through case-by-base enforcement actions," Graham said in a statement. The Democratic-controlled FTC [129]approved the ban on noncompete agreements in a 3-2 vote in May. The commission and supporters of the rule say the agreements are an unfair restraint on competition that violate U.S. antitrust law and suppress workers' wages and mobility. apply tags__________ 174798752 story [130]Businesses [131]OpenAI Announces Content Deal With Conde Nest [132](cnbc.com) [133]13 Posted by [134]BeauHD on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @06:20PM from the joined-forces dept. OpenAI has [135]announced a partnership with Conde Nest, allowing the company's AI products to display content from Vogue, The New Yorker, Conde Nast Traveler, GQ, Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair, Wired, Bon Appetit and other outlets. CNBC reports: "With the introduction of our SearchGPT prototype, we're testing new search features that make finding information and reliable content sources faster and more intuitive," OpenAI wrote in a blog post. "We're combining our conversational models with information from the web to give you fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources." OpenAI added that the SearchGPT prototype offers direct links to news stories and that the company plans "to integrate the best of these features directly into ChatGPT in the future." It is the latest in a recent trend of some media outlets joining forces with AI startups such as OpenAI to enter into content deals. apply tags__________ 174798702 story [136]Movies [137]'The Pirate Bay' TV Series Teaser Appears Online [138](torrentfreak.com) [139]16 Posted by [140]BeauHD on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @05:40PM from the trip-down-memory-lane dept. A new TV series is [141]capturing the dramatic saga of the The Pirate Bay, the notorious file-sharing website that openly challenged the entertainment industry in the early 2000s. A just-launched teaser is available [142]on YouTube. TorrentFreak reports: A few years ago, news broke that The Pirate Bay story was being turned into a TV series. Written by Piotr Marciniak and directed by Jens Sjogren, who also made the "I am Zlatan" documentary, production was in the hands of B-Reel Films, working for the Swedish broadcaster SVT. American distribution company Dynamic Television scooped up worldwide rights. As far as we know, international deals have not yet been announced. The Swedish premiere on November 8 is coming closer, however, and a few days ago SVT [143]released an official teaser. The founders of The Pirate Bay -- Anakata, Brokep and Tiamo -- are played by Arvid Swedrup, Simon Greger Carlsson and Willjam Lempling. The teaser doesn't give away much, but it's interesting that one of The Pirate Bay's infamous responses to legal threats features prominently. The teaser quotes from Anakata's response to a letter from DreamWorks, written twenty years ago. The movie company sent a DMCA takedown notice requesting the removal of a torrent for the film Shrek 2, but the reply was not what they had hoped for. "As you may or may not be aware, Sweden is not a state in the United States of America. Sweden is a country in northern Europe. Unless you figured it out by now, US law does not apply here," Anakata wrote. "It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are ........ morons, and that you should please go sodomize yourself with retractable batons." The response was public information and made it into the series. Whether there will be any new revelations has yet to be seen, however, as none of the site's founders were actively involved in production. Instead, the producers used interviews with other people involved, plus the vast amount of public information available on the Internet. That includes the infamous responses to legal threats. Time will tell how the producers and director have decided to tell this story. Production took place in Stockholm, Sweden, but also ventured to other countries, including Chile and Thailand, where Fredrik Neij was arrested and paraded in front of the press in 2014. apply tags__________ 174798608 story [144]Displays [145]Nvidia Is Ditching Dedicated G-Sync Modules To Push Back Against FreeSync's Ubiquity [146](arstechnica.com) [147]42 Posted by [148]BeauHD on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @05:00PM from the scaler-solutions dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica, written by Andrew Cunningham: Back [149]in 2013, Nvidia [150]introduced a new technology called G-Sync to eliminate screen tearing and stuttering effects and reduce input lag when playing PC games. The company accomplished this by tying your display's refresh rate to the actual frame rate of the game you were playing, and similar variable refresh-rate (VRR) technology has become a mainstay even in budget monitors and TVs today. The issue for Nvidia is that G-Sync isn't what has been driving most of that adoption. G-Sync has always required extra dedicated hardware inside of displays, increasing the costs for both users and monitor manufacturers. The VRR technology in most low-end to mid-range screens these days is usually some version of the royalty-free AMD FreeSync or the similar VESA Adaptive-Sync standard, both of which provide G-Sync's most important features without requiring extra hardware. Nvidia more or less acknowledged that the free-to-use, cheap-to-implement VRR technologies had won in 2019 when it announced its "G-Sync Compatible" certification tier for FreeSync monitors. The [151]list of G-Sync Compatible screens now vastly outnumbers the list of G-Sync and G-Sync Ultimate screens. Today, Nvidia is [152]announcing a change that's meant to keep G-Sync alive as its own separate technology while eliminating the requirement for expensive additional hardware. Nvidia says it's [153]partnering with chipmaker MediaTek to build G-Sync capabilities directly into scaler chips that MediaTek is creating for upcoming monitors. G-Sync modules ordinarily replace these scaler chips, but they're [154]entirely separate boards with expensive FPGA chips and dedicated RAM. These new MediaTek scalers will support all the same features that current dedicated G-Sync modules do. Nvidia says that three G-Sync monitors with MediaTek scaler chips inside will launch "later this year": the Asus ROG Swift PG27AQNR, the Acer Predator XB273U F5, and the AOC AGON PRO AG276QSG2. 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