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Actors behind PyPI supply chain attack have been active since late 2021

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The official software repository for the Python language, Python Package Index (PyPI), has been targeted in a complex supply chain attack that appears to have successfully poisoned at least…

Microsoft EU cloud revisions just so happen to exclude Google, Amazon

Enlarge / Microsoft says its latest cloud licensing terms are meant to give customers more flexibility and cost control—just not on Amazon, Google, or Alibaba servers. (credit: Getty Images) Facing European antitrust scrutiny,…

Chrome extensions with 1.4M installs covertly track visits and inject code

(credit: Chrome) Google has removed browser extensions with more than 1.4 million downloads from the Chrome Web Store after third-party researchers reported they were surreptitiously tracking users’ browsing history and inserting tracking code…

FCC has approved $6 billion in broadband grants despite rejecting Starlink

Enlarge Several US government agencies are having a busy week for doling out broadband deployment funding to ISPs and state governments. Today, the FCC announced $791.6 million for six broadband providers, covering network…

AI wins state fair art contest, annoys humans

Enlarge / The winning entry, Théåtre D'opéra Spatial. (credit: Jason Allen) A synthetic media artist named Jason Allen entered AI-generated artwork into the Colorado State Fair fine arts competition and announced last week…

Microsoft finds TikTok vulnerability that allowed one-click account compromises

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft said on Wednesday that it recently identified a vulnerability in TikTok's Android app that could allow attackers to hijack accounts when users did nothing more than click on…

No GPUs for you: US blocks sales of AI chips to China and Russia

Enlarge / The Nvidia logo superimposed over China's flag. (credit: Benj Edwards / Nvidia) In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing last Friday, Nvidia reported that US government officials have ordered restrictions on sales…

Organizations are spending billions on malware defense that’s easy to bypass

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Aurich Lawson) Last year, organizations spent $2 billion on products that provide Endpoint Detection and Response, a relatively new type of security protection for detecting and blocking malware…

Japan declares war on floppy disks for government use

Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Getty Images) Japan's newly appointed Minister of Digital Affairs, Taro Kono, has declared war on the floppy disk and other forms of obsolete media, which the government still…

FTC sues data broker that tracks locations of 125M phones per month

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued a data broker for allegedly selling location data culled from hundreds of millions of phones that can be used to track the…