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Microsoft won’t say if its products were exploited by spyware zero-days

TechCrunch

Microsoft has released patches to fix zero-day vulnerabilities in two popular open source libraries that affect several Microsoft products, including Skype, Teams and its Edge browser. The two vulnerabilities — known as zero-days because developers […]

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Daily Crunch: Citizen Lab claims Apple’s ‘Lockdown Mode’ helped block spyware attack by hacker group NSO

TechCrunch

In Apple’s case, researchers looking into spyware vulnerabilities said its “Lockdown Mode” was able to thwart the advances of the infamous mercenary hacking provider NSO Group. Also, Apple opens its first retail store in India , but there are…challenges, Manish writes. Lorenzo has more.

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Daily Crunch: Months after rejecting a $17B bid, Zendesk sells to private equity group for $10.2B

TechCrunch

Stay tuned as my colleagues and I parse the developments. As Frederic writes, Amazon trained the system — which currently supports Java, JavaScript and Python — on billions of lines of publicly available open source code and its own codebase, as well as publicly available documentation and code on public forums.

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CVE-2023-41064, CVE-2023-4863, CVE-2023-5129: Frequently Asked Questions for ImageIO and WebP/libwebp Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Tenable

Frequently asked questions relating to vulnerabilities in Apple, Google and the open source libwebp library. On September 7, researchers at Citizen Lab published a blog post detailing their discovery of an iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit chain in Apple iOS used to deploy a spyware known as Pegasus. What is WebP or libwebp?

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Hidden inside Dark Caracal’s espionage apps: Old tech

The Parallax

“ If you had even a little mobile development experience, [Dark Caracal] could cost less than $1,000.”—Michael Dark Caracal’s custom-developed mobile spyware, which the report’s authors call Pallas, is the first documented global advanced persistent threat , or APT, on a mobile device.

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How To Start Building Apps With GPT-J

KitelyTech

Because of this, developers are looking for ways to build new things with it. Fortunately, there is an open-source AI system that anyone can use to build new digital resources. This could be a problem for your business if your app develops a reputation for being a tool used by criminals. What is GPT-J?

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Radar trends to watch: August 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

But Google Glass showed the way, and that path is being followed by Apple and Facebook in their product development. Google launches Intrinsic , a moonshot project to develop industrial robots. Developing error correction is a necessary step towards making quantum computers “real.”. AI and Data. Materials.

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