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Google settles Android class action lawsuit for $135 million with payouts to 100 million users — here's how to claim your share…In a blog post , Eclipse claims this action was vindictive, stating once again that Microsoft refused communication attempts and that they "got zero pennies from doing so", a likely allusion to unpaid…
…Weixin About the author : Sarfraz Khan is a hardware reporter with a focus on PC components and the builder community. With years of experience writing about PC hardware and laptops, his work…
…There might be some truth to this claim, as almost two-thirds of US Apple users paid for extra iCloud storage in 2024. However, Apple dealt with a lawsuit about its 5GB…
…A user claimed that after reverse engineering the Claude Code binary, they "found two independent bugs that cause prompt cache to break, silently inflating costs by 10-20x." Some users confirmed that…
Signups, silence, and a suspicious text: users joined GTFOICE.org to protest ICE and woke up to messages claiming their data was sent to federal agencies. Just four days ago, Project Salt Box’s Michael Wriston and Defian…
Dirty Frag is the recent Linux local privilege escalation PoC around page-cache write primitives. The upstream project describes two paths: xfrm/ESP and RxRPC. The Kubernetes question I wanted to answer was narrower than…
Update: Dashlane has just comfirmed on X that no data has been compromised. Atleast thats what people mention under my posts. I can’t find this post on X whatsoever. People also claim to have recieved an email about this…
Interesting new research you may have heard of on attacking large audio language models. The attack is called AudioHijack and the part worth paying attention to is that adversarial clips built against open models transfe…
I co-founded a successful security company close to the Mythos ecosystem and have spoken with participants in the know and I am deeply concerned. We, collectively, have answers for some but not all of the problems ahead …
…Still, Apple can credibly claim that its approach to AI places a priority on privacy lacking from the AI giants. And it wasn’t shy about making that point. “Some appear to…
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