Month: December 2024

Dec 26, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Ransomware A Brazilian citizen has been charged in the United States for allegedly threatening to release data stolen by hacking into a company’s network in March 2020. Junior Barros De Oliveira, 29, of Curitiba, Brazil has been charged with four counts of extortionate threats involving information obtained from protected computers
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Boat Enigma Daze and Boat Enigma Gem smartwatches have been launched in India. Both smartwatches support SOS live location-sharing and are said to offer a battery life of up to five days. They come with support for Bluetooth calling and customisable watch faces. The watches are compatible with the Boat Crest application and are equipped with
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Nvidia’s Senior Research Manager and Lead of the Embodied AI division Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) Lab, Jim Fan, highlighted how artificial intelligence (AI) robots in the future could be trained and function. The executive claimed that soon embodied AI agents will be born in simulation where they will learn and gain expertise in specific
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Dec 25, 2024Ravie LakshmananServer Security / Vulnerability The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has shipped security updates to address a critical security flaw in Traffic Control that, if successfully exploited, could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary Structured Query Language (SQL) commands in the database. The SQL injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-45387, is rated 9.9 out
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China is looking to challenge the U.S. in artificial intelligence. China’s tech giants have launched their own AI models.  Niphon | Istock | Getty Images The Biden administration on Monday said it launched a new probe into legacy Chinese semiconductors that may go into everything from cars to household goods and defense systems. China “routinely
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Planning to upgrade your existing refrigerator at home as you enter into the new year? Amazon has rolled out its Appliance New Year Sale in India, bringing compelling deals on a wide range of home appliances such as air conditioners, televisions, air fryers, mixer grinders, microwave ovens, refrigerators, washing machines, and more. So, suppose you
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Dec 25, 2024Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have discovered several security flaws in the cloud management platform developed by Ruijie Networks that could permit an attacker to take control of the network appliances. “These vulnerabilities affect both the Reyee platform, as well as Reyee OS network devices,” Claroty researchers Noam Moshe and Tomer
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South Korean researchers have built a wearable robotic exoskeleton suit that can help people with paraplegia walk again. The suit, dubbed WalkON Suit F1, was developed by the Exoskeleton Laboratory team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). The researchers have built several iterations of the wearable robot exoskeleton previously, but the
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