A recently discovered FBI training document shows that US law enforcement can gain limited access to the content of encrypted messages from secure messaging services like iMessage, Line, and WhatsApp, but not to messages sent via Signal, Telegram, Threema, Viber, WeChat, or Wickr.
What type of encryption you use and how you use it are pretty important.
There are some truly passionate LEGO people out there, with entire rooms of their homes dedicated to their craft and collection, and elaborate custom models that they enter into shows and competitions. My family isn't quite there yet, but we're not that far off, either. [...] But most importantly, we've stumbled into a world where we get LEGO sets for free or cheap. And you can, too. Here's how we got to this crazy place.
[...] The Office and Management and Budget (OMB) released a memo: "Moving the U.S. Government Towards Zero Trust Cybersecurity Principles". The memo is a reaction to 2020's SolarWinds incident and 2021's Colonial Pipeline rasomware attack, and advises the Federal Government on what steps each agency must take to improve its cybersecurity.
Many of the items in the memo go well-beyond even what the top enterprises and tech startups are doing today. It looks like the government is planning to position itself as a cybersecurity leader (rather than a laggard), while also pushing the private sector into a more robust cybersecurity posture.
Good recommendations all-around.
This blogpost chronicles the recent CVEs investigation, our findings, and how we are helping secure Salt now and in the Quantum future.
Cool infrastructure security research from CloudFlare.
As part of DeepMind's mission to solve intelligence, we created a system called AlphaCode that writes computer programs at a competitive level. AlphaCode achieved an estimated rank within the top 54% of participants in programming competitions by solving new problems that require a combination of critical thinking, logic, algorithms, coding, and natural language understanding.
Between AlphaCode and GitHub's Copilot, it's sure an interesting time to be a programmer.
I know used car sales are crazy right now, but that's wild.
[A] chance message launched [Renée] DiResta and her colleague Josh Goldstein at the Stanford Internet Observatory on an investigation that uncovered more than 1,000 LinkedIn profiles using what appear to be faces created by artificial intelligence.
The secret's out - Teams will support the US government's Secret classified workloads.
Absolutely heart-wrenching story of technology facilitating child abuse and one effort to stop it, in the process shredding the myth of Bitcoin's anonymity.