Little fires everywhere for March Patch Tuesday
Just 57 CVEs to contend with (plus advisories), but six are already under exploit in the wild
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Sophos Recognized as Top Employer in British Columbia, Canada
Sophos has been named as one of the top employers in British Columbia, Canada for the ninth year running.
Here is NASA’s Contract with Clearview AI
NASA paid for access to Clearview AI’s “Investigator Tool + Cloud Database,” according to a set of procurement documents obtained by 404 Media under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Clearview is a controversial facial recognition company which was the first to cross the rubicon of allowing third parties to search for someone’s face and…
Columbia Protestor Arrested by ICE Moved to Louisiana Detention Facility
Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University protester who was detained by ICE on Saturday, has been moved to a detention facility in Louisiana, according to ICE’s detainee locator system. Khalil was a key part of Columbia students’ protests last year against Israel’s indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza in response to the October 7 attacks. He is a…
Photographers Are on a Mission to Fix Wikipedia’s Famously Bad Celebrity Portraits
Wikipedia is one of the most valuable repositories of information ever created by humanity. Having your own Wikipedia page has become a kind of status symbol—proof that someone is important enough to enter the historical record. But, ironically, having your face in a Wikipedia page is often not flattering at all. In fact, Wikipedia portraits,…
Fostering Gender Equality: Sophos Celebrates International Women’s Day with Global Initiatives
Sophos marks International Women’s Day with global events organized by the Women in Technology Network, focusing on leadership development, support, and fostering gender inclusivity in the workplace.
Scientists Made a ‘Woolly Mouse’ in Quest to Resurrect Mammoths
Welcome back to the Abstract! Let me start this column with a question: Are you a man or a mouse? Or a mammoth? Or a mammoth mouse? Okay, that was more than one question, but in my defense, scientists made a bunch of mammothy mice and I’m getting my taxonomical lines crossed. Then, hornet guts:…
Behind the Blog: Merch Drops, Riso Prints and Big Cars
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss a Supreme drop, a visit to a local Risograph printer, and what is up with Big Car. JOSEPH: My only experience with brands like Supreme and drops…
Google and Amazon AI Say Hitler’s Mein Kampf Is ‘a True Work of Art’
Google’s featured snippet is pulling in an Amazon AI summary of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi manifesto Mein Kampf that calls it “a true work of art” in the latest AI-related fuckup affecting top search results. As of writing, searching for “mein kampf positive reviews” returned a result that was pulled from an AI-generated summary of an…