Sophos Firewall v21.5: NDR Essentials
How to make the most of the new features in Sophos Firewall v21.5
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I Tested The AI That Calls Your Elderly Parents If You Can’t Be Bothered
An AI startup promises to call your elderly parents for you if you don’t have time, or simply don’t want to, and we tested out the service. Called inTouch, the service uses an AI generated voice so your parent receives a phone call in which they can talk to the AI about, for example, how…
Behind the Blog: The Economy, Robot Umpires, and Monsters
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 the economy and the state of 404 Media, the need for robot umpires, and bringing on a new regular contributor to the site. EMANUEL: Something that I…
New ‘Rape and Incest’ Game Tests the Limits of Steam’s Sex Policy
For the last week, several news outlets have published shocking headlines about a game called No Mercy on Steam that features incest and “rape.” In the UK, Peter Kyle, a member of Parliament and the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology described the game as “deeply worrying” and demanded Valve, which operates the…
How a $2,000 ‘Made in the USA’ Phone Is Manufactured
Earlier this week I wrote an article called “A US-Made iPhone Is Pure Fantasy.” The long and short of it is that Trump’s dream of moving all high tech manufacturing to the US is extremely difficult because global supply chains are so intricate, manufacturing expertise exists primarily in China, Vietnam, Cambodia, and other countries, and…
Industrial-strength April Patch Tuesday covers 135 CVEs
One actively exploited issue patched; five Critical-severity Office vulns exploitable via Preview Pane
Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport People
A powerful Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) database, parts of which have been seen by 404 Media, allows the federal government to search for and filter people by hundreds of different, highly specific categories. Surveillance experts say the database is a tool that could possibly be helping ICE identify, detain, and deport people who are…
Podcast: The FBI Secretly Ran a Massive Money Laundering Ring
We start this week with Joseph’s story revealing how the FBI secretly ran a massive money laundering ring to catch drug traffickers and hackers. After the break, we run through a bunch of tariff stories and how it’s going to impact everything from the Nintendo Switch to the iPhone. In the subscribers-only section, Jason explains…
Sophos Firewall v21.5 early access is now available
Say hello to great new features and enhancements in v21.5.
Another Masterful Gambit: DOGE Moves From Secure, Reliable Tape Archives to Hackable Digital Records
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced Monday that the General Services Administration converted 14,000 magnetic to digital records, and claimed the process saved a million dollars a year. The problem is, magnetic tapes are regarded by storage and archivist professionals as being a stable, reliable, and safe medium for long-term data storage. Just because…