Cybersecurity conclave ‘SHIELD 2025’ to be held in city from Feb 18-19 – The Times of India
Hyderabad: The Telangana Cyber Security Bureau (TGCSB) and Society for Cyberabad Security Council (SCSC) on Monday announced SHIELD 2025, a conclave a.
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At the World’s Largest General Science Meeting, Surviving Trump Is the Topic
Welcome back to the Abstract! This week, we have a very special edition of the newsletter packed with everything I saw and heard at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting, held in Phoenix from February 12 to 14. Founded in 1848, AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society, with over…
Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead
In October of 2023, Marc Andreessen, founder of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), published the “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” arguing that human ingenuity has been stagnated and demoralized by regulation, and that the only viable path forward for society is the accelerated development and adoption of new technologies, and specifically artificial intelligence. …
County begins implementing cybersecurity measures
Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. County officials recently adopted a resolution that set minimum foundational standards to safeguard against cybersecurity threats and better protect county data, information technology, and information technology resources,…
Biden signs executive order to bolster national cybersecurity
Days before leaving office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to shore up the United States’ cybersecurity by making it easier to sanction hacking groups targeting federal agencies and the nation’s critical infrastructure. […]
DeepSeek Faces Large-scale Cyberattack, Halts New User Registrations
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‘Save Our Signs’ Wants to Save the Real History of National Parks Before Trump Erases It
Data preservationists and archivists have been working tirelessly since the election of President Donald Trump to save websites, data, and public information that’s being removed by the administration for promoting or even mentioning diversity. The administration is now targeting National Parks signs that educate visitors about anything other than “beauty” and “grandeur,” and demanding they…
Open Source Genetic Database Shuts Down to Protect Users From ‘Authoritarian Governments’
The creator of an open source genetic database is shutting it down and deleting all of its data because he has come to believe that its existence is dangerous with “a rise in far-right and other authoritarian governments” in the United States and elsewhere. “The largest use case for DTC genetic data was not biomedical…
US sanctions Chinese company linked to Flax Typhoon hackers
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned Beijing-based cybersecurity company Integrity Tech (also known as Yongxin Zhicheng) for its involvement in cyberattacks attributed to the Chinese state-sponsored Flax Typhoon hacking group. […]
Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed
Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized Instagram competitor. On Facebook, the company is labeling links to Pixelfed.social as “spam” and deleting them immediately. Pixelfed is an open-source, community funded and decentralized image sharing platform that runs on Activity Pub, which is the same technology that supports Mastodon and other federated services. Pixelfed.social is…