Sophos MDR: New analyst response actions for Microsoft 365
Powerful new capabilities enable Sophos MDR analysts to respond to M365 attacks on your behalf.
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Pete Hegseth Says the Pentagon’s New Chatbot Will Make America ‘More Lethal’
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the rollout of GenAI.mil today in a video posted to X. To hear Hegseth tell it, the website is “the future of American warfare.” In practice, based on what we know so far from press releases and Hegseth’s posturing, GenAI.mil appears to be a custom chatbot interface for Google…
Pentagon Funded Experiment Develops Robots that Change by ‘Consuming’ Other Robots
A team of researchers at Columbia University, funded in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, have developed “machines that can grow by consuming other machines.” Video of the experiment shows tubular robots that move by extending their shafts to inch along the ground. As the tubes gather, they connect and form into more…
Researcher Captures Contents of ‘DEI.gov’ Before It Was Hidden Behind a Password
A German researcher captured the contents of the White House’s “DEI.gov” during a brief period when it was not password protected. The capture shows that the site contains a list of vague, alleged government-funded tasks and their costs, without sources or context, like “$1.3 million to Arab and Jewish photographers,” “$1.5 million for ‘art for…
Hackers Claim Massive Breach of Location Data Giant, Threaten to Leak Data
Hackers claim to have compromised Gravy Analytics, the parent company of Venntel which has sold masses of smartphone location data to the U.S. government. The hackers said they have stolen a massive amount of data, including customer lists, information on the broader industry, and even location data harvested from smartphones which show peoples’ precise movements,…
Sophos Firewall v21.5: Streamlined management
How to make the most of the new features in Sophos Firewall v21.5.
‘Everything I Say Leaks,’ Zuckerberg Says in Leaked Meeting Audio
At an all hands meeting inside Meta Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg did not address Meta’s $25 million settlement with Donald Trump that will see the company paying $22 million for the eventual establishment of the Trump Presidential Library. But Zuckerberg did say that he had to be increasingly careful about what he says internally at Meta…
Anthropic CEO Says OpenAI’s ‘Stargate’ Venture Seems ‘Chaotic’
Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei expressed skepticism about the financing for rival OpenAI’s $500 billion infrastructure venture and called the planned project “a bit chaotic.”
Little fires everywhere for March Patch Tuesday
Just 57 CVEs to contend with (plus advisories), but six are already under exploit in the wild
A Fundamental ‘Constant’ of the Universe May Not Be Constant At All, Study Finds
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that took a bite out of life, appealed to the death drive, gave a yellow light to the universe, and produced hitherto unknown levels of cute. First, it’s the most epic ocean battle: orcas versus sharks (pro tip: you don’t want to be sharks)….