The FOIA Forum is a livestreamed event for paying subscribers where we talk about how to file public records requests and answer questions. If you’re not already signed up, please consider doing so here. Recently we had a FOIA Forum where we focused on our reporting about Flock. This includes how to file public records requests…
The Chinese company DeepSeek seemed to have come out of nowhere this week when it upturned markets. Here’s what to know about the engineer who started it.
I woke up restless and kind of hungover Sunday morning at 6 am and opened Reddit. Somewhere near the top was a post called “TIL in 2002 a cave diver committed suicide by stabbing himself during a cave diving trip near Split, Croatia. Due to the nature of his death, it was initially investigated as…
Independent game developer Paolo Pedercini wanted to announce his new game Future? No Thanks! a few weeks ago, but said it was delayed because Steam found a screenshot it planned to share “had suggestive themes.” The screenshot? A low-polygon woman in a short dress with her legs closed together. Future? No Thanks! was meant to…
Gamescom, one of the biggest video game industry trade shows in the world, used AI to book meetings for attending publishers, developers, and media even if they didn’t want them. Attendees complained about random meetings showing up on their calendars, prompting Gamescom to turn off the feature and apologize. Gamescom is a video game trade…
From cyber attacks across the geopolitical landscapes, to product updates that help small businesses, Sophos was there in 2024.
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…
A year after our initial research on threat actors’ attitudes to generative AI, we revisit some underground forums and find that many cybercriminals are still skeptical – although there has been a slight shift
A sudden disruption of a major phishing-as-a-service provider leads to the rise of another…that looks very familiar
BT’s security chief Tris Morgan says the telecommunications group logs 200 million potential cyber attacks daily as AI drives new security challenges
