Let’s Recap Baby Yoda’s Day Out With Dutchess Lizzo on The Mandalorian
The warmest and most welcome addition to the Star Wars universe made her debut on The Mandalorian’s “Guns for Hire” episode.
Google is Finally Bringing Live Translate Captions to Chrome
After nearly two years, Chrome browsers may soon finally get a feature that has thus far been restricted to Google Pixel phones. On Thursday, Reddit user and Chrome Canary beta tester Leopeva64 posted several screenshots and GIFs on the r/chrome subreddit showing off an upcoming Live Translate caption feature coming…
This WB100 Merch Is Full of Movie Magic
It’s a big year for Warner Bros. with all its centennial celebrations. Merch marking the WB100 features mash-ups with the Looney Tunes, DC characters, and cinematic classics like Casablanca. The collection also includes special edition items inspired by WB’s 100 years of storytelling—think replicas of iconic props like…
U.S. Chemical Plants Would Have to Make Big Changes Under New EPA Rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed new regulation that would make chemical plant owners and operators responsible for their toxic emissions. Facilities would have to measure and reduce hazardous compounds beyond just the property that a chemical plant sits on, a change that could…
Tesla Employees Have Been Sharing and Meme-ing Your Private Car Videos
Former Tesla employees are confessing to sharing, laughing at, playing in slow motion, and generally having a great time watching the videos that were taken with customers’ in-vehicle cameras. Reuters reports that close to a dozen former employees have revealed that sharing drivers’ personal videos was one of their…
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JILA’s Frequency Comb Breathalyzer Detects COVID-19 with Excellent Accuracy
JILA researchers have upgraded a breathalyzer based on Nobel Prize-winning frequency-comb technology and combined it with machine learning to detect SARS-CoV-2 infection in 170 volunteer subjects with excellent accuracy. Their achievement represents
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Default static key in ThingsBoard IoT platform can give attackers admin access
Developers of ThingsBoard, an open-source platform for managing IoT devices that’s used in various industry sectors, have fixed a vulnerability that could allow attackers to escalate their privileges on a server and send requests with administrative privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-26462, was discovered and privately reported by researchers from IBM Security X-Force. It stems from the platform using a static key to sign JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) issued to clients. With knowledge of that key, which can be easily obtained, attackers could forge valid requests that would allow them to identify to the system as higher privileged users.
“Because ThingsBoard allowed the default key to be used without requiring administrators to change it, and because that default key was also exposed publicly in the configuration files, the door was opened for attackers to gain unauthorized access in excess of what is intended,” the X-Force researchers said in their report.
10 Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books to Read Ahead of Their Upcoming Adaptations
Books and short stories get snapped up for adaptations all the time; many, no matter how amazing the source material, never actually get made into movies or TV shows. These 10 sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles, however, are actively in the works—or at least have big names attached, so there’s definite reason to…
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Twitter ‘Shadow Ban’ Bug Gets Official CVE
A flaw in Twitter code allows bot abuse to trick the algorithm into suppressing certain accounts.
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What is an ‘island hopping’ attack? (and how to stop one)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: At the mention of island hopping, you’re likely dreaming about adventures in Hawaii, the Caribbean, or similar destinations with majestic views and white-sand beaches. In the context of cyber security, island hopping refers to a sophisticated type of cyber attack. This technique is used by attackers as a means of circumventing advanced cyber […]
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