DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says
Enlarge style-photography | iStock / Getty Images Plus Among the first AI companies that the Federal Trade Commission has exposed as deceiving consumers is DoNotPay—which initially was advertised as “the world’s first robot lawyer” with the ability to “sue anyone with the click of a button.” On Wednesday, the FTC announced that it took action […]
NKRYPT Sculpture
NKRYPT sculpture NKRYPT is a cryptography related installation outside the Questacon science exploration centre in Canberra, Australia. It was designed by Stuart Kohlhagen, and installed in March 2013 during the Centenary of Canberra These pages document progress towards deciphering this work. There are many parts which have yet to be publicly solved. Other NKRYPT related […]
Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars with Just a License Plate
Introduction On June 11th, 2024, we discovered a set of vulnerabilities in Kia vehicles that allowed remote control over key functions using only a license plate. These attacks could be executed remotely on any hardware-equipped vehicle in about 30 seconds, regardless of whether it had an active Kia Connect subscription. Additionally, an attacker could silently […]
Italian Music Through the Lens of Complex Networks
Last year I was talking with a non-Italian, trying to convey to them how nearly the entirety of contemporary Italian music rests on the shoulders of Gianni Maroccolo — and the parts that don’t, should. In an attempt to find a way out of that conversation, they casually asked “wouldn’t it be cool to map […]
WiFi suspended at big UK train stations after ‘cybersecurity incident’
Wifi networks at a number of train stations across the UK have been suspended after a “cybersecurity incident”. Nineteen stations including London Euston, Manchester Piccadilly and Birmingham New Street had their wifi services suspended on Wednesday night after the incident. They were still down on Thursday morning. The Manchester Evening News reported that passengers accessing […]
Ask HN: Did you personal website help you get hired? Tell about it
Hugely instrumental in my career. Landed me my first ever job (2008) and has been responsible for underpinning most of my consultancy career (2013–now): https://csswizardry.com/ As long as one sticks with it, I cannot overstate the power of a good personal website. > Also I can’t decide what to write about, and whether to make […]
WordPress.org bans WP Engine
WordPress drama went up another notch on Wednesday after WordPress.org, the open source web-hosting software, banned hosting provider WP Engine from accessing its resources. In a post on WordPress.org, WordPress co-creator and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg wrote that pending their legal claims, WP Engine will not have access to the platform’s resources, such as themes […]
A new Llama-based model for efficient large-scale voice generation
{{ message }} This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository. You can’t perform that action at this time.
AWS Nitro Enclaves: Attack Surface
By Paweł Płatek In the race to secure cloud applications, AWS Nitro Enclaves have emerged as a powerful tool for isolating sensitive workloads. But with great power comes great responsibility—and potential security pitfalls. As pioneers in confidential computing security, we at Trail of Bits have scrutinized the attack surface of AWS Nitro Enclaves, uncovering potential […]
Rewriting Rust
The Rust programming language feels like a first generation product. You know what I mean. Like the first iPhone – which was amazing by the way. They made an entire operating system around multitouch. A smart phone with no keyboard. And a working web browser. Within a few months, we all realised what the iPhone […]