Journals

Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian: A US judge orders the NSO Group to hand over its code for Pegasus and other spyware products to WhatsApp, as part of the company’s ongoing litigation  —  Israeli company NSO Group is accused in… Read More »A US judge orders the NSO Group to hand over its code for Pegasus and other spyware products to WhatsApp, as part of the company’s ongoing litigation (Stephanie Kirchgaessner/The Guardian)

Bloomberg: Meta says it plans to deprecate the Facebook News tab in the US and Australia in early April 2024 and won’t sign new deals for news content in those countries  —  Meta Platforms Inc. is winding down its news… Read More »Meta says it plans to deprecate the Facebook News tab in the US and Australia in early April 2024 and won’t sign new deals for news content in those countries (Bloomberg)

The Guardian: An investigation into ClothOff, an app being used to make deepfake porn images of underage girls, finds a brother and sister in Belarus are linked to the app  —  Exclusive: Guardian investigation for podcast series Black Box reveals… Read More »An investigation into ClothOff, an app being used to make deepfake porn images of underage girls, finds a brother and sister in Belarus are linked to the app (The Guardian)

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: HPE reports Q1 revenue down 14% YoY to $6.76B, vs. $7.1B est., Server revenue down 23% YoY to $3.4B, and reduces its FY 2024 outlook for sales growth and profit  —  Revenue will increase as much… Read More »HPE reports Q1 revenue down 14% YoY to $6.76B, vs. $7.1B est., Server revenue down 23% YoY to $3.4B, and reduces its FY 2024 outlook for sales growth and profit (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: Dell reports Q4 revenue down 11% YoY to $22.3B vs. $22.2B est., Client revenue down 12% to $11.7B, and Infrastructure revenue down 6% to $9.3B; DELL jumps 15%+  —  Dell Technologies reported a better-than-expected fourth… Read More »Dell reports Q4 revenue down 11% YoY to $22.3B vs. $22.2B est., Client revenue down 12% to $11.7B, and Infrastructure revenue down 6% to $9.3B; DELL jumps 15%+ (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google adds Photomath, which lets users solve math problems by taking a photo, to its Play Store and App Store publisher accounts, after buying the app in 2022  —  In May of 2022, Google announced that… Read More »Google adds Photomath, which lets users solve math problems by taking a photo, to its Play Store and App Store publisher accounts, after buying the app in 2022 (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: GitHub enables push protection by default for all public repositories to prevent accidental leaks of secrets like access tokens and API keys when pushing code  —  GitHub has enabled push protection by default for all public… Read More »GitHub enables push protection by default for all public repositories to prevent accidental leaks of secrets like access tokens and API keys when pushing code (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Alibaba researchers detail EMO, or Emote Portrait Alive, an AI system that can create realistic talking and singing videos from portrait photos  —  Researchers at Alibaba’s Institute for Intelligent Computing have developed a new artificial intelligence… Read More »Alibaba researchers detail EMO, or Emote Portrait Alive, an AI system that can create realistic talking and singing videos from portrait photos (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: JFrog says it found around a hundred malicious ML models on Hugging Face, some of which can backdoor users’ machines  —  At least 100 instances of malicious AI ML models were found on the Hugging Face… Read More »JFrog says it found around a hundred malicious ML models on Hugging Face, some of which can backdoor users’ machines (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Paul Vieira / Wall Street Journal: Canada’s antitrust watchdog expands its four-year probe into Google’s online ad practices, with a focus on whether the company engages in predatory pricing  —  The Competition Burea is investigating whether the search giant engages… Read More »Canada’s antitrust watchdog expands its four-year probe into Google’s online ad practices, with a focus on whether the company engages in predatory pricing (Paul Vieira/Wall Street Journal)