Month: December 2024

Policy-as-Code: WTF Is It?

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Even Your Policies Deserve Automation (And Maybe a Hug) Let’s face it: Managing cloud policies manually can be risky. Luckily, there’s Policy-as-Code (PaC), which automates cloud policy management and simplifies the process. With PaC, you can avoid security issues and ensure compliance without much effort. Let’s replace chaos with clarity for easier cloud policy management. … Read more

Judge confirms decision to sink Elon Musk’s $56B pay package despite Tesla shareholder vote

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Delaware Chancery court judge Kathaleen McCormick has denied Tesla’s request to revise her decision to strike down CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package — despite shareholders voting at the company’s annual meeting this year to “re-ratify” the deal. Her decision, laid out in a 103-page opinion published on Monday, explains that the attempt by … Read more

Threads takes on Bluesky with more advanced search

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Meta’s X competitor Instagram Threads is gaining an improved search interface, the company announced on Monday. The app, which offers a Meta-run alternative to Elon Musk’s X, but built on top of Instagram’s social graph, is rolling out a new way to search for specific posts, allowing users to filter searches by user profiles and … Read more

Threads’ next update is a search feature that finds the post you’re looking for

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Illustration: The Verge Threads is rolling out a search update globally over the next few weeks that will let users filter searches to a specific profile and within date ranges. The existing search built into Threads has been a basic keyword search to find trending topics, posts, or accounts, with “Top” and “Recent” sorting options. … Read more

Sweet Security Unveils First Unified Detection And Response Platform

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TEL AVIV, ISRAEL, December 3rd, 2024/CyberNewsWire/–With Sweet, customers can now unify detection and response for applications, workloads, and cloud infrastructure. Sweet Security today announced the release of its unified Cloud Native Detection and Response platform, designed to transform the way organizations protect their cloud environments in real time. Sweet’s platform integrates the capabilities of Application … Read more

FTC fines online retailer Goat $2M over deceptive ‘Instant’ and ‘Next Day’ orders

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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ordered Goat, an online marketplace for sneakers and apparel, to pay more than $2 million to consumers over illegal shipping practices. The FTC also alleges that Goat fails to honor its “Buyer Protection” policies. In a complaint, the agency outlined that Goat has failed to ship many orders … Read more

The Dai Lo Announces Acquisition Of Fractal Network

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DENVER, USA, December 2nd, 2024/Chainwire/–Dai Lo is thrilled to announce the successful acquisition of Fractal,which marks a pivotal moment for the future of blockchain technology and privacy innovation. After months of strategic discussions, the acquisition, completed for an undisclosed amount, positions The Dai Lo to harness Fractal’s groundbreaking ZK technology and revitalize its vision for … Read more

Polymarket Retains Loyal User Base a Month After Election, Data Shows

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During the dog days of summer, Polymarket’s election betting surged on (correct) speculation that the Democrats would make a “hot swap” of Joe Biden for Kamala Harris as their presidential candidate. Trading volume grew and grew through the fall. All along, <a href=”https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/08/29/can-prediction-market-boom-continue-after-election-this-crypto-team-has-a-plan” target=”_blank”>doubts lingered</a> about whether the platform’s trader base would hold steady after … Read more

AT&T launches a wireless backup for fiber internet outages

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Illustration: The Verge AT&T has announced a new feature called Internet Backup that will automatically switch from a home’s wired internet to a cellular connection through a nearby smartphone should its fiber service experience a disruption. The feature is offered at no additional charge to customers with AT&T Fiber service and an “eligible AT&T unlimited … Read more

GM offloads one of its battery factories to joint venture partner LGES

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General Motors is selling its stake in the nearly completed Ultium Cells battery cell plant in Lansing, Michigan to its joint venture partner LG Energy Solution. GM’s step back from the factory comes amid weakening electric vehicle demand and the potential rollback of Biden administration incentives to produce clean energy domestically.  GM and LGES initially … Read more

Code Smell 282 – Bad Defaults and How to Fix Them

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Defaults Can Sink You TL;DR: Treat unknown responses as unauthorized, not as valid. Problems Security risks Ignoring unknown cases Error Misinterpretation Defaulting to valid states Mismatch Authorizations Failing to log events Exploitation Potential Solutions Validate all responses against a closed set of known codes. Default (and unknown) to unauthorized or Remove Defaults. Log every mismatched … Read more

Why does the name ‘David Mayer’ crash ChatGPT? Digital privacy requests may be at fault

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Users of the conversational AI platform ChatGPT discovered an interesting phenomenon over the weekend: the popular chatbot refuses to answer questions if asked about a “David Mayer.” Asking it to do so causes it to freeze up instantly. Conspiracy theories ensued — but a more ordinary reason may be at the heart of this strange … Read more

Key Notations and Algorithm for Computing Pseudo-Gyrodistances in Structure Spaces

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Preliminaries Proposed Approach 3.1 Notation 3.2 Nueral Networks on SPD Manifolds 3.3 MLR in Structure Spaces 3.4 Neural Networks on Grassmann Manifolds Experiments Conclusion and References A. Notations B. MLR in Structure Spaces C. Formulation of MLR from the Perspective of Distances to Hyperplanes D. Human Action Recognition … Read more