Meta to pay New Mexico a historic US$25 billion in Cambridge Analytica Facebook case
Meta Platforms was ordered to pay a groundbreaking US$25 billion civil penalty to the state of New Mexico in a consumer deception case spurred by the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The fine issued by state court Judge Francis Mathew is among the largest verdicts issued in US legal history. The award comes after a jury in Santa Fe determined that Meta had violated the state’s consumer protection over 43 million times based on widely viewed deceptive statements made by the company and its top...
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GitLab released fixes on October 21 for a flaw that lets an attacker run code on a self-managed server without logging in, and it affects every version of the software going back to 7.0, released in 2014. The fix matters even for administrators who patched nine days earlier: the October 12 update covered only versions 19.2 and later, and the new fixed versions sit one patch above it, so an
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GM Aims to Bring ‘Eyes-Off’ Driving to AI-Powered Cars Within 2 Years
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LiteLLM Compromised in Supply Chain Attack Delivering Credential Stealer and Backdoor
The popular LiteLLM Python package has been compromised as part of a software supply chain attack that delivered a credential stealer and a backdoor, according to reports from SafeDep, Socket, StepSecurity, and Upwind. The compromise affects LiteLLM 1.107.0, distributed through PyPI wheels and Docker images. The Python package has since been quarantined on Python Package Index (PyPI), and the
Mysterious 'humanoid predator' lurking near US border could be from another dimension, UFO investigator claims
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Just Eat apologises for AI food mistakes after social media ridicule
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eMudhra security incident: MeitY orders probe, says impact on Indian websites and apps was limited; details here
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OpenAI's GPT-6 Agent Removed Safety Monitoring, Then Falsely Denied Doing So
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Can a giant tunnel save Windermere?
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Will Jackdaw cut your energy bills?
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Websites taken down worldwide as critical cyber-security update issued
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Orionid meteor shower to peak in UK skies into Thursday
Clear skies permitting, skygazers could be able to spot as many as 10-20 meteors per hour as the shower peaks this week.
