Thin Client News March 2024

Thin Client News March Digest

 

UnitedHealth confirms Optum hack behind US healthcare billing outage

bleepingcomputer.com – Bill Toulas

Healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group confirmed that its subsidiary Optum was forced to shut down IT systems and various services after a cyberattack …

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Brave browser brings new AI reading features to its privacy-focused chatbot

Digiday  – By Marty Swant

The chatbot race is moving further into the land of digital documents. The privacy-focused browser Brave has added more ways for its AI assistant …

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ChatGPT goes ‘off the rails’ with gibberish answers

VentureBeat – Carl Franzen

Days after wowing the world with incredibly photorealistic demos of its new AI video generation model, Sora, OpenAI is hitting a big roadblock. The startup’s signature product, ChatGPT, began

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The rise and fall of robots.txt

The Verge – David Pierce

For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart. Part of / For three decades, a tiny text file has kept the internet

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Another “patent troll” defeated by Cloudflare and its army of bounty seekers

Ars Technica – Ashley Belanger

Cloudflare committed $100K in bounties to “hamstring” another patent troll. Once again, Cloudflare has proven that its unusual defense against …

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Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software

Ars Technica – Andrew Cunningham

Software’s free version was a good fit for tinkerers and hobbyists. Since Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware closed in November 2023, …

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Microsoft BitLocker encryption cracked in just 43 seconds with a $4 Raspberry Pi Pico

TechSpot – Kishalaya Kundu

What just happened? Bitlocker encryption in Windows OS improves data security by protecting system files and personal data using the AES encryption …

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Ubuntu Touch Isn’t Dead: OTA-4 Arrives With New Features

howtogeek.com – Andrew Heinzman

Compatible smartphones can now install the Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 update. This update includes some essential features that we expect from smartphone …

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Cybercriminals crave cookies, not passwords

cybernews.com – Ernestas Naprys

All cookies are vulnerable, but they are all it takes to compromise Google or other accounts, Trevor Hilligoss, former FBI digital crime expert and …