av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 13, 2026 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads |
Amazon just unveiled a new personality type for Alexa+. The ”sassy” option is reserved for adults and the company claims it will throw out censored curse words from time to time. Amazon describes this option as a combination of ”unfiltered personality” and ”razor-sharp wit, playful sarcasm and occasional censored profanity.”
We aren’t yet sure how the chatbot handles the censoring. Does it use a garden variety bleep or a replacement word like fudge or something? I managed to get it to say ”damn” and ”hell”, but couldn’t force anything more profane than that.
Källa: Engadget
av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 13, 2026 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads |
David Gilmour‘s “Black Strat” sold for $14.55 million on Thursday at Christie’s auction for the Jim Irsay collection in New York. The sale of the guitar marked the most expensive guitar ever sold, besting the $6 million sale in 2020 of the 1959 Martin D-18E acoustic guitar Kurt Cobain played during Nirvana’s iconic MTV Unplugged performance.
Gilmour’s guitar was vital in the recording of seminal Pink Floydalbums The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977) and The Wall (1979). He used the guitar when recording the songs “Money,” “Shine on You Crazy Diamond,” and for his solo on “Comfortably Numb.” It was estimated to fetch $2 to $4 million prior to the auction commencing.
Källa: Rollingstone
av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 13, 2026 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads |
Google has released emergency security updates to patch two high-severity Chrome vulnerabilities exploited in zero-day attacks.
”Google is aware that exploits for both CVE-2026-3909 & CVE-2026-3910 exist in the wild,” Google said in a security advisory published on Thursday.
The first zero-day (CVE-2026-3909) stems from an out-of-bounds write weakness in Skia, an open-source 2D graphics library responsible for rendering web content and user interface elements, which attackers can exploit to crash the web browser or even gain code execution.
Källa: Bleepingcomputer
av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 13, 2026 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads |
Criminals are increasingly exploiting AI technology to take over people’s mobile, banking and online shopping accounts, the UK’s leading anti-fraud body has warned.
Last year, a record number of scams were reported to the national fraud database, fuelled by AI, which allows for large-scale deception on “industrialised” levels, according to Cifas, the fraud prevention organisation.
Its report showed 444,000 cases of fraud were reported by its members last year – a 6% increase on 2024. The tactics of criminals are shifting towards account takeovers, where they take control using stolen data and make unauthorised transactions.
Källa: Theguardian
av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 13, 2026 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads |
Meta disabled more than 150,000 accounts and Thai police arrested 21 people in a sweeping international crackdown on south-east Asian criminal scam centers that targeted people around the world, the social media company said on Wednesday.
The operation was led by Thailand’s Royal Thai police anti-cyber scam center, alongside the FBI and the US justice department’s scam center strike force, with Meta investigators acting on intelligence shared in real time by law enforcement.
Källa: Theguardian
av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 12, 2026 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads |
Researchers say they have uncovered a takedown-resistant botnet of 14,000 routers and other network devices—primarily made by Asus—that have been conscripted into a proxy network that anonymously carries traffic used for cybercrime.
The malware—dubbed KadNap—takes hold by exploiting vulnerabilities that have gone unpatched by their owners, Chris Formosa, a researcher at security firm Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs, told Ars. The high concentration of Asus routers is likely due to botnet operators acquiring a reliable exploit for vulnerabilities affecting those models. He said it’s unlikely that the attackers are using any zero-days in the operation.
Källa: Arstechnica
