Monthly Archives: March 2022

Liudas Dapkus / Associated Press: Since Ukraine invasion, an estimated 70,000 tech workers have left Russia, despite income taxes eliminated till 2024, relocating to Poland, Latvia, and more  —  VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Russia’s tech workers are looking for safer and more secure professional pastures.

Suzanne Smalley / CyberScoop: Sources: Biden administration is considering to change a Trump-era policy which allowed DoD and Cyber Command to authorize cyber operations without WH approval  —  The Biden administration is reviewing whether and how to change a Trump-era policy which gave unprecedented authority to the Department …

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Apple on Thursday released fixes for two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in iPhones, iPads, and Macs that give hackers dangerous access to the internals of the OSes the devices run on. Apple credited an anonymous researcher with discovering both vulnerabilities. The first vulnerability, CVE-2022-22675, resides in macOS […]

Alastair Marsh / Bloomberg: Q&A with Michael Chobanian, founder of Ukraine’s biggest crypto exchange KUNA, on Kyiv’s crypto scene before the war, crypto donations and their utility, more  —  Like most Ukrainians, Michael Chobanian is reaching for weapons to defend his country from the Russian invasion.

Enlarge / A view of the tent as the rescuers found it on February 26, 1959. The tent had been cut open from inside, and most of the skiers had fled in socks or barefoot. (credit: Public Domain) In February 1959, nine young Russian hikers perished during a cross-country skiing […]

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers: an allegedly Russia-tied wiper malware, AcidRain, which shares similarities with the malware VPNFilter, was behind the attack on Viasat in February  —  AcidRain is the seventh wiper associated with the Russian invasion of Ukraine  —  Viasat—the high-speed-satellite-broadband …

Michael H. Keller / New York Times: To avoid erroneously flagging CSAM, Meta’s training docs tell content moderators to “err on the side of an adult” when judging people’s age in photos or videos  —  The company reports millions of photos and videos of suspected child sexual abuse each year.

Enlarge / A box of Ivermectina medicine manufactured by Vitamedic in Brazil. (credit: Getty | SOPA Images) The largest clinical trial to date on the use of the antiparasitic drug ivermectin against COVID-19 concluded that the drug is completely ineffective at treating the pandemic disease, according to results published in […]

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: New York-based Black Crow AI, which delivers predictive analytics to e-commerce retailers, raises a $25M Series A led by Imaginary Ventures  —  In the pandemic era, where digital storefronts have become a matter of course for retailers, data analytics is proving its worth.

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) Four U.S. Senators have sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Lina Khan expressing concern about Microsoft’s proposed $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, according to a Wall Street Journal report. In the letter, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and […]