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<!–> SOPA Images/Contributor/Getty Images The Australian government is launching an investigation into an hours-long outage involving local telco Optus, which left millions without access to telephone and broadband services. More than 10 million customers, including 400,000 businesses, were affected by the service disruption that also brought down payment systems and resulted in transport delays. Local […] More
<!–> Nuthawut Somsuk/Getty Images Bitwarden–>, the password manager company, has been busy this year getting ready for passkeys with its acquisition of passwordless.dev, creating new passkey development tools, and carrying out research into passkey adoption. And the company is now rolling out passkey management tools to all its users, including those on its free plan. Also: What are passkeys? Experience the […] More
<!–> koiguo/Getty Images WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app in the world, and users largely prefer it because, aside from being easy to use, it boasts strong privacy features. This summer, WhatsApp added a new privacy feature that lets users silence unknown callers. Now the messaging app has a new setting to hide your […] More
<!–> Image: Getty Images Google’s Play Store has been persistently threatened by malicious and insecure apps over the years, triggering alarm bells among many Android users. In response, the company is trying a new tactic to generate more trust with people looking for safe and reliable software. Also: The best antivirus software and apps right […] More
<!–> TU IS/Getty Images A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack has been identified as the cause of an online service outage that affected several public healthcare institutions in Singapore. And the attacks are continuing, according to national healthtech agency Synapxe, which is responsible for the IT operations that support the country’s public healthcare network. This network […] More
<!–> cofotoisme/Getty Images A group of 28 nations, including China and the US, has agreed to work together to identify and manage potential risks from “frontier” artificial intelligence (AI), marking the first such multilateral agreement. Published by the UK, the Bletchley Declaration on AI Safety outlines the countries’ recognition of the “urgent need” to ensure […] More
<!–> courtneyk/Getty Images Efforts are underway to provide a common set of benchmarks to assess generative artificial intelligence (AI) products and to create a “body of knowledge” on how these tools should be tested. The aim is to provide a standard approach to the evaluation of generative AI applications and to galvanize efforts to address […] More
My iPhone 14 Pro Max running iOS 17.1 crashed in under three minutes with a Flipper Zero Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET All eyes are on iOS 17.1 to fix a raft of iPhone issues, from the overheating problems that made iPhones almost too hot to touch (early reports are positive here), that odd screen burn-in problem that […] More
