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A recent report shows that the majority of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are worthless.

95% of NFTs are Worthless: Report Crypto crashed and brought NFTs with it.

Researchers have developed a new attack that targets graphic processors from all manufacturers.

Modern GPUs vulnerable to new GPU.zip side-channel attack Researchers from four American universities have developed a new GPU side-channel attack that leverages data compression to leak sensitive visual data from modern graphics cards when visiting web pages.

Sony is investigating a data breach as hackers fight over who is responsible.

Sony investigates cyberattack as hackers fight over who's responsible Sony says that it is investigating allegations of a cyberattack this week as different hackers have stepped up to claim responsibility for the purported hack. Thus far, over 3.14 GB of uncompressed data, allegedly belonging to Sony, has been dumped on hacker forums.

T-Mobile denies they suffered another data breach, claiming a retailer was responsible.

T-Mobile denies new data breach rumors, points to authorized retailer T-Mobile has denied suffering another data breach following Thursday night reports that a threat actor leaked a large database allegedly containing T-Mobile employees' data.

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Seismic activity on the moon is attributed to the Apollo 17 spacecraft that was left on the moon in 1972.

Small moonquakes caused by Apollo lunar lander module, study finds | CNN The Apollo 17 lunar lander module left behind by US astronauts on the moon’s surface could be causing moonquakes, or small tremors, a new study revealed.

T-Mobile customers report that the T-Mobile app displays other peoples' account and billing information.

T-Mobile app glitch let users see other people's account info T-Mobile customers today were able to see other people's account and billing information after logging into the company's official mobile application.

Microsoft is releasing an updated version of Paint for Windows 11 that supports layers and transparency.

Microsoft Paint finally gets support for layers and transparency ​Microsoft is finally rolling out support for layers and image transparency to the Paint image editor application 38 years after its launch.

TikToc is being flooded with fake cryptocurrency giveaways.

TikTok flooded by 'Elon Musk' cryptocurrency giveaway scams TikTok is flooded by a surge of fake cryptocurrency giveaways posted to the video-sharing platform, with almost all of the videos pretending to be themes based on Elon Musk, Tesla, or SpaceX.

Bing Chat users are reporting connectivity issues with the ChatGPT-powered chatbot.

Bing Chat AI is down, affecting Windows Copilot and more Bing Chat, the famous ChatGPT-powered chatbot that allows users to converse with various personalities and topics has connectivity issues worldwide.

German physicists have invented a way to write in water using an ion-exchange microbead.

Scientists figured out how to write in water German physicists used an ion-exchange microbead as a very tiny "pen."

Microsoft is investigating an outage preventing customers from sending/receiving messages with Teams.

Microsoft Teams down: Ongoing outage behind message failures, delays Microsoft is investigating an ongoing outage preventing customers from sending or receiving messages using the company's Microsoft Teams communication platform.

Hackers are targeting Facebook business accounts with Messenger phishing messages that have password-stealing malware attached.

Facebook Messenger phishing wave targets 100K business accounts per week Hackers use a massive network of fake and compromised Facebook accounts to send out millions of Messenger phishing messages to target Facebook business accounts with password-stealing malware.

MGM Resorts has reported a cyber attack that has forced them to shut down many of their online services.

MGM Resorts shuts down IT systems after cyberattack MGM Resorts International disclosed today that it is dealing with a cybersecurity issue that impacted some of its systems, including its main website, online reservations, and in-casino services, like ATMs, slot machines, and credit card machines.

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Researchers at Florida Atlantic University found that plastic and rubber wristbands are more susceptible to bacteria contamination.

Smartwatch Bands Are Loaded With Potentially Harmful Bacteria, Study Warns Owners of watches and fitness trackers might want to look away now: a new study has revealed that 95 percent of 20 different smartwatch wristbands tested were contaminated with bacteria capable of causing disease.

Toyota recently shut down 12 Japan-based production plants due to database servers running out of disk space.

Toyota says filled disk storage halted Japan-based factories Toyota says a recent disruption of operations in Japan-based production plants was caused by its database servers running out of storage space.

Microsoft has announced that Wordpad is being deprecated and will be removed from future releases.

Microsoft kills WordPad, will remove the app from Windows in future updates WordPad, a built-in text editor for Windows, is dead. Microsoft has updated its official documentation with a notification about the app's deprecation and future removal from modern Windows versions.

The programmers at Microsoft recently released one new Windows PowerToys called Crop And Lock. Here is 'Free Microsoft PowerToys for Windows 10 / Windows 11' revised.

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The University of Michigan recently took down all of its services and systems to deal with a cyber security issue.

University of Michigan shuts down network after cyberattack The University of Michigan has taken all of its systems and services offline to deal with a cybersecurity incident, causing a widespread impact on online services the night before classes started.

Microsoft is no longer offering unlimited OneDrive storage with its business plans.

Exclusive: Microsoft quietly ends unlimited cloud storage option on OneDrive Microsoft no longer offers OneDrive for Busines (Plan 2), with new users now capped to 1TB by default

MSI is looking into reports of blue screens of death on Windows 11 systems that installed the KB5029351 preview update.

MSI: Recent wave of Windows blue screens linked to MSI motherboards MSI has officially confirmed the recent surge of blue screens of death (BSODs) encountered by Windows users after installing this week's optional preview updates is linked to some of its motherboard models.

An AI-created article on Microsoft Travel suggests a Canadian food bank as a spot tourists cannot miss.

Microsoft AI suggests food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot in Canada [Updated] AI-penned Microsoft Travel article recommends food bank as a must-see destination.

Western Digital is facing several lawsuits regarding the reliability of its SanDisk Extreme series and My Passport portable SSDs.

SanDisk Extreme SSDs are “worthless,” multiple lawsuits against WD say Ars cited in two SanDisk SSD failure lawsuits filed yesterday.

Watchmaker Seiko has reported a data breach that may have leaked confidential technical schematics and watch designs.

Japanese watchmaker Seiko breached by BlackCat ransomware gang The BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware gang has added Seiko to its extortion site, claiming responsibility for a cyberattack disclosed by the Japanese firm earlier this month.

We are going through and refreshing some of our older articles. Here is 'Clean up and optimize your computer for free with CCleaner' revised.

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A recent study shows that bots are better and significantly faster than humans at cracking Captcha tests.

Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds New study suggests effort users put in cracking these puzzles every day may be more trouble than its worth

HP is facing a class-action lawsuit claiming it designs all-in-one printers to disable scanning/faxing when the ink runs low.

HP fails to derail claims that it bricks scanners on multifunction printers when ink runs low HP Inc. has failed to shunt aside claims in a lawsuit that it disables scanners and other functions on its multifunction printers whenever the ink runs low.

Security researchers have discovered over 100 hacker forums have been infected with malware and users' credentials stolen.

Over 100K hacking forums accounts exposed by info-stealing malware Researchers discovered 120,000 infected systems that contained credentials for cybercrime forums. Many of the computers belong to hackers, the researchers say.

Colorado state government is warning 4M people that a data breach may have contained their personal and health information.

Colorado warns 4 million of data stolen in IBM MOVEit breach The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) is alerting more than four million individuals of a data breach that impacted their personal and health information.

Security researchers have discovered a malware campaign disguised as a Tripadvisor complaint email.

Knight ransomware distributed in fake Tripadvisor complaint emails The Knight ransomware is being distributed in an ongoing spam campaign that pretends to be TripAdvisor complaints.

NASA reports that they have reestablished communication with the decades-old Voyager 2 spacecraft.

Voyager 2 phones home and says everything is cool After sending the command, NASA had to wait 37 hours for a response.

Security researchers have discovered 2 different vulnerabilities that affect generations of Intel processors.

“Downfall” bug affects years of Intel CPUs, can leak encryption keys and more Researchers also disclosed a separate bug called "Inception" for newer AMD CPUs.

Security researchers warn Microsoft 365 customers about a phishing campaign attempting to steal credentials.

EvilProxy phishing campaign targets 120,000 Microsoft 365 users EvilProxy is becoming one of the more popular phishing platforms to target MFA-protected accounts, with researchers seeing 120,000 phishing emails sent to over a hundred organizations to steal Microsoft 365 accounts.

Researchers have developed a method to jailbreak the infotainment systems used in all Tesla car models.

Tesla infotainment jailbreak unlocks paid features, extracts secrets Researchers from the Technical University of Berlin have developed a method to hack the AMD-based infotainment systems used in all recent Tesla car models and make it run any software they choose, aka achieve 'jailbreak.'

Security researchers have discovered that certain Microsoft Office files can be used to download malicious files.

Hackers can abuse Microsoft Office executables to download malware The list of LOLBAS files - legitimate binaries and scripts present in Windows that can be abused for malicious purposes, will include the main executables for Microsoft's Outlook email client and Access database management system.

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Microsoft says a Russian hacking group has targeted government agencies in Microsoft Teams phishing attacks.

Russian hackers target govt orgs in Microsoft Teams phishing attacks Microsoft says a hacking group tracked as APT29 and linked to Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) targeted dozens of organizations worldwide, including government agencies, in Microsoft Teams phishing attacks.