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Google’s AI Overviews and other AI-powered tools, including chatbots, are devastating traffic for news publishers, per a Wall Street Journal report. Now that people can simply ask a chatbot for answers – sometimes generated from news content taken without a publisher’s knowledge – there’s no need to click on Google’s blue links. That means referrals to news sites are plummeting, cutting off the traffic publishers need to sustain quality journalism. Google released AI Overviews, its search result summary tool, last year. Its rollout hit traffic to sites like vacation guides, health tips, and product reviews, per the Journal. AI Mode,…
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) is expanding its Industry Days program by a day, refocusing and adding some new offerings this year, including a series incubator. Running Sunday, July 6-Wednesday, July 9, the Eastern Promises industry section and market will have “a sharpened focus on Central European co-production opportunities in an updated showcase format.” The extended program also broadens its scope with new presentations and events dedicated to the small screen and series development. In one significant change, the fest is launching a new format dedicated to showcasing film projects in the making. As a result, the previous…
The rise of AI technology has also fueled a surge in AI-enabled fraud. In Q1 2025 alone, 87 deepfake-driven scam rings were dismantled. This alarming statistic, revealed in the 2025 Anti-Scam Month Research Report co-authored by Bitget, SlowMist, and Elliptic, underscores the growing danger of AI-driven scams in the crypto space.The report also reveals a 24% year-on-year increase in global crypto scam losses, reaching a total of $4.6 billion in 2024. Nearly 40% of high-value fraud cases involved deepfake technologies, with scammers increasingly using sophisticated impersonations of public figures, founders, and platform executives to deceive users.Distribution of Causes for Security…
Apple, the world’s fourth-largest company by market capitalization, should buy Bitcoin to address the poor performance of its stock buyback program, according to Strategy executive chairman, Michael Saylor.“Apple should buy Bitcoin,” Saylor said in a June 10 X post.Saylor’s comment responded to Jim Cramer’s criticism of the Apple buyback program.“The Apple buyback is not working right now,” Cramer wrote in a June 10 X post. “The company can leave it to earn a lot or it can take some and integrate. It is not a badge of dishonor. It just isn’t,” he added.Source: Michael SaylorRelated: James Wynn’s second $100M Bitcoin bet:…
Modern enterprise networks are highly complex environments that rely on hundreds of apps and infrastructure services. These systems need to interact securely and efficiently without constant human oversight, which is where non-human identities (NHIs) come in. NHIs — including application secrets, API keys, service accounts, and OAuth tokens — have exploded in recent years, thanks to an ever-expanding array of apps and services that must work together and identify one another on the fly. In some enterprises, NHIs now outnumber human identities by as much as 50-to-1. However, NHIs introduce unique risks and management challenges that have security leaders on…
Jun 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / API Security Google has stepped in to address a security flaw that could have made it possible to brute-force an account’s recovery phone number, potentially exposing them to privacy and security risks. The issue, according to Singaporean security researcher “brutecat,” leverages an issue in the company’s account recovery feature. That said, exploiting the vulnerability hinges on several moving parts, specifically targeting a now-deprecated JavaScript-disabled version of the Google username recovery form (“accounts.google[.]com/signin/usernamerecovery”) that lacked anti-abuse protections designed to prevent spammy requests. The page in question is designed to help users check if a recovery email…
Lucy Liu will attend the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland this summer to receive a career achievement award and present the international premiere of her film Rosemead, organizers unveiled on Tuesday, highlighting that she is “widely celebrated for her iconic performances across film, television, and stage.” The festival will bestow the honor upon Liu on the evening of Thursday, Aug. 14, with the star afterwards set to present her film Rosemead about the Asian American mental health crisis, alongside the film’s cast and crew. The actress plays a Chinese immigrant battling a terminal illness while navigating her son’s worsening schizophrenia in Eric Lin’s directorial debut that premiered at…
Brian Quintenz, US President Donald Trump’s nominee to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), has said that blockchain is a foundational technology poised to transform much more than just finance.In prepared remarks ahead of his Senate confirmation hearing shared with Cointelegraph, Quintenz pointed out the long-term impact of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. “I view blockchain as a horizontal technology that has the potential to touch every aspect of society,” he said.Quintenz, who most recently served as the global head of policy at a16z Crypto (Andreessen Horowitz’s digital asset arm), also mentioned the importance of a comprehensive regulatory framework for crypto…
Jun 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Malware The threat actor known as Rare Werewolf (formerly Rare Wolf) has been linked to a series of cyber attacks targeting Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries. “A distinctive feature of this threat is that the attackers favor using legitimate third-party software over developing their own malicious binaries,” Kaspersky said. “The malicious functionality of the campaign described in this article is implemented through command files and PowerShell scripts.” The intent of the attacks is to establish remote access to compromised hosts, and siphon credentials, and deploy the XMRig cryptocurrency miner. The activity…
Ripple Labs is set to commit an additional $5 million to help fund academic research and foster blockchain talent in the Asia-Pacific region.In a blog post on Tuesday, Ripple Labs said it will be committing the additional funding via its University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI), which will fund universities across six countries, with new grants being allocated to universities in Taiwan and Australia.Yonsei University Source: Wikimedia CommonsUBRI has committed $1.1 million to Yonsei University in South Korea over a six-year partnership. In Japan, UBRI has committed $1.5 million to Kyoto University and the University of Tokyo. In Singapore, the total…