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FBI: Scammers stole more than $3.4B from older Americans last year

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Washington — Scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year, according to an...
Washington — Scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year, according to an FBI report released Tuesday that shows a rise in losses through increasingly sophisticated criminal tactics to trick the vulnerable into giving up their life savings. Losses from scams reported by Americans over the ag...

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US, Argentina to cooperate, combat illegal Chinese fishing

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Panama City — Starting next month, the U.S. Coast Guard and Argentine Navy will begin conducting...
Panama City — Starting next month, the U.S. Coast Guard and Argentine Navy will begin conducting joint exercises aimed at combating illegal Chinese fishing in the Atlantic Ocean. Argentina, Chile and Peru have criticized Chinese-operated craft for large-scale invasive fishing in their territorial waters without regu...

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White House urges devs to switch to memory-safe programming languages

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The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) urged tech companies today to switch...
The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) urged tech companies today to switch to memory-safe programming languages, such as Rust, to improve software security by reducing the number of memory safety vulnerabilities. Such vulnerabilities are coding errors or weaknesses within software that can lea...

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Quantifying the diva-ness of national anthem performances

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Russian nukes in space: Intelligence leak more serious than the threat itself

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US national security The world’s media went into overdrive on Wednesday after the chairman of the...
US national security The world’s media went into overdrive on Wednesday after the chairman of the US House Intelligence Committee warned of a “serious national security threat” that multiple sources then identified as Russia's ambition to deploy a nuclear anti-satellite system in space. But how realistic is this sce...

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Americans lost record $10B to fraud in 2023, FTC warns

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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says Americans lost over $10 billion to scammers in 2023,...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says Americans lost over $10 billion to scammers in 2023, marking a 14% increase in reported losses compared to the previous year. To put this into context, Chainalysis says ransomware gangs also had a record year, with ransomware payments having reached over $1.1 billion in 2...

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FBI disrupts Chinese botnet by wiping malware from infected routers

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The FBI has disrupted the KV Botnet used by Chinese Volt Typhoon state hackers to evade...
The FBI has disrupted the KV Botnet used by Chinese Volt Typhoon state hackers to evade detection during attacks targeting U.S. critical infrastructure. The hacking group (also tracked as Bronze Silhouette) used it to hijack hundreds of small office/home offices (SOHO) across the United States and used them to ensur...

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ElevenLabs lands $80M from a16z and Sequoia – and becomes a unicorn

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FTC orders Intuit to stop pushing "free" software that isn't free

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Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered Intuit to stop promoting its software products and...
Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered Intuit to stop promoting its software products and services as "free" unless they're actually free for all consumers. The order comes after the consumer protection watchdog's investigation into how Intuit promoted its tax preparation software TurboTax as being a...

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FBI: Scammers stole more than $3.4B from older Americans last year

US, Argentina to cooperate, combat illegal Chinese fishing

White House urges devs to switch to memory-safe programming languages

Quantifying the diva-ness of national anthem performances

Russian nukes in space: Intelligence leak more serious than the threat itself

Americans lost record $10B to fraud in 2023, FTC warns

FBI disrupts Chinese botnet by wiping malware from infected routers

ElevenLabs lands $80M from a16z and Sequoia – and becomes a unicorn

FTC orders Intuit to stop pushing "free" software that isn't free