China-linked attackers have used vulnerabilities in the Pulse Secure VPN appliance to attack US Defense Industrial Base networks. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Microsoft and video-game chat company Discord have ended takeover talks after Discord rejected a $12 billion bid, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing a people familiar with the matter. From the report: Discord is now focused on a potential public listing in the long term, the people said, asking not to be identified because the matter is…

British security agency MI5 has launched a new education campaign to warn potential victims of the attacks. …read more Source:: DarkReading

For marketing leaders to design the optimal technology stack, they must start to focus on customer profiles and not channels and applications. …read more Source:: ZDNet

At today’s Spring Loaded event, Apple unveiled a new version of the iPad Pro, equipped with the M1 chip that was first introduced on the company’s Mac line. TechCrunch reports: The new chip sports an 8-core CPU, with performance up to 50% faster than the A12Z Bionic found on the previous generation. There’s also an…

All supported releases will now support ECMAScript modules – but progress on moving away from CommonJS is slow Node.js 16 has been released with prebuilt Apple Silicon binaries and version 9.0 of the V8 JavaScript engine.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

The Mozilla Foundation releases Firefox 88, fixing 13 bugs ranging from high to low severity. …read more Source:: Threatpost

The Federal Trade Commission has signaled that it’s taking a hard look at bias in AI, warning businesses that selling or using such systems could constitute a violation of federal law. From a report: “The FTC Act prohibits unfair or deceptive practices,” the post reads. “That would include the sale or use of — for…

Apple’s iPhone 11 and 12 phones can lead you to AirTag trackers on your keychain or in your purse with radio technology called ultra wideband that precisely pinpoints location. …read more Source:: CNet

Facebook wants you to believe that the scraping of 533 million people’s personal data from its platform, and the dumping of that data online by nefarious people, is something to be “normalised.” The Register: A blundering Facebook public relations operative managed to send a journalist a copy of an internal document detailing the social network’s…