How this one-click Copilot attack bypassed security controls - and what Microsoft did about it

Reprompt impacted Microsoft Copilot Personal and, according to the team, gave "threat actors an invisible entry point to perform a data‑exfiltration chain that bypasses enterprise security controls ...
The New York Times

Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort

The Transportation Security Administration is flagging passengers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders. The Transportation Security ...
Reuters

Meta pledge to use less personal data for ads gets EU nod, avoids daily fines

BRUSSELS, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Meta's (META.O), opens new tab proposal to use less personal data for targeted advertising in its pay-or-consent model that will be rolled out next month won the approval ...
E&E

States push to end secrecy over data center water use

The effort is drawing bipartisan support and is expected to come up again next year as officials grapple with the artificial intelligence boom’s side effects. States facing drought and dwindling ...
ConsumerAffairs

What is a ‘data center’ and how much electricity does it use?

Dominion Energy says its upcoming $11-a-month rate hike is driven by grid upgrades and inflation — not Virginia’s rapidly growing data-center industry. Critics note that Virginia hosts one of the ...
The Verge

Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI

Viral posts claim you need to opt out of Gmail’s ‘smart features’ to avoid having your emails used to train AI, but Google says it doesn’t use the content of your emails for AI training. Viral posts ...
UPI

U.S. labor officials: Full October jobs report won't be released

Nov. 19 (UPI) --The federal government said Wednesday that October's full jobs report will not be released following the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. The Bureau of Labor Statistics ...
Bleeping Computer

Decades-old ‘Finger’ protocol abused in ClickFix malware attacks

The decades-old "finger" command is making a comeback,, with threat actors using the protocol to retrieve remote commands to execute on Windows devices. In the past, people used the finger command to ...
WSB-TV

Data center set to use 6 water towers worth of water per day in Georgia

COWETA COUNTY, Ga. — Massive data centers proposed for metro Atlanta expect to use millions of gallons of water per day. Some of those data centers are planning to use more water than entire Georgia ...
TechCrunch

Microsoft-backed Veir is bringing superconductors to data centers

Power demands of data centers have grown from tens to 200 kilowatts in just a few years, a pace that has data center developers scrambling to design future facilities that can handle the load. “In the ...
DualShockers

ARC Raiders: How To Unlock And Locate The Hidden Bunker

Miller Reynolds is a Journalist and Writer with a strong passion for gaming and writing news. Awarded the Excellence in Writing and Production Award while attending Loyalist College, Miller is ...