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Anora was the big winner at the Oscars a week ago, securing awards for best picture, actress, and director, among others. This major achievement puts the movie in the spotlight and increases interest through both legal and illegal channels. Fresh data collected by TorrentFreak shows that pirate downloads surged right after the awards ceremony ended.

• X, the former Twitter, has experienced a worldwide outage as of 12PM on Monday CAT.
• This is likely the first major outage of the company since Musk took ownership in 2022.
• The outage seems to have only lasted for about half an hour.

Companies are turning to tech solutions to screen candidates. Critics and job seekers have concerns.

• CR researchers were able to easily create a voice clone based on publicly available audio in four of the six products in the test set:

1. These products did not employ any technical mechanisms to ensure researchers had the speaker’s consent to generate a clone or to limit the cloning to the user’s own voice. These companies—ElevenLabs, Speechify, PlayHT, and Lovo—required only that researchers check a box confirming that they had the legal right to clone the voice or make a similar self-attestation.
2. Descript and Resemble AI took steps to make it more difficult for customers to misuse their products by creating a non-consensual voice clone.

• Four of the six companies (Speechify, Lovo, PlayHT, and Descript) required only a customer’s name and/or email address to make an account.

It's just one of 6,000 apps that New Zealand thinks might be best tamed with ERP

In December 2024, Microsoft Threat Intelligence identified a malware campaign stemming from pirate streaming sites. Using iframe malvertising redirector URLs to generate revenue, and redirects up to five layers deep, malware payloads hosted on GitHub, Discord and Dropbox, acted as a dropper for additional payloads hosted elsewhere. Microsoft says the goal was to steal information and it believes almost a million devices were infected.

A woman from Dunfermline has spoken of her shock after an Apple voice-to-text service mistakenly inserted a reference to sex - and an apparent insult - into a message left by a garage.

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~The is what Mrs Littlejohn saw on the voicemail screen in the Phone app on her iPhone after receiving a voicemail from the garage.~

A tale of good versus evil played out on the large screen in the sanctuary of St. Paul’s Lutheran church in Finland. Jesus was shown in robes with long hair and a beard, while Satan was dressed in more modern clothes but with a menacing frown and higher-pitched voice — all created by artificial intelligence.

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Tarlogic Security has detected a backdoor in the ESP32, a microcontroller that enables WiFi and Bluetooth connection and is present in millions of mass-market IoT devices. Exploitation of this backdoor would allow hostile actors to conduct impersonation attacks and permanently infect sensitive devices such as mobile phones, computers, smart locks or medical equipment by bypassing code audit controls.

Update: The ESP32 "backdoor" that wasn't.