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Submission + - Journalist spots off-the-radar terrorist using facial recognition software (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Bruce66423
Bruce66423 writes: A German court this week sentenced a member of the Red Army Faction — a hard left terrorist organisation that operated in West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s — to jail. She had remained hidden for decades, and the German police hadn't deployed facial recognition software to catch her. But according to the article a journalist did, to good effect.

Is the ban on the police using it a good thing? Is it good that a journalist was able to track her down using it?

Submission + - How to turn a 0day into a PR disaster: bully security researchers (heise.de)

Submitted by Elektroschock
Elektroschock writes: Microsoft bullied the publisher of BlueHammer (CVE-2026-33825), RedSun (CVE-2026-41091), UnDefend (CVE-2026-45498), YellowKey (CVE-2026-45585), and GreenPlasma/MiniPlasma (CVE-2020-17103 derivatives). A GitHub account was deleted, another account locked down, threats of international legal charges were made, and public law enforcement tipped off. That is a really unpleasant way to deal with a security nightmare of one’s own making. According to Microsoft, the courtesy of informing the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) in advance was not extended. The researcher refutes that claim and speaks of layoffs of competent security staff, blocked accounts, and broken communication channels. There are also rumours of new formality requirements concerning video attachments.

Submission + - Researchers identify people through ordinary Wi-Fi with 99 percent-accuracy (tomshardware.com)

Submitted by Baron_Yam
Baron_Yam writes: Security researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have published a paper demonstrating that unencrypted beamforming data broadcast by Wi-Fi devices during normal operation can be used to identify individuals walking through a room with 99.5% accuracy, regardless of whether the individuals are carrying Wi-Fi devices. The tactic leverages the router's beamforming tech to identify individuals with up to 99.5% accuracy, and it works with existing routers, too.

The system, called BFId, requires no specialized hardware, no access to the target Wi-Fi network, and works even if the person being tracked isn't carrying a wireless device. The team tested the attack on 197 participants, the largest dataset ever used in Wi-Fi-based identification works, and plans to present its findings at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) in Taipei.

See GitHub — https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVi... — for your own personal implementation requiring a couple of APs and a couple of ESP32 nodes. You can get full-home per-zone motion and occupancy detection fairly reliably, with the potential for pose detection and in optimal areas even respiration rate. With the right hardware and configuration, you can theoretically get heart rate too.

Submission + - Acer just announced a Debian Linux gaming handheld (nerds.xyz)

Submitted by BrianFagioli
BrianFagioli writes: announced a new handheld gaming device called the Nitro Blaze Link, but unlike devices such as the Steam Deck or ASUS ROG Ally, this one is not trying to run games locally. Instead, Acer describes it as a “streaming-first” handheld designed to stream games from an existing gaming PC using Sunshine and Moonlight. The company says the device runs Debian Linux, includes a 7-inch WUXGA touchscreen, Wi-Fi 6, and weighs just 464 grams. Curiously, Acer never disclosed the processor powering the device, while the published specs list only 1GB RAM and 8GB eMMC storage.

The idea here seems pretty simple: instead of cramming increasingly power-hungry GPUs into portable gaming PCs, Acer is betting some gamers would rather have a lightweight Linux streaming terminal for couch gaming around the house. The Nitro Blaze Link is expected to launch in North America during Q4 2026, although Acer has not announced pricing yet.

Submission + - Pentagon says US military personnel targeted using commercial location data (msn.com) 1

Submitted by JoeyRox
JoeyRox writes: U.S. forces deployed to war zones have been targeted using commercially available location data, according to reports fielded by military officials, an illustration of how the global surveillance economy is shaping the battlefield.

In a letter shared with Reuters by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, U.S. Central Command said it had "received multiple threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data to target or surveil U.S. personnel in theater." The message, sent on April 14, offered no further specifics, but Centcom's area of responsibility includes the Gulf, where U.S. forces are facing off against the Iranian military over the Strait of Hormuz.

Submission + - I found a second vote.gov -- and it's registered to the White House

Submitted by As_I_Please
As_I_Please writes: The Drey Dossier reports that the National Design Studio, an office created by executive order and which reports only to the White House, has been building copies of federal agency websites like vote.gov, passports.gov, login.gov and others.

What [the National Design Studio] is doing is taking the parts of the federal government that touch you directly, your prescription, your voter registration, your passport, your federal login, out of the agencies that legally own them and rebuilding them on White House infrastructure. Vote.gov belongs to the Election Assistance Commission, and the studio built a copy. Passports belong to the State Department, and the studio is building a replacement this week. Login.gov belonged to GSA, and the studio’s guy runs it now.

Trump has said publicly that this infrastructure is for other presidents, and he is right about that. It is the one thing in this story I take him at his word on. The infrastructure outlasts him. Whoever wins in 2028 inherits the websites, the vendors, the data, and the hardware, sealed and waiting.

NDS Infrastructure Map — my live working github map of every National Design Studio subdomain I have found, filterable by status, registrant, and parent domain. If you want to retrace this investigation or watch new subdomains appear in real time, start here.

Submission + - Mythos Detected 23,000 Vulnerabilities Across 1,000 Open Source Projects (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: Anthropic says its Claude Mythos model discovered thousands of severe vulnerabilities across more than 1,000 open source software (OSS) projects. According to the AI giant, Mythos Preview has identified more than 23,000 potential vulnerabilities. Of these, 1,900 have been reviewed by external security firms, and 1,726 have been confirmed, including over 1,000 rated ‘high’ or ‘critical’ severity.

Submission + - Pope Leo Warns of Risks From AI In 42,300-Word Encyclical (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Pope Leo XIV on Monday set out a sweeping vision for corporate executives, politicians and individuals who will shape and be shaped by the future of artificial intelligence, warning leaders to safeguard humanity from A.I.’s most disruptive effects. Leo’s declaration came in the form of a papal encyclical, an open letter to “all people of good will” that ran to roughly 42,300 words in its English version. It outlined his desire to protect human dignity and agency in an age in which technology threatens to replace humans in many professional and social roles. He presented it alongside Christopher Olah, a co-founder of Anthropic, a major A.I. developer, in a symbolic gesture of dialogue between leaders of the spiritual and technological worlds.

While emphasizing that “technology should not be considered, in itself, as a force antagonistic to humanity,” he wrote that “the pursuit of greater profits cannot justify choices that systematically sacrifice jobs.” Among other things, Leo called for:
— government regulation of the private companies that are driving the development of A.I.
— protection and retraining for workers whose jobs are threatened
— education to help students think critically about the technology
— action to protect children from violent, hypersexualized or fake information online that is often generated by A.I.
— safeguards to ensure that humans, not artificial intelligence, remain responsible for all decisions regarding the use of weapons.

Above all he emphasized the importance of retaining a fundamental social role for all human beings. “A society that guarantees employment to only a small fraction of the population, despite having a high level of technical development, risks exposing many to forced inactivity,” he wrote. “This creates a paradox of material progress and anthropological regression that undermines the foundations of a just and stable social peace,” he added.

Submission + - Friends rally to stop closure of historic solar observatory (cloudcroftreader.com)

Submitted by D2inAlamo
D2inAlamo writes: NSF plans to plow under Sunspot Solar Observatory, at Sacramento Peak, NM, because of a mercury leak in the Dunn Solar Telescope. But, Friends of Sunspot are pushing back.

“Just because the telescope isn’t operational doesn’t mean the rest of the site’s still not viable,” Heidi Sanchez, president of the Sunspot Community Center, said in an article in the Cloudcroft Reader. “To spend all that money to demolish everything – our tax dollars could be used better than that.” Friends of Sunspot contend that the Dunn, built in 1969, could become a hands-on museum once the mercury is removed and the rest of the site renovated to provide an astronomy-oriented RV park and solar physics school.

Sunspot was started by the U.S. Air Force in 1947 as one of the first space weather forecasting stations. It quickly grew to support coronagraphic and patrol telescopes, and the Dunn, built in 1969. Although superseded by larger telescopes, even the NSF once acknowledged that the Dunn would be ideal for training future scientists who cannot access those facilities.

Submission + - Has Johnny Ive has ruined the Ferrari EV ?

Submitted by greytree
greytree writes: The Ferrari Luce, their first EV, was revealed today and it appears to be quite unpopular.

    "A 2012 Honda electric concept design with an 2005 Apple interior. Another masterpiece"

    "This is the beginning of the end for Ferrari"

    "that's a good $50k entry level korean sedan. oh wait.. you say it will cost 10x that?"

Moral: Don't get phone designers to design your car to look like a phone from above.

Comment Re:Oh, and here's a fun thing to try (Score 1) 78

Search /. for "exposed customer's" and see how many of those articles BeauHD has posted. Then look at how very, very differently the headlines are written in comparison to this one. Even when the relevant company is directly at fault.

Looking at the slashdot headline: "Trump Mobile Exposed Customers' Personal Data, Including Phone Numbers and Home Addresses" I imagine I see the original techcrunch headline: "Trump Mobile confirms it exposed customers’ personal data, including phone numbers and home addresses" shortened to fit slashdots 54 character headline limit.

What did you treat yourself to?

Submission + - 'Notepad++ For Mac' Release Is Disavowed By the Creator of the Original (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: As its name implies, the venerable Notepad++ text editor began as a more capable version of the classic Windows Notepad, with features such as line numbering and syntax highlighting. It was created in 2003 by Don Ho, who continues to be its primary author and maintainer, and it has been a Windows-exclusive app throughout its existence (older Notepad++ versions support OSes as old as Windows 95; the current version officially supports everything going back to Windows 7). I’m not a devoted user of the app, but I was aware of its history, which is why I was surprised to see news of a “Notepad++ for Mac” port making the rounds last week, as though it were a port of the original available from the Notepad++ website.

Apparently, this news surprised Ho as well, who claims that the Mac version and its author, Andrey Letov, are “using the Notepad++ trademark (the name) without permission." “This is misleading, inappropriate, and frankly disrespectful to both the project and its users,” Ho wrote. “It has already fooled people—including tech media—into believing this is an official release. To be crystal clear: Notepad++ has never released a macOS version. Anyone claiming otherwise is simply riding on the Notepad++ name.”

Submission + - The issues with facial recognition systems in the UK

Submitted by Bruce66423
Bruce66423 writes: The Guardian has three articles today on the issue

Oversight lagging behind

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

The consequences of false positives

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

UK usage by police force

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

The obvious answer is that any victim of a false positive should receive £1000 for the first event, £2000 for the second etc...

Submission + - The war has the world buying clean energy. China is benefitting the most. (cnn.com)

Submitted by AleRunner
AleRunner writes: CNN is reporting that sales of renewables have surged hugely with 70% growth of solar, batteries and EVs as people and countries move away from the huge vulnerabilities and bankrupting costs of oil based economies.

The war in Iran has sent oil-starved countries scrambling for fuel. Many are opting for energy alternatives — and turning to the renewables king of the planet: China.

Chinese exports of solar technology, batteries and electric vehicles all reached record highs in March, according to energy think tank Ember, a sign that the historic oil supply shock is accelerating the adoption of clean energy around the world.

The Washington Post had a similar report recently however as CNN mentioned Reuters claims that there is still plenty of capacity for production. Last year already solar grow faster than any energy source ever.

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