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Google reports the results of an experiment that removed news from 1% of users search results for 2.5 months in eight European markets. The results show that it is inherently worthless for Google’s advertising business. The search giant has tested it as European copyright law requires news publishers to pay for reusing snippets of content. But how much is the news worth it? Google claims that publishers “very overestimate” the value of journalism towards their business. According to the test report, actual values were “all or country, and could not be statistically distinguished from zero.” Google hopes to use this…
Open your thoughts It’s hard to keep up with the speed at which the technology world moves. Just as one giant AI grabs the headline, the other is waiting to grab us. Similarly, it feels like AI companies are valued at billions of dollars now. Many of us don’t know why we are and why we are valued at such incredible market value. Comparison between AI and the Internet Some investors and market analysts believe that AI may be experiencing bubbles like the dot-com bubble that emerged in the late 1990s. Here are the similarities that we draw. The Internet…
Israeli forces will intensify ground operations in northern and southern Gaza as they warn that if all prisoners have not been released, Defense Minister Katz will seize the territory.Israeli military attacks on the Gaza Strip continued on the fourth day as its ground forces invaded northern and southern Gaza, and Israeli Defense Minister threatened to seize land on coastal enclaves. Israeli Defense Minister Katz said Friday that his country will “strengthen” its military campaign against Hamas, “including using all military and civilian pressures, including displacement of Gaza’s population, and implementing President Trump’s voluntary immigration programme for Gaza residents.” Katz told…
Mar 21, 2025The Hacker NewsNetwork Security / Vulnerability After conducting over 10,000 automated internal network penetration tests last year, vPenTest has uncovered a troubling reality that many businesses still have critical security gaps that attackers can easily exploit. Organizations often assume that firewalls, endpoint protection, and SIEMs are enough to keep them secure. But how effective are these defenses when put to the test? That’s where vPenTest, Vonahi Security’s automated network pentesting platform, comes in. Designed to simulate real-world attack scenarios, vPenTest helps organizations find exploitable vulnerabilities before cybercriminals can. These aren’t complex, zero-day exploits. They’re misconfigurations, weak passwords, and…
March 21, 2025Ravi LakshmananCybercrime / Cyberspy China-related Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) Group. Known as Aquatic Panda, it is linked to the 2022 “Global Spy Campaign” targeting seven organizations. These entities include government, Catholic charities, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and think tanks from Taiwan, Hungary, Turkey, Thailand, France, and the United States. The activity that took place over 10 months between January and October 2022 has been called Operation Fishmedley by ESET. “Operators used general or exclusive Shadowpad, Sodamaster, Spyder and other implants that were placed in China,” security researcher Matthieu Faou said in the analysis. Also known as Bronze University, Charcoal…
Recent studies have shown that carbon sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems is increasing, mitigating about 30% of CO2 emissions associated with human activity. The overall value of carbon sequestration on the Earth’s surface is fairly well known, as it can be inferred from the planet’s total carbon balance anthropogenic emissions. However, researchers know little about the carbon distribution among the various terrestrial pools. These include living vegetation such as forests, organic soil matter, sediments at the bottom of lakes and rivers, and live carbon pools such as wetlands. This non-life carbon is derived, especially from the excretion and decomposition of dead…
Pakistan will secure a nine-wicket victory by chasing 205 in Auckland, beating New Zealand in the third T20 International.Opener Hasan Nawaz hit a record-breaking maiden century as Pakistan crushed New Zealand with nine wickets in the third Twenty20 to keep the series alive. After winning ducks in each of the two opening games, the first innings of his international career, the Nawaz rebounded with a spectacular, unbeaten 105 at Auckland on Friday. The 23-year-old Ton has left the 44 ball, the fastest by the T20 International Pakistani player. That led his team to reach the target with four full overs…
March 21, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/Cyber Attacks Kaspersky’s new findings say that two known threat activity cluster code name head Mare and 12 people are likely to join forces to target Russian entities. “Headmare previously relied heavily on tools associated with 12. Furthermore, the Headmare attacks utilized a command and control (C2) server linked to 12 before these incidents,” the company said. “This suggests potential collaboration and joint campaigns between the two groups.” Both Headmare and the 12 people had previously been recorded by Kaspersky in September 2024. The former was taking advantage of a vulnerability currently patched in Winrar (CVE-2023-38831) to…
International collaborations between Ligo, Virgo and Kagra Gravitational Wave Observatories have reached an extraordinary milestone by detecting the 200th candidate gravitational wave signal in its latest observation run, O4. This record-breaking discovery, which occurred on March 19, is believed to be attributed to a merger between the two black holes. This is a celestial event that highlights the enormous advances in astronomy of gravitational waves. The current surge in detection is unprecedented compared to previous observation periods (O1, O2, and O3) that collectively identified 90 gravitational waves. The dramatic increase is attributed to the significant technical enhancements made during the…
India is lined up Commonwealth Games bids as a springboard that hopes to host the 2036 Olympics.India submitted a “expression of interest” to perform the 2030 Commonwealth Games. This is the perfect dress rehearsal for the country’s big dream of hosting the Olympics six years later. India, which has never held the Olympics, performed the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. However, while the event itself was deemed a success, what had been accumulated by allegations of corruption and mismanagement were damaged. Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium was the heart of 12 days of sports action in a $6 billion game. “We…