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Two-year-old Maikelys Espinoza Bernal was reunited with her Venezuelan mother following her call for return.A Venezuelan toddler, separated from his parents after crossing the US-Mexican border, was returned to Venezuela, where his mother was deported in April. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro thanked two-year-old Maykelly’s Espinoza Bernal for returning to his mother, Yory Bernal on Wednesday. “We must be grateful for all our efforts [Trump special envoy] I would like to thank Rich Grenell for his efforts… and to Donald Trump,” Maduro said, calling the return of the child a “act of justice.” Both the infant’s parents were criticized by the…
May 14, 2025Ravi LakshmananVulnerability/Malware Samsung has released a software update to address critical security flaws in the wildly active MagicInfo 9 servers. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-4632 (CVSS score: 9.8) is described as a cross-path defect. “Inappropriate restriction of pathnames for a restricted directory vulnerability in Samsung Magicinfo 9 server versions prior to 21.1052 allows an attacker to describe any file as system privileges,” according to the flawed advisory. Note that CVE-2025-4632 is a patch bypass for CVE-2024-7399, another past traversal defect of the same product, patched by Samsung in August 2024. CVE-2025-4632 was exploited in the wild shortly after…
May 14, 2025Ravi LakshmananRansomware/Vulnerability At least two different cybercrime groups Bianlian and Ransomexx are said to have exploited the security flaws recently disclosed in SAP NetWeaver, indicating that multiple threat actors are exploiting the bug. Cybersecurity company ReliaQuest said in a new update released today, it revealed evidence suggesting involvement from Vial’s data fear tor crew and the Ransomexx ransomware family. Bianlian is rated as involved in at least one incident based on infrastructure links to IP addresses previously identified as attributed to the E-Crime group. “Identified the server at 184[.]174[.]96[.]74 hosting reverse proxy services started by the RS64.exe executable,…
President Donald Trump has posted more than 200 posts on oil prices since joining Twitter in 2009, and his mischief offers insight into the prices he prefers over crude. Goldman Sachs mined all Trump’s posts on Twitter, X, and on his social media platform, Truth Social. The banks have found that Trump is seeking to cut oil prices by 213 times and increase prices by 15 times. The president has posted the least about crude oil prices when US crude is trading between $40 and $50 per barrel, suggesting that this is his preferred price range, an analyst led by…
May 14, 2025Ravi LakshmananCybercrime/Cryptocurrency The Chinese telegram-based market, known as Xinbi Guarantee, has driven more than $8.4 billion in transactions since 2022, promoting the exposure of the second major black market after the Huione Guarantee. A report published by Blockchain Analytics company Elliptic shows that market merchants will learn technology, personal data and money laundering services. “USDT Stablecoin is a major payment method and the market has so far received $8.4 billion in transactions,” the company said. “Some transactions can be linked to funds stolen by North Korea.” Xinbi, like Huione, serves Southeast Asian scammers, including those in charge of…
Waterloo-based tech startup Voltra, along with the Hanover Capital and Velocity Fund, has officially launched stealth with a $1.8 million seed round led by the reverse. The company is launching Charge, the first product built to simplify control of EV chargers, batteries and microgrids. Founders Alexander Stratomen and Arian Afrouzi began Voltola while studying at the University of Waterloo. They saw how today’s energy infrastructure has been stuck in the past. It was entangled with slow moving, closures and outdated systems. “Most of the energy space focuses on top-down control and infrastructure build-outs to modernize the grid,” explains Stratmoen. “We…
The UN Mission to Libya (UNSMIL) warns that the country’s situation may be “out of control.”The UN calls for calm as fighting resumed in Libya’s capital Tripoli, the day after authorities declared order restored. The United Nations Mission to Libya (UNSMIL) warned on Wednesday that the situation in the country could be “out of control.” “Unsmil repeats repeated calls for an immediate, unconditional ceasefire in all regions, allowing safe corridors for the evacuation of civilians trapped in intensely conflict zones,” the mission writes to X. “Attacking, damaging civilian infrastructure, physically injuring civilians, putting the lives and safety of the population…
Ridehale and delivery giant Uber presents cheap, fixed rides along busy corridors during weekday commute hours in major US cities. Starting Wednesday, riders in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York City, Philadelphia and San Francisco can save 50% on Uberx travel prices by booking with Uber’s new “Route Sharing” feature. The company has announced route shares and other new features and discounts designed to help customers save money on rides and delivery at the annual Gott event. The aim is to attract and maintain a loyal customer base that continues to use the Uber app despite external economic pressures. According…
Three years ago I wrote about Uber’s Amazonification about its evolution into a closed business loop where transport companies return customers to other Uber channels. At the time, the focus was on how Uber creates customer stickiness by actively selling groceries to groceries, putting groceries in alcohol, then returning alcohol to mobility. Today, Uber is focused on transport and appears to be working to become a daily lifestyle platform with handy super apps, service aggregators and the best products behind the paywall. A case in point: Uber this week will launch its first Uber One Member Days, the company’s own…
Google’s AI R&D Lab DeepMind says it has developed a new AI system to tackle the problem of “machine rated” solutions. In the experiment, a system called Alphaevolve could help optimize some of the infrastructure Google uses to train AI models, DeepMind said. The company says it is building a user interface to interact with AlphaeVolve and plans to launch an early access program for selected academics ahead of a wider deployment. Most AI models hallucinations. Because of their stochastic architecture, they sometimes construct things with confidence. In fact, new AI models like Openai’s O3 hallucination show more challenging nature…