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March 13, 2025Ravi LakshmananOpen Source/Vulnerability Meta warns that security vulnerabilities affecting free-type open-source font rendering libraries may have been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability is assigned to the CVE identifier CVE-2025-27363, with a CVSS score of 8.1, indicating a high severity. It is described as an unbound writing flaw, which can be exploited to achieve remote code execution when parsing a specific font file. “When trying to parse the font subgallif structures associated with TrueType GX and variable font files, out-of-range writes exist under Freetype version 2.13.0,” the company said in its advisory. “The vulnerable code assigns a signed…
March 13, 2025Ravi LakshmananBrowser Security/Encryption Browser maker Mozilla is urging users to update their Firefox instances to the latest version to avoid facing the use of add-ons due to the imminent expiration date of the root certificate. “On March 14, 2025, the root certificate used to validate the signed content and add-ons for various Mozilla projects, including Firefox, will expire,” says Mozilla. “For ESR users including Windows 7/8/8.1 and MacOS 10.12-10.14 users, if you do not update to Firefox version 128 or later (or ESR 115.13+), this expiration date can cause serious issues with add-ons, content signing, and DRM-protected media…
A huge portion of online traffic comes from bots, both for the good and for the bad, but AI is driving the latter. From DDOS attacks to scraping, there is a new barrage of threats that businesses must deal with. According to cybersecurity entrepreneur Nikita Rosenberg, the impact of SMB is even more severe. “The main difference is that large companies can usually survive with it. Most of these threats can simply kill small businesses.” This led him to launch Blackwall, an Estonia-based startup previously known as Botguard. This focus also influenced the product roadmap. Recently, e-commerce websites have launched…
Reducing humanitarian relief could mean less help from people in Gaza, Sudan, Syria and Ukraine, the UN Aid Director said.Tom Fletcher, director of the UN Humanitarian Agency, told reporters that recent cuts in humanitarian funds have caused a global “earthquake shock” as 300 million people need assistance. “Many people will die because of the depletion of that aid,” Fletcher, secretary general for the UN Humanitarian Cooperation and Emergency Relief Coordinator, said at a news briefing at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday. “The program is currently suspended across the humanitarian community,” Fletcher said. “The staff are now being…
Taipei, Taiwan – Until recently, the Mekong region of Southeast Asia seemed to be on track to achieve its goal of eliminating malaria by 2030. Named after a 4,900-kilometer (3,000-mile) river that runs from southwestern China to Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, the area has long suffered from mosquito-borne diseases. Between 2010 and 2023, the number of cases caused by the most common malaria parasites fell from about 500,000 to less than 248,000, according to the Global Fund, a US government-funded organization that is the world’s largest funder for programs that prevent, treat and care for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and…
The US president has reversed previous comments about emptying war-torn territory, saying “no one is banishing Palestinians from Gaza.”Hamas spokesman Haism Qassem welcomed President Donald Trump’s apparent retreat from the permanent displacement of more than two million Palestinians from Gaza. A statement from Hamas officials came after Trump said Wednesday that he had not “expelled the Palestinians from Gaza.” “If President Trump’s statement represents a setback from the idea of driving away the people of the Gaza Strip, they are welcome,” Qassem said in the statement. “We are calling for this position to be strengthened by mandating Israel’s occupation to…
Travis Kalanick, former CEO of Uber, revealed it on Wednesday. He believes the company’s decision to abandon its autonomous driving program is a mistake. At the Los Angeles rich summit, Karanick said, “Look, [new management] It killed the autonomous car project we had been continuing to do. At the time we were really just behind Waymo, but we were probably catching up, so we were going to pass it in a short order. . . When that happened, I wasn’t running a company, but you can say, “I wish we had an autonomous ride-sharing product now.” That’s great. ” In…
The release of prisoners is being pushed by the Trump administration to bring American citizens imprisoned overseas homes.Kuwait has released a group of American prisoners, including veterans and military contractors who have been jailed for years on drug-related charges. This is a move that is considered a good-willed gesture between the two allies, detainee representatives told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The release comes in the US government’s ongoing push to bring foreign-incarcerated American citizens home following a recent visit to the area by Adam Bohler, the Trump administration’s top hostage envoy. The six newly released prisoners accompanied a flight…
Washington (AP) – A federal website for student loans and financial aid was suspended for hours on Wednesday, highlighting the risks It will rapidly interfere with the Ministry of EducationAs President Donald Trump We aim to dismantle the agency.Hundreds of users reported FAFSA outages Down detector Starting from noon on Wednesday, they say they are struggling to complete the forms needed for financial aid at universities around the country. The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, a group of people dealing with the College’s Financial Aid Award, said it received reports that users have experienced technical issues and are…
Earlier today, Google announced the Gemma 3. This is a set of open source AI models that run on a single GPU or TPU designed to make AI development faster and more accessible. This contrasts with rivals like Deepseek’s 6R1, burning dozens of Nvidia chips. It is a bold statement that advanced AI doesn’t necessarily need a silicon army to compete. But this isn’t just Google Flexing. This is the latest in a growing up rebellion that has been brewed for months. Imagine the Silicon Empire, a king caught up in the golden throne, is not challenged. Until the rebels…