Fake ad blocker extension crashes the browser for ClickFix attacks

A malvertising campaign is using a fake ad-blocking Chrome and Edge extension named NexShield that intentionally crashes the ...
Toronto Star

Increasing AI use in Canadian courtrooms carries risk of errors, penalties: lawyers

TORONTO - In the past, if a client who usually preferred to communicate via short emails suddenly sent a lengthy message akin to a legal memo, Ron Shulman would suspect they’d received help from a ...
CNBC

My info ended up on the dark web. Now I always use these 6 tools to protect my identity

I didn't always take online security seriously. I made basic mistakes, like using the same password for all my accounts, logging onto public WiFI networks without a VPN and giving out my email and ...
The Conversation

AI’s errors may be impossible to eliminate – what that means for its use in health care

Carlos Gershenson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Computer Weekly

Error-prone eVisa system a precursor of digital ID

Technical errors with the Home Office’s electronic visa (eVisa) system are causing “high levels of stress, fear and exhaustion” for migrants in the UK, who are being left to navigate the digitisation ...
The New York Times

OpenAI Unveils Web Browser Built for Artificial Intelligence

The new browser, called Atlas, is designed to work closely with OpenAI products like ChatGPT. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco OpenAI on Tuesday unveiled a free web browser that is designed ...
Wall Street Journal

Amazon Says Web Services Have Largely Been Restored

Amazon Web Services said the massive internet outage that originated in its cloud-computing data centers has largely been fixed, more than 13 hours after an initial shutdown hit businesses big and ...
Entrepreneur

Amazon Web Services Is ‘Still Experiencing Elevated Errors’ as a Massive Outage Affects Tens of Thousands

A massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is wreaking havoc on the Internet. Companies from Snapchat to Coinbase have been affected. In an update Monday morning, Amazon said that it is “still ...
Network World

AWS DNS error hits DynamoDB, causing problems for multiple services and customers

DynamoDB error rates in the US-EAST-1 region soared shortly after midnight Pacific Time, rippling through other AWS services and affecting many customers. Monday got ...
Futurism

Lawyer Gets Caught Using AI in Court, Responds in the Worst Possible Way

What is it with lawyers and AI? We don’t know, but it feels like an inordinate number of them keep screwing up with AI tools, apparently never learning from their colleagues who get publicly crucified ...
Chicago Tribune

Enjoy pure, clean water with the best filtration system

Which water filtration systems are best? Much of the water available in our faucets and taps can contain impurities of varying levels and concentrations that can make it either slightly unhealthy or ...
The Verge

Google’s latest AI model uses a web browser like you do

The new Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model can click, scroll, and type in a browser window to access data that’s not available via an API. The new Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model can click, scroll, and type ...