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The business contact information for 122 million people circulating since February 2024 is now confirmed to have been stolen from a B2B demand generation platform. [...]

Suspected Russian hackers were caught exploiting a recently patched Windows vulnerability as a zero-day in ongoing attacks targeting Ukrainian entities. [...]

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American Associated Pharmacies yet to officially confirm infection

American Associated Pharmacies (AAP) is the latest US healthcare organization to have had its data stolen and encrypted by cyber-crooks, it is feared.…

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The Department of Justice has unsealed the indictment against two suspected Snowflake hackers, who breached more than 165 organizations using the services of the Snowflake cloud storage company. [...]

Ve skotském městě Glasgow probíhá unikátní experiment s inovativním způsobem vytápění, který má potenciál změnit přístup k udržitelnosti bydlení. Jedná se o elektrickou tapetu, která využívá elektricky vodivý materiál, k vytápění starších bytů . Pilotní projekt slouží nejen k testování účinnosti ...

​Attackers now target a critical severity vulnerability with publicly available exploit code that affects multiple models of end-of-life D-Link network-attached storage (NAS) devices. [...]

Google is adding a new AI-powered scam protection feature that monitors phone call conversations on Google Pixel devices to detect patterns that warn when the caller may be a scammer. [...]

Posted by Lyubov Farafonova, Product Manager and Steve Kafka, Group Product Manager, Android

User safety is at the heart of everything we do at Google. Our mission to make technology helpful for everyone means building features that protect you while keeping your privacy top of mind. From Gmail’s defenses that stop more than 99.9% of spam, phishing and malware, to Google Messages’ advanced security that protects users from 2 billion suspicious messages a month and beyond, we're constantly developing and expanding protection features that help keep you safe.

We're introducing two new real-time protection features that enhance your safety, all while safeguarding your privacy: Scam Detection in Phone by Google to protect you from scams and fraud, and Google Play Protect live threat detection with real-time alerts to protect you from malware and dangerous apps.

These new security features are available first on Pixel, and are coming soon to more Android devices.

More intelligent AI-powered protection against scams

Scammers steal over $1 trillion dollars a year from people, and phone calls are their favorite way to do it. Even more alarming, scam calls are evolving, becoming increasingly more sophisticated, damaging and harder to identify. That’s why we’re using the best of Google AI to identify and stop scams before they can do harm with Scam Detection.

Real-time protection, built with your privacy in mind.

• Real-time defense, right on your device: Scam Detection uses powerful on-device AI to notify you of a potential scam call happening in real-time by detecting conversation patterns commonly associated with scams. For example, if a caller claims to be from your bank and asks you to urgently transfer funds due to an alleged account breach, Scam Detection will process the call to determine whether the call is likely spam and, if so, can provide an audio and haptic alert and visual warning that the call may be a scam.
• Private by design, you’re always in control: We’ve built Scam Detection to protect your privacy and ensure you’re always in control of your data. Scam Detection is off by default, and you can decide whether you want to activate it for future calls. At any time, you can turn it off for all calls in the Phone app Settings, or during a particular call. The AI detection model and processing are fully on-device, which means that no conversation audio or transcription is stored on the device, sent to Google servers or anywhere else, or retrievable after the call.
• Cutting-edge AI protection, now on more Pixel phones: Gemini Nano, our advanced on-device AI model, powers Scam Detection on Pixel 9 series devices. As part of our commitment to bring powerful AI features to even more devices, this AI-powered protection is available to Pixel 6+ users thanks to other robust Google on-device machine learning models.
  

We’re now rolling out Scam Detection to English-speaking Phone by Google public beta users in the U.S. with a Pixel 6 or newer device.

To provide feedback on your experience, please click on Phone by Google App -> Menu -> Help & Feedback -> Send Feedback. We look forward to learning from this beta and your feedback, and we’ll share more about Scam Detection in the months ahead.

More real-time alerts to protect you from bad apps

Google Play Protect works non-stop to protect you in real-time from malware and unsafe apps. Play Protect analyzes behavioral signals related to the use of sensitive permissions and interactions with other apps and services.

With live threat detection, if a harmful app is found, you'll now receive a real-time alert, allowing you to take immediate action to protect your device. By looking at actual activity patterns of apps, live threat detection can now find malicious apps that try extra hard to hide their behavior or lie dormant for a time before engaging in suspicious activity.

At launch, live threat detection will focus on stalkerware, code that may collect personal or sensitive data for monitoring purposes without user consent, and we will explore expanding its detection to other types of harmful apps in the future. All of this protection happens on your device in a privacy preserving way through Private Compute Core, which allows us to protect users without collecting data.

Live threat detection with real-time alerts in Google Play Protect are now available on Pixel 6+ devices and will be coming to additional phone makers in the coming months.

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Sore about cores no more

Microsoft has resolved two issues vexing Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 users among the many security updates that emerged on Patch Tuesday.…

VMware this week announced that the virtualization company’s hypervisor products, VMware Workstation and Fusion, will be completely free for both personal and commercial users, as well as for educational purposes. The move follows a decision last May, when VMware made both Workstation and Fusion free for personal use; those who wanted to use the software for commercial purposes still had to sign up for a paid subscription.

The free versions will have the same functionality as the paid products, but VMware owner Broadcom will not offer troubleshooting support. The old paid versions Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro are no longer available.

“If you currently have a commercial contract, you can rest assured knowing that your contract will continue to apply until the end of your contract term,” Himanshu Singh, Broadcom product marketing director, said in a blog post. “You will continue to receive full service and enterprise-grade support as per your agreement.”

Broadcom bought VMware in 2023 and then decided to make major changes to the product portfolio. Among other things, by removing all perpetual licenses, which received a lot of criticism from several quarters.

Apple is allegedly preparing to introduce an iPad-like Control Center for smart homes. Equipped with a display and some form of homeOS, it is expected to be some kind of wall-mounted device that lets you access some Apple services, control smart home devices, handle security camera feeds, and the like. 

This sounds like a good idea. After all, we know there’s a market for sophisticated alarm systems, and Apple’s HomeKit Secure video system will no doubt play a part in what’s introduced.  As long as Siri really does improve, the company might have a hope of introducing something that works for a while. But will it?

Smart homes? It’s complicated…

I recently spent another fruitless hour trying to make my printer connect to my new Wi-Fi network, which it still won’t do. While doing that, I was also attempting to return an old HomePod to factory fresh (and make it stop making weird belching sounds) when it really hit me how utterly frustrating most “smart home” experiences still are.

Things that promise huge leaps in convenience can become hugely frustrating exercises, with a user experience that becomes characterized in folk memory by myopic attempts at stabbing tiny, awkwardly-placed holes with bent paperclips, or endlessly pressing software reset buttons that don’t seem to make anything happen.

That’s just the hardware user experience. The software adds another dimension. 

Who hasn’t found it quite creepy when ads for products they’ve just been talking to their family about appear online shortly after installing a new smart TV? Who else dislikes it when Alexa or Siri or any other smart assistant raises its little voice to remind you it’s there? Don’t even get me started on the privacy policy statements manufacturers provide, and how so many seem to think these give them carte blanche to gather data about you and sell that information (“anonymized” they say) to people you know nothing about. 

All in all, smart home tech seems to end up meaning you put quite costly devices in your home that stop working pretty soon, don’t work particularly well together, and turn you into a profit center for people you’ve got no relationship with. That’s smart for the manufacturers, I suppose, but not for the rest of us. But so many years into the evolution of the space, it really seems like the faults in some attempts at home automation are a feature, not a bug.

Is it smarter to be cynical?

That’s not to say every manufacturer in the space can be accused of the same thing.

 I’m sure many have introduced smart home products that are easy to switch to new networks and ship with clear and actionable instructions for returning the gadget to factory fresh, rather than sending them via your local electronics recycling center to be cannibalized for conflict minerals with the carcass sent to landfill.

With so many problems, no wonder consumers don’t seem to be racing to invest in smart home devices. 

Sure, billions of dollars are being spent on these things, but over half of that spend goes on devices for video playback, and market growth seems anaemic overall — and growth predictions seem to defy historical reality. Look at this Statista graph for some sense of this. That big column at the right looks really promising until you realize it’s an estimated figure for 2027, which requires the market to enter a period of accelerated growth that exceeds any historical growth trends.

It is also fair to point to other surveys that suggest once they do get their smart homes together, consumers believe the devices improve their quality of life.

Though there is the issue of trust. 

A matter of trust

While governments eager for growth seem to think tech will save us, consumers trust the sector less and less. There’s lots of data that reflects this decline. Arguably this could well represent a reaction against everything from huge security problems such as the recent Crowdstrike disaster to election interference, mass deception, concerns about fake news, privacy erosion, security, and even frustration at the never-ending nature of digital transformation. It’s not just tech leaders who feel like they are under constant pressure to adopt new digitized working practices. Those on the front line are also struggling to keep up with endless digital change. 

Perhaps, once people do make it home, (dodging self-driving vehicles, smartphone zombies, and electronic scooters on their domestic commute), they just want their home kit to work without needing to read a manual. Assuming there even is a manual.

Can Apple change this? Maybe. Perhaps it can introduce an iPad-like smart home device with a privacy-first OS and decent integration with peripheral devices from a range of manufacturers thanks to Matter and Thread. Perhaps it can make Siri simply clever and deploy artificial intelligence to make your smart home actually smart.  Perhaps Apple can breathe life into the whole category. But maybe consumers are tired of promises and want to see an ecosystem that delivers on those promises before they slap too many dollars down. With that in mind, I’m going to kick my frustrating printer and go for a bracing stroll.

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