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In brief If approved, the requested rule change would enable the listing of the Truth Social Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF Trump Media & Technology Group filed a prospectus for the ETF that would track Bitcoin and Ethereum’s price just eight days ago. The Truth Social BTC and ETH fund furthers Trump Media’s increasing entwinement with crypto. On Tuesday, the New York Stock Exchange filed a proposed rule change to allow the listing of an ETF from Trump Media & Technology Group, which would track Bitcoin and Ethereum, according to an SEC filing.The application comes just eight days after Trump Media, through…
of AI and data-driven projects, the importance of data and its quality have been recognized as critical to a project’s success. Some might even say that projects used to have a single point of failure: data! The infamous “Garbage in, garbage out” was probably the first expression that took the data industry by storm (seconded by “Data is the new oil”). We all knew if data wasn’t well structured, cleaned and validated, the results of any analysis and potential applications were doomed to be inaccurate and dangerously incorrect. For that reason, over the years, numerous studies and researchers focused on…
Author/Presenter: Timmy Barnett (GNU Philosopher) Our sincere appreciation to LinuxFest Northwest (Now Celebrating Their Organizational 25th Anniversary Of Community Excellence), and the Presenters/Authors for publishing their superb LinuxFest Northwest 2025 video content. Originating from the conference’s events located at the Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, Washington; and via the organizations YouTube channel. Thanks and a Tip O’ The Hat to Verification Labs :: Penetration Testing Specialists :: Trey Blalock GCTI, GWAPT, GCFA, GPEN, GPCS, GCPN, CRISC, CISA, CISM, CISSP, SSCP, CDPSE for recommending and appearing as speaker at the LinuxFest Northwest conference. Permalink *** This is a Security Bloggers Network…
The U.S. House banned WhatsApp on government devices due to security concerns Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2025 The U.S. House banned WhatsApp on official devices over security concerns, citing risks flagged by the Chief Administrative Officer. The U.S. House has banned WhatsApp on government devices due to data security concerns. Similar restrictions apply to AI tools like ChatGPT, ByteDance apps, and Microsoft Copilot. “nuto has deemed WhatsApp a high-risk to users due to the lack of transparency in how it protects user data, absence of stored data encryption, and potential security risks involved with its use,” reads an email sent…
In episode 56 of The AI Fix, Anthropic and Apple have a bar fight, a woman describes her husband falling in love with ChatGPT as “not ideal”, WhatsApp’s AI helper isn’t helpful, Graham serenades a pack of headless robot dogs with his rendition of “Don’t stop me now”, and our hosts debate whether AI turning our brains to porridge is actually a bad thing. Graham tells the harrowing story of how chatbots are convincing ordinary people they were chosen, manipulated their minds, and in some cases, pushed them to the edge, and Mark stumps the world’s best AIs with an…
AI startup Anthorpic is planning to add a memory feature to Claude in a bid to take on ChatGPT, which has an advanced memory feature. With memory support, Claude can remember past events and reference them in new chats to improve the results. For example, if you specifically instruct Claude that you prefer Python as your favourite programming language, it’ll try to show Python-based code output only. Anthorpic hasn’t confirmed memory support for Claude, but as some users spotted on X, references are already popping up on the mobile app. Reference to Claude’s Memory feature In addition, Claude will allow users to…
Cybersecurity’s Dirty Little Secret: Reimagining Isolation – How Replica Cyber Empowers CISOs with Secure Environments in Seconds Imagine creating a completely secure, fully configured digital workspace in minutes instead of months. Replica Cyber does exactly that – providing organizations with instant, automated secure environments that can be spun up for any digital task, from sensitive research to critical software development. As organizations experiment with powerful, yet unproven AI models and tools, Replica provides the isolation and control needed to safely explore, test, and develop AI without risking exposure, IP theft, or system compromise. This isn’t cloud hosting. This isn’t traditional…
This week is going to be sort of short. I get to go on vacation! I’ll still be trying to do some minimal posts during the next two weeks, but […] The post Lawrence’s List 062416 appeared first on Black Hills Information Security, Inc..
Cybersecurity researchers at Kaspersky have reported a new spyware operation, dubbed SparkKitty, that has infected apps available on both the official Apple App Store and Google Play. This spyware aims to steal all images from users’ mobile devices, with a suspected focus on finding cryptocurrency information. The campaign has been active since early 2024, mainly targeting users in Southeast Asia and China. SparkKitty spyware infiltrates devices through applications that look harmless, often disguised as modified versions of popular apps like TikTok. In the case of the malicious TikTok versions, they even included a fake TikToki Mall online store within the…