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“One of the main problems that makes parsing so challenging is that human languages show remarkable levels of ambiguity,” Google says in a blog post. “It is not uncommon for moderate length sentences—say 20 or 30 words in length—to have hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of possible syntactic structures. A natural language parser must somehow search through all of these alternatives, and find the most plausible structure given the context....

While the company did not divulge many details about the devices, an alleged prototype of the upcoming Pixel 7 smartphone has now been spotted on the e-commerce platform, eBay. The listing of the Pixel 7 prototype was spotted by a Reddit user named u/lucklouie on eBay, who shared it on the Google Pixel subreddit (via Android Police). He also clarified that he wasn’t the person selling the device. Apparently, the eBay seller who put up the listing of Pixel 7 for sale is supposedly based out of Texas and goes by the name of meetveeru....

For those unaware, The Great Suspender is an extension that focusses on reducing Google Chrome’s RAM usage by shutting down tabs that have not been used for a certain period. It replaces the suspended pages with a blank page until the users decide to use it again. Over the years, the Chrome browser has been infamously known for consuming a lot of RAM and taking up computer memory when a user opens multiple tabs....

The bug was discovered by Project Zero’s Felix Wilhelm on July 21. According to Wilhelm, the flaw deals with the fact that Actions’ workflow commands are “highly vulnerable to injection attacks”. These workflow commands act as a communication channel between the Action runner and the executed action. “The big problem with this feature is that it is highly vulnerable to injection attacks. As the runner process parses every line printed to STDOUT looking for workflow commands, every Github action that prints untrusted content as part of its execution is vulnerable....

For those unaware, under the revised disclosure policy, GPZ needs to wait for at least 90 days before publicly revealing the details of a security bug, even if the bug is fixed ahead of that deadline. Also, vendors can request an additional 14-day grace period from Google if they believe they won’t be able to fix the reported vulnerability within 90 days. The flaw concerns a low integrity process that can send LPC messages to splwow64....

The new, long-term strategic partnership announced at Google’s Cloud Next conference aims to better serve the growing Web3 ecosystem and its developers. “We want to make building in Web3 faster and easier, and this partnership with Coinbase helps developers get one step closer to that goal,” said Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud. “We’re proud Coinbase has chosen Google Cloud as its strategic cloud partner, and we’re ready to serve the thriving global Web3 customer and partner ecosystem....

Providing wireless seems to natural progression for the search giant as the data caps by AT&T and Verizon on Internet users seem to affect its ad revenues as users view less YouTube videos or websites service Google’s Adsense. Google has stated that it will require only some of the unused spectrum “while still leaving some of it available for companies to use exclusively.” The 3.5GHz band delivers data at faster speed but it doesnt have strong propagation, which means that its signals won’t carry very far....

The search giant has started rolling out this feature for the people in the U.S. “We’ve probably all gone through this before: you do a search for something, and the results just don’t seem to be related to what you were looking for,” Elizabeth Tucker, Google Product Manager wrote in a blog post. “Starting today in the U.S., we’re rolling out a new message that lets you know when Google hasn’t been able to find anything that matches your search particularly well....

Apple has stated that the government’s continued persistence to hack the company’s iPhone is ridiculous so it detailed out on how the government would be able to achieve this goal without working at cross purposes. It stated that the authorities would have to create a custom operating system, or GovtOS, in order to help the FBI break into the iPhone 5c that belonged suspected San Bernarndino shooter Syed Farook. There are several reasons why Apple is suggesting this....

GTA V Hacked : Are you one of the victims???GTA Hacks : What do the Forums say It seems that hackers are running a customized software which allows them steal weapons, loot money, and even make players blow up in their own apartments. DomIsLive has said that GTA V gamers have reported losing millions of dollars to this customized software. DomIsLive has devoted an issue of his daily show on YouTube to GTA V hacks this month....

The report titled “Threat Horizons” is based on threat intelligence observations from the Threat Analysis Group (TAG), Google Cloud Threat Intelligence for Chronicle, Trust and Safety, and other internal teams. According to the report, of the 50 hacked Google Cloud Platforms or GCPs, 86% of the compromised Google Cloud instances were used to perform cryptocurrency mining, a cloud resource-intensive for-profit activity, while the remainder of the hacking activities included phishing scams and ransomware....

On July 7, Deric Lostutter, who went by the name KYAnonymous online and associated himself with the hacker group Anonymous, was indicted by a federal grand jury on four felony counts, including charges of hacking and making false statements to authorities. In 2013, Lostutter and an unnamed co-conspirator who went by the online name JustBatCat, reportedly leaked evidence that shed light on a 2012 Ohio rape case, in which a 16-year-old girl from West Virginia was raped by two Steubenville High School football players....

Most antivirus software developers prefer not to talk about this fact, and only a few admit that “bad guys got better”. But even then they claim that they can’t cope with viruses developed by the militaries or intelligence agencies, and not by “ordinary criminals”. They want you to believe that only special services can afford to test malware’s ability to bypass commercial antiviruses prior to letting it loose on the Web....

For those unaware, Diebold is one of the top players in the ATM market, which earned $3.3 billion in sales, which includes both selling and servicing machines globally, from its ATM business last year. In a security alert issued on July 15, 2020, Diebold said that cybercriminals are using a “black box” that they believe contains parts of the company’s proprietary software to illegally exfiltrate money from ATMs across Europe....

The group is now demanding that the company pay $30,000 in order to keep ‘Hack for Trump’ from releasing the information. In a message to Fidelity, the Hack for Trump said that, “If Fidelity does pay us, we plan on using those funds to help Donald Trump get elected to the White House as he is the only candidate who can restore America to its former glory.” Fidelity on its part said that the hackers had managed to breach some of its websites....

Security researcher Troy Hunt broke news of the breach to Motherboard, and posted data from the leak to his breach notification site Have I Been Pwned?. Though not offensive as the adultery website, Ashley Madison leak, the Muslim Match data leak can also impact many users relationships. “These private messages cover a range of subjects from religious discussion and small talk to marriage proposals,” Vice’s Motherboard website reports. Muslim Match’s majority users were Islamic adherents and belonged to United States, United Kingdom and Pakistan....

The popular Dutch brewing company on Thursday launched its first, brand new, virtual beer, Heineken Silver, at a metaverse launch event within the immersive digital platform, Decentraland. Promoting the product as a legitimate virtual product, the company invited real journalists to the launch event of the fake beer and treated everyone to pixilated lobster and caviar. There was also a virtual DJ and dancers dressed in Heineken gear. Describing the product launch as “an ironic joke” for themselves as well as other brands, the virtual beer, Heineken Silver is brewed with 100% purified pixels, tripled-filtered through firewalls, and uploaded with 5 million megabits per second....

However, NSO Group is a big name in top secret cyber surveillance community which includes many government agencies like NSA. It has managed to create a big name for itself by creating some of the top malware which allows governments to spy on its citizens. The iPhone hack with a text message is just a small example of the expertise NSO Group has in cyber security matters. “NSO Group are a highly valued surveillance company purporting to sell some of the most advanced spyware on the market,” Edin Omanovic, a research officer at Privacy International, told Motherboard in an email....