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Tim Burke, a freelance journalist and media consultant, has been charged with 14 federal crimes, including conspiracy. Burke was arrested this morning, according to the Tampa Bay Times. Last May, Burke’s home in Tampa, Florida, was raided by the FBI as part of the bureau’s investigation into how unaired clips of Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight were leaked to Vice and liberal watchdog Media Matters.  The clips included video of Kanye West repeating antisemitic tropes, as well as embarrassing footage of…

David Kenner, a lawyer who unsuccessfully defended convicted Fugees rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, pleaded guilty on Friday to misdemeanor criminal contempt and was sentenced to one year of probation after admitting he leaked confidential material to reporters in 2023. Federal prosecutors said Kenner was representing Michel in the federal conspiracy case over the rapper’s role in a multimillion-dollar government influence campaign that involved both the Obama and Trump administrations. After Kenner had been…

Examples of box flights around five major surface mining facilities on different days show elevated downwind total gaseous organic carbon with total emissions derived with TERRA (supplementary materials, materials and methods). Numeric values in white indicate average TC emission rates. Credit: Science (2024). DOI: 10.1126/science.adj6233 An international team of chemical and environmental engineers has found that oil sands…

The centuries-old volcanic fissures opening up in Iceland, oozing out red-hot lava, have had residents of the nearby town of Grindavik on edge, and spectators elsewhere transfixed.Lava flowing from one fissure engulfed several homes. The danger appears to be subsiding, with seismic activity decreasing and hazard warnings downgraded though still high.But Grindavik is still at risk of fault movements, lava flow, and more fissures erupting without warning, as of January 19 when the Icelandic Met Office issued its last…

We often write about malicious Android apps that intend to steal your data, but some apps put your data at risk inadvertently. This week, the Cybernews research team discovered that a very popular all-in-one real estate app called MyEstatePoint Property Search left a MongoDB server containing sensitive data about its users open to the public.MyEstatePoint Property Search was made by India-based software developer NJ Technologies. The app has been downloaded over 500,000 times, mostly by users in India. Cybernews…

Last updated: January 4th, 2024 at 09:41 UTC+01:00 According to the latest reports, an ex-Samsung employee was issued an arrest warrant because he was accused of leaking chip technology of the South Korean giant to a Chinese company in return for some money. As per Yonhap News Agency, the Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office indicted the employee surnamed Kim, who previously served as the department head at Samsung. Kim was charged by the prosecutors on charges of violating the industrial technology protection…

Insomniac Games Sony-owned studio Insomniac Games was hacked by a ransomware group, resulting in a leak of previously unknown details about Marvel’s Wolverine, as well as the studio and Sony’s future plans. Ransomware group Rhysida released around 1.67 terabytes of data obtained from Insomniac via a hack on Monday night, according to Cyber Daily. Reporting by Axios shows that the organization has a reputation for stealing personal information like Social Security numbers through cyberattacks on companies like…

That's all fine and good -- unless a password manager is added to the mix: The credentials shared with WebView can also be shared with the app that originally called for the username and password. If the originating app is trusted, everything should be OK If that app isn't trusted, things could go very wrong.The affected password managers are 1Password, LastPass, Enpass, Keeper, and Keepass2Android. Also, if the credentials were shared via a JavaScript injection method, both DashLane and Google Smart Lock are also…

A new analysis of ancient lava flows in the Canadian Arctic suggests helium trapped in Earth’s core could be slowly “leaking” into the mantle and then reaching the surface—an idea that challenges the scientific understanding of our planet’s inner workings.It’s the latest evidence supporting the hypothesis that primordial “reservoirs” of helium and other elements were trapped in Earth’s core when the young sun and protoplanets coalesced from a cloud of gas and dust more than 4.5 billion years ago.The findings “suggest that…

You don’t need to know how to code to create your own AI chatbot. Since the start of November—shortly before the chaos at the company unfolded—OpenAI has let anyone build and publish their own custom versions of ChatGPT, known as “GPTs”. Thousands have been created: A “nomad” GPT gives advice about working and living remotely, another claims to search 200 million academic papers to answer your questions, and yet another will turn you into a Pixar character.However, these custom GPTs can also be forced into leaking their…