Cisco warned Monday that hackers are actively exploiting a previously unknown security flaw in software found on a range of routers and similar network products.
Why it matters: If exploited, the security flaw could allow hackers to create an account on an affected system and gain high-level permissions, according to a recent advisory.
The war between Israel and Hamas is reminding governments just how difficult it is to control politically motivated hacking groups.
Why it matters: Politically motivated hackers (also known as hacktivists) often target state-backed organizations and groups in an effort to complicate war efforts.
Major tech companies are weighing their involvement in Europe's biggest tech conference after Web Summit's co-founder suggested Israel was guilty of war crimes in its response to Hamas' terrorist attacks.
Marc Andreessen is an iconic and iconoclastic technologist, investor and thinker.
The big picture: What he says about the future matters, such as his seminal 2011 argument that software was eating the world. It also matters when Andreessen jumps the shark, as he did yesterday near the end of his 5,221-word "Techno-Optimist Manifesto."
Marc Andreessen — browser developer turned blogger turned billionaire venture capitalist — posted a "Techno-Optimist Manifesto" Monday that denounces efforts to regulate technology in bolder, brasher strokes than Silicon Valley has heard for years.
The big picture: After a decade in which his industry has been widely held responsible for rising inequality, reckless "disruption" and rampant misinformation, Andreessen praises tech as "the engine of perpetual material creation, growth, and abundance."
Big Tech companies that began to walk back content moderation ahead of the 2024 election are now starting to implement new rules in the wake of the Hamas-Israel war.
Why it matters: The level of mis- and disinformation flooding the internet is forcing tech firms to take tougher positions at a time when they are trying to prove they don't kowtow to political pressure.
LinkedIn plans to lay off more than 660 people across its engineering, product, talent and finance teams, it announced Monday — representing more than 3% of the company's global workforce.
Why it matters: LinkedIn has now seen two major rounds of layoffs this year following its cutting in May of 716 jobs and shuttering of its Chinese app InCareer.
The biggest PlayStation release of the year may star Peter Parker and Miles Morales, but its best attributes — a stunning metropolis and the ability to virtually fly through its skyscraper canyons faster than a you-know-what — make it feel like, secretly, the most exhilarating Superman game ever crafted.
Why it matters: Since the days of the first Super Mario Bros., some video games have exhibited their excellence in how you move through them.
As Cruise, Waymo and others test self-driving cars on the streets of San Francisco, Toyota is testing other approaches to autonomy at a racetrack 150 miles northeast.
Why it matters: Today's self-driving vehicles navigate big-city streets at slow speeds, but it could take decades before those cars can handle much higher speeds or we can add autonomous capabilities to privately owned cars.
