
Billy Hurley
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1 week ago |
itbrew.com | Billy Hurley
A classic gift card scam has been getting an AI-powered audio remix. In April 2024, a phisher replicated the voice of LastPass CEO Karim Toubba. The identity management firm detailed in a blog post the experience of an employee who received calls, texts, and a WhatsApp audio deepfake voicemail from the impersonated executive. Toubba and Alex Cox, LastPass’s director of threat intelligence, shared how the company is trying to put the new threat on mute, one year on.
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1 week ago |
itbrew.com | Billy Hurley
Back in the ’90s, Rob Brown, 48, now director of foundation engineering at employee-experience platform Workleap, wasn’t bagging groceries. He was coding them. The teenage software engineer in training was working part-time for a supermarket in Ontario, Canada, when he created an inventory management system. Brown used a programming language called Turing, a general-purpose language developed in 1982, to bring his “little pet project” to life.
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2 weeks ago |
itbrew.com | Billy Hurley
Decades ago, when Mathew Thomaswas a young programmer for a pager company, he learned a valuable lesson that many veteran coders have likely learned, too:If the weekend is almost here, don’t touch anything.
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2 weeks ago |
itbrew.com | Billy Hurley
A semiconductor is a silicon wafer with deposited metals that form electrical circuits enabling computation in all our devices. They can be the size of a fingernail, but there’s nothing simple about these tiny components powering today’s electronics. Creating one is a difficult, monthslong process requiring etching a polishing of the silicon piece, Guttorm Aase, partner at McKinsey & Company, told us. “You also need hundreds of materials that are part of this process,” Aase said.
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2 weeks ago |
itbrew.com | Billy Hurley
Everything on the video call—PowerPoint slides, passwords, and that new haircut included—is about to get a little more protection. Microsoft announced in a recent “roadmap” update that it will deploy a “prevent screen capture feature” in its Teams communication platform. When a user attempts to take a screenshot, the post says, a proposed mechanism, set for rollout in July, will go Sopranos finale and abruptly turn a meeting window to black.
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