# anonymous reader quotes (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover anonymous reader quotes. Page: Feed: --- ## [Man Dressed As Darth Vader Defends Flock Cameras to San Diego City Council](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/21/1840254/man-dressed-as-darth-vader-defends-flock-cameras-to-san-diego-city-council?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) _2026-08-21 · BeauHD · Slashdot: IT_ A man dressed as Darth Vader used a Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee meeting in San Diego to mock the city's use of Flock surveillance cameras, sarcastically arguing that the technology would help the "emperor" track "rebel scum" and find Luke Skywalker. "This is what the emperor needs. This technology will help us find the rebel scum and the hidden base on Hoth," he said. The… ## [Linus Torvalds Endures A Debug Session From Hell, 'Enormously Helped' By AI](https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/08/21/1742239/linus-torvalds-endures-a-debug-session-from-hell-enormously-helped-by-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) _2026-08-21 · BeauHD · Slashdot: IT_ Linus Torvalds says AI "enormously helped" him track down a stubborn Intel Xe graphics driver bug that took 24 debugging patches and 18 kernel boots to isolate. "I'd like to call it my tireless helper, but the AI several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable and that we should just write a report about it," wrote Torvalds on the commit. "I suspect those things have been… ## [Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People's Faces](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/20/173219/reverse-lookup-service-exposed-millions-of-photos-of-peoples-faces?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) _2026-08-20 · BeauHD · Slashdot: IT_ Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found that people-search service ClarityCheck left more than 9 million image files accessible in an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, despite advertising its reverse-image search as "private and secure." A separate misconfiguration also exposed email addresses, phone numbers, and other personal information. Wired reports: Overall, according to findings from… ## [CISA: Medusa Ransomware Hit Over 500 Critical Infrastructure Orgs](https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/08/19/1729241/cisa-medusa-ransomware-hit-over-500-critical-infrastructure-orgs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) _2026-08-19 · BeauHD · Slashdot: IT_ CISA says the Medusa ransomware operation has breached more than 500 U.S. critical infrastructure organizations since 2021, up from more than 300 reported last year. The group has targeted healthcare, government, defense, manufacturing, IT and financial organizations, evolving into a ransomware-as-a-service operation that recruits initial-access brokers and uses stolen data to pressure victims… ## [AI Fails to Deliver a 4-Day Work Week - Especially at AI Companies](https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/08/15/079216/ai-fails-to-deliver-a-4-day-work-week---especially-at-ai-companies?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) _2026-08-15 · EditorDavid · Slashdot: IT_ "An engineering director at Google said four years ago that AI would deliver a four-day work week by 2025," remembers the BBC. And earlier this year OpenAI "formally urged companies to start testing out a four-day work week (with no change in pay), claiming that AI will soon be able to speed up so much human labour that the corporate world should prepare itself." However, a former OpenAI technical… ## [Vulnerability Giving Attackers Full Control of Macs Is Under Active Exploitation](https://apple.slashdot.org/story/26/08/14/2213230/vulnerability-giving-attackers-full-control-of-macs-is-under-active-exploitation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) _2026-08-15 · BeauHD · Slashdot: IT_ joshuark shares a report from Ars Technica: Dutch officials have warned that a high-severity macOS vulnerability that allows attackers to execute malicious code is under active exploitation. "The NCSC has received a notification indicating that active abuse of this vulnerability has been observed on multiple systems on which port 5900 was accessible from the Internet," the Netherlands National… ## [China-Linked Hackers Used AI To Run First-Ever 'Autonomous' Cyberattack On Taiwan](https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/08/12/1544250/china-linked-hackers-used-ai-to-run-first-ever-autonomous-cyberattack-on-taiwan?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) _2026-08-12 · BeauHD · Slashdot: IT_ Researchers at Israeli cybersecurity firm Dream say suspected China-linked hackers used an open-source AI-agent system to conduct what may be the first observed end-to-end autonomous cyberattack against a government. According to the Financial Times (paywalled), the attack compromised at least 85 accounts and resulted in the theft of more than 2,500 personnel records from Taiwanese systems. Tom's… ## [A Zoom Screen-Sharing Bug Let Anyone Take Over Other Devices On a Call](https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/08/11/1951224/a-zoom-screen-sharing-bug-let-anyone-take-over-other-devices-on-a-call?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) _2026-08-11 · BeauHD · Slashdot: IT_ An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: As AI models gain advanced capabilities to find vulnerabilities in software, develop ways to exploit them, and even carry out autonomous hacking sprees, researchers offered a sobering new example on Tuesday, disclosing vulnerabilities in the video conferencing platform Zoom that could have been exploited to take over targets' devices. Anyone on a… ## [The Roboguard Revolution Is Short-Circuiting](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/08/11/0538200/the-roboguard-revolution-is-short-circuiting?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) _2026-08-11 · BeauHD · Slashdot: IT_ alternative\_right shares a report from 404 Media: Robotics companies promise that video-camera-toting security robots can deter and detect crime. But many companies are rethinking the approach after a trail of canceled contracts and questions about whether the artificial intelligence-powered bots are meeting the needs of businesses and local governments. Proof News found evidence of at least 21… ## [A Data Breach At Shipping Giant Ceva Logistics Is Rippling Across Banks, Retailers, Steam Gamers, and Beyond](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/10/2035248/a-data-breach-at-shipping-giant-ceva-logistics-is-rippling-across-banks-retailers-steam-gamers-and-beyond?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) _2026-08-10 · BeauHD · Slashdot: IT_ An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Ceva Logistics, one of the world's largest shipping and logistics giants, has been hacked. Several companies that rely on Ceva for shipping their products to their customers say that their personal information was also stolen in the breach. The cyberattack on Ceva is affecting at least eight warehouses across Europe used for shipping goods… ## [Ultra-Quiet Business Mini (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/i9uGDgkHWDUP) _2026-08-10 · **Sponsored**_ Compact business mini, ultra-quiet for focused work. ## [AI Assistant Hacks Gym Website In First Known Australian Autonomous Cyber Attack](https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/08/10/0518257/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-in-first-known-australian-autonomous-cyber-attack?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) _2026-08-10 · BeauHD · Slashdot: IT_ An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News & Headlines: Andrew asked his personal assistant to book him a spot in one of his gym's coveted morning classes. It was a task he thought was well suited to this particular assistant because the booking form was online and because his assistant was not a person -- it was artificial intelligence (AI). But Andrew was shocked by what happened next.… ## [Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quietly Installing Beta 'Photos' App on Enterprise Machines](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/10/0229237/microsoft-responds-to-outcry-after-quietly-installing-beta-photos-app-on-enterprise-machines?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) _2026-08-10 · EditorDavid · Slashdot: IT_ Microsoft's cloud storage app OneDrive got a new Photos app in the worst possible way, reports the blog Neowin . "The app is reportedly showing up even on Windows 11 Enterprise machines, despite apparently being a beta application aimed at consumer functionality." One admin questioned why a beta app was appearing on an Enterprise SKU in the first place, while another described the situation as yet… ## [California City Declares State of Emergency After Cyberattack](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/09/2144257/california-city-declares-state-of-emergency-after-cyberattack?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) _2026-08-09 · EditorDavid · Slashdot: IT_ NBC Bay Area brings news from the small idyllic California town of Suisun City (population: 29,518). The city council "declared a state of emergency Saturday after a cyberattack that shut down computer systems including 911 public safety operations." "Malicious software infected and compromised" the East Bay community's information technology systems beginning about 5:45 a.m. Friday, the city said…