Google has started to roll out its new interest-based advertising platform called the Privacy Sandbox, shifting the tracking of user’s interests from third-party cookies to the Chrome browser.
Google on Monday released an emergency Chrome 116 security update to patch the fourth zero-day vulnerability discovered in the browser in 2023. Tracked as CVE-2023-4863 and rated ‘critical severity’, the bug is described as a heap buffer overflow issue in the WebP component. WebP is an image format that provides improved compression and quality compared […]
Check Point researchers have discovered hackers exploiting Google Looker Studio to create fraudulent cryptocurrency phishing websites. These phishing sites target digital asset holders, leading to compromised accounts and financial losses. Google Looker Studio (previously known as Data Studio, is an online tool for converting data from spreadsheets and various sources into customizable reports. Scam tactics […]
Summary Malicious ads for Google searches are targeting Mac users Phishing sites trick victims into downloading what they believe is the app they want The malware is bundled in an ad-hoc signed app so it cannot be revoked by Apple The payload is a new version of the recent Atomic Stealer for OSX Introduction The majority […]
The war of words among AI supercomputer vendors escalated this week with Google claiming that its TPU-based system is faster and more efficient than Nvidia’s A100-based entry, according to its own testing. Nvidia countered that its H100 system is faster based on testing conducted by the independent MLCommons using MLPerf 3.0. Google researchers reported that […]