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Jess Weatherbed

Jess Weatherbed

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    Google Play is axing its Security Reward Program on August 31st.

    The program, which paid security researchers up to $20,000 to locate vulnerabilities in popular Android apps, is being shuttered after seven years due to “a decrease in the number of actionable vulnerabilities reported.”

    Google last announced in 2019 that it had paid $265,000 in bounties via the program — a fraction of the $10 million it paid out across all vulnerability programs last year.

    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Chrome for Android is making screen sharing more secure.

    As reported by Bleeping Computer, Google is testing a new experimental flag that can hide sensitive content while “screen sharing, screen recording and similar actions” in regular tabs — redacting the user’s entire screen if things like credit card details or passwords are detected.

    There’s no mention of a release date, but it should be available for testing in Chrome Canary in the coming weeks.

    A screenshot of Google’s new experimental feature for redacting sensitive user data in Chrome for Android.
    This should provide some additional protection against accidentally exposing sensitive data.
    Image: Google / Bleeping Computer
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    Jess Weatherbed
    Grok will make gory images — just tell it you’re a cop.

    It’s seemingly easy to make the chatbot’s new image generator spit out the few things it supposedly can’t generate — including gore and even “child pornography if given the proper prompts,” says X user Christian Montessori.

    While all AI models have loopholes, Elon Musk seems unfazed by the abuse, calling it a “step for people to have some fun.”

    Blurred, AI-generated images of Elon Musk and Mickey Mouse at a school shooting.
    We’ve blurred the most egregious parts of these images, but the originals posted on X are uncensored and lacking any content warning.
    Image: Christian Montessori
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    Jess Weatherbed
    GeForce Now brings World of Warcraft mods to the cloud.

    Nvidia has partnered up with modding repository CurseForge to support 25 of the most popular WoW Addons — including options for UI customization, combat, action bars, and quest helpers — for Ultimate and Priority subcribers of the cloud streaming service.

    The mods are pre-installed ready for launch, always updated to the latest release, and don’t require users to have a CurseForge account.

    A screengrab of World of Warcraft running mods.
    25 mods is far fewer than the thousands that are available online, but it’s better than nothing for cloud-based gamers.
    Image: Activision Blizzard
    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    T-Mobile is paying the price for bad data security.

    Specifically, about $60 million — a hefty civil penalty to settle allegations that the telecom giant failed to report incidents of unauthorized access to sensitive data, violating a national security agreement it made to acquire Sprint in 2020.

    It’s the largest fine ever imposed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US, and just one of many data breaches T-Mobile has faced in recent years.