Month: November 2024

Die Version 18.2 von iOS soll es ermöglichen, die Position eines Airtags temporär mit jedem zu teilen - etwa mit einer Fluggesellschaft, um verlorenes Gepäck zu finden. (Airtag, Apple)

Der Onexfly F1 Pro dürfte mit AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 zu den schnellsten Spielekonsolen für unterwegs gehören. (Spielekonsole, Spiele)

DEICHMANN, Europas größter Schuhhändler, bereitet ein großes Projekt vor: die internationale Einführung von SAP S/4HANA für Finance und Controlling. Gesucht werden SAP- und Accounting-Spezialisten, die die Business-Prozesse aktiv mitgestalten. (Wirtschaft)

Die Angreifer behaupten, über 40 GBytes an Daten von Schneider Electric erbeutet zu haben. Ihre Forderung: 125.000 US-Dollar in Form von Baguettes. (Cybercrime, API)

Wird Elon Musk bei einer Niederlage Trumps zum großen Wahlverlierer? Oder kann ihm mit seinen Firmen auch bei einem Harris-Sieg nichts passieren? Eine Analyse von Dirk Kunde (US-Wahlen 2024, Twitter)

Mit Terraform lassen sich Cloudinfrastrukturen effizient verwalten und automatisieren. Ein zweitägiger Workshop vermittelt praxisnah die Konfiguration von Openstack-Umgebungen. (Golem Karrierewelt, Cloud Computing)

An ongoing attack is uploading hundreds of malicious packages to the open source node package manager (NPM) repository in an attempt to infect the devices of developers who rely on code libraries there, researchers said.

The malicious packages have names that are similar to legitimate ones for the Puppeteer and Bignum.js code libraries and for various libraries for working with cryptocurrency. The campaign, which was active at the time this post was going live on Ars, was reported by researchers from the security firm Phylum. The discovery comes on the heels of a similar campaign a few weeks ago targeting developers using forks of the Ethers.js library.

Beware of the supply chain attack

“Out of necessity, malware authors have had to endeavor to find more novel ways to hide intent and to obfuscate remote servers under their control,” Phylum researchers wrote. “This is, once again, a persistent reminder that supply chain attacks are alive and well.”

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The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to use any drugs made by a compounding pharmacy in California after regulators realized the pharmacy was making drugs that need to be sterile—particularly injectable drugs—without using sterile ingredients or any sterilization steps.

The products made by the pharmacy, Fullerton Wellness LLC, in Ontario, California, include semaglutide, which is intended to mimic brand-name weight-loss and diabetes drugs Wegovy and Ozempic. Fullerton also made tirzepatide, which is intended to mimic weight-loss and diabetes drugs Zepbound and Mounjaro.

The FDA became aware of the problem after a patient submitted a complaint to the regulator that a vial of semaglutide from Fullerton Wellness had an unidentified "black particulate" floating in it. Semaglutide, like tirzepatide, is injected under the skin and is intended to be sterile.

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The Supreme Court will soon weigh two cases that could potentially make it harder for misled investors to sue Big Tech companies after major scandals.

One case involves one of the largest tech scandals of all time, the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data breach. In 2019, Facebook agreed to pay "more than $5 billion in civil penalties to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it had misled its users and investors over the privacy and security of user data on its platform," a Supreme Court filing said.

The other case involves an allegation that Nvidia intentionally hid how much of its 2017–2018 GPU demand was due to a volatile cryptocurrency boom and not Nvidia's core gaming business—allegedly misleading investors ahead of a crypto crash. After the bust, Nvidia suddenly had to slash half a billion dollars from its earnings projection, and market experts later estimated that the firm had understated its crypto-related revenue by more than a billion. In 2022, Nvidia paid a $5.5 million SEC penalty over the inadequate disclosures that one SEC chief said "deprived investors of critical information to evaluate the company’s business in a key market."

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On Friday, TriStar Pictures released Here, a $50 million Robert Zemeckis-directed film that used real time generative AI face transformation techniques to portray actors Tom Hanks and Robin Wright across a 60-year span, marking one of Hollywood's first full-length features built around AI-powered visual effects.

The film adapts a 2014 graphic novel set primarily in a New Jersey living room across multiple time periods. Rather than cast different actors for various ages, the production used AI to modify Hanks' and Wright's appearances throughout.

The de-aging technology comes from Metaphysic, a visual effects company that creates real time face swapping and aging effects. During filming, the crew watched two monitors simultaneously: one showing the actors' actual appearances and another displaying them at whatever age the scene required.

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