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China-linked hackers deployed a roster of different backdoors and Web shells in the process of compromising the MITRE Corporation late last year.

Last month news broke that MITRE, best known for its Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK) framework, was breached through Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day vulnerabilities. The hackers accessed its Networked Experimentation, Research, and Virtualization Environment (NERVE), an unclassified research and development network.

In a major shake-up of its chip roadmap, Apple has announced a new M4 processor for today’s iPad Pro refresh, barely six months after releasing the first MacBook Pros with the M3 and not even two months after updating the MacBook Air with the M3.

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating whether Boeing failed to complete required inspections on 787 Dreamliner planes and whether Boeing employees falsified aircraft records, the agency said this week. The investigation was launched after an employee reported the problem to Boeing management, and Boeing informed the FAA.

Since at least 2019, a shadowy figure hiding behind several pseudonyms has publicly gloated for extorting millions of dollars from thousands of victims he and his associates had hacked. Now, for the first time, “LockBitSupp” has been unmasked by an international law enforcement team, and a $10 million bounty has been placed for his arrest.

As the US moves toward criminalizing deepfakes—deceptive AI-generated audio, images, and videos that are increasingly hard to discern from authentic content online—tech companies have rushed to roll out tools to help everyone better detect AI content.

A breach of the Tamil Nadu Police Facial Recognition Portal exposed 800,000 lines of data, including information of over 50,000 persons, according to reports in The New Indian Express’ and Medianama. Exposed by threat intelligence platform FalconFeeds.io, the breach was the work of a group calling itself “Valerie,” which has claimed responsibility. Data stolen from five types of data sets has been found for sale on the dark web, and includes names of police officers, phone numbers, info on police stations, and first information report (FIR) details.

It’s been a difficult few years for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in the workplace, as organizations continue to reduce their support for dedicated DEI roles and initiatives. Forrester Research predicts that in 2024, just 20% of companies will have “a DEI function with an endorsed strategy and personnel,” down from 27% in 2023. As DEI efforts languish at many companies, some organizations still value diversity, equity, and inclusion as important practices for identifying, developing, and retaining talent.

On Sunday night, even more Tesla workers learned they were no longer employed by the company as it engaged in yet another round of layoffs. Multiple former employees posted on LinkedIn and other sites to relay the news that they were no longer with the company.

"Well, tonight I have learned that my nearly 8 year journey leading and designing Service products at Tesla has come to an end," wrote one former employee.

Microsoft is working on a new large-scale AI language model called MAI-1, which could potentially rival state-of-the-art models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI, according to a report by The Information. This marks the first time Microsoft has developed an in-house AI model of this magnitude since investing over $10 billion in OpenAI for the rights to reuse the startup's AI models. OpenAI's GPT-4 powers not only ChatGPT but also Microsoft Copilot.

Researchers have devised an attack against nearly all virtual private network applications that forces them to send and receive some or all traffic outside of the encrypted tunnel designed to protect it from snooping or tampering.