Boeing tumbles after wiring flaw found on 737 Max planes

(Bloomberg) — Boeing Co. shares fell after it said a wiring flaw found on its 737 Max will delay some deliveries of the cash-cow narrowbody jet. The US planemaker said its overall delivery target of roughly 500 of the 737 jets for the year remains unchanged despite the quality lapse, disclosed on Tuesday as the …

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Guy finds major flaw and exploit in Firefox (and Mozilla based) browsers. Can lead to open shell and full executable access to your whole machine

The exploit allows full root and shell access to your machine. It doesnt even need the user to interact with anything or do anything. Simply landing on a website allows the exploit to be used. It allows any executable function to be run without the users knowledge, and with no trace on the computer. Firefox …

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WHATSAPP Security Flaw Exposes 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers…

WhatsApp’s mass adoption stems in part from how easy it is to find a new contact on the messaging platform: Add someone’s phone number, and WhatsApp instantly shows whether they’re on the service, and often their profile picture and name, too. Repeat that same trick a few billion times with every possible phone number, it …

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Microsoft SharePoint flaw exploited in huge hack hitting thousands of servers worldwide. NIH forced to shut down systems. Experts suspect China but Beijing denies it.

The Microsoft SharePoint hack is serious and spreading fast. Hackers found a vulnerability and hit thousands of targets globally including governments, banks, hospitals, and big companies. Over 8,000 servers are at risk. More than 400 systems have been confirmed hacked, including the National Institutes of Health which had to shut down servers for safety. 🇺🇸 …

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Microsoft rocked by global cyberattack: SharePoint flaw lets hackers breach U.S. agencies, banks, and energy firms

It started quiet. Then it spread. A zero-day flaw buried inside Microsoft’s SharePoint server software has been exploited in a sweeping cyberattack. The breach began July 18. It’s now confirmed that federal agencies, universities, energy firms, and banks have been compromised. The flaw allows remote code execution. No login needed. No warning. No patch for …

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This is America’s ‘fatal flaw’ as the US bubble gets ready to pop, market expert warns

how the bubble of U.S. outperformance versus the rest of the world will pop. While Wall Street bulls point to strong earnings, Sharma said the record is less impressive after adjusting for government spending and the handful of tech giants with massive valuations, adding that “supernormal profits” tend to return to normal amid competition. “Growth …

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THIS IS A SERIOUS FLAW: Chatbots Sometimes Make Things Up. Is AI’s Hallucination Problem Fixable?

via MSN: Spend enough time with ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots and it doesn’t take long for them to spout falsehoods. Described as hallucination, confabulation or just plain making things up, it’s now a problem for every business, organization and high school student trying to get a generative AI system to compose documents and get …

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