Employers are required to provide N-95 masks to employees

Ecco come gli imbonitori manipolano Google per promuovere estensioni sospette di Chrome

Le persone che supervisionano la sicurezza del browser Chrome di Google proibiscono esplicitamente agli sviluppatori di estensioni di terze parti di provare a manipolare il modo in cui le estensioni del browser che inviano vengono presentate nel Chrome Web Store . La politica richiama specificamente le tecniche di manipolazione della ricerca come l'elencazione di più estensioni che forniscono la stessa esperienza o l'aggiunta di parole chiave vagamente correlate o non correlate alle descrizioni delle estensioni.

Mercoledì, il ricercatore di sicurezza e privacy Wladimir Palant ha rivelato che gli sviluppatori stanno palesemente violando quei termini in centinaia di estensioni attualmente disponibili per il download da Google. Di conseguenza, le ricerche di un termine o di termini specifici possono restituire estensioni non correlate, imitazioni di qualità inferiore o svolgere attività abusive come la monetizzazione occulta delle ricerche web, cosa che Google proibisce espressamente.

arstechnica.com/security/2025/…

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Bullet points taken from article:

• The latest Google Messages beta supports MLS encryption, RCS’s next step toward E2EE interoperability across apps and platforms.
• We managed to enable MLS for one-on-one RCS conversations in Google Messages, but we haven’t been able to enable it for RCS group chats yet.
• This indicates that MLS encryption support could be on the horizon for Google Messages.

Note that Google Messages already does end to end encryption, but there are many cases where this feature doesn't work (such as when communicating with an iPhone).

​Medusind, a leading billing provider for healthcare organizations, is notifying hundreds of thousands of individuals of a data breach that exposed their personal and health information more than a year ago, in December 2023.

Sviluppo delle capacità cyber dell’Italia. A che punto siamo

@informatica
Vediamo nel dettaglio cosa è stato fatto e cosa resta da fare per la crescita delle competenze nazionali di cyber security implementate dall'ACN
L'articolo Sviluppo delle capacità cyber dell’Italia. A che punto siamo proviene da Cyber Security 360.

#Cybersecurity360 è la testata del gruppo

I try to join about 5 minutes before because I'm terrified of being the first person or the last.

Summary

Billy Long, Trump’s IRS commissioner nominee, faces scrutiny from Senator Elizabeth Warren over his qualifications and promotion of the Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC), a COVID-era program with widespread fraud.

Warren's letter highlights Long’s limited tax expertise, lack of recognized credentials, and efforts with Lifetime Advisors to expand ERTC eligibility, including for thriving businesses.

She also questions the removal of a 2023 podcast where Long discussed his involvement.

His confirmation hearing will be reviewed by the Senate Finance Committee.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/29705704

So I've been getting more into the Fediverse, as I already had a Mastodon account for a bit. But I've joined Lemmy (love it btw, used to login to Reddit before API death ⚰️🕊️) and am thinking of joining Misskey since there's such a huge Japanese speaking community there.

But is it a good idea, and has anyone here joined? I can read decently, I'm playing Ace Attorney 5 in Japanese (finished the 1st case), I'm doing a Wanikani beginner bookclub that seems right around my level, and I'm almost done with Genki 2 (Quartet books already ordered). So I feel like this is prime time for doing more immersing and interacting with Japanese content.

Which server did you join, main, or a more niche one? Did you focus purely on the theme/content of the server?

I like games, anime, and fanart, and I'm okay with some NSFW, but I'm a little afraid of the misskey servers cause the big art ones are full of hentai/NSFW (Pawoo...). I won't go on a crusade if I see some loli art, but I don't want it shoved in my face every 3 posts.

I'm currently thinking of joining the Splatoon themed server, いかすきー.

A judge has thrown out a man's attempt to sue a council to recover from a rubbish tip a Bitcoin hard drive that is now worth about £598m.

James Howells had argued that his former partner had mistakenly dumped the hard drive containing a Bitcoin wallet in 2013, and he wanted to access the site and recover the cryptocurrency.

But Newport council asked a High Court judge to strike out Mr Howells' legal action to access the landfill or get £495m in compensation.

Judge Keyser KC said there were no "reasonable grounds" for bringing the claim and "no realistic prospect" of succeeding at a full trial.

Reacting to the decision, Mr Howells said he was "very upset".

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The landfill holds more than 1.4m tonnes of waste, but Mr Howells said he had narrowed the hard drive's location to an area consisting of 100,000 tonnes.

Mr Howells has speculated that, by next year, the Bitcoin on his hard drive could be worth £1bn.

LONDON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Broker McGill and Partners has launched a commercial property war risk reinsurance programme for Ukraine, which it said on Thursday was the first of its kind since Russia's invasion of the country in Feb 2022.

Companies in Ukraine have found it difficult to get insurance since the start of the war because Western reinsurers, who insure the insurers, have placed exclusions on the country.

McGill said it had collaborated with local Ukrainian insurer ARX to provide up to $50 million in cover for each commercial property policy, with reinsurance from firms in London including Lloyd's of London (SOLYD.UL) syndicates.

What a dickhead.

KDE Testers Assemble! Plasma 6.3 Beta is here.

The first big KDE release of 2025 is just around the corner. Plasma 6.3 will be hitting desktops in about a month. Meanwhile, we need testers to try out the beta and submit bug reports so we can work on making it perfect.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.2.90/

#Linux #desktop #beta

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From WABE Local News:

School districts around metro Atlanta are closing ahead of the predicted winter weather on Friday, with some schools switching to remote work. The National Weather Service Atlanta has issued a […]

Poland's president has urged the government not to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should he attend the Auschwitz liberation anniversary event later this month, his office said Thursday.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250109164203/https://www.rawstory.com/polish-president-says-don-t-arrest-netanyahu-at-auschwitz-ceremony/

SpinScore: https://spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawstory.com%2Fpolish-president-says-don-t-arrest-netanyahu-at-auschwitz-ceremony%2F