Kagi is now beginning development for Orion on Linux! It's a webkit based browser, which isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I am ecstatic to see something other than another freaking Chromium browser!

A newly discovered network botnet comprising an estimated 30,000 webcams and video recorders—with the largest concentration in the US—has been delivering what is likely to be the biggest denial-of-service attack ever seen, a security researcher inside Nokia said.

The botnet, tracked under the name Eleven11bot, first came to light in late February when researchers inside Nokia’s Deepfield Emergency Response Team observed large numbers of geographically dispersed IP addresses delivering “hyper-volumetric attacks.” Eleven11bot has been delivering large-scale attacks ever since.

Volumetric DDoSes shut down services by consuming all available bandwidth either inside the targeted network or its connection to the Internet. This approach works differently than exhaustion DDoSes, which over-exert the computing resources of a server. Hypervolumetric attacks are volumetric DDoses that deliver staggering amounts of data, typically measured in the terabits per second. Johnny-come-lately botnet sets a new record

At 30,000 devices, the Eleven11bot was already exceptionally large (although some botnets exceed well over 100,000 devices). Most of the IP addresses participating, Nokia researcher Jérôme Meyer told me, had never been seen engaging in DDoS attacks.

Besides a 30,000-node botnet seeming to appear overnight, another salient feature of Eleven11bot is the record-size volume of data it sends its targets. The largest one Nokia has seen from Eleven11bot so far occurred on February 27 and peaked at about 6.5 terabits per second. The previous record for a volumetric attack was reported in January at 5.6 Tbps.

"Eleven11bot has targeted diverse sectors, including communications service providers and gaming hosting infrastructure, leveraging a variety of attack vectors," Meyer wrote. While in some cases the attacks are based on the volume of data, others focus on flooding a connection with more data packets than a connection can handle, with numbers ranging from a "few hundred thousand to several hundred million packets per second." Service degradation caused in some attacks has lasted multiple days, with some remaining ongoing as of the time this post went live.

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The Israeli army is developing an AI language model using millions of intercepted conversations between Palestinians, which could accelerate the process of incrimination and arrest, a joint investigation reveals.

• Reddit has begun issuing warnings to users to regularly upvote violent content with a view to taking harsher action in future.
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Facing competition from Vietnam and Cambodia, factories are using automation and surveillance to ramp up production and cut labor costs.

• Automation in Dhaka’s garment factories is leading to job cuts, especially for women.
• Smart surveillance devices monitor workers as factories struggle to compete globally.
• Brands are “pleased” by smart factories that produce efficiently and quickly.

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The American military has signed a deal with Scale AI to give artificial intelligence, as far as we can tell, its most prominent role in the Western defense sector to date – with AI agents to now be used in planning and operations.

We won't be adopting the Firefox Terms of Use for Thunderbird.

They say they're a viable alternative to starlink and ready to start - not sure how much true is that

I read a musk fan saying "but their terminals aren't made in a NATO country" - isn't the same for starlink?

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