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Judges say cops face-slurping not a problem under current human rights laws

London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has survived a legal challenge that attempted to curb its rollout of live facial recognition (LFR) technology across the capital.…

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented data wiper that has been used in attacks targeting Venezuela at the end of last year and the start of 2026. Dubbed Lotus Wiper, the novel file wiper has been used in a destructive campaign targeting the energy and utilities sector in Venezuela, per findings from Kaspersky. "Two batch scripts are responsible for initiating the Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

Brzy už bude nutné odevzdat daňové přiznání, které je nutné podat elektronicky. Které časté chyby ve formuláři vás mohou připravit o tisíce korun?

Nemusíte kupovat specializované zařízení pro záznam z IP kamer, využít můžete svůj NAS. Ukážeme si, jak postupovat a jaké nastavení zvolit.

On January 31, 2026, researchers disclosed that Moltbook, a social network built for AI agents, had left its database wide open, exposing 35,000 email addresses and 1.5 million agent API tokens across 770,000 active agents. The more worrying part sat inside the private messages. Some of those conversations held plaintext third-party credentials, including OpenAI API keys shared between agents, [email protected]

Microsoft says that an ongoing Universal Print sharing issue that prevents users from creating some printer shares is due to a Microsoft Graph API code change. [...]

Stále větší televizory nabízejí lepší vizuální zážitek, ale zvuk u nich často zaostává. Jejich zvukový výkon zůstává stejný – stejně malý jako u starých televizorů. Nejjednodušší cestu k lepšímu zvuku představuje soundbar.

Meta plans to track US employees’ mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and screen activity to train workplace AI agents, according to Reuters, offering an early look at how far major tech companies may go to build systems that can automate knowledge work.

The company plans to do so through a tool called Model Capability Initiative, or MCI, which will run on work-related apps and websites and periodically capture screen snapshots, according to the report.

Meta reportedly told staff in internal memos that the data collected through MCI would be used to help train AI models in areas where they still struggle to mimic how humans interact with computers, such as navigating dropdown menus and using keyboard shortcuts. The company added that the data would not be used for performance reviews and would be limited to AI training.

The move is likely to intensify debate over worker surveillance and data governance as companies push to use AI for a growing share of workplace tasks.

In a separate memo, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told employees the company was expanding internal data collection as part of its broader “AI for Work” push, now rebranded as the Agent Transformation Accelerator, Reuters added. Bosworth said Meta’s goal was to build a future in which AI agents “primarily do the work” while employees “direct, review and help them improve.”

The move comes as the broader AI industry pushes toward agents that can operate software on behalf of users. Anthropic has already showcased computer-use capabilities, while OpenAI launched its Operator agent last year.

“Meta’s move signals a shift from automating discrete tasks to replicating entire human workflows by learning from real employee behavior,” said Pareekh Jain, CEO of Pareekh Consulting. “Enterprise systems will increasingly act as data exhaust pipelines, capturing how work actually gets done so AI agents can execute it.”

Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst at Greyhound Research, said the shift is important because companies are no longer just documenting workflows for automation, but capturing how work is actually carried out inside systems. “Systems do not just learn from historical data anymore. They learn from the way people intervene, adjust, and get outcomes despite the system itself,” he said.

Governance and compliance concerns

For enterprise IT leaders, this kind of monitoring raises a new category of behavioral data risk because it captures not just business information, but also how employees perform tasks inside enterprise systems.

“Privacy and compliance risks are significant, especially in Europe under GDPR and labor laws, where capturing keystrokes and screen activity may be restricted or require explicit consent,” Jain said. “Security risks increase because training datasets may contain credentials, IP, and sensitive workflows, making them high-value attack targets.”

Gogia said the risks should not be viewed in isolation. “These risks stack. They interact. They reinforce each other,” he said, adding that data gathered for AI training could also be repurposed over time for productivity monitoring or other employment-related decisions.

Jain added that governance could become more difficult because companies may struggle to trace what AI systems learned from specific employees. Employee awareness of monitoring could also affect the quality of the data itself. “People do not behave the same way when they know they are being observed,” Gogia said. Over time, that could mean systems are trained not on how work naturally happens, but on behavior shaped by observation.

A Linux variant of the GoGra backdoor uses legitimate Microsoft infrastructure, relying on an Outlook inbox for stealthy payload delivery. [...]

Společnost Framework Computers představila několik velkých novinek: přepracovaný Framework Laptop 13 Pro, vylepšený Framework Laptop 16, dokovací stanici OCuLink Dev Kit a bezdrátovou klávesnici s touchpadem.

Jazykové modely velmi často chybují při úvodní diferenciální diagnóze • . • Umělá inteligence totiž neumí pracovat s lékařskou nejistotou. • Spoléhání na chatboty bez přísného dozoru lékaře nelze nedoporučit.

For all the fancy-schmancy things our modern-day technology promises to do for us, one thing Google has yet to give us is a simple and reliable way to sync the clipboards on our Android phones and computers.

It’s such a powerful feat to have at your fingertips, when it works well — ’cause you can just copy something in one place and then paste it immediately in the other, without any thought or effort. At its best, it’s like your two work surfaces share the same clipboard and work harmoniously to make your life easy.

What’s most frustrating is that Google actually had a super-simple system for this years ago, within Chrome — a single switch you could flip that’d just make your clipboards sync seamlessly and automatically, across any two devices where the browser was installed — but then, in typical Google form, the company gave up on the concept and killed it off at some point along the way. (Sigh.)

Since then, we’ve been left with a mishmash of overly complicated workarounds and compromise-ridden consolation prizes to choose from.

It’s overwhelming, to say the least, and more than a little annoying. But with the right pinch of one-time planning, you can still set up a synced clipboard between your Android device and computer. You just have to know where to begin.

Lemme show you the four best paths, then you can figure out which one of ’em makes the most sense for you.

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Android-computer clipboard syncing option #1: The keyboard connection

If you’re using a Windows computer alongside your favorite Android companion, you’ve got one especially easy option — though it does come with a catch.

And no, it isn’t Microsoft’s official Link to Windows app. That system is obnoxiously limited and locked down in terms of which specific devices it allows to use it — for absolutely no good reason — and it more often than not isn’t even worth your time to futz around with.

The simplest path for Android-Windows clipboard syncing is actually the Microsoft-owned SwiftKey Keyboard. It’s one of my picks for the best Android keyboard apps, in large part because of the native Windows clipboard syncing it offers.

In short, if you don’t mind using SwiftKey for your Android text input, you can set it up so that anything you copy on Android is instantly available on Windows — and vice-versa. There’s nothing to it. It just works, instantly and automatically, which is something no other clipboard-syncing setup currently offers.

The catch is that you’ve gotta commit to stickin’ with SwiftKey as your keyboard. It’s honestly a solid all-around keyboard, so you might not mind — and/or you might find the clipboard syncing sorcery useful enough to make any hesitations worth accepting.

If, on the other hand, you strongly prefer Gboard — or any other Android keyboard app — keep reading, ’cause you do have other options.

Android-computer clipboard syncing option #2: The simple share

If the keyboard syncing path isn’t right for you (or maybe if you aren’t even using Windows to begin with), the next best option is leaning on Google’s native Quick Share system to sync stuff across your clipboards manually, as needed.

This setup lacks the instant, ongoing syncing that SwiftKey provides, which is a bummer. At the same time, it could present a privacy advantage, from some perspectives — since everything you copy won’t automatically be synced across your devices without warning or any opportunity for exception.

• On the Android front, provided you’re using a reasonably recent device, Quick Share is already built in and present — so there’s nothing you need to do there. The same is true for ChromeOS, on Chromebooks.
• On Windows, you’ll need to install and set up the official Google Quick Share Windows app.
• On Macs — sorry, Charlie: Apple doesn’t like its devices to play nicely with things it didn’t create. But, with the right device, you might be able to share stuff into Apple’s propriety AirDrop system, thanks to a recent (and ongoing!) Android-side workaround.

To get things ready, you’ll need to go into the Quick Share settings on any device involved and make sure that system is set to be visible to all of your other nearby devices. (On Android, search your system settings for Quick Share to find the appropriate area. On Windows, open the Quick Share app you just installed. And on ChromeOS, click the clock in the lower-right corner of your desktop and then click the Quick Share tile.)

Then, when you’ve got something you want to sync to the clipboard on one of your other devices — from Android:

• Press and hold your finger onto the text you want to share to highlight it, then select “Share” from the menu that pops up.
• Select “Quick Share” from the list of options.
• And select your computer from the list of available devices.

It isn’t obvious, but Android’s Quick Share system has an easy way to sync text from your phone’s clipboard to a computer.

JR Raphael, Foundry

That’s it! Within a split second, you should see a notification on the computer that the text has been received and is on the clipboard and available — and you can then hit Ctrl-V in any open field to paste it.

From Windows, meanwhile, you’ll copy your text normally — using Ctrl-C — then open the Quick Share app and hit Ctrl-V to paste it and sync it over to your Android phone’s clipboard.

You can sync text from a Windows computer’s clipboard over to Android, too, with Quick Share in place.

JR Raphael, Foundry

With ChromeOS, there’s weirdly no way to sync stuff from the computer to Android (go figure). But maybe, hopefully, surely, Google’s upcoming Android-ChromeOS “merger” plan will address that and make this kind of cross-device clipboard sharing even richer and more effective in that arena.

Android-computer clipboard syncing option #3: The browser beam

Two other interesting options exist for quick ‘n’ easy clipboard sharing — at least, if you’re going from Android to another computer.

No matter what kind of computer it is (yes, even the illustrious Macintosh, in this instance!), as long as you’ve got Chrome installed there and signed into the same Google account you’re using on the Android front, remember this:

In Chrome on Android, you can highlight any text on any page — by pressing and holding it with your finger — then select “Share” followed by “Send to devices.”

Chrome’s “Send to devices” options is a hidden gem for clipboard syncing from Android.

JR Raphael, Foundry

Chrome will show you a list of all the devices where you’ve been signed into the browser with that same Google account in recent days. You can tap any of ’em — and in an instant, your text will be on that system’s clipboard and ready for pasting anywhere your precious pinkies (and other assorted appendages) desire.

Select any other device, and boom: Your text will be on its clipboard instantly.

JR Raphael, Foundry

And last but not least…

Android-computer clipboard syncing option #4: The Lens limb

If you want to sync some text from Android to a computer and the text isn’t already in a standard plain-text form — something from a photo, for instance, or in an area of the operating system for whatever reason doesn’t support standard text selection — just capture a screenshot or share the existing image over to Google Lens.

Lens is a fantastic and free Google app. You’ll need to download its official shortcut from the Play Store before you can share to it.

Once you’ve got whatever you’re seeing into Lens, you can then press and hold any text within the image there to select it.

Google Lens makes it easy to select text from within any image on Android.

JR Raphael, Foundry

Then, tap the three-dot menu icon within the text selection menu that appears — and hey, how ’bout that? Tucked away there, where no reasonably sane person would ever think to look, is a handy little command called “Copy to computer.”

Lens has its own tucked-away “Copy to computer” option for quick clipboard syncing. Who knew?!

JR Raphael, Foundry

Tap that bad boy and tap it good, and you’ll be able to choose from any computer where you’re currently signed into Chrome with the same Google account — Windows, Chromebook, Mac, Linux, you name it — and after that, the text from that image will be on your computer’s clipboard and ready to paste wherever.

As long as your computer has Chrome — with the same Google account signed in — Lens can send text directly into its clipboard.

JR Raphael, Foundry

These options may not be as easy or effortless as they oughta be, but they do get the job done. And once you know how to use ’em, you’ll have a whole new kind of time-saving text trick in your toolkit and ready to deploy — just like the total tech wizard we all know you’re meant to be.

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Microsoft has released out-of-band updates to address a security vulnerability in ASP.NET Core that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-40372, carries a CVSS score of 9.1 out of 10.0. It's rated Important in severity. An anonymous researcher has been credited with discovering and reporting the flaw. "Improper verification of cryptographic Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of a known malware called LOTUSLITE that's distributed via a theme related to India's banking sector. "The backdoor communicates with a dynamic DNS-based command-and-control server over HTTPS and supports remote shell access, file operations, and session management, indicating a continued espionage-focused capability set rather than Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in a Python-based sandbox called Terrarium that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5752, is rated 9.3 on the CVSS scoring system. "Sandbox escape vulnerability in Terrarium allows arbitrary code execution with root privileges on a host process via JavaScript prototype chain traversal," according toRavie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]