Web souk says Echo hardware doesn’t have the oomph for next-gen AI anyway Come March 28, those who opted to have their voice commands for Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa processed locally on their Echo devices will lose that option, with all spoken requests pushed to the cloud for analysis.… READ MORE HERE…

Maddening techno loop, Zoolander reference, and 14 minutes of time wasted A vulnerability analyst and prominent member of the infosec industry has blasted Microsoft for refusing to look at a bug report unless he submitted a video alongside a written explanation.… READ MORE HERE…

National security defense being used to keep appeal behind closed doors US politicians and privacy campaigners are calling for the private hearing between Apple and the UK government regarding its alleged encryption-busting order to be aired in public.… READ MORE HERE…

It’s March already and you haven’t patched? Researchers are tracking a newly discovered ransomware group with suspected links to LockBit after a series of intrusions were reported starting in January.… READ MORE HERE…

It’ll take a few days, give or take your situation Google has told The Register it’s beginning to roll out a fix for Chromecast devices that were crippled by an expired security certificate authority. We’re assured this deployment will take place over the next few days.… READ MORE HERE…