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BuddyPress WordPress Vulnerability May Impact Up To 100,000 Sites

A newly disclosed security vulnerability waffects the BuddyPress plugin, a WordPress plugin installed in over 100,000 websites. The vulnerability, given a threat level rating of 7.3 (high), enables ...
Variety

‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ to Decrease Music Performances to a ‘Variable’ Number Per Week

In a move that reflects the downsizing of late-night TV, ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” will be decreasing its music performances in the coming weeks, a source confirms to Variety. The news was first ...
Ars Technica

ClickFix may be the biggest security threat your family has never heard of

Over the past year, scammers have ramped up a new way to infect the computers of unsuspecting people. The increasingly common method, which many potential targets have yet to learn of, is quick, ...
The Verge

EcoFlow’s Delta Pro Ultra X can power a home for weeks

The company has finally run out of superlatives. The company has finally run out of superlatives. is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as ...
The New York Times

Republican Policy Bill Would Add $2.4 Trillion to Debt, Budget Office Says

The estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is all but certain to inflame an already intense debate inside the G.O.P. about the fiscal consequences of its bill to enact President ...
Bleeping Computer

Hackers exploit OttoKit WordPress plugin flaw to add admin accounts

Hackers are exploiting a critical unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability in the OttoKit WordPress plugin to create rogue admin accounts on targeted sites. OttoKit (formerly SureTriggers) ...
Reuters

JPMorgan says AI helped boost sales, add clients in market turmoil

NEW YORK, May 5 (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase's (JPM.N), opens new tab artificial-intelligence tools enabled it to boost sales to wealthy clients and manage scores of requests from worried customers even ...
Campaign Asia

DoubleVerify to add URL-level reporting amid CASM controversy

Ad verification firm DoubleVerify (DV) is set to provide URL-level reporting to its advertising clients following mounting industry pressure in the wake of revelations that major brands' ...
Bleeping Computer

WP3.XYZ malware attacks add rogue admins to 5,000+ WordPress sites

A new malware campaign has compromised more than 5,000 WordPress sites to create admin accounts, install a malicious plugin, and steal data. Researchers at webscript security company c/side discovered ...
The New York Times

Why Sitting All Day May Shorten Your Life

Spending too much time in a chair can unravel your fitness goals and make you feel older. Here’s how to counteract it. By Jen Murphy We’ve all heard that sitting too long is bad for you. We’re not ...
Slate

Polymarket and Nate Silver Want to Reshape Political Forecasting

Whether you recognize it as a “betting app,” a “predictions market,” or a “bunch of degenerate gamblers trying to make a buck off anything and everything,” political betting has become an intractable ...