An important date is approaching: Sunday, Jan. 19, also known as Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday. I’m just kidding. That heartbeat in the floorboards? It’s TikTok’s. The Supreme Court is considering the constitutionality of a law that would ban TikTok in the U.S. If the court upholds the law, it will go into effect on Jan. 19. … Read more
Artemis has learned that FEMA has increased its estimate for National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) losses from hurricane Helene, raising the figure to $6.75 billion and as a result two FloodSmart Re catastrophe bond tranches have had their maturity dates extended, with partial repayments of principal to be made.The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) … Read more
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has announced a dramatic restructuring of the company’s engineering organization—all around pivoting the company’s focus to developing the tools that will underpin agentic AI. Dubbed “CoreAI – Platform and Tools,” the new division rolls the existing AI platform team and the previous developer division (which is responsible for everything from .NET … Read more
Der Nebel der Silvesternacht war gerade erst verzogen, als erneut die Diskussion um Gesetzesschärfungen angesichts von Angriffen auf Einsatzkräfte entbrannte. Innenministerin Nancy Faeser verwies auf den bereits vorliegenden Referentenentwurf und mahnte an, es müssten nun schärfere Strafen her. Dabei sind die geplanten Änderungen des StGB nicht nur überflüssig und unsystematisch. Sie verkennen auch die Bedeutung … Read more
Jan 14, 2025Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Vulnerability Microsoft has shed light on a now-patched security flaw impacting Apple macOS that, if successfully exploited, could have allowed an attacker running as “root” to bypass the operating system’s System Integrity Protection (SIP) and install malicious kernel drivers by loading third-party kernel extensions. The vulnerability in question is … Read more
