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Musk Warns Tesla Shareholders to Expect “Challenging” Year

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[ad_1] Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, warned shareholders Tuesday to expect a difficult year because of an unsteady global economy and high interest rates. “This is going to be a challenging 12 months,” Mr. Musk said at Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting. He added, “Tesla is not immune to the global economic environment.” Mr. Musk’s pessimistic forecast came in an otherwise upbeat presentation to a friendly crowd at Tesla’s factory in Austin, Texas. He largely ignored criticism by activist investors on a variety of issues, including allegations of racial discrimination at its California factory , and whether the company was hostile to labor unions or its board was doing a good job overseeing management. He did, however, respond to activists by promising that Tesla would investigate whether any suppliers of cobalt, a battery raw material, were using child labor . “We will do a third-party audit,” he said, shortly after Courtney Wicks, the executive director of Investor Ad...

Microsoft warns of macOS 'powerdir' computer virus that might reveal personal knowledge

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[ad_1] Apple encourages customers to put in OS updates once imaginable as a result of they repair insects and extra importantly, patch safety holes. Microsoft simply defined some of the bugs fixed in Monterey 12.1 , and it’s a doozy. The vulnerability dubbed “powerdir” may just let any individual bypass macOS’s Transparency, Consent, and Keep an eye on (TCC) safety framework and hijack get right of entry to to a consumer’s safe knowledge. TCC is part of macOS that permits customers to configure the Mac’s privateness settings, and Microsoft found out a strategy to “programmatically alternate a goal consumer’s house listing and plant a faux TCC database, which shops the consent historical past of app requests.” This may permit an attacker to put in a malicious app or take over an put in app, after which have the ability to take screenshots or file audio from a microphone whilst the pc is in use. It’s conventional for a third-party corporate or developer to unloc...