FBI launches new email safety campaignNurPhoto via Getty ImagesRepublished on December 21 with a new cybersecurity report into predicted AI threats for 2025, echoing recent FBI warnings.Tis the season to be worriedat least when it comes to the alarming rise in attacks targeting Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail and other email users. So, little surprise that the FBI has launched a new campaign warning email users how to stay safe. The only trickster you should see this holiday season, the bureau says, is the Naughty Elf.Scammers, the FBI warns, often offer too-good-to-be-true deals via phishing emails or ads. Such schemes may offer brand-name merchandise at extremely low prices, offer gift cards as an incentive, or offer products at a great price, but the product you receive is different than ordered.Their advice drills down to three key things to check for with every unsolicited email that arrives in your inbox before you click your way into trouble: Check the senders email address; check any URL before you click or certainly before you engage; and check the spelling and grammar of the email itself, as well as the URL.We have seen a surge in phishing and fraudulent web domains this holiday season, with all threats on the rise. Aided by AI, its now easier for attackers to create compelling emails and websites, mimicking logos and other product imagery, even polishing their copy to make it more convincing and compelling with less mistakes.MORE FOR YOUThe best advice remains to ignore marketing emailsespecially when holiday season research suggests most of these are now either scams, fraud or worse. If you see an offer you like, navigate through to it by accessing the website directly or using a search engine. Albeit you also need to watch for SEO poisoning. It has become a more dangerous online world than ever, and you really do need to be careful.All that said, the FBIs phishing attack advice hasnt changed:Remember that companies generally dont contact you to ask for your username or password.Dont click on anything in an unsolicited email or text message. Look up the companys phone number on your own (dont use the one a potential scammer is providing), and call the company to ask if the request is legitimate.Carefully examine the email address, URL, and spelling used in any correspondence. Scammers use slight differences to trick your eye and gain your trust.Be careful what you download. Never open an email attachment from someone you dont know and be wary of email attachments forwarded to you.Set up two-factor (or multi-factor) authentication on any account that allows it, and never disable it.Be careful with what information you share online or on social media. By openly sharing things like pet names, schools you attended, family members, and your birthday, you can give a scammer all the information they need to guess your password or answer your security questions.Googles Gmail team has just issued its own advice, warning that since mid-November, weve seen a massive surge in email traffic compared to previous months, making protecting inboxes an even greater challenge than normal. The team says it blocks more than 99.9% of spam, phishing and malware in Gmail for the platforms more than 2.5 billion users. While security has improved, the company has issued its own advice for users:Slow it down. Scams are often designed to create a sense of urgency, and often use terms like urgent, immediate, deactivate, unauthorized, etc. Take time to ask questions and think it through.Spot check. Do your research to double-check the details of an email. Does what its saying make sense? Can you validate the email address of the sender?Stop! Dont send. No reputable person or agency will ever demand payment or your personal information on the spot.Report it. If you see something suspicious, mark it as spam. Youll be making your Inbox cleaner and helping billions of others too.With perfect timing, one such email attack made headlines of its own yesterday, with the Daily Dot reporting that a tech expert is warning his followers to be on the lookout for the latest Apple email scam. Initially posted on TikTok, Scott Polderman warns other users that the reason this is working so good for hackers is because they catch you unexpectedly. And, unfortunately, its really working well with those who are less tech-savvy. That last point is criticalwhile those reading this article might be savvy to such attacks, in reality most users are not and remain vulnerable.In his TikTok video, Polderman shows an email purporting to come from Apple with instructions as to how to keep your account. safe and secure. The format of the email closely resembles an Apple original, and it seems the kind of email users might receive to check their settings. The email even includes details as to how you might set up a legacy contact after death, such that someone will then be given access to your account. Polderman notes that even the fine print at the foot of the email is basically verbatim what you would see on the Apple website.But just as the FBI advises, checking the actual email sender quickly outs the scam. This shows me it is not from Apple.com. This is always the first thing to check. Click on the name that is likely all youll see in your email app and which is easy to mimic. But the underlying full email address is the tell.Scammers are clever and will come up with a form of words that could be an email address from a genuine business, but it will be complex and will not come from the genuine domain. While its possible to mimic even this, its usually not done. Most of the mass of phishing attacks can be detected with this simple check. Never treat any email as genuine until youve done at least that.But bewarewhile this is an easy phishing tell, more sophisticated attacks find ways around this. That even includes hijacking real email addresses, such that emails are sent from actual addresses making the scam much harder to detect. But if the email purports to come from a global brand like Apple or Microsoft or Meta, then their basic email domain will not have been hijacked.I did a spot check of the last 25 phishing emails I had received, and all fell foul of this test, albeit the copy and imagery are now very difficult to detect per the FBIs AI warning. Scammers are getting better at tricking email users, that much is as clear as the Apple logo and typography in Poldermans video. And AI is critical to making everything look and feel more real. You cant take any single test for sure. And so the advice not to click links or open attachments in any of your emails remains.But while telltale signs still exist, all indications for 2025 warn threats will become more sophisticated as AI tools are continually improved. In its newly published 2025 cybersecurity predictions, McAfee focuses on this risk, highlighting the emerging threats consumers may encounter as cybercriminals exploit advanced AI technology. From hyper-realistic deepfakes and live video scams to AI-driven phishing, smishing, and malware attacks, these predictions reveal how cybercrooks are using AI-powered tools to craft increasingly sophisticated and personalized cyber scams.The security firm lists its predictions with AI stitched throughout. As AI continues to mature and become increasingly accessible, Abhishek Karnik, the companys Head of Threat Research warns, cybercriminals are using it to create scams that are more convincing, personalized, and harder to detect. From deepfakes that blur the line between real and fake to AI-driven text message, email, social, and live video scams, the risks to trust and safety online have never been greater.Some of the reports AI highlights are detailed belowbut the entire report is worth a read. Having these threats in mind can only be helpful as we enter 2025.The use of AI to develop highly realistic fake videos or audio recordings that pretend to be authentic content from real people, echoing the FBIs same warning. As deepfake technology becomes more accessible and affordable, McAfee says, even people with no prior experience can produce convincing content. With easy-to-use AI tools and accessible tutorials, scammers are finding it easier than ever to manipulate trust and deceive people.Again, echoing the FBIs own warnings, McAfee also points to AI giving cybercriminals the ability to easily create more personalized and convincing emails and messages that look like theyre from trusted sources, such as banks, employers, or even family members. They can craft these scams quickly and with precision, making them more difficult to detect and increasing their success rate. As AI tools become more accessible, these types of attacks are expected to grow in sophistication and frequency.And beyond visual tricks, AI is also now driving the malware threat, with bad actors using AI-powered tools to create smarter, more adaptive malware that can increase its effectiveness. For example, advanced tools like OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology which scans images or documents and turns the text in them into editable and searchable digital text can now extract sensitive information, such as cryptocurrency wallet keys, directly from screenshots or documents. As AI capabilities grow, so does the sophistication of these threats, making them more effective and dangerous.The good news is that AI can also be used by the good guys as well, and we have now seen development releases from Microsoft and Google showing that AI is being deployed in Edge and Chrome to use their own tools to detect threats that people are unlikely to find on their own, unaided.An example would be checking a website against the brand it purports to represent, or looking for signals that suggest a threat, such as asking for certain kinds of financial or personally sensitive information.Whats still missing is the same kind of detection being fully and properly applied to on-device email. While billions of emails are detected and blocked by platforms, too many still get through. Its a constant source of surprise how obvious phishing emails with obvious telltales make it into an inbox whole some legitimate emails still get caught out mistakenly. AI will fix all thisand thats cant happen soon enough. New advances in on-device AI mean this can be done while preserving user privacy.All that said, the FBIs simplest message is still its best: If it looks like its too good to be true, thats because it is.

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - DECEMBER 20: Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury 2 pose for a photo during the ... [+] weigh-in as part of Oleksandr Usyk v Tyson Fury 2 at on December 20, 2024 in Riyadh, . (Photo by Richard Pelham/Getty Images)Getty ImagesTyson Fury has to believe hell be better if hes heavier.On Friday in Riyadh, Fury weighed in at a whopping 281 pounds ahead of his rematch on Saturday against WBA, WBO, and WBC heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk.With Usyk weighing in at 226 pounds, Fury has an eye-popping 55-pound weight advantageor disadvantageagainst his rival in their rematch.Furys size is a humongous leap up from what he weighed in May when the two men clashed for the undisputed heavyweight championship. In the first fight, Fury weighed 262 pounds, outweighing Usyk by a sizable 39 pounds.The 281 pounds is the largest Fury has ever been in his 36-fight professional career."I'm pretty lean," Fury told ESPN. "Other than the big beard, I'm doing well. I'm in good shape and I'm fit as a fiddle. I'll be ready for Saturday night."What does this tell us about Furys game plan in the rematch?While its not certain, it appears Fury is looking to impose his will physically on Usyk and preparing to knock the champion out. This concept seemingly aligns with what Fury has been saying all fight week.MORE FOR YOUHes only spoken about hurting Usyk and taking the decision out of the hands of the judges. Traditionally, when a heavyweight elects to come in on the heavier side, its because they have designs on delivering punishment.On Usyks side, he is in similar shape to what he was for the first fight. The former undisputed cruiserweight champion weighed 223 pounds for the first fight. At that weight, he proved to be the fresher and more effective fighter late in the first meeting.Will that be the case in the rematch?It stands to reasonunless Saturdays fight doesnt go the distance. Usyk has traditionally outworked his heavyweight opponents. His work rate has been tough for opponents to keep pace with and you have to wonder if itll be any different for Furyespecially at nearly 300 pounds.The weight storyline, added to the relaunch of Ring Magazine and accompanied by the presence of two up-and-coming young heavyweights like Moses Itauma and Johnny Fisher, makes Saturday in Riyadh a special event for boxing, and more specifically, the heavyweight division.In case youve missed it, here is a look at the entire card:Oleksandr Usyk (c) vs. Tyson FuryMoses Itauma vs. Demsey McKeanJohnny Fisher vs. Dave AllenDennis McCann vs. Peter McGrailIsaac Lowe vs. Lee McGregorBe on the lookout for coverage of the fight, Itauma and Fischers results as well as the reactions to Usyk-Fury from the boxing community.

SAB Office Building / Sergei TchobanSave this picture! HG EschOffice BuildingsBerlin, GermanyArchitects: Sergei TchobanAreaArea of this architecture projectArea:6150 mYearCompletion year of this architecture project Year: 2024 PhotographsPhotographs:HG EschMore SpecsLess SpecsSave this picture!Text description provided by the architects. The SAB office building is embedded in the site of the historical Koenigstadt Brewery in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg, directly on Saarbruecker Strasse, a street which takes its character from its Art Nouveau and Wilhelminian style architecture. The plot is located on the prominent edge of the Barnim Plateau and, in the innermost part of the street block, rises approximately two metres from Saarbruecker Strasse. The new building occupies the free corner of the street and a private road leading into an extensive Gewerbehof (typical Berlin courtyard occupied by small industrial enterprises).Save this picture!Save this picture!Beer has not been brewed on the site of what was once Berlin's largest brewery for around 100 years. After an eventful history, the buildings are now in mixed use by neighbourhood initiatives, media companies, restaurants, and start-ups. The listed Gewerbehof of the Koenigstadt AG brewery dates to the 'Wagner's Bairisch-Bier-Brauerei' brewery, which was founded in 1849. Today it consists of six historical buildings framing the new office building. The former warehouse, built in 1872, is directly adjacent to SAB. The old vaulted cellar, which was used as a beer storage room, has been partly exposed, preserved, and sensitively integrated into the new building.Save this picture!Save this picture!Concept. The reinforced-concrete skeleton structure with five upper floors and two basement floors rests on a solid base faced in clinker brick using a wild bond pattern which picks up on and at the same time reinterprets the materiality and colours of the surrounding industrial buildings. The plinth follows the building boundary on the street side. The storeys above it are set back with an approximately 15 degree rotation, allowing a view of the listed brewery buildings at the rear of the site. The roof of the plinth overlooking Saarbruecker Strasse fringes the upper storeys and has been designed as a spacious, partly planted terrace area.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!The facades of the first to fifth storeys above the plinth consist of sawtooth-like, scaly, floor-to-ceiling windows in dark aluminium frames. The twisting of the upper storeys with differently orientated facade scaling and alternating large, two-storey bay windows makes the rotation of the upper part of the building even more eye-catching. The rotation and set back of the building volumes impart a certain lightness and pay respect to the surrounding buildings in this location by creating new visual axes. Depending on where the viewer is standing, the historical facades on the opposite side of the street are reflected in the windows a calculated optical interplay that, in a visual liaison between old and new, allows the new building to appear as a harmonious component in a historical street front that has developed over time.Save this picture!Advantage has been taken of the upwardly sloping site to cut the ground floor of the building into the terrain by half a storey. In the direction of the courtyard this produces an open space which is partly overhung by the storeys above. Into this space the exposed vaulted rear side of the underground beer cellar has been integrated like a historical ruin. Two ground-floor conference rooms are orientated towards this special outdoor area. A further, significantly smaller, courtyard, recessed on all sides, is sunk into the plinth adjacent to the neighbouring building on Saarbruecker Strasse. This provides light for a further meeting room located in the plinth.Save this picture!Save this picture!The building offers flexible space for 400 workstations in single or multi-tenant use. The ground floor contains a conference centre with a central foyer and a Japanese garden. The roof of the building is covered in greenery. The technical structures on the roof are recessed into its surface so that they cannot be seen from the upper floors of neighbouring buildings. The two basement levels contain spaces for parking bicycles and cars, sanitary facilities for cyclists, e- charging stations, and various technical and storage rooms.Save this picture!Project gallerySee allShow lessProject locationAddress:Berlin, GermanyLocation to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.About this officeSergei TchobanOfficePublished on December 21, 2024Cite: "SAB Office Building / Sergei Tchoban" 21 Dec 2024. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1024941/sab-office-building-sergei-tchoban&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save!ArchDaily?You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

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Happy day after Thanksgiving! (lol I seem to blog the most the day after holidays)Anyway, a few months ago I uploaded a proc-gen map I had developed as part of a previous project. Well, I decided to dig up a few other old projects of mine and upload those as well: a live demo of some shader work I once blogged about, the UI portion of an old RPG, and the final ga