2023

Meta watchdog sticks a probe into Facebook rules after fake Biden vid allowed to stay 11/10/2023 at 06:32 By Katyanna Quach Doctored video featured vile false slur, but it wasn’t a deepfake … so that’s OK, then? Meta’s Oversight Board is probing the social media giant’s policies on deepfake content after Facebook decided against taking

Patch Tuesday, October 2023 11/10/2023 at 06:31 By Jeannette Dickens Hale Halloween is arriving and with it, Trustwave’s return to Patch Tuesday reports. This article is an excerpt from SpiderLabs Blog View Original Source

Intel offers $179 Arc A580 GPU to gamers on a budget 11/10/2023 at 04:47 By Tobias Mann 640K, sorry, 1080p ought to be enough for anybody Intel filled out its Arc graphics portfolio Tuesday with a $179 card aimed at 1080p gamers on a shoestring budget.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Twitter further restricts free tier with option to limit replies to verified accounts 11/10/2023 at 04:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo The digital town square, but with more pay-to-play curbs On the social media site formerly known as Twitter, you can now opt to allow only paying verified accounts to reply to your tweets. Again, it’s more

Microsoft reportedly runs GitHub’s AI Copilot at a loss 11/10/2023 at 03:35 By Tobias Mann Redmond willing to do its accounts in red ink to get you hooked Analysis  Microsoft is reportedly losing up to $80 a month per user on its GitHub Copilot services.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

It’s 2023 and Microsoft WordPad can be exploited to hijack vulnerable systems 11/10/2023 at 03:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Happy Halloween! Security bugs under attack squashed, more flaws fixed Patch Tuesday  Microsoft on Tuesday issued more than 100 security updates to fix flaws in its products, including two bugs that are already under active attack,

Judge tosses Sonos’s $32.5M patent win over Google with savage slam down 11/10/2023 at 02:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘It is wrong that our system was used to punish an innovator and to enrich a pretender’ A California judge has quashed one of Sonos’s legal victories against Google – and the $32.5 million royalty payout that

Microsoft says VBScript will be ripped from Windows in a future release 11/10/2023 at 01:52 By Thomas Claburn It’s PowerShell or something similar in the not too distant future Microsoft has stopped developing VBScript after a 27-year relationship and plans to remove the scripting language entirely in a future Windows release.… This article is an

SBF on trial: The FTX Python code that allegedly let his Alameda hedge fund spend people’s deposits 11/10/2023 at 00:35 By Thomas Claburn And Caroline Ellison says she was told by Bankman-Fried to take $10B from customer accounts At the fraud trial of former FTX head Sam Bankman-Fried, prosecutors presented the jury with Python code