2023

China’s national security minister rates fake news among most pressing cyber threats 28/09/2023 at 07:02 By Simon Sharwood He’s also worried about alliances that freeze out Chinese tech Chinese minister for national security Chen Yixin has penned an article rating the digital risks his country faces and rated network security incidents as the most realistic […]

Update Chrome Now: Google Releases Patch for Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability 28/09/2023 at 07:01 By Google on Wednesday rolled out fixes to address a new actively exploited zero-day in the Chrome browser. Tracked as CVE-2023-5217, the high-severity vulnerability has been described as a heap-based buffer overflow in the VP8 compression format in libvpx, a free software video codec library from Google

Record-breaking astronaut Frank Rubio finally home after over a year in orbit 28/09/2023 at 05:34 By Katyanna Quach Rubio spent 371 days on the ISS, the longest any American has been aloft NASA astronaut Dr. Frank Rubio has returned home after a 371-day stint aboard the International Space Station, setting a new record for the

OpenAI reinstates ChatGPT’s internet browsing privileges 28/09/2023 at 04:03 By Tobias Mann If the chatbot doesn’t know what you need, it’ll ‘Bing It!’ for paying customers ChatGPT can now scan the internet and provide users with up-to-date responses to their queries, OpenAI revealed Wednesday.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Volkswagen stuck in neutral after ‘IT disruption’ 28/09/2023 at 03:04 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Factories and offices are going nowhere, fast Some of Volkswagen’s operations have screeched to a halt after some sort of cyber incident, according to German media reports.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Unions claim win as Hollywood studios agree generative AI isn’t an author 28/09/2023 at 02:02 By Katyanna Quach The pen is (slightly) mightier than the algorithm The Writers Guild of America has ended its 148-day strike after reaching an agreement with Hollywood’s TV and film studios to increase pay and regulate the use of generative

Routers have been rooted by Chinese spies, US and Japan warn 27/09/2023 at 23:33 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle BlackTech crew looking to steal sensitive data traffic Chinese government spies may be hiding in your Cisco routers and using that access to steal intellectual property and other sensitive data, according to officials in the US and