June 2024

A friendly guide to local AI image gen with Stable Diffusion and Automatic1111 2024-06-29 at 18:46 By Tobias Mann A picture is worth a 1,000 words… or was that a 1,000 TOPS Hands On  The launch of Microsoft’s Copilot+ AI PCs brought with it a load of machine-learning-enhanced functionality, including an image generator built right

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Google to Block Entrust Certificates in Chrome Starting November 2024 2024-06-29 at 18:46 By Google has announced that it’s going to start blocking websites that use certificates from Entrust starting around November 1, 2024, in its Chrome browser, citing compliance failures and the certificate authority’s inability to address security issues in a timely manner. “Over

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Antitrust latest: Europe’s Vestager warns Microsoft, OpenAI ‘the story is not over’ 2024-06-29 at 12:18 By Tobias Mann I’ll get you next time, Gadget, next time! Despite a European Commission review in April clearing Microsoft of trying to exert control over OpenAI by the backdoor, the duo’s $13 billion partnership hasn’t escaped regulatory scrutiny just

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Mars is slam-dunked by hundreds of basketball-sized meteorites every year 2024-06-29 at 10:31 By Matthew Connatser Impact studies crucial for accurately determining Red Planet’s age Seismic data from Mars indicates that our neighboring planet is hit about three hundred times a year by meteorites the size of basketballs.… This article is an excerpt from The

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ChatGPT wrongly insists Trump-Biden CNN debate had 1 to 2-minute delay 2024-06-29 at 03:46 By Matthew Connatser Yes, Joe totally had editing help that night, he was certainly impresszzz…. Poll  OpenAI’s ChatGPT fell for an inaccurate claim that Thursday night’s US presidential debate between Trump and Biden on CNN would have a one to two-minute

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Microsoft CEO of AI: Your online content is ‘freeware’ fodder for training models 2024-06-29 at 02:46 By Thomas Claburn Unless you’ve got a lawyer that is Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI, said this week that machine-learning companies can scrape most content published online and use it to train neural networks because it’s essentially

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American interest in electric vehicles short circuits for first time in four years 2024-06-29 at 01:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Funny what happens if you take Tesla out of the numbers, though Interest in electric vehicles has waned slightly among US motorists for the first time since 2020 says Pew Research, with only three out of

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CISA looked at C/C++ projects and found a lot of C/C++ code. Wanna redo any of it in Rust? 2024-06-29 at 00:01 By Thomas Claburn So, so many lines of memory-unsafe routines in crucial open source, and so many unsafe dependencies The US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has analyzed 172 critical open

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FTC finds that government impersonation scam payments doubled in 2023 2024-06-28 at 22:46 By New Federal Trade Commission (FTC) data reveals that government impersonation scammers are targeting consumers for payments in cash. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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TeamViewer says Russia broke into its corp IT network 2024-06-28 at 22:17 By Chris Williams Same APT29 crew that hit Microsoft and SolarWinds. How close were we to a mega backdoor situation? TeamViewer says it was Russian intelligence that broke into its systems this week.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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Amazon’s Project Kuiper slips to end of 2024 for first full-scale launch 2024-06-28 at 20:46 By Richard Speed Starlink rival slips again, but service still set for 2025 The first full-scale mission of Amazon’s Project Kuiper has slipped to the end of 2024, a year after the company finally got its prototype satellites into orbit.…

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Bill Gates says not to worry about AI’s energy draw, technology will adapt 2024-06-28 at 19:47 By Dan Robinson So that’s fine then Bill Gates says the massive power draw required for AI processing is nothing to worry about as AI will ultimately identify ways to help cut power consumption and drive the transition to

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Kimsuky Using TRANSLATEXT Chrome Extension to Steal Sensitive Data 2024-06-28 at 19:46 By The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Kimsuky has been linked to the use of a new malicious Google Chrome extension that’s designed to steal sensitive information as part of an ongoing intelligence collection effort. Zscaler ThreatLabz, which observed the activity in

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NASA tests the ups and downs of air taxi comfort with VR 2024-06-28 at 18:46 By Matthew Connatser Nobody would want a roller coaster ride in one of these long-promised flying cabs NASA is testing what makes air taxi passengers comfortable – and uncomfortable – with a custom VR simulation rig.… This article is an

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GitLab Releases Patch for Critical CI/CD Pipeline Vulnerability and 13 Others 2024-06-28 at 17:46 By GitLab has released security updates to address 14 security flaws, including one critical vulnerability that could be exploited to run continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines as any user. The weaknesses, which affect GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise

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Google cuts ties with Entrust in Chrome over trust issues 2024-06-28 at 17:32 By Connor Jones Move comes weeks after Mozilla blasted certificate authority for failings Google is severing its trust in Entrust after what it describes as a protracted period of failures around compliance and general improvements.… This article is an excerpt from The

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