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Turns out AI chatbots are way more persuasive than humans 2024-04-03 at 10:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Next time you get in a Facebook argument, just let ChatGPT handle it If you’re scratching your head wondering what’s the use of all these chatbots, here’s an idea: It turns out they’re better at persuading people with arguments. … […]

Meet clickjacking’s slicker cousin, ‘gesture jacking,’ aka ‘cross window forgery’ 2024-04-03 at 09:47 By Thomas Claburn Web devs advised to do their part to limit UI redress attacks Web browsers still struggle to prevent clickjacking, an attack technique first noted in 2008 that repurposes web page interface elements to deceive visitors.… This article is an

Alibaba signs to explore one-hour rocket deliveries 2024-04-03 at 09:02 By Simon Sharwood Chinese space startup claims it has the tech to make it happen. Yeah, right Alibaba’s Taobao e-commerce platform is exploring one-hour delivery by – wait for it – rocket.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Critical Security Flaw Found in Popular LayerSlider WordPress Plugin 2024-04-03 at 09:01 By A critical security flaw impacting the LayerSlider plugin for WordPress could be abused to extract sensitive information from databases, such as password hashes. The flaw, designated as CVE-2024-2879, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. It has been

Singapore expands regulations for digital payment token service providers 2024-04-03 at 08:02 By Laura Dobberstein More entities will need a license On Tuesday, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) extended digital payment token (DPT) restrictions that seek to prevent money laundering and financing of terrorism.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

TSMC evacuates fabs after earthquake hits Taiwan 2024-04-03 at 06:32 By Simon Sharwood Internet outages recorded as Japan issues tsunami warning A significant earthquake has struck Taiwan, shuttering some of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing’s chip fabrication plants.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Microsoft slammed for lax security that led to Exchange Online attack 2024-04-03 at 05:18 By Simon Sharwood CISA calls for ‘fundamental, security-focused reforms’ to happen ASAP, delaying work on other software A review of the June 2023 attack on Microsoft’s Exchange Online hosted email service – which saw accounts used by senior US officials compromised

Simulation reveals all Japanese will have the same surname by 2531 2024-04-03 at 05:18 By Laura Dobberstein Konnichiwa, Sato-San A simulation run by a Japanese professor and released on Monday revealed that by the year 2531, everyone in Japan will have the surname Sato.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its bills for rented cloudy GPUs 2024-04-03 at 03:31 By Tobias Mann Generative AI darling was on track to pay $99M on compute to generate just $11M in revenues The massive GPU clusters needed to train Stability AI’s popular text-to-image generation model Stable Diffusion are apparently

Feds finally decide to do something about years-old SS7 spy holes in phone networks 2024-04-03 at 02:32 By Jessica Lyons And Diameter, too, for good measure The FCC appears to finally be stepping up efforts to secure decades-old flaws in American telephone networks that are allegedly being used by foreign governments and surveillance outfits to

X’s Grok AI is great – if you want to know how to hot wire a car, make drugs, or worse 2024-04-03 at 01:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Elon controversial? No way Grok, the edgy generative AI model developed by Elon Musk’s X, has a bit of a problem: With the application of some quite common

Amazon to lure startups with $500K in AWS AI credits 2024-04-03 at 00:31 By Matthew Connatser Come on in, drill into Anthropic and Mistral – that’s not the sound of a door slamming shut behind you Amazon will furnish young AI startups partnered with Y Combinator with $500k in credits each on Amazon Bedrock to

Lawsuit claims Meta hobbled Facebook Watch to help Netflix 2024-04-02 at 23:31 By Thomas Claburn Advertiser antitrust lawsuit says claimed deal with Netflix is anticompetitive Meta allegedly starved its Facebook Watch video service to appease Netflix and sustain its ad monopoly, advertisers suing the biz have claimed.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her 2024-04-02 at 22:46 By Iain Thomson The land of the Free Market has lost its way in quest for profits Comment  Generally the head of US government agencies and comedy don’t mix, but on Monday night the Lina

DARPA AI research aims to craft code that could give devs the boot 2024-04-02 at 22:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Not everyone agrees that aiming AI at software development is a good idea, but let’s do it anyway A DARPA leader has revealed that around 70 percent of the agency’s programs involve AI in some shape

OWASP breach exposes decade of resumes due to misconfigured server 2024-04-02 at 21:46 By Jessica Lyons Irony alerts: Open Web Application Security Project Foundation suffers lapse A misconfigured MediaWiki web server allowed digital snoops to access members’ resumes containing their personal details at the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Foundation.… This article is an

UK and US to jointly develop AI test suites to tackle risks 2024-04-02 at 21:17 By Richard Speed Memorandum of Understanding penned to put models, systems, and agents through their paces The US and UK governments will collaborate on test suites to promote safety in the fast-paced world of AI development.… This article is an

Datacenter outages are on the decline, but when they hit, they hit hard 2024-04-02 at 20:31 By Dan Robinson Power snafus take limelight in latest downtime diary from Uptime Institute The frequency and severity of datacenter outages is on the decline, yet when incidents do occur they can be very costly to the organization involved,

Pandabuy admits to data breach of 1.3 million unique records 2024-04-02 at 19:46 By Connor Jones Nothing says ‘sorry’ like 10 percent off shipping for a month Ecommerce platform Pandabuy has apologized after two cybercriminals were spotted hawking personal data belonging to 1.3 million customers.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Samsung enterprise SSD prices skyrocket thanks to AI’s appetite for storage 2024-04-02 at 19:02 By Matthew Connatser Consumer-grade devices won’t be hit as hard Samsung intended to raise prices on its enterprise SSDs by 15 percent in the second calendar quarter of 2024, but unrelentingly high demand boosted by AI might push that higher still.…