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Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon and others sue OpenAI 12/09/2023 at 18:47 By Jude Karabus Another would be copyright class action Pulitzer Prize winning US novelist Michael Chabon and several other writers have filed a proposed class action accusing OpenAI of copyright infringement for allegedly pulling their work into the datasets used to train […]

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47% report economic unrest as greatest security-impacting hazard 12/09/2023 at 18:31 By According to a recent global security report, economic unrest is expected to be the greatest security-impacting hazard in the next 12 months. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Google’s Chrome gets caught with its WebP down, offers hasty patch-up 12/09/2023 at 18:17 By Richard Speed Exploit observed in the wild as Mountain View pushes out updates Google has rushed out a fix for a vulnerability in its Chrome browser, noting that an exploit already exists in the wild.… This article is an excerpt

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Thousands of Code Packages Vulnerable to Repojacking Attacks 12/09/2023 at 17:46 By Eduard Kovacs Despite GitHub’s efforts to prevent repository hijacking, cybersecurity researchers continue finding new attack methods, and thousands of code packages and millions of users could be at risk. Repojacking is a repository hijacking method that involves renamed GitHub usernames. If a user

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Chat2024 stuffs US election hopefuls into generative AI so you can be an ‘informed voter’ 12/09/2023 at 17:18 By Richard Currie Jean Baudrillard would’ve LOVED This Comment  The Postmodernist French philosopher Jean Baudrillard was known for his concept of hyperreality, where the real and imaginary are confused.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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Oracle disappoints market with revenue miss as Ellison hints at Azure database move 12/09/2023 at 16:47 By Lindsay Clark Don’t expect ‘armies of programmers’ to rewrite Cerner, says Larry, talking up low-code app dev platform APEX Software and hardware giant Oracle disappointed the stock markets with slightly less than expected revenue for Q1 of 2024,

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Apple extends Qualcomm contract to 2026 as homebrew 5G chip dream still on snooze 12/09/2023 at 16:01 By Dan Robinson Chipmaker reigns supreme, at least until iGiant gets its house in order Apple looks to have further delayed the introduction of its own 5G modem chips after it extended an agreement with Qualcomm to use

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Despite the hype, generative AI is not a significant chunk of enterprise cloud spend 12/09/2023 at 15:02 By Katyanna Quach Not to be a buzzkill, but let’s take a deep dive into the disparity Generative AI currently only makes up a small fraction of cloud computing costs for enterprises and cloud providers, despite all the

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Critical GitHub Vulnerability Exposes 4,000+ Repositories to Repojacking Attack 12/09/2023 at 15:01 By A new vulnerability disclosed in GitHub could have exposed thousands of repositories at risk of repojacking attacks, new findings show. The flaw “could allow an attacker to exploit a race condition within GitHub’s repository creation and username renaming operations,” Checkmarx security researcher

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Friends don’t let friends use AI to chat 12/09/2023 at 14:18 By Katyanna Quach Science shocker: Real BFFs understand authenticity and sincerity can’t be machine-generated People feel less confident in their friendships if they discover that their buddies have been sending them messages written with the help of AI.… This article is an excerpt from

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The future of the cloud sure looks like it’ll be paved in even more custom silicon 12/09/2023 at 13:47 By Tobias Mann You’re probably using cloud providers bespoke chips already and not even know it As cloud datacenters grow ever larger and complex, providers are increasingly developing their own chips to eke out performance, efficiency,

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7 Steps to Kickstart Your SaaS Security Program 12/09/2023 at 13:46 By SaaS applications are the backbone of modern businesses, constituting a staggering 70% of total software usage. Applications like Box, Google Workplace, and Microsoft 365 are integral to daily operations. This widespread adoption has transformed them into potential breeding grounds for cyber threats. Each

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Sophisticated Phishing Campaign Deploying Agent Tesla, OriginBotnet, and RedLine Clipper 12/09/2023 at 13:46 By A sophisticated phishing campaign is using a Microsoft Word document lure to distribute a trifecta of threats, namely Agent Tesla, OriginBotnet, and OriginBotnet, to gather a wide range of information from compromised Windows machines. “A phishing email delivers the Word document

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Chinese Redfly Group Compromised a Nation’s Critical Grid in 6-Month ShadowPad Campaign 12/09/2023 at 13:46 By A threat actor called Redfly has been linked to a compromise of a national grid located in an unnamed Asian country for as long as six months earlier this year using a known malware referred to as ShadowPad. “The attackers managed to

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Microsoft’s Surface Duo phone hangs up, drops out of support 12/09/2023 at 12:47 By Richard Speed Remember Microsoft’s first attempt at an Android foldable? Of course you don’t Microsoft has drawn a discreet veil over another of its attempts to become relevant in the mobile hardware space. The original Surface Duo has dropped out of

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Lawyer’s Microsoft email snafu goes from $1.75M lawsuit to Ctrl+Alt+Settle 12/09/2023 at 12:17 By Jude Karabus Accused software giant of MFA error that rendered work address useless The New Jersey attorney who sued Microsoft for $1.75 million claiming verification gremlins had cut him off from his paid work email filed for voluntary dismissal on Friday.…

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Automating cloud infrastructure: Do you want APIs with that? 12/09/2023 at 11:17 By Thomas Claburn Flipping the script to a control plane Interview  Cloud software automation generally begins with scripts, but at some point, according to Oren Teich, chief product officer of Upbound, that approach becomes unmanageable.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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Microsoft Edge still forcing itself on users in Europe 12/09/2023 at 10:33 By Thomas Claburn Promised change to allow Windows system links open in the actual default browser not yet evident Last month, Microsoft said that for customers in Europe, its Insider build of Windows 11 now opens web links associated with Windows system components

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Alibaba set to unleash AI that offers financial advice – do you feel lucky? 12/09/2023 at 10:02 By Laura Dobberstein Claims it’s already comparbale to finance industry pros and capable of recommending insurance plans Alibaba’s fintech arm, Ant Group, has unveiled a large language model and related applications for the financial services industry that it

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Beware: MetaStealer Malware Targets Apple macOS in Recent Attacks 12/09/2023 at 10:01 By A new information stealer malware called MetaStealer has set its sights on Apple macOS, making the latest in a growing list of stealer families focused on the operating system after Stealer, Pureland, Atomic Stealer, and Realst. “Threat actors are proactively targeting macOS businesses by posing as

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