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DPD chatbot blasts courier company, swears, and dabbles in awful poetry 2024-01-23 at 11:46 By Richard Currie So this is the AI revolution We know that “AI” is all the rage for now, but the recent experience of a DPD customer suggests that just because you can replace customer support with a chatbot doesn’t mean […]

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AI PC hype seems to be making PCs better – in hardware terms, at least 2024-01-23 at 10:31 By Tobias Mann 16GB of RAM should be enough for anyone that wants to run models locally. GPUs, NPUs and more kit will be needed, too Comment  What is an AI PC? What is its killer app?

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Meta accused of enrolling undecided EU users in ad-sponsored platform 2024-01-23 at 09:31 By Thomas Claburn Choice between seeing pitches or paying on Facebook and Instagram might break the law Meta has been accused of automatically enrolling Europe-based users of its Facebook social network into the ad supported version of the service if they’ve not

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AWS Marketplace adds sales of third-party services 2024-01-23 at 08:32 By Simon Sharwood Cloud-ready software and implementation from your preferred consultants, on one bill Amazon Web Services has made a bid for even more of the cloud business by allowing third-party services to be sold on its Marketplace.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Japan recovers moon lander data, puts craft to sleep due to solar panels’ bad attitude 2024-01-23 at 07:46 By Simon Sharwood JAXA plans to reveal whether mission nailed its self-selected landing site later this week Data from Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon has been downloaded, and the machine switched off – with just

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China names members of a second tech supergroup to define the metaverse 2024-01-23 at 06:31 By Laura Dobberstein Goggle-eyed Beijing wants technical and identity standards China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) released a list last Friday of 60 experts from academia, government and business selected by Beijing to define standards for the metaverse.…

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Australia imposes cyber sanctions on Russian it says ransomwared health insurer 2024-01-23 at 05:16 By Simon Sharwood ‘Aleksandr Ermakov’ isn’t allowed down under after being linked to ten-million-record leak Australia’s government has used the “significant cyber incidents” sanctions regime it introduced in 2021 for the first time, against a Russian named Aleksandr Gennadievich Ermakov whom

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Apple Issues Patch for Critical Zero-Day in iPhones, Macs – Update Now 2024-01-23 at 04:01 By Apple on Monday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and Safari web browser to address a zero-day flaw that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The issue, tracked as CVE-2024-23222, is a type confusion bug

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Law designed to stop AI bias in hiring decisions is so ineffective it’s slowing similar initiatives 2024-01-23 at 03:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo New York’s LL144 rated too broad, but researchers hope others can learn from that mistake A study into the effectiveness of a New York City law targeting bias in AI hiring algorithms has

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Robocaller spoofing Joe Biden is telling people not to vote in New Hampshire 2024-01-23 at 02:46 By Katyanna Quach Meanwhile, OpenAI is hiring an ‘elections program manager’ for $190,000+ Robo-calls featuring the faked voice of US president Joe Biden’s are advising voters not to participate in the state of New Hampshire’s Tuesday presidential Primary Election,

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Atlassian Confluence Server RCE attacks underway from 600+ IPs 2024-01-23 at 01:48 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle If you’re still running a vulnerable instance then ‘assume a breach’ More than 600 IP addresses are launching thousands of exploit attempts against CVE-2023-22527 – a critical bug in out–of-date versions of Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server –

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Boffins eyeball computer vision costs, find humans are cheaper for oversight chores 2024-01-23 at 01:01 By Katyanna Quach AI can only automate parts of some jobs, and the kit required is too pricey Human labor can accomplish some jobs more cheaply than computer vision systems, according to a study led by researchers from the Massachusetts

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Slug slimes aerospace biz AerCap with ransomware, brags about 1TB theft 2024-01-22 at 22:47 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Loanbase admits massive loss of customer data to thieves, too AerCap, the world’s largest aircraft leasing company, has reported a ransomware infection that occurred earlier this month, but claims it hasn’t yet suffered any financial losses yet

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Cyberattack attempts increased 104% in 2023 2024-01-22 at 22:32 By According to a recent cybersecurity report by Armis, geopolitical issues are affecting the cybersecurity landscape, including increased cyberattacks. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Wanna run Windows on an M-series Mac? Fine, buy a license, but no baremetal 2024-01-22 at 22:16 By Tobias Mann Or, you could just rent an expensive Windows VM in the cloud — just a thought, says Redmond You can now officially run Windows 11 on an M-series Mac. Well, at least as a virtual

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Travelers take Kayak’s filter function to the max 2024-01-22 at 21:01 By Thomas Claburn Handy feature as FAA expands door inspections to Boeing 737-900ER aircraft On Sunday, the US Federal Aviation Administration recommended that air carriers operating Boeing 737-900ER aircraft conduct a visual inspection of mid-exit door plugs to be certain that doors on the

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OpenAI bans long-shot presidential candidate bot for breaking T&Cs 2024-01-22 at 20:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Biden’s challenger model shot down despite super PAC support A ChatGPT-powered bot trained to mimic Congressman Dean Phillips (D-MN) – the long-shot challenger to Joe Biden – is dead before it had a chance to woo voters after OpenAI banned

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Tech bros are playing God, Catholic Church’s AI priest complains 2024-01-22 at 19:32 By Paul Kunert Effective altruism blamed for Silicon Valley’s desire to heal humanity’s woes Billionaire tech bros have a “tendency to play God,” according to one of the Almighty’s representatives on Earth.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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Sierra Space bursts full-scale inflatable space habitat module 2024-01-22 at 19:17 By Richard Speed Pop goes the test article. As planned Sierra Space has inflated a full-sized test article of its Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE) habitat beyond bursting point to demonstrate how the module might behave in the harsh environment of space.… This article

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MavenGate Attack Could Let Hackers Hijack Java and Android via Abandoned Libraries 2024-01-22 at 19:01 By Several public and popular libraries abandoned but still used in Java and Android applications have been found susceptible to a new software supply chain attack method called MavenGate. “Access to projects can be hijacked through domain name purchases and

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