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AI on AI action: Googler uses GPT-4 chatbot to defeat image classifier’s guardian 01/08/2023 at 09:48 By Thomas Claburn If you need to trick a classifier into thinking a gun is a banana, just use these prompts Analysis  A Google scientist has demonstrated that OpenAI’s GPT-4 large language model (LLM), despite its widely cited capacity […]

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China bans export of drones some countries have already banned anyway 01/08/2023 at 09:18 By Laura Dobberstein Some say retaliation for sanctions, but Beijing says it just wants world peace China introduced restrictions on Monday that mean would-be exporters will require a license to ship certain drones and related equipment out of the Middle Kingdom.…

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Panasonic liquidates its liquid crystal display business 01/08/2023 at 07:32 By Simon Sharwood Here’s your metaphor for the state of the world: factory will be re-used to make EV batteries Panasonic has announced it has quit the Liquid Crystal Display business and will use the factory where it made the units to build batteries instead.…

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Cybercriminals Renting WikiLoader to Target Italian Organizations with Banking Trojan 01/08/2023 at 07:32 By Organizations in Italy are the target of a new phishing campaign that leverages a new strain of malware called WikiLoader with an ultimate aim to install a banking trojan, stealer, and spyware called Ursnif (aka Gozi). “It is a sophisticated downloader with the objective of

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Farewell, Aeolus: Doomed ESA weather sat reenters atmosphere over Antarctica 01/08/2023 at 07:17 By Katyanna Quach Not quite a controlled deorbit but not an uncontrolled one, either Video  The European Space Agency’s Aeolus weather satellite has reentered Earth’s atmosphere after engineers sent their final commands to destroy the hardware. The machine, or whatever remains of

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How remote patient monitoring safeguards patient care and optimizes workflows 01/08/2023 at 07:02 By The healthcare sector has seen some of the most significant advances in technology. From hospital-based machinery to health trackers, technology providers are continually innovating to help practitioners monitor patient health. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS

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Hong Kong High Court declines to force big tech to ban protest song 01/08/2023 at 06:34 By Laura Dobberstein Looks like it’s time for the territory to ramp up its SEO offensive again Hong Kong’s High Court has rejected a government bid to ban online dissemination of a protest song that is often mistaken as

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Dell pumps out reference designs, plumps services, to bring AI on-prem 01/08/2023 at 04:36 By Dan Robinson Go ahead, spend up big. But be warned: analyst tells us many models ‘will never make it to widespread use because they are quite frankly rubbish’ Dell can’t wait to tap into the frenzy of spending on …

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The semiconductor biz is sick, but demand for SiC chips that improve EVs is accelerating 01/08/2023 at 03:34 By Tobias Mann Onsemi CEO says demand for silicon carbide surged – as investors pile in While chipmakers, memory vendors, and fabs collectively bemoan slow demand and excess inventories, one segment of the semiconductor biz appears to

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Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s ‘stupid’ performance-killing fTPM RNG 01/08/2023 at 02:08 By Tobias Mann Some Ryzen Linux machines still stumble along despite efforts to fix it all Ongoing issues with Linux and AMD’s fTPM – the chip designer’s firmware-based TPM – appear to be wearing on kernel overseer Linus Torvalds’ nerves, who has suggested

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US Air Force burns more money on electric flying taxis 01/08/2023 at 01:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Waiting on that thumbs up from the FAA The US Air Force is dipping its toe into electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft by trialing a short-hop air taxi that has yet to get FAA certification to fly. …

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White House: Losing Section 702 spy powers would be among ‘worst intelligence failures of our time’ 31/07/2023 at 23:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle As expert panel suggests some tweaks to boost public’s confidence in FISA The White House has weighed in on the Section 702 debate, urging lawmakers to reauthorize, “without new and operationally damaging

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Do Facebook’s algorithms drive political polarization? Meta says no, but researchers say it’s complicated 31/07/2023 at 21:17 By Katyanna Quach Plus: Google DeepMind’s latest visual-language model robot, and more AI in brief  Four research papers this week concluded that users’ political beliefs and behavior don’t seem to be all that impacted by information amplified by

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Twitter’s giant glowing X was put up without a permit, say SF officials 31/07/2023 at 19:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo Neighbors say it’s an eyesore, but Musk’s underlings won’t let inspectors near it A giant light-up X logo appeared atop the HQ of the company formerly known as Twitter on Friday, spurring complaints from neighbors and

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Fredrick Lee named Reddit’s Chief Information Security Officer 31/07/2023 at 19:16 By Fredrick “Flee” Lee has been named Reddit’s new Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Between 80- and 95% of cyberattacks begin with phishing 31/07/2023 at 18:48 By A recent Comcast Business report pulls data from 23.5 billion cybersecurity attacks and found that attacks come from internal and external sources. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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LLMs appear to reason by analogy, a cornerstone of human thinking 31/07/2023 at 18:17 By Lindsay Clark How they do it remains a mystery, say boffins in research paper Large language models such as OpenAI’s GPT-3 can display the ability to solve complex reasoning tasks which humans crack using analogies.… This article is an excerpt

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FTC seeks comment over parental consent guidelines for COPPA 31/07/2023 at 17:31 By The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has requested commentary following an application for new methods of obtaining parental consent using biometrics. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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New P2PInfect Worm Targets Redis Servers with Undocumented Breach Methods 31/07/2023 at 17:02 By The P2PInfect peer-to-peer (P2) worm has been observed employing previously undocumented initial access methods to breach susceptible Redis servers and rope them into a botnet. “The malware compromises exposed instances of the Redis data store by exploiting the replication feature,” Cado

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AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay 31/07/2023 at 16:46 By Dan Robinson Perhaps that’ll focus your minds on speeding up your adoption of IPv6, eh? Cloud giant AWS will start charging customers for public IPv4 addresses from next year, claiming it is forced to do this because of the increasing

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