Software Development

 Site gave ChatGPT 3 stars and 48% privacy score: “Best used for creativity, not facts.”   Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Monday, OpenAI announced a partnership with the nonprofit Common Sense Media to create AI guidelines and educational materials targeted at parents, educators, and teens. It includes the curation of family-friendly GPTs in OpenAI’s GPT …

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 How does a legacy test account grant access to read every Office 365 account?   Enlarge The hackers who recently broke into Microsoft’s network and monitored top executives’ email for two months did so by gaining access to an aging test account with administrative privileges, a major gaffe on the company’s part, a researcher said. …

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 GPT-4 wasn’t putting in the work. Also, lower prices for GPT 3.5 Turbo, other model updates.   Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Thursday, OpenAI announced updates to the AI models that power its ChatGPT assistant. Amid less noteworthy updates, OpenAI tucked in a mention of a potential fix to a widely reported “laziness” problem seen …

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 Hacks by Kremlin-backed group continue to hit hard.   Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) said Wednesday that Kremlin-backed actors hacked into the email accounts of its security personnel and other employees last May—and maintained surreptitious access until December. The disclosure was the second revelation of a major corporate network breach by the …

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 Job cuts hit Xbox, ZeniMax businesses, too, reports say.   Enlarge / Blizzard shared this image teasing a now-cancelled game in 2022. (credit: Blizzard Entertainment/Twitter) The survival game that Blizzard announced it was working on in January 2022 has reportedly been cancelled. The cut comes as Microsoft is slashing jobs a little over four months …

Microsoft cancels Blizzard survival game, lays off 1,900 Read More »

 Ransomware is likely to be the biggest beneficiary in the next 2 years, UK’s GCHQ says.   Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Threats from malicious cyber activity are likely to increase as nation-states, financially motivated criminals, and novices increasingly incorporate artificial intelligence into their routines, the UK’s top intelligence agency said. The assessment, from the UK’s …

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 Lumiere generates five-second videos that “portray realistic, diverse and coherent motion.”   Enlarge / Still images of AI-generated video examples provided by Google for its Lumiere video synthesis model. (credit: Google) On Tuesday, Google announced Lumiere, an AI video generator that it calls “a space-time diffusion model for realistic video generation” in the accompanying preprint …

Google’s latest AI video generator renders implausible situations for cute animals Read More »

 Francis fears “the creation and diffusion of images that appear perfectly plausible but false.”   Enlarge / A cropped portion of an AI-generated image of Pope Francis wearing a puffy coat that went viral in March 2023. (credit: @skyferrori on Twitter / Getty Images (background)) After a realistic AI-generated image of Pope Francis in a …

Pope Francis warns of “perverse” AI technology that faked him in a puffy coat Read More »

 Orgs that haven’t acted yet should, even if it means suspending VPN services.   Enlarge / Cybercriminals or anonymous hackers use malware on mobile phones to hack personal and business passwords online. (credit: Getty Images) Hackers suspected of working for the Chinese government are mass exploiting a pair of critical vulnerabilities that give them complete …

Mass exploitation of Ivanti VPNs is infecting networks around the globe Read More »

 Čapek: “The world needed mechanical robots, for it believes in machines more than it believes in life.”   Enlarge / “An assistant of inventor Captain Richards works on the robot the Captain has invented, which speaks, answers questions, shakes hands, tells the time and sits down when it’s told to.” – September 1928 (credit: Getty …

A “robot” should be chemical, not steel, argues man who coined the word Read More »