Enlarge (credit: peterschreiber.media | Getty Images) A Chinese government hacking group has acquired a significant foothold inside critical infrastructure environments throughout the US and Guam and is stealing network credentials and sensitive data while remaining largely undetectable, Microsoft and governments from the US and four other countries said on Wednesday. The group, tracked by Microsoft...
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Legit app in Google Play turns malicious and sends mic recordings every 15 minutes
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) An app that had more than 50,000 downloads from Google Play surreptitiously recorded nearby audio every 15 minutes and sent it to the app developer, a researcher from security firm ESET said. The app, titled iRecorder Screen Recorder, started life on Google Play in September 2021 as a benign app that...
Mountain of FTX Evidence: Emails, Chat Logs, Code and a Notebook
Prosecutors investigating Sam Bankman-Fried, the cryptocurrency exchange’s founder, have accumulated more than six million pages of documents and other records.
BuzzFeed’s Botatouille Chatbot Puts A.I. Twist on Food Advice
Jonah Peretti, the company’s chief executive, has embraced artificial intelligence more than most publishers. His latest offering: Botatouille, an A.I.-powered kitchen assistant.
Fake Pentagon “explosion” photo sows confusion on Twitter
Enlarge / A fake AI-generated image of an “explosion” near the Pentagon that went viral on Twitter. (credit: Twitter) On Monday, a tweeted AI-generated image suggesting a large explosion at the Pentagon led to brief confusion, which included a reported small drop in the stock market. It originated from a verified Twitter account named “Bloomberg...
Adobe Photoshop’s new “Generative Fill” AI tool lets you manipulate photos with text
Enlarge / An example of a 1983 file photo of the Apple Lisa computer that has been significantly enhanced by the new “Generative Fill” AI tool in the Adobe Photoshop beta. (credit: Apple / Benj Edwards / Adobe) On Tuesday, Adobe added a new tool to its Photoshop beta called “Generative Fill,” which uses cloud-based...
(BPRW) FPL Provides Classroom Makeover Grants
(Black PR Wire) As part of Florida Power & Light Company’s (FPL) commitment to STEM education, the NextEra Energy Foundation awarded five schools in Florida each a $50,000 Classroom Makeover Grant to improve technology, equipment and resources f…
Silicon Valley Chosen for $4 Billion Chip Research Center
Anticipating federal subsidies, Applied Materials said it planned to invest up to $4 billion in the semiconductor project in Sunnyvale, Calif.
Google’s Photo App Still Can’t Find Gorillas. And Neither Can Apple’s.
Eight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled as gorillas by image analysis software — and despite big advances in computer vision — tech giants still fear repeating the mistake.
Meta Fined $1.3 Billion for Violating E.U. Data Privacy Rules
The Facebook owner said it would appeal an order to stop sending data about European Union users to the United States.