Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) When ChatGPT—the ingenious, garrulous, and occasionally unhinged chatbot from OpenAI—was asked this week how much the company behind it is worth, its responses included: “It is likely that its worth is in the hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more.” Microsoft, which is rumored to be weighing a $10 billion...
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An aviation expert explains how the FAA’s critical NOTAM safety system works
Enlarge / An air traffic control tower is seen at JFK airport on January 11 in New York City. (credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) Late in the evening of Jan. 10, 2023, an important digital system known as NOTAM run by the Federal Aviation Administration went offline. The FAA was able to continue getting necessary...
Meta sues “scraping-for-hire” service that sells user data to law enforcement
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Meta said it’s suing “scraping-for-hire” service Voyager Labs for allegedly using fake accounts, proprietary software, and a sprawling network of IP addresses to surreptitiously collect massive amounts of personal data from users of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other social networking sites. “Defendant created and used over 38,000 fake Facebook user accounts...
Third-party Twitter clients stopped working, and nobody’s sure why
Enlarge / Many third-party Twitter clients, apps the social network has been seeking to diminish since 2012, are suddenly not working, with no update or outreach from Twitter. (credit: Nathan Coppen/Getty Images) Tweetbot, Twiterrific, Echofon, and other third-party Twitter clients have failed to work for many people since late Thursday night, and the social network...
Sam Bankman-Fried, Founder of FTX, Responds to Fraud Charges
The disgraced founder of the crypto exchange FTX denied that he stole anyone’s money and said customers could still get their deposits back.
Don’t Ban ChatGPT in Schools. Teach With It.
OpenAI’s new chatbot is raising fears of cheating on homework, but its potential as an educational tool outweighs its risks.
Microsoft Bets Big on the Creator of ChatGPT in Race to Dominate A.I.
As a new chatbot wows the world with its conversational talents, a resurgent tech giant is poised to reap the benefits while doubling down on a relationship with the start-up OpenAI.
Vulnerability with 9.8 severity in Control Web Panel is under active exploit
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Malicious hackers have begun exploiting a critical vulnerability in unpatched versions of the Control Web Panel, a widely used interface for web hosting. “This is an unauthenticated RCE,” members of the Shadowserver group wrote on Twitter, using the abbreviation for remote code exploit. “Exploitation is trivial and a PoC published.” PoC...
Fortinet says hackers exploited critical vulnerability to infect VPN customers
(credit: Fortinet) An unknown threat actor abused a critical vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiOS SSL-VPN to infect government and government-related organizations with advanced custom-made malware, the company said in an autopsy report on Wednesday. Tracked as CVE-2022-42475, the vulnerability is a heap-based buffer overflow that allows hackers to remotely execute malicious code. It carries a severity...
Indigenous tech group asks Apache Foundation to change its name
Enlarge / A 2015 photo by Zaheda Bhorat (shared by Rich Bowen) showing many of the original Apache Software Foundation’s creators, with co-founder Jim Jagielski holding aloft the Foundation’s feather logo. The photo is part of a set aiming to recreate a similar image taken around the time of the foundation’s launch. (credit: Rich Bowen/Zaheda...