Enlarge / Using Teams in a browser is actually safer than using Microsoft’s desktop apps, which are wrapped around a browser. It’s a lot to work through. (credit: Jernej Furman / Flickr) Microsoft’s Teams client stores users’ authentication tokens in an unprotected text format, potentially allowing attackers with local access to post messages and move...
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New AI assistant can browse, search, and use web apps like a human
Enlarge / Still from a demo video showing ACT-1 performing a search on Redfin.com in a browser when asked to “find me a house.” (credit: Adept) Yesterday, California-based AI firm Adept announced Action Transformer (ACT-1), an AI model that can perform actions in software like a human assistant when given high-level written or verbal commands....
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Ukraine’s cyberwar chief sounds like he’s winning
Enlarge (credit: Evgen Kotenko/Getty Images) Yurii Shchyhol doesn’t have a lot of time to spare. The head of the Derzhspetszviazok, Ukraine’s version of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, can be forgiven for working speedily. His country is under attack—and with it, the world order. “This is the first time ever in history that...
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(BPRW) Color Of Change Launches Black Tech Agenda as a Roadmap for Racial Equity in Tech Policy
(Black PR Wire) Color Of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization, recently launched the “Black Tech Agenda” which is endorsed by several prominent members of Congress: Senator Cory Booker (NJ), Senator Elizab
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Text Messaging Is Cool. But Where Are Its Boundaries?
Apple and Google have added useful features to texting apps, yet the apps still lack a major component: an effective way to set limits.
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California Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Amazon
Rob Bonta, California’s attorney general, said the retailer punishes companies that offer lower prices on other websites.
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E.U. Scores Major Legal Victory Against Google
A court rejected Google’s appeal of a record-setting antitrust fine related to Android and online search.
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Iranians hacked US companies, sent ransom demands to printers, indictment says
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Bill Hinton) Three Iranian nationals charged with hacking into US-based computer networks sent ransom demands to the printers of at least some of their victims, according to an indictment unsealed today. The ransom demands allegedly sought payments in exchange for BitLocker decryption keys that the victims could use to regain...
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China’s most advanced AI image generator already blocks political content
Enlarge / Images generated by ERNIE-ViLG from the prompt “China” superimposed over China’s flag. (credit: Ars Technica) China’s leading text-to-image synthesis model, Baidu’s ERNIE-ViLG, censors political text such as “Tiananmen Square” or names of political leaders, reports Zeyi Yang for MIT Technology Review. Image synthesis has proven popular (and controversial) recently on social media and...
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(BPRW) New Name. Same Soul: Real Times Media Relaunches its Cultural Marketing Division as Pitch Black
(Black PR Wire) DETROIT–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Real Times Media, relaunched its cultural marketing division as Pitch Black today. Formerly known as RTM360°, the newly minted Pitch Black will continue to help clients connect with Black audiences through a