Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Morgan Stanley on Tuesday agreed to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a $35 million penalty for data security lapses that included unencrypted hard drives from decommissioned data centers being resold on auction sites without first being wiped. The SEC action said that the improper disposal of thousands of hard...
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Comcast promises huge boost to cable upload speeds by end of 2023
Enlarge / Comcast’s xFi Advanced Gateway. (credit: Getty Images | Jeff Fusco ) Comcast announced today that it has tested “the final technical component necessary to deliver multi-gigabit symmetrical speeds” and said it’s on track to deliver multi-gigabit download and upload speeds to at least some cable customers “before the end of 2023.” The test...
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Nvidia’s powerful H100 GPU will ship in October
Enlarge / A press handout showing the Nvidia H100 Hopper GPU and its applications. (credit: Nvidia) At today’s GTC conference keynote, Nvidia announced that its H100 Tensor Core GPU is in full production and that tech partners such as Dell, Lenovo, Cisco, Atos, Fujitsu, GIGABYTE, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and Supermicro will begin shipping products built around...
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Deepfake audio has a tell and researchers can spot it
Enlarge (credit: Knk Phl Prasan Kha Phibuly / EyeEm via Getty) Imagine the following scenario. A phone rings. An office worker answers it and hears his boss, in a panic, tell him that she forgot to transfer money to the new contractor before she left for the day and needs him to do it. She...
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Social Media Companies Still Boost Election Fraud Claims, Report Says
The report, by New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, argues that the companies fuel false conspiracies about election fraud despite promises to combat them.
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Clearview AI, Used by Police to Find Criminals, Is Now in Public Defenders’ Hands
After a Florida man was accused of vehicular homicide, his lawyer used Clearview AI’s facial recognition software to prove his innocence. But other defense lawyers say Clearview’s offer rings hollow.
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What Will Apple Do With Will Smith’s ‘Emancipation’?
The Civil War drama “Emancipation” finished filming early this year. Now, Apple faces a quandary on what to do with the movie.
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AI software helps bust image fraud in academic papers
Enlarge / Colorized photo image of a Western blot test result. (credit: Getty Images) Scientific publishers such as the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and Taylor & Francis have begun attempting to detect fraud in academic paper submissions with an AI image-checking program called Proofig, reports The Register. Proofig, a product of an Israeli...
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Kiwi Farms has been breached; assume passwords and emails have been leaked
(credit: xxdigipxx) The head of Kiwi Farms, the Internet forum best known for organizing harassment campaigns against trans and non-binary people, said the site experienced a breach that allowed hackers to access his administrator account and possibly the accounts of all other users. On the site, creator Joshua Moon wrote: The forum was hacked. You...
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At eBay, Lurid Crimes and the Search for Punishment
The victims of a bizarre cyberstalking operation are trying to hold the chief executive and the culture of the company responsible.