The Snapchat parent company’s revenue for the fourth quarter was up from a year earlier, but it missed Wall Street’s expectations on spending.
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Vision Pro Goggles Aren’t Safe While Driving a Tesla, U.S. Says
Videos, many of them stunts or jokes, of people wearing Apple’s new virtual reality headset while driving Teslas in Autopilot mode prompted officials to issue warnings.
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Critical vulnerability affecting most Linux distros allows for bootkits
Enlarge Linux developers are in the process of patching a high-severity vulnerability that, in certain cases, allows the installation of malware that runs at the firmware level, giving infections access to the deepest parts of a device where they’re hard to detect or remove. The vulnerability resides in shim, which in the context of Linux...
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Meta will label AI-generated content from OpenAI and Google on Facebook, Instagram
Enlarge (credit: Meta / Getty Images) On Tuesday, Meta announced its plan to start labeling AI-generated images from other companies like OpenAI and Google, as reported by Reuters. The move aims to enhance transparency on platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Threads by informing users when the content they see is digitally synthesized media rather...
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As if 2 Ivanti vulnerabilities under exploit weren’t bad enough, now there are 3
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Mass exploitation began over the weekend for yet another critical vulnerability in widely used VPN software sold by Ivanti, as hackers already targeting two previous vulnerabilities diversified, researchers said Monday. The new vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-21893, is what’s known as a server-side request forgery. Ivanti disclosed it on January 22, along...
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(BPRW) BPRW’s “Thrivin’ in Color” Podcast Welcomes Season 2
(Black PR Wire) Thrivin’ in Color, the popular podcast from Black PR Wire, kicks off Black History Month with the premiere of its second season. “We’ve successfully produced and have aired 30 dynamic and thought-provoking episodes i…
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Fake and Explicit Images of Taylor Swift Started on 4chan, Study Says
The people on 4chan who created the images of Ms. Swift thought of it as a sort of game, the researchers said.
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Google’s Once Happy Offices Feel the Chill of Layoffs
Job cuts, which could continue throughout the year, have created a glum mood at what was arguably Silicon Valley’s most exuberant workplace.
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Why Is Big Tech Still Cutting Jobs?
Profits are up and the economy is strong. But the tech industry faces two challenges — dealing with a frenetic work force expansion in the pandemic and building A.I.
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Microsoft in deal with Semafor to create news stories with aid of AI chatbot
Enlarge / Cube with Microsoft logo on top of their office building on 8th Avenue and 42nd Street near Times Square in New York City. (credit: Deb Cohn-Orbach/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Microsoft is working with media startup Semafor to use its artificial intelligence chatbot to help develop news stories—part of a journalistic outreach...