Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) As Apple has stepped up its promotion of its App Store as a safer and more trustworthy source of apps, its operators scrambled Thursday to correct a major threat to that narrative: a listing that password manager maker LastPass said was a “fraudulent app impersonating” its brand. At the time this...
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Google debuts more powerful “Ultra 1.0” AI model in rebranded “Gemini” chatbot
Enlarge (credit: Google) On Thursday, Google announced that its ChatGPT-like AI assistant, previously called Bard, is now called “Gemini,” renamed to reflect the underlying AI language model Google launched in December. Additionally, Google has launched its most capable AI model, Ultra 1.0, for the first time as part of “Gemini Advanced,” a $20/month subscription feature....
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(BPRW) Denton Black Film Festival Wraps Up 10th Year
(Black PR Wire) DENTON, TEXAS – The Denton Black Film Festival wrapped up its 10th year, topping more than 12,000 attendees and recognizing some of the nation’s top independent filmmakers. The festival also featured a gaming competition w…
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Meta Calls for Industry Effort to Label A.I.-Generated Content
The social network wants to promote standardized labels to help detect artificially created photo, video and audio material across its platforms.
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Snap Shares Plummet After Q4 Earnings Report
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…