Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Two years ago, ransomware crooks breached hardware-maker Gigabyte and dumped more than 112 gigabytes of data that included information from some of its most important supply-chain partners, including Intel and AMD. Now researchers are warning that the leaked information revealed what could amount to critical zero-day vulnerabilities that could imperil huge...
Microsoft to stop locking vital security logs behind $57-per-user monthly plan
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images ) Microsoft will expand access to important security log data after being criticized for locking detailed audit logs behind a Microsoft 365 enterprise plan that costs $57 per user per month. The logging updates will start rolling out “in September 2023 to all government and commercial customers,” the...
Google demos “unsettling” tool to help journalists write the news
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a “robot journalist.” (credit: Midjourney) Google has been developing tools aimed at helping journalists write news articles, reports The New York Times and Reuters. It has demonstrated one tool, dubbed “Genesis,” to the Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Reportedly, Google is positioning the tool as...
(BPRW) New EA Studio Cliffhanger Games Announces Upcoming Title Based on Marvel’s Black Panther
(Black PR Wire) Wakanda Forever! As we celebrate the 57th anniversary of Black Panther’s comic debut this July, we’re thrilled to announce Cliffhanger Games, a new triple-A development studio based in Seattle, is working on an origina…
Microsoft and Activision Delay Deal to Settle UK Regulatory Issues
The extension is most likely a signal that the companies believe they will eventually receive needed approvals.
Biden Administration Unveils Tougher Guidelines on Mergers
The proposed road map for regulatory reviews, last updated in 2020, includes a focus on tech platforms for the first time.
‘Training My Replacement’: Inside a Call Center Worker’s Battle With A.I.
To many people, chatbots and other technology feel like a ticking time bomb, sure to explode their work. But to some, the threat is already here.
Study claims ChatGPT is losing capability, but some experts aren’t convinced
Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Getty Images) On Tuesday, researchers from Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley published a research paper that purports to show changes in GPT-4‘s outputs over time. The paper fuels a common-but-unproven belief that the AI language model has grown worse at coding and compositional tasks over the past few...
Attackers find new ways to deliver DDoSes with “alarming” sophistication
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty) The protracted arms race between criminals who wage distributed denial-of-service attacks and the defenders who attempt to stop them continues, as the former embraces “alarming” new methods to make their online offensives more powerful and destructive, researchers from content-delivery network Cloudflare reported Wednesday. With a global network spanning more...
The Cyber Trust Mark is a voluntary IoT label coming in 2024. What does it mean?
Enlarge / The U.S. Cyber Trust Mark logos, which may or may not have an assigned order at the moment. Which one most says “secure” to you? (credit: Federal Communications Commission) The goal of the new US Cyber Trust Mark, coming voluntarily to Internet of Things (IoT) devices by the end of 2024, is to...