Two sibling contractors convicted a decade ago for hacking into US State Department systems have once again been charged, this time for a comically hamfisted attempt to steal and destroy government records just minutes after being fired from their contractor jobs. The Department of Justice on Thursday said that Muneeb Akhter and Sohaib Akhter, both...
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(BPRW) ESSENCE Launches ‘WeLoveUs.shop Powered by ESSENCE,’ a Community Commerce Platform Built to Answer One of the Toughest Labor and Economic Markets In Decades
(Black PR Wire) NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– ESSENCE Communications Inc. proudly launched WeLoveUs.shop powered by ESSENCE, a community commerce platform built to support Black women-led and culturally rooted brands with stronger cash flow, consistent visi…
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(BPRW) National Stress-Free Family Holidays Month
(Black PR Wire) The holiday season is a time for joy, connection and meaningful family traditions, but it can also come with a lot of pressure. Between family gatherings, gift shopping, and trying to make everything perfect, it’s easy to become…
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Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln
Security defenders are girding themselves in response to the disclosure of a maximum-severity vulnerability disclosed Wednesday in React Server, an open-source package that’s widely used by websites and in cloud environments. The vulnerability is easy to exploit and allows hackers to execute malicious code on servers that run it. Exploit code is now publicly available....
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Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas
Microsoft has lowered sales growth targets for its AI agent products after many salespeople missed their quotas in the fiscal year ending in June, according to a report Wednesday from The Information. The adjustment is reportedly unusual for Microsoft, and it comes after the company missed a number of ambitious sales goals for its AI...
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Fraudulent gambling network may actually be something more nefarious
A sprawling infrastructure that has been bilking unsuspecting people through fraudulent gambling websites for 14 years is likely a dual operation run by a nation-state-sponsored group that is targeting government and private-industry organizations in the US and Europe, researchers said Wednesday. Researchers have previously tracked smaller pieces of the enormous infrastructure. Last month, security firm...
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Silicon Valley Builds Amazon and Gmail Copycats to Train A.I. Agents
Several new start-ups are building replicas of sites so A.I. can learn to use the internet and maybe replace white-collar workers.
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Apple’s A.I. Chief, John Giannandrea, Is Retiring
John Giannandrea, hired from Google, is leaving after the release of a new Siri was postponed. Apple has fallen behind rivals in efforts to develop A.I. products.
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OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 200 million users in 3 months
The shoe is most certainly on the other foot. On Monday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly declared a “code red” at the company to improve ChatGPT, delaying advertising plans and other products in the process, The Information reported based on a leaked internal memo. The move follows Google’s release of its Gemini 3 model last...
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Syntax hacking: Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass AI safety rules
Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Meta recently released a paper suggesting that large language models (LLMs) similar to those that power ChatGPT may sometimes prioritize sentence structure over meaning when answering questions. The findings reveal a weakness in how these models process instructions that may shed light on why some prompt injection or jailbreaking...