Salesforce says it’s refusing to pay an extortion demand made by a crime syndicate that claims to have stolen roughly 1 billion records from dozens of Salesforce customers. The threat group making the demands began their campaign in May, when they made voice calls to organizations storing data on the Salesforce platform, Google-owned Mandiant said...
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Synology caves, walks back some drive restrictions on upcoming NAS models
If you were considering the purchase of a Synology NAS but were leery of the unreasonably high cost of populating it with special Synology-branded hard disk drives, you can breathe a little easier today. In a press release dated October 8, Synology noted that with the release of its latest Disk Station Manager (DSM) update,...
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Recruiters Use A.I. to Scan Résumés. Applicants Are Trying to Trick It.
In an escalating cat-and-mouse game, job hunters are trying to fool A.I. into moving their applications to the top of the pile with embedded instructions.
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Elon Musk Gambles on Sexy A.I. Companions
In July, the billionaire’s A.I. company introduced two sexually explicit chatbots, pushing a new version of intimacy.
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U.S. v. Google: What Each Side Argued for Fixing Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly
The Justice Department and Google wrapped up a two-week hearing that could have a major effect on online advertising.
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Cows Wear High-Tech Collars Now
The wearables help dairy farmers gather more data so their animals are happier and produce more milk.
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OpenAI Agrees to Use Computer Chips From AMD
Weeks after a $100 billion agreement to use computer chips from Nvidia, OpenAI has signed a similar deal with a rival chipmaker.
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Supreme Court, for Now, Rejects Google Bid to Block Changes to App Store
The emergency order is the latest turn in a longstanding legal dispute between the tech giant and the creator of the popular game Fortnite.
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AMD wins massive AI chip deal from OpenAI with stock sweetener
On Monday, AMD announced it will supply AI chips to OpenAI in a multi-year deal worth tens of billions of dollars annually that gives the ChatGPT creator an option to acquire up to 10 percent of the chipmaker’s stock for 1 cent per share, Reuters reports. The agreement covers hundreds of thousands of AMD’s AI...
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ICE wants to build a 24/7 social media surveillance team
United States immigration authorities are moving to dramatically expand their social media surveillance, with plans to hire nearly 30 contractors to sift through posts, photos, and messages—raw material to be transformed into intelligence for deportation raids and arrests. Federal contracting records reviewed by WIRED show that the agency is seeking private vendors to run a...