Authorities and researchers are sounding the alarm over the active mass exploitation of a high-severity vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server that’s allowing attackers to make off with sensitive company data, including authentication tokens used to access systems inside networks. Researchers said anyone running an on-premises instance of SharePoint should assume their networks are breached. The...
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OpenAI jumps gun on International Math Olympiad gold medal announcement
On Saturday, OpenAI researcher Alexander Wei announced that a new AI language model the company is researching has achieved gold medal-level performance on the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), matching a standard that fewer than 9 percent of human contestants reach each year. The announcement came despite an embargo request from IMO organizers asking AI companies...
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How a Sequoia Capital Partner’s Mamdani Posts Dragged the Firm Into Politics
Sequoia Capital, which backed Nvidia, Google and Apple when they were start-ups, has long stayed above the fray. But one partner’s post about Zohran Mamdani set off a chain reaction.
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How a Video Studio Embraced A.I. and Stormed the Internet
The Dor Brothers are indie filmmakers whose viral videos are generated entirely by artificial intelligence.
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(BPRW) NAACP and Advocacy Groups Appeal Permit for xAI’s South Memphis Data Center, decisions around unpermitted methane gas turbines
(Black PR Wire) MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of the NAACP and Young, Gifted & Green, filed an appeal with the Memphis and Shelby County Air Pollution Control Board, challenging the Shelby County Health D…
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Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship
A Polish programmer running on fumes recently accomplished what may soon become impossible: beating an advanced AI model from OpenAI in a head-to-head coding competition. The 10-hour marathon left him “completely exhausted.” On Wednesday, programmer Przemysław Dębiak (known as “Psyho”), a former OpenAI employee, narrowly defeated the custom AI model in the AtCoder World Tour...
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Phishers have found a way to downgrade—not bypass—FIDO MFA
Researchers recently reported encountering a phishing attack in the wild that bypasses a multifactor authentication scheme based on FIDO (Fast Identity Online), the industry-wide standard being adopted by thousands of sites and enterprises. If true, the attack, reported in a blog post Thursday by security firm Expel, would be huge news, since FIDO is widely...
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(BPRW) Introducing Mahogany Mates: Old-School Connections, Real Life Vibes
(Black PR Wire) BOSTON, MA – In a dating world dominated by super-likes and endless swipes, there is a new social engagement experience created for Black soulful singles aged 50+ who are looking for love sparked by in-person connections. Mahogany Mates, L…
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Crypto Industry Reaches Milestone With Passage of Genius Act
After a week of squabbling in Washington, the cryptocurrency industry secured one of its primary legislative objectives and made progress toward a second one.
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How Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Persuaded Trump to Sell A.I. Chips to China
With help from a longtime Silicon Valley investor turned White House insider, Mr. Huang got the administration to reverse course on restrictions.