Enlarge / With the right suggestions, researchers can “trick” a language model to spill its secrets. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) On Tuesday, Microsoft revealed a “New Bing” search engine and conversational bot powered by ChatGPT-like technology from OpenAI. On Wednesday, a Stanford University student named Kevin Liu used a prompt injection attack to...
Mozilla plans ground-up UI redesign for Thunderbird email client this July
Enlarge (credit: MZLA Technologies) “Why does Thunderbird look so old?” That’s one of the most frequently asked questions about Thunderbird, according to Thunderbird Project Design Manager Alessandro Castellani (along with “Is Thunderbird dead?”). And it’s one he seeks to answer definitively in a new blog post about Thunderbird’s planned 2023 release, codenamed Supernova. The Supernova...
(BPRW) The King Center, Microsoft launch a new online experience
(Black PR Wire) Atlanta, GA – Culminating the 2023 King Holiday Observance, The Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change (The King Center) and Microsoft announced the launch of “The King Center Timeline,” an unpreceden
Free Speech vs. Disinformation Comes to a Head
The outcome of a case in federal court could help decide whether the First Amendment is a barrier to virtually any government efforts to stifle disinformation.
Valve waited 15 months to patch high-severity flaw. A hacker pounced
(credit: Valve) Researchers have unearthed four game modes that could successfully exploit a critical vulnerability that remained unpatched in the popular Dota 2 video game for 15 months after a fix had become available. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-38003, resided in the open source JavaScript engine from Google known as V8, which is incorporated into...
Want to delete your Twitter DMs? Good luck with that
Enlarge (credit: Aytac Unal/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Twitter’s direct messages have always been a security liability. The DMs you send to friends and Internet strangers aren’t end-to-end encrypted, making your conversations potentially accessible if Twitter suffers a data breach, or to company staffers with the right permissions to access them. Both scenarios are arguably more likely in Elon...
(BPRW) Dentsu and Urban One Partner on Season 3 of More Than That with Gia Peppers
(Black PR Wire) NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Expanding on the success of the previous two seasons that resulted in more than $8 million invested into Black-owned media, More Than That with Gia Peppers has launched its third season. The program elevates con
(BPRW) Miami Black College Expo™ Celebrates Black History Month and Education
(Black PR Wire) MIAMI, FLORIDA – The 1st Annual Miami Black College Expo™, hosted by National College Resources Foundation (NCRF), is Saturday, February 11, 2023, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Miami Airport &
Disinformation Researchers Raise Alarms About A.I. Chatbots
Researchers used ChatGPT to produce clean, convincing text that repeated conspiracy theories and misleading narratives.
Microsoft’s ChatGPT-Powered Bing Makes Search Interesting Again
Google has stiff competition now, after Microsoft integrated powerful A.I. technology into its search engine.