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A researcher found a 1Password CLI vulnerability in 2023 that could let intruders grab data
The flaw only works if someone already has local access to your...
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- Walmart plans to acquire Vizio for $2.3 billion pending regulatory approval and other closing conditions.
- Irvine, California-based Vizio's real value lies in its advertising business and accessibility to user data.
- Vizio's expansive market in lower-priced TVs also presents a potential advantage for Walmart.
- Following the merger, Walmart...
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- The Arctic Wolf Labs Threat Report noted a 20% surge in ransom demands in 2023.
- Business Email Compromise incidents also experienced a significant rise.
- Long-disclosed vulnerabilities continued to be exploited by cybercriminals for economic gains.
- Key sectors were hit hard by these cybercrime activities.
In 2023, businesses confronted...
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- Marcelo F. Vargas-Fernandez, a former employee at Expedia Group, is accused of planting spy cameras in two company bathrooms.
- Footage from an Expedia Group security camera showed Vargas-Fernandez carrying devices similar to those found under the sinks.
- Amazon.com records confirm Vargas-Fernandez had purchased similar cameras.
- Over 33...
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- Reddit signs a $60 million contract with an unnamed AI company for training its AI models on its site's content.
- The deal comes ahead of Reddit's initial public offering (IPO) which could possibly happen next month.
- This contract could serve as a model for future agreements between...
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- Marco Troper, son of former YouTube CEO and Google executive, was found dead at UC Berkeley Campus.
- The cause of death is believed to be an accidental drug overdose, pending toxicology reports.
- Marco had three siblings and was a student in the College of Letters & Science.
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- Lax content moderation on Twitter hampers the efforts of social media giants and law enforcement to clamp down on propaganda accounts.
- Propaganda is flourishing on Twitter, thereby frustrating other social platforms.
- The coordinated takedown efforts started after platforms were manipulated by foreign influence campaigns during the 2016...
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- OpenAI's Sora is currently under the supervision of red teamers and select artists to prevent AI video misuse.
- OpenAI aims to combat the risk of misinformation and offensive content in AI videos.
- OpenAI Sora intends to leverage its technology to make AI videos more regulated and safer.
OpenAI's...
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- In 2023, EV sales in North America crossed 1.1 million units, marking a 50% rise from 2022.
- Major automakers are moderating their EV ambitions due to reports of reduced EV adoption.
- S&P Global reports an EV registration increase of 23% in December, faster than new light vehicle...
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- Go, Google’s programming language, has scaled up to the top 10 in the latest TIOBE Index ratings.
- This is the highest position ever achieved by Go.
Programming with Go: Top ten Trend on TIOBE Index
The programming language developed by Google, known as Go, has made a notable stride...
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- Nvidia's market value has now reached $1.8 trillion, eclipsing both Amazon and Google’s parent company, Alphabet.
- The rapid rise in the firm's stock was primarily due to its growth in the AI industry and its dominant market share in AI server chips.
- Nvidia's AI data server division...
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- Nvidia introduces Chat With RTX, a personalized AI chatbot usable on Windows PCs with Nvidia RTX graphics card.
- Chat With RTX uses a combination of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM software, and RTX acceleration.
- Nvidia's AI chatbot can converse using local files as datasets, enabling contextually relevant...
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- NYC Mayor Adams' administration has filed a lawsuit against the owners of TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Snapchat.
- The lawsuit alleges the platforms' harmful algorithms are contributing to youth mental health crises.
- Although no specific amount has been cited, the city is seeking punitive damages from these...
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- The Environmental Defense Fund is collaborating with Google to develop a methane-monitoring satellite.
- Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and its levels have drastically increased.
- The data from the satellite is planned to be made public and tracked to specific sources.
In the discourse...
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- Amazon Prime Video is facing a class-action lawsuit over the introduction of advertisements in its streams.
- The suit was filed on February 9 and asserts that Amazon's approach diverged from other services who included ads in new, cheaper plans.
- The complaint arises due to confusion for customers...
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- OpenAI has started testing long-term memory with ChatGPT.
- This will allow the AI to maintain information between different sessions.
- The feature is presently available to a minor group of users for beta testing.
- Usually, the AI forgets information once a new session begins.
- Multiple projects have investigated...
A pivotal court ruling in California has largely backed OpenAI, the artificial intelligence lab known for its sophisticated language models, amidst a contentious copyright saga. US District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín dismissed most of the allegations lodged by several authors claiming that these powerful models, used in ChatGPT, were trained...
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- A Waymo autonomous vehicle was vandalized and set on fire during Chinese New Year celebrations in San Francisco's Chinatown.
- The vehicle, which was not carrying any passengers, was completely destroyed in the incident.
- The incident was captured on video by an onlooker, and no injuries were reported.
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- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly in discussions to raise up to $7 trillion for AI chip production.
- This move is in response to the critical shortage of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).
- The proposed funding is greater than the entire semiconductor industry's current global sales.
- Potential investors...
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- CMS has stated that health insurance companies cannot use AI or algorithms to decide care or deny coverage to members on Medicare Advantage plans.
- The clarification followed lawsuits filed against UnitedHealth and Humana, claiming they used a flawed AI tool, nH Predict, to deny care to elderly...
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- City and FDNY officials have shut down a Queens scooter shop that was creating potentially perilous lithium-ion batteries.
- Just before their predicted ignition, firefighters cooled down the batteries labeled as "Frankenstein" due to their hybrid nature.
- The battery fires in NYC claimed the lives of 18 people...
