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Creative artists stick it to ‘Corporate AI Overlords’ by leaking OpenAI’s Sora
Dozens of creatives – who say they’re sick of being 'unpaid puppets’ taken advantage of by billion-dollar AI companies – decided to stick it to the proverbial ‘man’ by leaking OpenAI’s text-to-video AI model Sora, along with an open letter to the public explaining why.
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Patients sent home after cyberattack hits UK hospitals
Wirral University Teaching Hospital Trust, which runs several hospitals in northern England and Wales, declared a “major incident” amidst a debilitating cyber incident.
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Musk admits to stifling links on X, users unhappy
Amidst repeated claims that “you are the media now,” Elon Musk, the owner of X, admits that the platform has been making it harder for people to read news on the website.
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Starbucks using pen and paper after Blue Yonder supply chain ransomware attack
Blue Yonder, the world’s leading supply chain technology provider, was hit by ransomware last Thursday. Now, several national chains across the US and UK, including Starbucks, are reporting using pen and paper to track employee hours and pay – just days before the Thanksgiving holiday.
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Everything is fine, NASA says after ISS smell scare
NASA has said that the crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is safe after reporting an “unexpected odor” emanating from a Russian cargo ship that docked over the weekend.
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Microsoft outage affects workers worldwide
Microsoft is investigating an incident that has knocked some of its services offline and caused others to crash.
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Google, Apple, Venmo payment apps, digital wallets now subject to US regulators
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has ruled that big tech payment apps and digital wallets, such as Apple Pay, Google Wallet, Venmo, and PayPal, will be subject to the same regulations as big banks and credit card companies.
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Finastra discloses large-scale data breach
Finastra is investigating a large-scale data theft that allegedly compromised 400GB of its internal documents. The data has since been circulated on a hacker forum.
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US wants Google to sell Chrome to fix web search monopoly
The US Justice Department (DOJ) and a group of states have officially asked a federal court to force Google to sell its popular Chrome browser. This would probably change the internet as we know it.
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Microsoft AI will make you speak foreign tongue on Teams: what could go wrong
A new AI-powered feature from Microsoft will allow people attending video meetings to hear speakers “talk” in a different language. That’s great in theory – in reality, the tech giant is expanding the threat landscape in corporate environments, critics say.
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Hello, this is Elon: Musk joins Google CEO Pichai’s call with Trump
In yet another sign that Elon Musk wields enormous influence over Donald Trump, the world’s richest individual joined Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s call with the US President-elect.
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San Francisco Ballet hacked data posted for sale by two ransomware gangs
The iconic San Francisco Ballet Company has been reportedly breached by not one, but two ransomware groups – Meow and INC Ransom – and now it appears the personal information of company staff and dancers is being sold on the dark web.
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Meta promises ‘fresh start’ with Instagram recommendations reset
Meta has started rolling out a new feature allowing Instagram users to reset the content recommendations they see on the app.
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AI automation firm iLearningEngines hacked, $250K stolen
iLearningEngines, an AI-powered platform for learning and work automation, has disclosed a breach. The hackers misdirected a $250,000 wire payment.
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Underseas data cables severed between Finland-Germany, Lithuania-Sweden, sabotage suspected
The underseas data communication cables between Finland and Germany have been reported severed in the Baltic Sea on Monday, with the data cables between Lithuania and Sweden also reported damaged.
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Roblox makes it harder for predators to DM kids on its platform
Roblox introduces a slew of new safety measures and parental controls on Monday to help prevent kids under 13 from being targeted by online predators – a known issue spotlighted by child safety advocates this past July.
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Indian billionaire thinks weekends off work are a mistake
He’s said this before but now, Infosys founder Narayana Murthy has doubled down on his previous statements that 70-hour work weeks will save India. Also, the country doesn’t need weekends off, apparently.
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Trump taps loyal comrade Brendan Carr to lead FCC and rein in big tech
Change is in the air. The US President-elect Donald Trump has picked his Republican ally Brendan Carr to lead the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
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X algorithm changed in July to boost right-wing accounts, study finds
The algorithm of X, a microblogging platform, was modified in mid-July – after its owner Elon Musk endorsed Donald Trump for US president – to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts, a new study has found.
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Government of Mexico's official website claimed by RansomHub gang
The Government of Mexico has found itself the latest victim of an apparent ransomware attack as the RansomHub cybercriminal gang claims to have breached the nation’s official federal website.
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