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Musk drops lawsuit accusing OpenAI of selling out humanity for profit
Elon Musk moves to dismiss his lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman that accused the company of straying from its original non-profit business model.
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Crooks abuse encrypted chat to sell fake euros, get busted by international police forces
Europol and various European law enforcement agencies have thwarted a sophisticated counterfeit banknote ring in Italy, recovering over €100,000 in fake banknotes and €10,000 in cryptocurrencies.
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AI systems like ChatGPT could soon run out of juice, study shows
There’s a reason why AI companies are rushing to train their models on publicly available data as quickly as possible. That’s because these resources could soon be exhausted, spelling disaster for tech firms.
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TikTok rival releases yet another Sora-like AI video maker
While OpenAI is still hesitant to launch Sora fully, Chinese tech giants have already released their second text-to-video model in the past couple of months.
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Android app developer fills privacy policy with Google’s sins, gets approved
Google Play Store requires a privacy policy even for apps that don’t collect any data. Jamie Zawinski, a developer of the XScreenSaver application, didn’t mince words when complying with the guidelines, filling the policy with criticism of Google.
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“British Airways” and other scam accounts siphoning personal information from unsuspecting travelers
Scammers are posing as real airline customer representatives on X (formerly known as Twitter) to siphon personal information from disgruntled travelers.
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Ticketmaster attacker vanishes, pundits speculating arrest
The Ticketmaster perpetrators have disappeared with their accounts being deleted, which could suggest a potential arrest.
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Gang of AI bots can hack websites with a 53% success rate, researchers show
Teams of bots powered by GPT-4 can scan websites for zero-day vulnerabilities and attack them with a success rate of 53%, researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have found.
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QuoteWizard, another Snowflake customer, confirms breach – media
The number of organizations whose Snowflake accounts were breached continues to mount, with loan comparison site LendingTree confirming that its subsidiary QuoteWizard had its data stolen.
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Adobe enrages then tries to soothe users with new terms update
Adobe Creative Cloud users set the internet alight over the weekend, thinking that the company’s new terms mean that it’s now claiming rights over their work. However, Adobe has since provided a detailed explanation.
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Personal data of 26M LAUSD students put up for sale on hacker forum
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) – hacked by the Vice Society ransomware group in 2022 – is suffering at the hands of cybercriminals once again after millions of students’ personal information was found up for grabs on a popular hacker forum.
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NewsBreak app under scrutiny for fake AI stories, ties to China
NewsBreak, one of the most downloaded news aggregation apps in America, is under scrutiny by US lawmakers after new information reveals its Chinese origins and that it has used AI tools to produce dozens of fake news stories.
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New York Times source code leaks on 4chan, days after Disney leak
An anonymous hacker has posted an alleged leak of The New York Times source code, posting the grab Friday on the often controversial 4Chan message boards. Earlier this week, a suspected breach of Disney networks was also posted on the site.
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Apple TV+ might soon be officially available in China
The internet in China might be an entirely separate ecosystem compared to the American version, but Apple TV+ could soon become the first US streamer officially available in the country.
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Frontier Communications reveals that cyber incident exposed hundreds of thousands
The American telecommunications company Frontier Communications Parent (Frontier) has revealed the extent of the April cyberattack.
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Users furious after LastPass down for hours
The LastPass password manager is coming back to life after at least a 16-hour outage that left users unable to access their credentials and essential services.
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Operation Endgame nets police a Conti affiliate
Ukrainian authorities have detained a 28-year-old from Kyiv for extorting a Dutch company with Conti ransomware.
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French watchdog unleashes simplified sanctions on GDPR violators
With a simplified procedure in place, the French data protection agency CNIL is raining fines down on companies for various data protection violations.
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Netflix sued by alleged Baby Reindeer stalker for $170M: life of “real Martha” is ruined
The alleged real-life Baby Reindeer stalker, Fiona Harvey, is suing Netflix for over $170 million for negligence, defamation, and violations of right of publicity as the series is supposedly a work of fiction.
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AI could soon translate your dog’s barks
Scientists believe that dog lovers could soon use AI to decode what those howls and whines from their furry friends really mean.
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