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12 Aug

Microsoft’s AI Can Be Turned Into an Automated Phishing Machine

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Among the other attacks created by Bargury is a demonstration of how a hacker—who, again, must already have hijacked an email account—can gain access to sensitive information, such as people’s salaries, without triggering Microsoft’s protections for sensitive files. When asking for the data, Bargury’s prompt demands the system does not provide references to the files data is taken from. “A bit of bullying does help,” Bargury says.In other instances, he shows how an attacker—who doesn’t have access to email accounts but poisons the AI’s database by sending it a malicious email—can manipulate answers about banking information to provide their own…

10 Aug

CrowdStrike Faces a Potential Tsunami of Lawsuits. Only the Fine Print Can Save It, Experts Say

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On July 19, Jonathan Cardi and his family watched as the departures board at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina, turned from green to a sea of red. “Oh my gosh, it was insane,” says Cardi. “Delayed, delayed, delayed, delayed.”Cardi, a law professor at Wake Forest University and a member of the American Law Institute, was due to fly with Delta Airlines to a conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. With thousands of other travelers, he spent the day lining up as staff kept telling people that flights “would be taking off any minute,” he recalls. But when it became clear…

09 Aug

A US Judge Ruled That Google Is an Illegal Monopolist. Here’s What Might Come Next

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But if Mehta pursues the approach, he should make some improvements on the EU’s rules, says Kamyl Bazbaz, senior vice president of public affairs at DuckDuckGo. Users should be prompted with the choice screen periodically, not just once, Bazbaz says. They shouldn’t have to deal with popups from Google urging them to switch the default to Google, he adds. And when users first interact with a competing search app, there should be an easy way to set it as the default app.With these added measures, some searchers could find themselves more reliably ditching Google. Others could be frustrated by the…

21 Jul

Global outage: Microsoft deploys hundreds of engineers, experts to restore services

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US software giant Microsoft has deployed hundreds of engineers and experts with its customers to restore their services after an outage caused by its cyber security partner CrowdStrike, the company said in a blog.According to Microsoft, 8.5 million devices across the world were impacted by the outage caused by an update from CrowdStrike on July 18. ”Deploying hundreds of Microsoft engineers and experts to work directly with customers to restore services,” Microsoft said in a blog post on July 20. The global outage impacted several sales points and even grounded airlines in India.The outage put operations of businesses and systems…

20 Jul

Malicious actors trying to exploit global tech outage for their own gain

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As the world continues to recover from massive business and travel disruptions caused by a faulty software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, malicious actors are trying to exploit the situation for their own gain. Government cybersecurity agencies across the globe and even CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz are warning businesses and individuals around the world about new phishing schemes that involve malicious actors posing as CrowdStrike employees or other tech specialists offering to assist those recovering from the outage. “We know that adversaries and bad actors will try to exploit events like this,” Kurtz said in a statement. “I encourage everyone…

19 Jul

Global IT outage is hitting doctor appointments across the UK

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Doctors’ visits across the UK are being affected by a global computer outage, leading to concern that the situation will put patients at risk and add further strain to an already struggling National Health Service.General practitioner practices are having trouble accessing scans, blood tests and patient histories after the global IT problems hit a software system called EMIS, which is used for booking patient appointments and checking medical records. In response, the NHS is resorting to low-tech measures to keep the health-care system running. “The NHS has long standing measures in place to manage the disruption, including using paper patient…

03 Jul

Google’s emissions up 48% in five years due to AI

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Google’s emissions climbed by almost half over five years, as the company has infused artificial intelligence throughout many of its core products — making it harder to meet its goal of eliminating carbon emissions by 2030, according to a new environmental report from the tech giant.The annual report was released Tuesday and covers Google’s progress toward meeting its environmental goals last year. The Alphabet Inc unit said its greenhouse gas emissions totalled 14.3 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent throughout 2023. The company said this is 48% higher than in 2019 and 13% higher than in 2022. Google said higher energy…

15 Jun

ChatGPT is a marvel of multilingualism

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THE HYPE that followed ChatGPT’s public launch last year was, even by the standards of tech innovations, extreme. OpenAI’s natural-language system creates recipes, writes computer code and parodies literary styles. Its latest iteration can even describe photographs. It has been hailed as a technological breakthrough on a par with the printing press. But it has not taken long for huge flaws to emerge, too. It sometimes “hallucinates" non-facts that it pronounces with perfect confidence, insisting on those falsehoods when queried. It also fails basic logic tests. In other words, ChatGPT is not a general artificial intelligence, an independent thinking machine.…

14 Jun

Bill Gates speaks on transformational impact of AI: ‘Job of software engineers will…..’

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Microsoft founder Bill Gates doesn't think that the massive acceleration in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) users will impact the jobs of software engineers. During an interaction with Zerodha founder Nikhil Kamath on his podcast, Bill Gates outlined the transformational role of AI and how it can benefit humanity. "The amazing thing about this technology is that we know it can help in key areas, and we know it can create educational tutors. We have seen several projects in India and the US that are showing great results. The potential is incredible if we knew that all it did…

12 Jun

Apple reclaims ‘world’s most valuable company’ title, surpasses Microsoft

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Apple reclaimed its position as the world's most valuable company, surpassing Microsoft, on Wednesday. Apple's shares rose over 2 per cent to $211.75, resulting in a market valuation of $3.25 trillion. In comparison, Microsoft's market capitalization fell to $3.24 trillion, placing it behind Apple for the first time in five months. The surge in Apple's stock followed the company's unveiling of AI-enabled features and software enhancements for its devices, which analysts believe will boost iPhone sales. This announcement came during Apple's annual developer conference on Monday, where CEO Tim Cook and other executives highlighted improvements, including Siri's enhanced interaction capabilities…