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Revealed: How Russia’s Sandworm ramped up attacks on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure

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Google Cloud-backed threat intelligence specialist Mandiant has shared details of a disruptive incident late last year, in which the Sandworm advanced persistent threat (APT) group, backed by Russian’s GRU intelligence and special forces agency, deployed novel techniques in a cyber attack on Ukraine’s power infrastructure. Sandworm is well known for its interest in Ukraine’s critical…

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YouTube’s AI chatbot wants to answer questions about the video you’re watching

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Have you ever watched a YouTube video and wondered, “What the heck am I watching?” Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox. Sign up for the most interesting tech & entertainment news out there. By signing up, I agree to the Terms of Use and have reviewed the Privacy Notice. If so, YouTube wants to help explain…

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I like ChatGPT even more after OpenAI’s developer conference

4 minutes of reading / AI, API, Apple, Azure, chatbot, ChatGPT, Google, iPhone, MacBook, Microsoft, Tech / By

I’ve been following ChatGPT closely for the better part of a year because it’s the nature of my job. Generative AI is a massive tech innovation, and OpenAI has single-handedly changed the tech landscape this year. ChatGPT is all we’ve been talking about in 2023, and the biggest names in tech have had to react…

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Someone turned an Nvidia crypto mining GPU into a gaming one – and the resulting nightmare is a warning to us all

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It is possible to repurpose one of Nvidia’s dedicated crypto mining GPUs into a gaming graphics card, but you really shouldn’t, as the adventures of an intrepid modder clearly illustrate.VideoCardz reported this tale of the conversion of an MSI CMP 50HX graphics card into a gaming model by Spanish YouTuber Sfdx Show (originally highlighted by…

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Google Maps and Apple Maps should copy Waze’s crash history alerts

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Google Maps might be Google’s main navigation app, but it’s Waze that sometimes gets the more exciting features. For instance, there’s a new crash history notification feature that Waze is rolling out to its users. As the name implies, Waze will now tell you if the road you’re on is dangerous based on historical crash…

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Kaspersky opens up over spyware campaign targeting its staffers

5 minutes of reading / API, Apple, Google, iPad, iPhone, open source, Tech / By

Kaspersky has shared more details of a novel iOS spyware that it discovered earlier this year when its own devices came under attack in a campaign dubbed Operation Triangulation. Dozens of Kaspersky employees are understood to have been affected by the advanced persistent threat (APT) campaign, which employed a “sophisticated method” of distributing zero-click exploits…

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It’s official: YouTube is coming for your ad blockers worldwide

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“We’re running a small experiment globally that urges viewers with ad blockers enabled to allow ads on YouTube or try YouTube Premium.” That’s what YouTube said in late June, explaining why some ad blocker users would be barred from watching YouTube videos. By early November, that policy had expanded, and YouTube will be applying it…

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I wish the iPhone had the Pixel 8’s generative AI wallpapers

3 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, ChatGPT, Google, iPhone, Tech / By

Google is leaning heavily into AI with its new Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, and while some of those AI features might not seem especially exciting, there’s one that stands out that I wish the iPhone would add, too. One of the ways that Google is taking advantage of AI on the Pixel 8…

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AI like ChatGPT can guess secrets that you never share, study shows

4 minutes of reading / AI, chatbot, ChatGPT, Facebook, Google, Meta, Tech / By

I’m not as worried about the impending AI apocalypse some experts warn about as I am about privacy protections in AI services like ChatGPT and its competitors. I hate the idea of tech giants or third parties possibly abusing large language models (LLM) to collect even more data about users. Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox.…

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Learning from Google: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

4 minutes of reading / AI, ChatGPT, Facebook, Google, machine learning, Microsoft, Tech, Uber / By

Working at a company that is a giant of the tech sector has many advantages, but for Arvind Jain, the CEO of Glean, it also helps to work at much smaller organisations. Glean positions itself as the Google of enterprise knowledge and discovery. In fact, it was founded in 2019 by a number of Google…

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