By Jane Nguyen Microsoft said on Friday that Russian hackers gained access to its corporate systems and stole some emails and documents belonging to the company’s senior executives. The tech company said in a blog post that its security team detected the intrusion on Jan. 12 and quickly shut it down. The group responsible for…
Keep readingBy Kevin Stocklin In 1984, Apple ran its now iconic Super Bowl ad, directed by Hollywood heavyweight Ridley Scott, in which a young female athlete with a sledgehammer destroys an enormous video screen from which “Big Brother” issues diktats to a cowed population that is seated in rows and dressed in gray prison attire. It…
Keep readingBy Tom Ozimek Apple has released urgent security updates for its iOS and other operating systems to patch against vulnerabilities that both the tech giant and U.S. cyber security officials say are being actively exploited by hackers. Apple’s security updates patch gaps in operating systems for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac products, as well as…
Keep readingBy Aaron Pan Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company behind the popular chatbot ChatGPT, was fired, the company’s board of directors announced on Nov. 17. Mr. Altman’s dismissal is unexpected and shocks the tech industry. “Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his…
Keep readingBy Jack Phillips Apple recently released emergency security patches for iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, and Apple Watches that target several “zero-day” vulnerabilities that could leave a device open to spyware. According to several bulletins posted by Apple late last week, the security patches were rolled out for a number of products, including ones that use iOS and iPadOS 17.0.1,…
Keep readingBy Jack Phillips Apple Inc. on Tuesday unveiled its iPhone 15 and announced that its latest device will ditch Apple’s Lightning connector to the more common USB-C standard, which is universal. In the Cupertino, California, event, Apple showed videos of the USB-C charger being used and the iPhone’s upgraded charging port. An Apple narrator of one of the…
Keep readingBy The Associated Press LONDON—Elon Musk has unveiled a new black and white “X” logo to replace Twitter’s famous blue bird as he follows through with a major rebranding of the social media platform he bought for $44 billion last year. Mr. Musk replaced his own Twitter icon with a white X on a black…
Keep readingBy Efthymis Oraiopoulos The social media platform Threads, owned by Facebook’s Meta and being promoted as a Twitter competitor, is losing more and more users, while its leadership says that new features are coming to remedy the situation. Threads was launched in July and hit a peak of 100 million sign-ups initially. However, it has…
Keep readingBy Stephen Zogopoulos, USNN World News In an era propelled by the rapid advancement of technology, the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked both anticipation and trepidation. While AI holds vast transformative potential for society, we must reckon with the unbridled consequences that arise when we grant it the power to deceive. As AI…
Keep readingBy Andrew Thornebrooke TORONTO—A leading mind in the development of artificial intelligence is warning that AI has developed a rudimentary capacity to reason and may seek to overthrow humanity. AI systems may develop the desire to seize control from humans as a way of accomplishing other preprogrammed goals, said Geoffrey Hinton, a professor of computer…
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