Category: Shorts

Microsoft is using AI to generate app review summaries for the Microsoft Store Microsoft is making a big AI-focused change to the Microsoft Store. AI-generated review summaries will now start appearing across the store, showing top-line synopsis of the reviews in addition to the usual rating of up to five stars. Developers will be able…

ChatGPT now defaults to Bing for search Microsoft and OpenAI have teamed up to make Bing the default search experience for ChatGPT. The company says the new search engine will be rolling out to Plus users today and will be enabled for all free chat clients soon. It also notes that this is the second…

Meta’s acquisition of Giphy is blocked by the UK, so Shutterstock picks up Shutterstock is buying Giphy for $53 million, after its acquisition was blocked by the British Competition Regulator. That price represents a steep discount compared to what Meta originally agreed to pay for the company in 2020.As part of the deal, Meta will…

Microsoft is launching its Dev Boxes this July, cloud-powered workstations that Microsoft begins accepting pre-configured, ready-to-code cloud-based workstations in its Dev Box. The company has been experimenting with Dev Box since last year’s Build event, and today it officially announces that it will become available in July 2023.First teased at the Build event , the…

Microsoft 365 Copilot is coming to Microsoft Edge browser The company has announced that it will soon be bringing its artificial intelligence-powered Copilot assistant to the Edge browser. Microsoft 365 Copilot is the company’s extensive Office digital assistant powered by OpenAI. It currently only comes in the Chrome browser, but eventually it will come to…

China Blocks U.S. Chip Giant Micron, Citing “Serious Cyber China has banned U.S. chip maker Micron from selling its products to Chinese companies working on key infrastructure projects, citing national security risks. The development comes nearly two months after the country’s cybersecurity authority initiated a probe into the company’s cybersecurity risks. The CAC did not…

New WinTapix.sys malware engages in multi-stage attack across Middle East An unknown threat actor has been observed leveraging a malicious Windows kernel driver in attacks likely targeting the Middle East since at least May 2020. The activity has not been tied to a known threat actor or group. In other words, it offers a stealthy…

Hackers from North Korea have again targeted organizations with advanced reconnaissance malware. The North Korean spy agency Kimsuky has been using a piece of custom malware called RandomQuery to target organizations supporting human rights and defectors. According to the cybersecurity firm, this campaign also demonstrates the group’s consistent approach of delivering malware through CHM files.…

The Need for Action to Address the Rising Threat of Secrets Sprawl Secrets Sprawl Is a Growing Threat Keeping secrets has become increasingly difficult for organizations. According to a new report, GitHub has seen a significant increase in the number of public GitHub activity due to a secrets sprawl which refers to the amount of…

How AI memorizes images with diffusion models This paper investigates how diffusion models can memorize and reproduce individual training images, raising privacy and copyright issues. It also examines the risks associated with data extraction attacks, data reconstruction attacks, and membership inference attacks on diffusion models. The results show that diffusion models exhibit higher membership inference…