Category: Shorts

Apple Shows a Slumping Mac and Soaring Services in Latest Earnings Apple beats Wall Street’s expectations and says it has reached an all-time high in services revenue and set a new March quarter record for iPhone revenue in its earnings report on Thursday. The numbers show continued demand for the iPhone 14 lineup even as…

Dream First, Learn Later: A New AI Approach Uses LLMs for Training Reinforcement Reinforcement learning is a popular approach to training autonomous agents that can learn to perform complex tasks by interacting with their environment. In order to help these agents learn, large language models (LLMs) have been used. The question though, whether we should…

How Telecoms Can Improve SaaS Security These changes, coupled with the need for stronger collaboration with third-party vendors, have led enterprises to adopt SaaS applications to handle their CRM. The advertisers are given access to the telecom’s Ss apps, where they can mine for data and develop powerful marketing and advertising campaigns. While the SSO…

BouldSpy: Iranian Government’s Alleged Tool for Spying on Minority Groups Lookout has discovered a new Android spyware that can spy on over 300 people belonging to minority groups. The malware, dubbed BouldSpy, is reportedly associated with the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FARAJA) and it can even run on older devices.…

Researchers uncover new flaws in popular internet routing protocol software CVE-2022-43681 (CVSS score: 6.5) – Out-of-bounds read when processing a malformed BGP OPEN message with an Extended Optional Parameters Length option. This warning applies only to messages that have an extended optional parameter length and do not terminate at the option length octet. A threat…

Hackers Exploiting 5-year-old Unpatched Vulnerability in TB Fortinet’s seen more than 50,000 attempts to exploit an unpatched flaw in its TBK digital video recording (DVR) devices in the month of April 2023. The flaw, CVE-2018-9995, was caused by an error when handling a maliciously crafted HTTP cookie. Threat actors are actively exploiting an unprotected five-year-old…

Researchers uncover new way to exploit PaperCut vulnerability A group of security researchers has found a way to exploit a critical flaw in PaperCut servers. Previously, the flaw was disclosed by vulnCheck. Now, VulnCheck has published a proof-of-concept exploit that sidesteps existing detection signatures by leveraging the fact that PaperCut NG and MF offer multiple…

Microsoft Azure API Management Service found to have 3 vulnerabilities Three new security flaws have been disclosed in the Microsoft Azure API Management service. The most important of these is a flaw in the proxy function which allows malicious actors to gain access to sensitive information or backend services. It also follows the discovery of…

A New AI Research Paper From Stanford Presents an Alternative Explanation for Seemingly Sharp This paper discusses emergent abilities, which are characteristics of large language models (LLM) such as GPT, PaLM, and LaMDA. These LLM’s have what are known as ergent abilities, and they can be useful for machine learning. In this paper, the authors…

ChatGPT Rivals: Designed to Play With Your Emotions The chatbot company Inflection designed Pi to address some of the problems of today’s chatbots. Its goal is to be more engaging, if less useful, than programs like ChatGPT and Bard. According to Dr. Suleyman, the company has carefully curated Pi’s training data to reduce the chance…