Category: Shorts

The Boring Company’s Vegas Loop plan is anything but nice The Boring Company has gotten the go-ahead to build more tunnels and stations for its underground transportation system in Clark County. Its goal is to alleviate road traffic by moving some of the rush-hour traffic underground. So far, though, it’s been rather underwhelming. The company…

Amazon plans to update Alexa to work better with ChatGPT Leaks report that Amazon is planning to add new AI chatbot technology to Alexa, reviving the voice assistant in an age of generative artificial intelligence. According to leaked documents, the company is relying on its own internally developed large language model (LLM) to power a…

New tools for making games offered by AI, but developers worry about their jobs The narrator explains how companies like Eleventh Hour Games, a company that uses artificial intelligence to write dialogue in video games, are using the technology to help them make games faster. They claim that it could help solve the problem of…

Meta Discovers Social Media Cyber Espionage Operations Three different threat actors leveraged hundreds of elaborate fictitious personas on Facebook and Instagram to target individuals located in South Asia as part of disparate attacks. The fake accounts used traditional lures like women looking for a romantic connection and masqueraded as recruiters, journalists, or military personnel. Two…

Why the Dark Web’s Unknowns May Be Your Biggest Cybersecurity Threat Why the dark web is a threat to your organization The dark web was once a place filled with bad actors who only focused on stealing banking and financial information. But it’s getting more and more dangerous. That said, there’s something you can do…

LinkedIn Turns 20: What’s Next for the Career-Networking Site? A Big In 2009, LinkedIn introduces its new engineering chief, David Henke. Before joining LinkedIn, he had worked as an engineering boss at Yahoo. His experience had been mostly spent rebuilding outdated technology, but he wanted to significantly reduce the company downtime. He spends the next…

Meta Stops Malware Campaign That Used ChatGPT to Steal Accounts The development comes against the backdrop of fake ChatGPT web browser extensions being increasingly used to steal Facebook account credentials with the aim to run unauthorized ads. According to the company’s research, the stolen information then enables the threat actor to assess and then use…

Joe Biden Asks Hackers to Help Keep AI Chatbots In Check The White House AI intervention comes as appetite for regulating the technology is growing around the world, fueled by the hype and investment sparked by ChatGPT. In the parliament of the European Union, lawmakers are negotiating final updates to a sweeping AI Act that…

White House unveils plan to promote ethical AI The White House and the National Science Foundation announce new funding and policy guidance for developing artificial intelligence ahead of a Biden administration meeting with industry executives. Federal regulators and Congress have been focusing on AI for the past few weeks, and companies like Google, Microsoft, Nvidia,…

Bing chatbot gets smarter with restaurant bookings, image results, and more Microsoft is rolling out an update to its Bing Chat chatbot today that adds image and video answers, restaurant bookings, chat history, and more features. It also opens up Bing Chat to third parties with plug-in support. In addition, the company is expanding Bing…