Category: Shorts

A perceptual quality metric for video frame interpolation Advances in display technology have made viewing content more immersive and enjoyable. 4K 60FPS video offers a more satisfying experience than 1080P 30FPS, but it is more expensive in terms of data. Video frame interpolation is used to increase the resolution or frames within a video sequence,…

ChatGPT’s Conservative Alter Ego Elon Musk recently announced plans to create TruthGPT, a competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which he believes displays woke bias. David Rozado, a data scientist, has taken a language model and fine-tuned it to express more conservative viewpoints. He also plans to create more liberal and depolarizing language models, which will be…

Cybersecurity Director Advises Preparing for AI that Can Generate At the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week, the potential impact of generative AI on digital security and malicious hacking has been a hot topic. Rob Joyce, NSA cybersecurity director, gave his State of the Hack presentation where he discussed how attackers can use…

Microsoft Designer integrates with Edge to create AI-generated social content. Microsoft has rolled out new features for its AI-powered graphic design tool, Microsoft Designer, which can be used to create social media posts. The app is now accessible through the Edge web browser and has AI-powered creative tools, text-to-image features, and content suggestions. Additionally, Microsoft…

Google plans to add end-to-end encryption to its Authenticator app Google Authenticator recently updated its two-factor authentication feature to enable users to sync codes with their Google accounts, making it easier to sign into new devices. However, security researchers have raised concerns over the lack of end-to-end encryption, which could leave users vulnerable to data…

Microsoft is discontinuing its mice, keyboards, and webcams in favor of Surface Microsoft is discontinuing its Microsoft-branded PC hardware and accessories such as mice, keyboards, and webcams and will instead focus on its Surface-branded PC accessories, including mice, keyboards, pens, and more. Microsoft’s webcams have already been discontinued and its low-cost Microsoft-branded accessories may be…

Microsoft Windows 10 updates are done Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 22H2 will be the final version of the operating system and that all editions of Windows 10 will be supported with monthly security updates until October 14th, 2025. After this date, some releases on the Long-Term Servicing Channel, or LTSC, will still receive…

New Paperbug Attack Targets Tajikistan Politicians Nomadic Octopus, a Russian-speaking cyber-espionage group, has been linked to a politically-motivated surveillance campaign targeting government officials, telecom services, and public infrastructure in Tajikistan. The group has been active since 2014, using custom Android and Windows malware to conduct cyber surveillance operations. Analysis of the command-and-control server reveals that…

LimeRAT Malware Analysis: Extracting the Configuration File ANY.RUN’s Q1 2023 report reveals that Remote Access Trojans (RATs) have taken the third leading position in malware prevalence. LimeRAT is a versatile RAT family that excels at data exfiltration, creating DDoS botnets, and facilitating crypto mining, and shares similarities with njRAT, the third most popular malware family.…

How to Improve Human-AI Interactions: Exploring Prompt-based Interfaces for Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have introduced SEEM, a new approach to interactive image segmentation that uses a universal interface and multi-modal prompts. SEEM is the first model to support multiple prompts such as points, masks, text, boxes, and even a referred region of another…