Category: Shorts

Apple’s Weather Chaos is Reinforcing the Need for Weather Apps Forecast Advisor is a website run by Intellovations that compares the accuracy of a dozen of the largest weather forecasters. It allows users to switch between sources to find the most accurate one. Recently, the beloved weather app Dark Sky was acquired by Apple and…

Hackers in China are using the MgBot malware to target international NGOs in mainland Evasive Panda, a Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat (APT) group, has been observed targeting an international non-governmental organization in Mainland China via malicious updates of legitimate applications, such as Tencent QQ. The attack chains are designed to distribute MgBot malware, a modular…

Browser Security Survey: 87 Percent of SaaS Adopters Exposed to Browser CISOs are facing significant challenges in protecting their organizations from web-borne cyber threats in the cloud. A recent survey of more than 150 CISOs across multiple verticals and geolocations revealed that credential phishing is the riskiest browser threat and organizations are struggling to address…

Activision Blizzard acquisition blocked by UK regulators The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has blocked Microsoft’s proposed $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard due to concerns that it could reduce innovation and choice for UK gamers. Microsoft had attempted to address these concerns by signing cloud gaming deals with rival services, but the CMA…

The Development of Microsoft Bing’s Chatbot Jordi Ribas and his team at Microsoft have achieved incredible success with the introduction of Bing chat, a search tool that combines the general knowledge and problem-solving abilities of OpenAI’s GPT-4 language model with Microsoft Bing search engine. The project has driven hundreds of thousands of new users to…

Apache Superset vulnerability: servers exposed to RCE attacks via insecure default configuration Apache Superset, an open source data visualization software, was found to have an insecure default configuration that could lead to remote code execution. CVE-2023-27524 was assigned to this vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.9 and affects versions up to and including 2.0.1.…

It’ll soon be easier to find tools in Google Docs, Sheets Google is introducing an ‘enhanced tool finder’ feature to its Workspace apps (Docs, Sheets, and Slides) that will make it easier for users to locate commonly used tools. It appears in the top-left of the app toolbar as a search bar with a pill-shaped…

VMware releases software updates to address critical security issues VMware has released updates to address multiple security vulnerabilities in its Workstation and Fusion software, the most serious of which could enable a local attacker to gain code execution. The flaws were demonstrated by researchers at the Pwn2Own hacking contest and include stack-based buffer-overflow, out-of-bounds read,…

TikTok is launching AI avatars that look like you TikTok is introducing a new feature which uses AI to generate profile pictures. Users can upload 3-10 photos and select 2-5 styles for the AI-made avatar. The avatars created by this tool have a wide range of fun styles and can be used as profile pictures,…

Apple is building a health coach that will charge users for its services, according to reports Apple is set to launch a paid AI-powered health coaching service, Quartz, in 2021. The service will use AI and data from an Apple Watch to suggest and create tailored programs for users. Additionally, iPadOS 17 will include a…