Category: Shorts

Critical Flaws Found in Alibaba Cloud’s PostgreSQL Databases Two critical flaws were identified in Alibaba Cloud’s ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL and AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL that could have allowed attackers to gain unauthorized access to customer databases. These issues were reported in December 2022 and mitigated by April 12, 2023, though there is no evidence to…

Make-it-3D: An Artificial Intelligence (AI) Framework For Generating Make-It-3D is a two-stage AI framework for generating high-quality 3D content from a single image. The first stage involves improving the neural radiance field (NeRF) with a diffusion prior and reference-view supervision. The second stage focuses on texture enhancement while preserving geometry from the first stage. The…

AI Is Making Workers Wary of Their Bosses Pew Research Center released a report that shows how workers feel about AI in the workplace. 68% of those surveyed expect AI to have a major impact on job holders in the next 20 years, yet only 28% think AI will affect them personally. 47% believe AI…

Google’s AI push will combine Brain and DeepMind into one team Alphabet and Google are merging DeepMind and Google’s Brain team to form Google DeepMind. DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis will be the new CEO and Jeff Dean from Google’s Research and Health team will be the Chief Scientist. This merger is meant to accelerate the…

Michael Schumacher’s family plans legal action after fake AI interview The family of Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher is taking legal action against Die Aktuelle, a German tabloid magazine, for publishing an AI-generated “interview” with Schumacher. The magazine misled readers by suggesting the piece was an authentic interview with the record-breaking racer, who has not…

Meta urged to investigate how it contributes to amplifying misinformation The Meta Oversight Board, an independent panel selected by the social media giant to deliberate its content decisions, has released a report that supports the company’s content moderation actions taken during the height of the Covid pandemic. The board is recommending changes to Meta’s misinformation…

ChatGPT’s Security and How Security Teams Can Improve It ChatGPT and other generative AI platforms have gained the reputation of ultimate productivity boosters, but they can also be a data leakage channel. A recent incident with Samsung software engineers pasting proprietary code into ChatGPT demonstrates this security challenge. Data Leak Prevention (DLP) solutions are not…

Fortra sheds light on how ransomware attackers are using a zero-day exploit in Go Fortra, the company behind Cobalt Strike, recently discovered a zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in its GoAnywhere MFT tool. The vulnerability was actively exploited by ransomware actors to steal sensitive data and was patched in February 2023. The ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS)…

Daggerfly Cyberattack Hits Telecom Services Providers in Africa A China-linked threat actor has been targeting telecoms providers in Africa since November 2022, using the MgBot malware framework and other tools such as PlugX, AnyDesk, and KsRemote. The threat actor has been conducting espionage activities since 2014, using spear-phishing and living-off-the-land tools to deliver payloads. The…

What is AGI, and why are AI experts skeptical? Professor Vishal Misra from Columbia University is an avid cricket and computer science fan. He co-founded Cricinfo, a website for sports fans to stay updated on match statistics, now part of ESPN. In 2021, he developed a search tool using GPT-3 that allows cricket fans to…