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Microsoft 365 Copilot is coming to Microsoft Edge browser The company has announced that it will soon be bringing its artificial intelligence-powered Copilot assistant to the Edge browser. Microsoft 365 Copilot is the company’s extensive Office digital assistant powered by OpenAI. It currently only comes in the Chrome browser, but eventually it will come to…

China Blocks U.S. Chip Giant Micron, Citing “Serious Cyber China has banned U.S. chip maker Micron from selling its products to Chinese companies working on key infrastructure projects, citing national security risks. The development comes nearly two months after the country’s cybersecurity authority initiated a probe into the company’s cybersecurity risks. The CAC did not…

New WinTapix.sys malware engages in multi-stage attack across Middle East An unknown threat actor has been observed leveraging a malicious Windows kernel driver in attacks likely targeting the Middle East since at least May 2020. The activity has not been tied to a known threat actor or group. In other words, it offers a stealthy…

Hackers from North Korea have again targeted organizations with advanced reconnaissance malware. The North Korean spy agency Kimsuky has been using a piece of custom malware called RandomQuery to target organizations supporting human rights and defectors. According to the cybersecurity firm, this campaign also demonstrates the group’s consistent approach of delivering malware through CHM files.…

The Need for Action to Address the Rising Threat of Secrets Sprawl Secrets Sprawl Is a Growing Threat Keeping secrets has become increasingly difficult for organizations. According to a new report, GitHub has seen a significant increase in the number of public GitHub activity due to a secrets sprawl which refers to the amount of…

How AI memorizes images with diffusion models This paper investigates how diffusion models can memorize and reproduce individual training images, raising privacy and copyright issues. It also examines the risks associated with data extraction attacks, data reconstruction attacks, and membership inference attacks on diffusion models. The results show that diffusion models exhibit higher membership inference…

Is AI Aware of Its Own Subconscious? This chapter opens with a question: But I wonder: Does AI have a subconscious. Psychobabble responds that the answer is yes. He goes on to offer philosophical guidance on encounters with technology, open a support ticket via email; or register and post a comment below. Language models are…

The Dire Defect of AI Content Moderation with Multiple Languages For years, social media companies have focused their automatic content detection and removal efforts more on English than the 7,000 other languages. This has led them to overlook or ignore the impact of human rights violations in many of these countries. A new technology called…

Amazon’s New Fire Max 11 Tablet Aims to Provide a Premium User Experience and Product The Fire Max 11 is Amazon’s biggest tablet yet. It has a shatter-safe aluminum frame and supports styluses. It also has 64GB and 128GB of storage, can be expanded with a microSD card, and can be locked by default. Unlike…

Apple touts multibillion-dollar deal for 5G and wireless tech Apple has signed on to a multiyear, multibillion-dollar agreement with Broadcom. The company announced the news on Tuesday, saying it will continue to work with the chipmaker to develop 5G components and other wireless connectivity parts. From the announcement: Through this collaboration, Broadcom will develop 5g…