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I Bought a ChatGPT Plus Subscription and It’s Worth It During my initial interactions with ChatGPT Plus, I was not fully convinced that OpenAI’s $20-a-month subscription was worth it. So far, the web browsing features are slow to load and the answers still contain fake information. However, I have started to enjoy the new chat…

Boston is excited about generative AI Generative AI, city officials were told in an email that went out from the CIO to all city officials on May 18, is a great way to get started on memos, letters and job descriptions. Generative AI can also help with translation into other languages so that a City’s…

The Senate’s hearing on AI regulation was too friendly The most unusual thing about this week’s Senate hearing on AI was how affable it was. Many people think that the hearing suggests we’re headed into an era of industry capture in AI. Its launch of image and text generation tools like ChatGPT and deals with…

Apple’s Prehistoric Planet 2 is full of new faces, both feathery and ferocious Prehistoric Planet 2 is like the first season. It’s a weeklong event, with new episodes releasing daily starting on May 22nd. The difference, of course, is that this show uses CG technology to recreate life-like scenes instead of real-life animals. This allows…

Microsoft exec urges employees to improve its stock performance in lieu of raises According to a report, Microsoft’s chief marketing officer has a solution for employees unhappy with the company’s decision to stop giving raises: make the stock price go up. CMO Chris Capossela wrote in a message to employees that “the most important lever…

Meta’s next round of layoffs will begin next week Meta employees brace for another round of layoffs. The company had already cut thousands of jobs in March and April, and this latest round of cuts will affect workers in business-focused positions. Clegg comments on the company’s preparedness in a meeting recording obtained by Vox. “It’s…

How Big Tech is preparing us for the privacy problems of AI It’s not just Apple, but also Samsung and Verizon in the tech world and a who’s who of banks (Bank of America, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Goldman, Wells Fargo, and JPMorgan)The obvious uses for this technology is customer service. But for customer service to…

Meta Quest will now let you customize your home virtual world to your own liking This release of the Meta Quest also introduces a new app called 2D app notification feature. This allows push notifications from non-VR apps, like Messenger, to appear in the headset. There are also a bunch of other items added to…

Threat Group UNC3944 Abusing Azure Serial Console for Complete VM Takeover A financially motivated cyber actor has been observed abusing the Microsoft Azure serial console to install third-party remote management tools within compromised environments. The company, Mandiant, attributes the activity to a threat group it tracks under the names Roasted 0ktapus and Scattered Spider. The…

OilAlpha: Emerging Threat Targets Arabian Android Users This new threat group, OilAlpha, uses social engineering to attack its targets using encrypted chat chat services like WhatsApp. There’s even some evidence that it’s been recruited by Yemeni operatives, though Recorded Future doesn’t yet have enough evidence to prove that they’re the ones actually responsible for all…