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  • State-Sponsored Sidewinder Hacker Group’s Covert Infrastructure Uncovered

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    State-Sponsored Sidewinder Hacker Group’s Covert Infrastructure Uncovered Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered previously undocumented attack infrastructure used by the state-sponsored group SideWinder. The phishing domains mimic various organizations in the news, government, telecommunications, and financial sectors. Also uncovered is a Windows shortcut (LNK) file that was uploaded to VirusTotal from Beijing in late November 2022. Like…

  • U.S. offers $10 million for capture of Russian ransomware operator

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    U.S. offers $10 million for capture of Russian ransomware operator A Russian national has been indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) for launching ransomware attacks against thousands of victims across the country and across the world. Learn to Stop Ransomware with Real-Time Protection Join our webinar and learn how to stop ransomware attacks…

  • Elon Musk Claims Texas Shooter With A Swastika Tattoo Is Not A White

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    Elon Musk Claims Texas Shooter With A Swastika Tattoo Is Not A White Faber: There’s no proof, by the way, that he was not a white supremacistMusk: I would say that there’s noProof that he is. Faber; And that’s a debate you want to get into on Twitter?Because we should not be ascribing things to…

  • Elon Musk: I will say what I think even if it loses me money

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    Elon Musk: I will say what I think even if it loses me money Elon Musk defends his right to say inflammatory things on Twitter even if they lose him moneyIn an interview with CNBC, Musk says he will always be able to share what he has to say, even if it means losing money.…

  • Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Try a Little Advertising

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    Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Try a Little Advertising Elon Musk finally shows some interest in advertising, now that he owns Twitter. Tesla has long been a holdout on traditional advertising, and has found growth only through word of mouth. But now Musk seems to have discovered the importance of the advertising business, especially since…

  • Elon Musk urges employees to stop working from home

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    Elon Musk urges employees to stop working from home In an interview aired on CNBC, Elon Musk calls remote work “morally wrong” and “bullshit.” He argues that it is unfair to those workers who can’t work from home. Musk previously banned remote work at Twitter, a company he recently purchased. But after covid, Musk took…

  • Congress loves Big Tech — but it still seems optimistic about AI

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    Congress loves Big Tech — but it still seems optimistic about AI Instead of focusing on past mistakes, senators seemed eager to look forward to the benefits that could result from AI tech. Instead of an agency to regulate AI, they discussed the most, but lawmakers ran other ideas past Altman like making AI companies…

  • CNET Published AI-Generated Stories. Then Its Staff Edited Them

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    CNET Published AI-Generated Stories. Then Its Staff Edited Them CNET’s staff and screenwriters are represented by the Writers Guild of America, and they want studios to agree to prohibit AI authorship and to never ask writers to adapt AI-generated scripts. The tool that editors used also appeared to have plagiarized work from competing news outlets,…

  • Does Bard know how many ‘e’ letters appear in ‘ketchup’?

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    Does Bard know how many ‘e’ letters appear in ‘ketchup’? Here’s an experiment: Instead of trying to understand mayonnaise, I’ll try to understand language using Google’s Bard. First off, this is a silly experiment. Second, we don’t know how smart we are and how we think. Machine learning is awesome because it illustrates that engineers…

  • The Amazon executive in charge of Astro robot is moving on from the company

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    The Amazon executive in charge of Astro robot is moving on from the company Astro hasn’t yet become available for purchase, and now the executive who was responsible for its development has left the company. That executive, Ken Washington, Amazon’s VP of consumer robotics, is leaving the company to seek an external opportunity. According to…