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Google will soon offer prewritten texts people in crisis can use to ask for help Google will soon start displaying pre-written text messages that appear when people search for suicide-related terms. The messages are supposed to help people start a difficult conversation during a mental health crisis and were created in partnership with the International…

Amazon is building a search experience that uses AI to communicate with users. Amazon is pitching these changes to search as a once in a generation transformation for Search, just like the Mosaic browser made the Internet easier to engage with three decades ago. And just last week, Google showed how its new AI-powered Search…

AI can now create covers for books that look strikingly similar to covers of bestsellers A novel by a British publisher, Maas, has a cover that was generated with artificial intelligence, sparking complaints from artists and book enthusiasts. The Verge reports: The move has led to criticism of both Maas and Bloomsbury Publishing, one of…

Apple’s App Store went down for a brief moment. On Monday there were reports of problems with the App Store, but things seem to have finally been resolved. Apple pulls in between $70 and $85 billion per year in commissions from developers, so this could be a very significant loss for the company. Interestingly, staffers…

Elon Musk is stuck with his ‘Twitter sitter’ after court rejects Elon Musk’s so-called Twitter sitter is here to stay. The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled that Musk did not violate the terms of the consent decree when he sent out his tweets. No one has stepped forward to replace him,…

Ring co-founder is officially leaving Amazon I have had an incredible 10 years at Ring, and five years with Amazon. What started as a weekend project to allow me to see who was at my door while working from my garage has become a household name brand at one of the world’s most innovative companies.…

Amazon is working on a Lord of the Rings MMO Amazon is taking another stab at making a massively multiplayer Lord of the Rings game. This one’s coming to PC and consoles, according to Amazon. It’s called The Rings of Power and it will be the company’s second attempt at an MMO. And while Amazon…

Ubiquiti Engineer Gets 6 Years in Jail for $2 Million Crypto Extortion Case A former employee of Ubiquiti is sentenced to six years in prison and $2 million in cryptocurrency theft. He pleaded guilty to posing as an anonymous hacker and whistleblower in an attempt to extort money from the company. The fabricated security breach…

Cryptocurrency Mining and Ransomware Targets MS SQL Servers with CLR S Asec, a cybersecurity firm, discovers a new type of malware designed to exploit poorly managed Microsoft SQL servers. The malware uses a technique called CLR stored procedure to install malware on them using the xp_cmdshell command. This new piece of code allows attackers to…

Ransomware-as-a-Service targeting Linux and VMware ESXi systems being A new ransomware-as-service operation called MichaelKors has become the latest file-encrypting malware to target Linux and VMware ESXi systems as of April 2023. The malware uses a technique known as hypervisor jackpotting. Other notable e-crime outfits that have updated their arsenal to target ESXi consist of ALPHV,…