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Activision Blizzard acquisition by Microsoft approved by EU regulators The European Commission has approved the $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard just weeks after British regulators blocked the deal. The deal can pass thanks to Microsoft’s commitments related to cloud gaming. Microsoft signed deals with several companies, including Boosteroid, Ubitus, and Nvidia, to allow…

Researchers uncover powerful backdoor and custom implant in year-long cyber campaign This new version of the rootkit used by Lancefly appears to be smaller in size, while it also has additional functions and targets additional antivirus software to disable. The ultimate goal of the campaign, based on the tools and the victimology pattern, is assessed…

Why High Tech Companies Struggle to Secure SaaS Still, the breach should serve as a warning sign to other tech companies that they should take SaaS security seriously. Securing High Tech’s SaaSS infrastructure is challenging for high-tech companies, who may mistakenly believe they are equipped and well trained to prevent SAS attacks. Perhaps it is…

New ransomware gang RA Group hits U.S. and South Korean organizations A new ransomware group called the RA Group has become the latest ransomware actor to leverage the leaked Babuk ransomware source code to create its own variant. The RA Group uses customized ransom notes, including the victim’s name and a unique link to download…

11 Vulnerabilities in Industrial Cellular Routers Expose OT Networks Several security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the cloud-based management solutions offered by Sierra Wireless, Teltonika Networks, and InHand Networks that could expose operational technology (OT) networks to external attacks. The 11 vulnerabilities allow remote code execution and full control over hundreds of thousands of devices…

The AI Sculptor No One Expected: TextMesh is an AI Model That With each passing day, AI models continue to advance in their capabilities. For example, we have seen AI models that can generate photorealistic 2D images from text prompts. But what if we want to create 3D content? Can an AI model be trained…

The disappearance of Google Assistant But hardly a word was said about Google Assistant, the company’s previous AI champion. Maybe they’ve gotten caught flat-footed by ChatGPT, and just hasn’t had time to properly integrate Bard-style fluency into the older Google Assistant. Google Assistant has 700 million monthly users today, Hutchison says, while Bard is an…

Penguins Outnumber Europeans in Ability to Use Google Bard Although Google already offers chatbots in more countries than the U.S., many Europeans still don’t have access to them. For example, none of them can get access to its chatbot, Bard, which is available in Finland, the Åland Islands, an autonomous region of Finland, as well…

A Plundering AI Caught Red-Handed in a Sex Trope ChatGPT is an example of a generative AI that can make art, write books, and compose poetry . But what if there were a sex trope in fanfiction? That would be one way to tell whether ChatGPT was trained on fanfiction. The trope in question is…

Google’s AI tools embrace the dream of the helpful paper clip Google showed off some of its new artificial intelligence tools at its developer conference. One of them was Duet, which it calls “Duet AI for Google Workspace.” It includes a collection of AI-infused tools such as Gmail, Docs, Slides, Sheets, etc. The company claims…