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Chatbot features for Amazon’s Astro home robot As a smart home reviewer of a certain age, I have always wanted a Rosie the robot. The Jetsons’ mechanical housekeeper was the example I held Amazon’s Astro to when I tested the company’s first home robot — and it unsurprisingly failed. Now, according to internal documents from…

Critical PaperCut Vulnerability Threatens Education Sector The U.S. government has warned of attacks carried out by a threat actor called the Bl00dy Ransomware Gang that attempt to exploit vulnerable PaperCut servers. The agencies say the gang left ransom notes on victim systems demanding payment in exchange for decryption of encrypted files. The disclosure comes as…

Secure Collaboration Challenges: Solving Your Teams In today’s interconnected world, where organisations regularly exchange sensitive information with customers, partners and employees, secure collaboration has become increasingly vital. The risks of not protecting your sensitive data can be disastrous. How to protect it can be as disastrous as data breaches and reputational damage from data theft.…

BPFDoor: A Stealthy Variant of Linux Backdoor Deep Instinct has spotted a previously undocumented and mostly undetected variant of a Linux backdoor called BPFDoor. The malware remains an extremely stealthy and difficult to detect malware with this latest iteration, the company says. BPFDoor gets its name from the use of Berkeley Packet Filters (BPF) –…

Netgear Routers’ Flaws Expose Users to Malware, Remote Attacks, Five security flaws have been disclosed in Netgear RAX30 routers that could be chained to bypass authentication and achieve remote code execution. These vulnerabilities could allow attackers to monitor users’ internet activity, hijack their internet connection, redirect traffic to malicious websites, and inject malware into their…

iFlytek launches Spark, a new AI model that can generate realistic language. iFlytek, a Chinese AI company, has announced the launch of its new natural language processing (NLP) model, iFLY-GEN. It’s designed to outperform OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model and it’s based on a new NLP algorithm developed by the company’s research team. iFlytek’s NLP model…

Elvis Director Baz Luhrmann Thinks AI Won’t Conquer Movies This is a very short scene. It shows Baz Luhrmann, an Australian writer, director, and producer talking to a robot. He asks the robot, Ai-Da, if he enjoyed the music of Elvis. Apparently everyone is dealing with the question of how to deal with artificial intelligence…

Are you underestimating AI chatbots? In the spring of 2007, Jim was one of four journalists anointed by Steve Jobs to review the iPhone. Looking back on his review today, I am relieved to say it’s not an embarrassment: I recognized the device’s generational significance. I am reminded of my failure of foresight when reading…

Google now wants you to focus on the featured snippets Google is now focusing on On Wednesday, Google introduced a major overhaul of its search results page that infuses the screen with artificial intelligence. The new version pushes the rest of Google’s links far down the page and away from the screen. This ecosystem relies…

Ruckus Wireless Flaw Used in Widespread Attack via Andoryu Botnet Andoryu, a botnet that attempts to use a flaw in the Ruckus wireless admin panel to gain access to devices, has been found. Andoryu was first discovered by Chinese cybersecurity firm QiAnXin. It uses DDoS attack modules for different protocols and communicates with its command-and-control…