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Google’s San Jose Campus on Hold Google has halted construction on its “Downtown West” campus in San Jose, California, which was slated to become 7.3 million square feet of offices, 4,000 housing units and 15 acres of parks. The project had the potential to be worth $19 billion and create 20,000 jobs. Google is currently…

Elon Musk’s net worth falls by $12.6 billion after wild Elon Musk lost $12.6 billion in net worth on Thursday, largely due to Tesla’s disappointing first quarter results and 9.8 percent drop in share price. SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft also experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly during its first test flight, and Musk removed blue checkmarks from…

Kubernetes RBAC Exploited to Mine Cryptocurrency in Large-Clusters A malicious attack campaign has been discovered exploiting Kubernetes (K8s) Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to create backdoors, run cryptocurrency miners, and steal data. The attack chain starts with the attacker gaining initial access via a misconfigured API server and then using RBAC to set up persistence. The…

Google’s Bard AI chatbot can now help you code functions for Google She Google is updating its AI chatbot, Bard, to help developers write and debug code. Bard can generate code, debug existing code, explain lines of code, and even write functions for Google Sheets in over 20 programming languages. However, Bard may provide inaccurate…

Elon Musk removes labels from Twitter accounts after outlets flee the platform Twitter has removed the “government-funded” and “state-affiliated” labels from its platform, which led several news outlets to stop tweeting. This change came after a “suggestion” from Walter Isaacson, the author of Elon Musk’s upcoming biography. NPR, PBS, CBC, and BBC, who publicly criticized…

After ChatGPT Takes Your Job, Who Will You Be? A professional editor recently experienced first-hand the potential of large language models to automate certain jobs. This new AI capability has the potential to affect higher-paid and creative jobs disproportionately, with white-collar workers in particular being particularly vulnerable. This wave of automation is different from past…

14 Kubernetes and Cloud Security: Challenges and Solutions Andrew Martin, the founder and CEO of ControlPlane, recently released a report predicting the future of Kubernetes and cloud security. In response, Uptycs, a unified CNAPP and XDR platform, released a whitepaper with 14 Kubernetes and Cloud Security Predictions for 2023 and strategies for addressing these challenges.…

GhostToken Flaw Could Let Attackers Hide Malicious Apps on Google Cloud Platform Google recently patched a zero-day vulnerability called GhostToken that enabled attackers to hide malicious applications in a victim’s Google account, making them unable to revoke its access. The flaw allowed a threat actor to gain permanent access to the victim’s data, such as…

11 Tips to Do More With Google Bard Google’s Bard is a large language model chatbot that can be used to generate ideas, write poems, give travel advice, and more. To get the most out of it, users can provide Bard with information to work with, ask it to develop or refine ideas, compare articles…

Elon Musk Gives LeBron James a Twitter Checkmark Twitter is offering a complimentary subscription to its new service, Twitter Blue, to celebrities such as LeBron James and Stephen King, who have previously refused to pay for the service. Elon Musk is paying for a few of these subscriptions, including those of James, King, and William…