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Michael Schumacher’s family plans legal action after fake AI interview The family of Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher is taking legal action against Die Aktuelle, a German tabloid magazine, for publishing an AI-generated “interview” with Schumacher. The magazine misled readers by suggesting the piece was an authentic interview with the record-breaking racer, who has not…

Meta urged to investigate how it contributes to amplifying misinformation The Meta Oversight Board, an independent panel selected by the social media giant to deliberate its content decisions, has released a report that supports the company’s content moderation actions taken during the height of the Covid pandemic. The board is recommending changes to Meta’s misinformation…

ChatGPT’s Security and How Security Teams Can Improve It ChatGPT and other generative AI platforms have gained the reputation of ultimate productivity boosters, but they can also be a data leakage channel. A recent incident with Samsung software engineers pasting proprietary code into ChatGPT demonstrates this security challenge. Data Leak Prevention (DLP) solutions are not…

Fortra sheds light on how ransomware attackers are using a zero-day exploit in Go Fortra, the company behind Cobalt Strike, recently discovered a zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in its GoAnywhere MFT tool. The vulnerability was actively exploited by ransomware actors to steal sensitive data and was patched in February 2023. The ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS)…

Daggerfly Cyberattack Hits Telecom Services Providers in Africa A China-linked threat actor has been targeting telecoms providers in Africa since November 2022, using the MgBot malware framework and other tools such as PlugX, AnyDesk, and KsRemote. The threat actor has been conducting espionage activities since 2014, using spear-phishing and living-off-the-land tools to deliver payloads. The…

What is AGI, and why are AI experts skeptical? Professor Vishal Misra from Columbia University is an avid cricket and computer science fan. He co-founded Cricinfo, a website for sports fans to stay updated on match statistics, now part of ESPN. In 2021, he developed a search tool using GPT-3 that allows cricket fans to…

NSO Group Used 3 iPhone Exploits Against Human Rights Defenders NSO Group, a spyware maker, deployed at least three exploits against iPhones in 2022 to infiltrate Apple defenses and deploy Pegasus, a sophisticated cyber weapon used to extract sensitive information from a device. It is typically used for law enforcement but has been illegally used…

Remove Your Limits: This AI Approach Uses Diffusion Models to Enable Open-Voc Object segmentation is an important problem in computer vision, with applications in autonomous driving, surveillance and robotics. Recent advancements in deep learning have made it easier to solve, but challenging scenarios remain. ODISE is the first work to explore large-scale text-to-image diffusion models…

Elon Musk announces Tesla Cybertruck delivery event in third quarter of 2021 Tesla is set to deliver their long-awaited Cybertruck in the third quarter of 2023. Production is expected to begin this summer, but volume production won’t start until next year. Elon Musk noted that the Cybertruck is an incredible product due to its unique…

Voicemod, the real-time voice changing app, is now available on Voicemod, a voice changer and soundboard app, is now available on macOS. It is designed to give users the confidence to express themselves and create fun character impersonations with more than 100 voice options and enhancements. It also has a soundboard feature that allows users…