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Elon Musk Promises to Stop Letting You Block Users Elon Musk says the block feature is on the chopping block for Twitter, repeating his long-standing gripe against the basic social networking feature. “Block is going to be deleted as a feature, except for DMs,” he writes in a reply to an X reply on Friday.…

Iowa School District Uses ChatGPT to Ban Books Using ChatGPT’s guidance, the Mason City Community School District removed 19 titles, including Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Toni Morrison’s Beloved from its library shelves. For bookworms, this story is bad news. It turns out that using chatGPT to help remove library books can be blood…

Nearly 2,000 Citrix NetScaler instances exploited via critical vulnerability Nearly 2,000 Citrix NetScaler instances have been compromised with a backdoor by weaponizing a recently disclosed critical security vulnerability. Citrix explains that CVE-2023-3519 refers to a critical code injection vulnerability. It allows attackers to gain remote code execution. In total, 2,491 web shells have been found…

iOS 17: Apple moves the end call button again In the latest iOS 17 developer beta, Apple has moved the end call button once again. It now lives in the lower middle of the call screen instead of on the lower right. This change comes after some publications reported that the button was tilting to…

Amazon Music Unlimited is raising the prices of its subscription plans for Prime members Another price hike is coming to Amazon.com. This one affects Prime members who pay for the music service and Amazon’s Prime subscription. The cost of Amazon Music Unlimited’s individual plan will go up from $8.99 to $9.99 per month, according to…

OpenAI is working on GPT-4 to help with the content moderation dilemma. OpenAI is convinced that its technology can help solve one of tech’s hardest problems, content moderation at scale. In a blog post, OpenAI explains how it has already been using GPT-4 for developing and refining its own content policies, labeling content, and making…

ChatGPT is being used by an Iowa school district to decide which books to ban The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou are among the books pulled from the school library in Iowa because they contain a description or…

Cybercriminals abusing Cloudflare for hosting phishing pages, experts warn Threat actors are using Cloudflare R2 to host phishing pages. According to analytics firm Netskope, there’s been a 61-fold increase in the amount of time that Phishing sites have been hosted on Cloudflrange R2 over the past six months. Why is this happening? Because the referring…

Multiple Flaws Expose ATMs to Remote Hacking An unsigned user could gain access to a file outside the server’s webroot. This vulnerability has a CVE-2023-35189 remote code execution vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated user to upload a malicious payload and execute it. An unsigned user can also decrypt passwords into plaintext using a cryptographic…

Google Photos adds AI to help name your photo collections Google is adding a new Memories tab to its Photos app to add a dedicated place for auto-generated collections of pictures. It also adds new generative AI titling features that can help you name your photo collections, too. These Google- generated collections have shown up…