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Cortana is no longer available on Windows 11 As previously announced, Microsoft is shutting down its Cortana app for Windows 11. The company also plans to end support for Cortana in Teams mobile, Microsoft Teams Display, and Microsoft Teams Rooms in the fall of 2023. However, Cortana will continue to be available in Outlook mobile.…

Google Slides is getting native support for notes Google is adding an annotation feature to its Slides presentation software that lets you doodle on your work while presenting it. Previously, you had to use Chrome extensions like Annotate and Web Paint to draw over your document in order to present it. With this new feature,…

15 Flaws Expose OT Environments to Remote Attacks in CODESYS SDK The company has released a set of vulnerabilities in its CODESYS software development kit that could lead to remote code execution and denial-of-service. The utility is designed to help operators gain control over their data and perform specific tasks. However, some of the vulnerabilities…

Elon Musk’s new round of X Ads Revenue payments arrived, eventually The Twitter Blue — pardon me, X Premium Ads Revenue Sharing Payouts that were supposed to roll out last week have been delivered, as the @Support account tweeted the news Monday night. Asked about the delay, X employee Eric Farraro said the late Friday…

CISA Adds Microsoft .NET Vulnerability to List of KEV Catalog Due to Active The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a flaw in Microsoft’s .NET and Visual Studio products to its list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The high-severity flaw relates to a case denial-of-service (DoS)…

Augie AI Clone: Letting You Make Videos Augie, an AI-powered video creation platform, has a new feature: voice cloning. With help from Eleven Labs, Aug X lets anyone record their own voice and then clone it to use in other short videos. Voice cloning is not new; Samsung even lets people use an AI voice…

Amazon is dropping dozens of brands you didn’t even know it owned The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon is slashing the number of private-label brands it offers on its marketplace. Previously, Amazon had offered more than 45 different private-brand brands. Today, it will offer only three in-house brands, including Amazon Essentials, Amazon Collection, and…

FEC considering limiting AI use in political ads After weeks of back and forth, the Federal Election Commission decides to maybe make rules regulating the use of AI-generated content in political ads. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying that lawmakers should quickly pass new rules regulating this industry and specifically…

AI data must be regulated, news outlets demand News organizations aren’t the only ones concerned about AI models training on copyrighted material. Several media organizations have written a letter calling for rules protecting copyright protections for data used to train generative AI models. They also want to make it easier for companies to negotiate with…

AI Generators Are Making Companies Even More Thirsty for Your Data The kerfuffle shows the lack of meaningful data protections at a time when the generative AI boom has made the tech industry even more hungry for data. And all manner of companies are currently looking to use the data they own, or that is…