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Twitter scammer sentenced to 5 years in prison for $120,000 crypto theft The Twitter breach allowed O’Connor and his co-conspirators to obtain unauthorized access to the backend tools used by Twitter. They then proceeded to hijack 130 popular accounts to perpetrate a crypto scam that netted them about $120,000 in illegal profits. In addition, they…

U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Adds 6 More Flaws to Catalog of Known Expl Kaspersky reports that the U.S. government has added six new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. This includes three vulnerabilities that Apple patched this week, two flaws in VMware, and one shortcoming affecting Zyxel devices. The…

Meet MeLoDy: A model for music synthesis that is efficient and text- MeLoDy, an efficient LM-guided diffusion model that generates music audios of state-of-the-art quality, is presented. The authors propose a new type of generative model based on the dual-path diffusion (DPD) process instead of the classic diffusion process. This was the summary of Me…

Google is Launching Its Perspectives Search Feed That’s Designed to Show Results On Friday, Google rolls out a new search feature called Perspectives. It’s supposed to be able to show you different perspectives in your search results. So far, it’s been pretty decent. The company describes the results in a blog post. Compared to other…

After hearing that Starfield would be exclusive to PlayStation, Microsoft acquired Bethesda. At the FTC v. Microsoft hearing today, Phil Spencer revealed that Sony regularly pays competitors to skip our platform, and Microsoft felt it needed to own Bethesda to compete. Microsoft’s Xbox chief has revealed one of the reasons for the acquisition of ZeniMax:…

Cybercrime Group Targets BPO Sector with Advanced Social Engineering A new threat actor named Muddled Libra is terrorizing the BPO industry with persistent attacks that leverage advanced social engineering ploys to gain initial access. According to the threat researchers at Unit 42, this includes using the 0ktapus phishing kit but does not rely on it…

How to get the best deals during Amazon Prime Day Slickdeals will be aggregating the best deals across the internet for Prime Day. We’ll be covering all of the major retailers including Walmart, Best Buy, and other competing ones. If you’re lucky enough to have been selected as a Prime Day shopper, Amazon will notify…

Sony opened the FTC hearing with a Microsoft bombshell The FTC v. Microsoft hearing kicked off today as I expected. The FTC is concerned about Microsoft making Activision games, including Call of Duty, exclusive to Xbox in the future. No effing way The FTC quickly moved on and called Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game…

A study on the impact of anonymization for training computer vision models with a focus on This paper investigates the effect of anonymization on training computer vision models using autonomous vehicle datasets. It uses a combination of real-time and predicted results to assess the effects of anonymizing datasets and improving data quality. Realistic anonymization performed…

The Strangely Hopeful Marvel’s Secret Invasion AI Scandal The opening credits of Marvel’s new show, Secret Invasion, are a little strange. That’s because the show’s executive producer, Ali Selim, wanted to make something that would reflect the theme of aliens living among us, which is basically an aliens versus. And since aliens are hiding in…