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What Hollywood Really Fears About Generative AI Hindustdale says that the future of Hollywood looks a lot like Deepfake Ryan Reynolds selling you a Tesla. Which it did: the Tesla CEO replied to Paffrath’s tweet with a nice . Elsewhere on Twitter, people beseeched Reynolds to sue. And actors, in turn, are becoming increasingly aware…

The Founders of Instagram’s New News App Are Actually Making a Play With AI The next day, Nokto unveils a new feature for its news app: It can now use artificial intelligence to rewrite headlines that have been flagged as misleading. This makes it possible because Systrom and Krieger have invested so heavily in the…

Microsoft Paint finally gets a dark mode in Windows 10 Microsoft has finally started testing a dark mode for the Paint app in Windows 11. It was first teased two years ago, and now it’s being tested in both the Canary and Dev Channels for Windows Insiders. Other improvements to Paint include updated dialogs that…

Some Canadians will test blocking news ahead of a new law In response to the Canadian government’s new Online News Act, Meta Canada announces that it will test blocking news content in Canada. The tests will begin immediately and will become permanent if the legislation passes. Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez told Reuters that the…

Don’t judge Apple’s VR headset prematurely After seven years of development, Apple is reportedly set to unveil the Reality Pro, a $3,000 headset that aims to serve a variety of productivity uses. But sales estimates suggest that the response to features like virtual desktops and VR conference rooms has been anemic. Neither will the day…

ChatGPT is a trademark of iHeartMedia, and employees are not authorized to ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools like chatbot have been banned by iHeartMedia for the same reason: They could leak proprietary information. According to an internal memo obtained by Hot Pod, Pittman and Bressler sent an email yesterday to company employees instructing them…

WordPress Update Fixes Critical Jetpack Plugin Flaw on Millions of Sites WordPress has issued an automatic update to address a critical flaw in the Jetpack plugin that’s installed on over five million sites. This vulnerability could be used by authors on a site to manipulate any files in the WordPress installation, Jetpack said in an…

Zyxel Devices Being Exploited by Active Mirai Botnet Variant for D Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 has detailed a new wave of IoT-enabled DDoS attacks being committed by a botnet variant called IZ1H9 since April 2023. The intrusions leverage remote code execution flaws in internet-exposed IoT devices, including Zyxel to ensnare them into a network…

N. Korean ScarCruft Hackers Exploit LNK Files to Spread Rok ScarCruft, active since at least 2012, is a cyber espionage group that operates on behalf of the North Korean government. The group is believed to be a subordinate element within North Korea’s Ministry of State Security. Attack chains mounted by the group have leaned heavily…

BlackCat Ransomware Strikes Quickly and Stealthily The threat actors behind the BlackCat ransomware have come up with an improved variant that prioritizes speed and stealth. This new strain of the ransomware, also called Alphav and Noberus, is the first Rust-language-based ransomware strain spotted in the wild. It also shares overlaps with the now-defunct Black Matter…