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Why ChatGPT should be considered a malevolent AI – and be destroyed It not only told everyone I died but tried to fake my obit. Are we ready for this machine-driven future?

OFF-PREM Salesforce banks savings by sweating tech infrastructure for an extra year Revenue rocks, but boosting margins means five year old servers and four year old PCs 3 Comments

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ON-PREM Datacenters still a boys' club, staffing shortages may change that Fifth of server warehouse operators polled didn't employ a single female worker 7 Comments Arm co-founder: Britain's chip strat 'couldn’t be any worse' Lack of route to domestic semiconductor supply best of British stuffup, says Urquhart 25 Comments How many premium portable sales = HP CEO's 2022 compensation? 977 EliteBook x360 830 G6 Notebooks makes one Enrique Lores 4 Comments APNIC elections: Reform activists rejected, org welcomes stronger election protections Candidates supported by Morocco-backed group fail to win a single seat on Executive Council 1 Comments

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SECURITY Crappy insecure software in Biden's crosshairs Just-revealed US cybersecurity strategy 'has fangs' for catching crafty criminals and crummy coders 3 Comments CI/CD: Necessary for modern software development, yet it carries a lot of risk With great speed comes great insecurity 1 Comments Intruder alert: WH Smith hit by another cyber attack Less than a year after Funky Pigeon leaked data of greetings cards biz 12 Comments Forget ChatGPT, the most overhyped security tool is technology itself, Wiz warns Infosec also needs to widen its talent pool or miss out 11 Comments

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SOFTWARE At Citrix, 'perpetual licenses' means 'we'd rather move you to a subscription' Intros 'universal licenses' that can be deployed anywhere and include extra support sweeteners Why ChatGPT should be considered a malevolent AI – and be destroyed It not only told everyone I died but tried to fake my obit. Are we ready for this machine-driven future? 51 Comments If Tesla Investor Day was about exciting investors then boy did it fail No new cars, unanswered questions, and FSD goals still looming in distance may be why stock is tanking 16 Comments Linux Mint 21.2 and Cinnamon 5.8 desktop take shape Along with better integration for all three editions 9 Comments Now we're building computers from lab-grown brain cells Oi! Organoid Intelligence could be more data- and power-efficient than AI 17 Comments My God, it's full of tabs: Vivaldi's coolest new features shine on phones and cars Opera founder's outfit continues to push the browser functionality envelope 34 Comments Microsoft adds features to Windows 11 monthly – managing it is your problem 'Continuous innovation' means it's time to refine your WSUS skills unless you want users doing all sorts of weird stuff 50 Comments Amid the gloom of widespread layoffs, Fujitsu is hiring and acquiring Buys GK Software and intends to put 1,600 new people on staff – some of them oldies 6 Comments China's efforts to influence standards are mostly fake – and flopping But Carnegie Endowment worries a handful are real, and that the ITU is 'susceptible to manipulation' 11 Comments OpenAI opens ChatGPT floodgates with dirt-cheap API 'This has to be a loss-leader to lock out competitors' 13 Comments OFFBEAT Funnily enough, FDA forbids Elon Musk's Neuralink human experiments It's still coming soon ... just like it was in 2019, and 2020, and 2021, and 2022 5 Comments UK space faces cash freeze unless watchdogs step up 'Toxic' environment requires reboot to restore confidence following failed satellite launch 11 Comments Defense boffins take notes from sci-fi writers on the future of warfare Neat! Everything's gonna be just like Call of Duty! 16 Comments NASA finds crashing spacecraft into asteroids is a viable defence strategy Recoil from DART impact changed Dimorphos's orbit more than expected 34 Comments Find pushes back birth of Europe's steel hardware to about 3,000 years ago Iberians were using heavy metal on hard rock way before it was cool 36 Comments

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New Cryptojacking Campaign Leverages Misconfigured Redis Database Servers Misconfigured Redis database servers are the target of a novel cryptojacking campaign that leverages a legitimate and open source command-line file transfer service to implement its attack. "Underpinning this campaign was the use of transfer[.]sh," Cado Security said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "It's possible that it's an attempt at evading detections based on other common ... Read More

2023 Browser Security Report Uncovers Major Browsing Risks and Blind Spots As a primary working interface, the browser plays a significant role in today's corporate environment. The browser is constantly used by employees to access websites, SaaS applications and internal applications, from both managed and unmanaged devices. A new report published by LayerX, a browser security vendor, finds that attackers are exploiting this reality and are targeting it in ... Read More

Experts Identify Fully-Featured Info Stealer and Trojan in Python Package on PyPI A malicious Python package uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) has been found to contain a fully-featured information stealer and remote access trojan. The package, named colourfool, was identified by Kroll's Cyber Threat Intelligence team, with the company calling the malware Colour-Blind. "The 'Colour-Blind' malware points to the democratization of cybercrime that could lead to ... Read More

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Cybercriminals Targeting Law Firms with GootLoader and FakeUpdates Malware Six different law firms were targeted in January and February 2023 as part of two disparate threat campaigns distributing GootLoader and FakeUpdates (aka SocGholish) malware strains. GootLoader, active since late 2020, is a first-stage downloader that's capable of delivering a wide range of secondary payloads such as Cobalt Strike and ransomware. It notably employs search engine optimization ... Read More

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