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Sources: Alphabet cautions staff not to enter confidential info into chatbots, including Bard, or directly use AI-generated code, following Amazon and others — Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) is cautioning employees about how they use chatbots, including its own Bard, at the same time as it markets … | Mandiant: |
A look at Barracuda's Email Security Gateway zero-day, exploited by a China-linked actor since October 2022 to spy on governments, mostly in the Americas — On May 23, 2023, Barracuda announced that a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-2868) in the Barracuda Email Security Gateway (ESG) … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Valve releases a Steam update, announced in April, offering a big UI makeover, unifying the codebase for Desktop, Big Picture Mode, and Steam Deck, and more — While much of that has been available in beta, today's the day it goes wide with a full stable release. So if your Steam is looking rather different, that's why!
More: Steam on YouTube, Steam Community, PCWorld, Dexerto, AppleInsider, MobileSyrup, Destructoid, TechPowerUp, TechRadar, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Candid.Technology, Press Start, TweakTown, Techlusive, TechEBlog, Gamereactor UK, PC Gamer, Game Rant, Neowin, Kotaku, and Phoronix
Forums: r/gamernews and r/Games
| Matt Walsh / @mattwalshinbos: |
[Thread] After the SEC approved Prometheum's SPBD for digital assets, a look at CEO Aaron Kaplan's bizarre Congressional testimony and issues with the SPBD — This Prometheum storyline has got to be the strangest thing I have seen in awhile in this industry. Has anyone actually looked into this? Beyond bizarre...
More: Cointelegraph, Unchained Crypto, Inside Bitcoins, Watcher Guru, CoinGape, Bitcoinist.com, Cryptopolitan, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @alexandergrieve, @adamscochran, @rssh273, @collins_belton, @mattwalshinbos, @sgjohnsson, @luigygt, @cameron, @tyler, @cameron, @tyler, @mattwalshinbos, @ntmoney, @mattwalshinbos, @mayazi, @jchervinsky, @tayvano_, @panekkkk, @coinbureau, @dystopiabreaker, @mattwalshinbos, @mrjasonchoi, @mdudas, @danielsloeb1, @mattwalshinbos, @bitfinexed, and @adamscochran
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft researchers detail Cadet Blizzard, a GRU group they say was behind the WhisperGate data-wiping attacks in Ukraine just before Russia's 2022 invasion — Microsoft has linked a threat group it tracks as Cadet Blizzard since April 2023 to Russia's Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (also known as GRU).
More: Ars Technica, Microsoft Security Blog, Metacurity, The Hacker News, CyberScoop, Microsoft On the Issues, Security Affairs, C4ISRNET, International Business Times, Dark Reading, InfoRiskToday.com, SC Media, and SecurityWeek
LinkedIn: Jeremy Dallman. Tweets: @julianbarnes, @crispinburke, @bradsmi, @msftissues, @msftsecintel, @vasujakkal, and @securepeacock
Forums: r/InfoSecNews and Ars OpenForum
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft begins selling replacement Surface components via the Microsoft Store, including displays, batteries, and SSDs, for “out-of-warranty, self repair” — Microsoft is starting to sell replacement components for its Surface devices. The software giant now supplies replacement parts …
More: Windows Blog, The Register, PCWorld, PCMag, Club386, WinBuzzer, OnMSFT.com, Digital Trends, BetaNews, Ars Technica, TechPowerUp, BigTechWire, Thurrott, Windows Central, and Neowin
LinkedIn: Cory Ebert. Mastodon: @kevin_hardiman@mastodon …. Tweets: @hoorge and @repaircoalition. Forums: Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
Sources: at a May meeting, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority questioned HSBC, Standard Chartered, and Bank of China on why they were not accepting crypto clients — Regulators are pushing for banks to accept more exchanges as clients in quest to develop digital assets industry
More: CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Fortune, Cryptopolitan, The Block, Blockworks, Coinspeaker, Coinpedia Fintech News, crypto.news, Watcher Guru, CryptoSlate, CoinGape, Forkast, and Reuters
LinkedIn: James Lloyd. Tweets: @nic__carter, @coinbureau, @iamashchild, @degenspartan, @parrotcapital, @kayewiggins, @benjaminqiu, @joonian, @nischalshetty, and @financialtimes
| Chris Vallance / BBC: |
Meta AI's Yann LeCun says experts' fears of AI threatening humanity are “preposterously ridiculous” and keeping research “under lock and key” would be a mistake — One of the three “godfathers of AI” has said it won't take over the world or permanently destroy jobs.
More: CNBC, Insider, Digital Trends, The Times, Fortune, and BBC
Tweets: @hpc_guru, @rajeshbahn, and @ylecun
| Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: |
Intel announces a chip naming refresh: dropping the “i”, opting for a straightforward Core 3, 5, and 7 structure, and placing premium chips under an Ultra brand — As first hinted at by Intel back in late April, Intel is embarking on a journey to redefine its client processor branding … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Despite the US adding Hangzhou-based encryption chip maker Hualan to its Entity List in 2021, NASA, NATO, the DEA, and more still use chips from its subsidiary — The US government warns encryption chipmaker Hualan has suspicious ties to China's military. Yet US agencies still use … | Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber plans to add video ads to its main app, Uber Eats, and alcohol app Drizly, starting in the US; 345K merchants bought Uber ads in Q1, up from 315K in Q4 — The company, which sees ad sales as a key growth area, will debut long-form videos on Uber Eats, Drizly and its ride-hailing app
More: Engadget, Beet.TV, iMore, and Supercharged
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
In a case study, researchers estimate that between 33% and 46% of Mechanical Turk workers used LLMs when completing a text summarization task — File this one under inevitable, but hilarious. Mechanical Turk is a service that from its earliest days seemed to invite shenanigans …
More: arXiv.org and The Decoder
Tweets: @manoelribeiro, @jeremybowers, @noamchompers, @emollick, @maggiekb1, @rdbinns, @atabarrok, @perttu_h, @veredshwartz, @rstephens, and @noahpinion. Forums: Hacker News
| Christina Warren / Inverse: |
A look at Apple's Game Porting Toolkit, based on a 20K line of code patch to Wine, easing ports to Apple silicon, and possible paths Apple may take with gaming — At WWDC last week, most of the focus was rightfully on the new Apple Vision Pro headset and the new visionOS.
More: HotHardware, Forbes, The Verge, Macworld, Six Colors, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @film_girl, @krzyzanowskim, and @raywongy
| Nick Perry / Associated Press: |
New Zealand sentences two men who ran the wildly popular pirating website Megaupload to more than two years in prison, ending an 11-year extradition battle — Two men who helped run the once wildly popular pirating website Megaupload were each sentenced by a New Zealand court on Thursday to more than two years in prison.
More: Bloomberg, Gizmodo, NZ Herald, Dexerto, Reuters, Stuff.co.nz, TorrentFreak, NZ Herald, and RNZ
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Some hackers are impersonating cybersecurity researchers on Twitter and GitHub to post fake zero-day proof-of-concept exploits that push Windows/Linux malware — Hackers are impersonating cybersecurity researchers on Twitter and GitHub to publish fake proof-of-concept exploits for zero …
More: VulnCheck, TechRadar, SecurityWeek, SC Media, CSO, Tech Monitor, Infosecurity, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @alvierid, @jgamblin, @seanwrightsec, and @vulncheckai
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Russia-linked ransomware gang Clop releases its first batch of victims, targeted via the MOVEit Transfer tool since May, including US banks and universities — Researchers say the newly discovered security flaw was exploited as far back as 2021 — Clop, the ransomware gang responsible …
More: The Record, Bloomberg, ComputerWeekly.com, and Cybersecurity Dive
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Applied Materials sues Chinese-owned, California-based rival Mattson over an alleged 14-month effort to steal IP, including staff-poaching and design transfers — Applied Materials Inc. is suing a Chinese-owned rival over what it says was a 14-month effort to steal some of its most valuable secrets …
Tweets: @byron_wan
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google Shopping gets a virtual try-on clothing feature that uses a diffusion-based generative AI model, letting US users see how items look on many human models — Google, ever eager to lean into generative AI, is launching a new shopping feature that shows clothes on a lineup of real-life fashion models.
More: The Keyword, Wired, Insider, Bloomberg, The Verge, BGR, Gizmodo, Pocketnow, Search Engine Roundtable, PhoneArena, Neowin, Android Central, TechEBlog, PetaPixel, and Fast Company
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
More: The Keyword, TechCrunch, The Verge, Livemint, TechRadar, Search Engine Roundtable, Techlusive, Laptop Mag, Sammy Fans, CNET, PetaPixel, PhoneArena, Android Central, Droid Life, Chrome Unboxed, BigTechWire, Mashable, BGR, and Engadget
Tweets: @marie_haynes and @arlenechung
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Epic releases MetaHuman Animator, which lets Unreal Engine users capture a performance with an iPhone and apply it to a MetaHuman character in “minutes” — Today, Epic is releasing a new tool designed to capture an actor's facial performance using a device as simple as an iPhone …
More: VentureBeat and Unreal Engine
| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
Sources: European Commission is planning to ban equipment from Huawei and ZTE from its own internal telecom networks, ahead of an update to its 5G guidance — The European Commission is planning to ban equipment from Chinese vendors Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. from its own internal …
More: Politico, PhoneArena, DigiTimes, DatacenterDynamics, and TechRadar
| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches its “Hey Disney!” voice command for Alexa in the US, featuring over 20 characters, the first example of an Alexa Custom Assistant — Amazon and Disney announced Thursday that “Hey Disney!,” the new voice assistant built on Alexa technology, is officially available … Sponsor Posts
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