News in the Technology category

Z-Library now has secret “personal domains” for each user

The controversial Z-Library online eBook repository has once again returned to the web, this time with secret user URLs that attempt to hinder disruption by law enforcement.
- Lawrence Abrams
- February 13, 2023
- 04:11 PM
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Bermuda hit by major internet and power outage

Bermuda experienced a widespread power outage on Friday which impacted the island's internet and phone services. Calling it a "serious incident" at BELCO, the Bermudian power supplier, the government has advised customers to "unplug all sensitive electrical equipment" as crews work around the clock on restoration efforts.
- Ax Sharma
- February 03, 2023
- 11:27 PM
- 0
OpenAI releases tool to detect AI-written text

OpenAI has released an AI text classifier that attempts to detect whether input content was generated using artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT.
- Lawrence Abrams
- January 31, 2023
- 02:57 PM
- 0
Bank of America starts restoring missing Zelle transactions

Bank of America has started to restore missing Zelle transactions that suddenly disappeared from customers' bank accounts this morning, causing some to dip into negative balances.
- Lawrence Abrams
- January 18, 2023
- 03:06 PM
- 0
Android TV box on Amazon came pre-installed with malware

A Canadian system administrator discovered that an Android TV box purchased from Amazon was pre-loaded with persistent, sophisticated malware baked into its firmware.
- Bill Toulas
- January 12, 2023
- 03:41 PM
- 1
Trojan Puzzle attack trains AI assistants into suggesting malicious code

Researchers at the universities of California, Virginia, and Microsoft have devised a new poisoning attack that could trick AI-based coding assistants into suggesting dangerous code.
- Bill Toulas
- January 10, 2023
- 03:20 PM
- 0
Amazon S3 will now encrypt all new data with AES-256 by default

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) will now automatically encrypt all new objects added on buckets on the server side, using AES-256 by default.
- Bill Toulas
- January 06, 2023
- 11:32 AM
- 0
France fines Apple for targeted App Store ads without consent

France's data protection authority (CNIL) has fined Apple €8,000,000 ($8.5M) for collecting user data for targeted advertising on the App Store without requesting or securing the user's consent.
- Bill Toulas
- January 05, 2023
- 01:52 PM
- 0
ChatGPT banned in NYC schools over learning impact concerns

The NYC Department of Education has banned the use of ChatGPT by students and teachers in New York City schools as there are serious concerns about its use hampering learning and leading to misinformation.
- Bill Toulas
- January 05, 2023
- 01:14 PM
- 2
200 million Twitter users' email addresses allegedly leaked online

A data leak described as containing email addresses for over 200 million Twitter users has been published on a popular hacker forum for about $2. BleepingComputer has confirmed the validity of many of the email addresses listed in the leak.
- Lawrence Abrams
- January 04, 2023
- 03:16 PM
- 0
BleepingComputer's most popular technology stories of 2022

2022 is over, and it's been filled with a wide assortment of stories ranging from the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine to the many bugs introduced by Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for Windows.
- Lawrence Abrams
- January 02, 2023
- 11:07 AM
- 0
OpenAI's new ChatGPT bot: 10 dangerous things it's capable of

OpenAI's newly unveiled ChatGPT bot is making waves when it comes to all the amazing things it can do—from writing music to coding to generating vulnerability exploits, and what not. As the erudite machinery turns into a viral sensation, humans have started to discover some of the AI's biases, like the desire to wipe out humanity.
- Ax Sharma
- December 06, 2022
- 07:23 AM
- 4
OpenAI's new ChatGPT bot: 10 coolest things you can do with it

From precisely spotting security vulnerabilities in your code, to writing an entire block of functional code on a whim, to opening portals to another dimension, OpenAI's newly launched ChatGPT is a game changer with its possibilities seeming limited only by your limitedness.
- Ax Sharma
- December 05, 2022
- 03:42 AM
- 4
Open source software host Fosshost shutting down as CEO unreachable

Open source software hosting provider Fosshost will no longer be providing services as it reaches end of life. Fosshost project volunteers announced the development this weekend following months of difficulties in reaching the leadership including the CEO.
- Ax Sharma
- December 04, 2022
- 02:02 AM
- 5
Rackspace: Ongoing Exchange outage caused by security incident

American cloud computing services provider Rackspace says an ongoing outage affecting its hosted Microsoft Exchange environments and likely thousands of customers was caused by a security incident.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- December 02, 2022
- 04:15 PM
- 2
Brave starts showing "privacy-preserving" ads in search results

Brave Software announced that, as part of a global beta program, it is now displaying "privacy-preserving ads" in-between results shown by its web search engine to select users.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- December 01, 2022
- 01:24 PM
- 1
Cloudflare raises monthly plan prices for the first time

Cloudflare announced today that they are raising prices for their Pro and Business plans for the first time since they launched in 2017.
- Lawrence Abrams
- November 30, 2022
- 12:52 PM
- 0
Donald Trump returns to Twitter after Elon Musk's poll

In a surprising move, Twitter has lifted the "permanent suspension" of former U.S. President Donald Trump's account. The move follows a Twitter poll ran by Elon Musk that asked users whether to reinstate Trump's account—the majority of 15 million respondents answered affirmatively.
- Ax Sharma
- November 20, 2022
- 03:43 AM
- 14
Okta shares fix for issue impacting Microsoft 365 SSO logins

Okta, a leading provider of authentication services, has shared a workaround for ongoing issues preventing customers to log into their accounts using Microsoft Office 365 Single Sign-On.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 16, 2022
- 10:10 AM
- 0
Police dismantle pirated TV streaming network with 500,000 users

The Spanish police have dismantled a network of pirated streaming sites that illegally distributed content from 2,600 TV channels and 23,000 movies and series to roughly 500,000 users.
- Bill Toulas
- November 16, 2022
- 09:55 AM
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