Jewish parents told to delete social media apps
Some schools have suggested parents delete apps such as TikTok and Instagram due to the violent content circulating....
Announcing SteerLM: A Simple and Practical Technique to Customize LLMs During Inference
With the advent of large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3, Megatron-Turing, Chinchilla, PaLM-2, Falcon, and Llama 2,...
Box unveils new AI-powered content portal Box Hubs
Cloud content-management company Box has unveiled Box Hubs — AI-powered intelligent portals designed to make it easy to...
California’s Apple-backed Right to Repair Act is the future of tech
Apple surprised us all when it pivoted to support California’s Right to Repair Act, which was signed into...
Over 17,000 WordPress Sites Compromised by Balada Injector in September 2023
More than 17,000 WordPress websites have been compromised in the month of September 2023 with malware known as Balada...
U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Warns of Actively Exploited Adobe Acrobat Reader Vulnerability
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a high-severity flaw in Adobe Acrobat Reader to its...
Take an Offensive Approach to Password Security by Continuously Monitoring for Breached Passwords
Passwords are at the core of securing access to an organization’s data. However, they also come with security...
Log Management Planning Guide: Draft SP 800-92r1 Available for Comment
NIST has released the initial public draft of Special Publication (SP) 800-92r1 (Revision 1), Cybersecurity Log Management Planning...
Selection Committee Announces Leaders to Operate the CHIPS for America National Semiconductor Technology Center
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, an independent selection committee announced the incoming board of trustees that is expected to...
AMD to acquire Nod.ai to boost open source AI software capabilities
The acquisition is expected to help AMD compete better against chipmaker Nvidia. Source:: Computerworld
Google used Microsoft’s monopoly playbook to crush Bing — now Microsoft cries foul
The US Department of Justice’s antitrust suit against Google has a familiar ring to those who remember a...
Microsoft Releases October 2023 Patches for 103 Flaws, Including 2 Active Exploits
Microsoft has released its Patch Tuesday updates for October 2023, addressing a total of 103 flaws in its software, two...
Microsoft Warns of Nation-State Hackers Exploiting Critical Atlassian Confluence Vulnerability
Microsoft has linked the exploitation of a recently disclosed critical flaw in Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server...
EU warns Elon Musk ‘disinformation’ is spreading on X after Hamas attack
The EU has written to Elon Musk warning him that the platform is being used to spread illegal...
Clubs promoting NFTs pose ‘risk’ to fans, MPs warn
A committee of MPs say artists and sport clubs’ reputations are at risk if they promote NFTs. Source::...
Patch Tuesday, October 2023 Edition
Microsoft today issued security updates for more than 100 newly-discovered vulnerabilities in its Windows operating system and related...
Tech layoffs in 2023: A timeline
Though technology companies announced massive layoffs last year, 2023 has been much worse. Layoffs have far outpaced last year’s...
Windows 11: A guide to the updates
A Windows launch isn’t the end a process — it’s really just the beginning. As with Windows 10,...
Event: AI and Data Science Virtual Summit
Meta, NetworkX, Fast.ai, and other industry leaders share how to gain new insights from your data with emerging...
Issue #598 (Oct. 10, 2023)
#598 – OCTOBER 10, 2023 Python’s tuple Data Type: A Deep Dive With Examples In Python, a tuple...