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Open AI to start advertising business
OpenAI recently announced on its website that it plans to start testing advertisements on ChatGPT in the U.S. The company plans to run ads only on its free and low-cost subscription accounts, while there won’t be ads for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, or Enterprise accounts. The goal, according to the company, is to enable more
Meta Blocks Teens From Chatting With Its AI Characters
Meta is temporarily blocking teenagers from accessing all of its AI characters. The pause, which impacts Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, is set to come into effect in “the coming weeks,” though the company didn’t give a firm date. Meta is by no means the first major AI platform to make these types of restrictions on
Tesla discontinues Autopilot
Tesla has discontinued Autopilot, its basic driver-assistance system, as the company tries to boost adoption of a more advanced version of the technology that it calls Full Self-Driving (Supervised). Autopilot was a combination of Traffic Aware Cruise Control, which sticks to a designated speed while maintaining distance with cars ahead, and Autosteer, a lane-centering feature
Grubhub and Google hacking
First of all (and sadly, personally upsetting to me, who orders entirely too much takeout), food delivery giant Grubhub reported a data breach this week, with the hackers responsible for it already demanding a hefty ransom from the company or else they’ll release the data. The hack was actually part of a massive Salesforce-related breach
A Myanmar military airstrike on civillians
Myanmar has been in turmoil since the army seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi on Feb. 1, 2021, triggering widespread popular opposition. After peaceful demonstrations were put down with lethal force, many opponents of the military rule took up arms, and large parts of the country are now embroiled in
Trump signed his Gaza ‘Board of Peace’ into being
U.S. President Donald Trump was surrounded by world leaders as he declared the war in Gaza was “really coming to an end” at a signing ceremony for his “Board of Peace” for the territory.The United Arab Emirates, Hungary and Pakistan were represented at the ceremony at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday.
Xi assures Brazil’s Lula of China’s support
Chinese leader Xi Jinping assured his Brazilian counterpart on Friday that China would stand by Latin America’s biggest economy and the Global South, and called for both nations to maintain the role of the United Nations.Xi said China and Brazil should safeguard the shared interests of the Global South and jointly maintain the role of
1Password Adds a Second Line of Phishing Defense to Its Browser Extension
Password-manager service 1Password won’t let you get past the paste command if it spots a phishing-scam site in your browser.This update to 1Password ($35.88 a year for an individual account, $53.88 a year for a family bundle covering up to five users) will interrupt that copy-and-paste workaround with a warning that you’re on the wrong
Resurgence of a multi‑stage AiTM phishing and BEC campaign
Microsoft Defender Researchers uncovered a multi‑stage adversary‑in‑the‑middle (AiTM) phishing and business email compromise (BEC) campaign targeting multiple organizations in the energy sector, resulting in the compromise of various user accounts. The campaign abused SharePoint file‑sharing services to deliver phishing payloads and relied on inbox rule creation to maintain persistence and evade user awareness. The attack
Snapchat new parental control
Two days after settling a lawsuit accusing Snapchat of causing social media addiction and mental health issues, Snap announced that it’s introducing new parental controls. Parents and guardians can now use Snapchat’s “Family Center” tool to see how much time their teen is spending on the platform, along with additional details about the new friends