Month: December 2022

ChatGPT is being used to create malicious emails and code

Audio player loading… ChatGPT, the chatbot from Open AI that’s been causing a lot of excitement in recent months, can be used to create malicious Excel files, as well as convincing phishing emails (opens in new tab) to go along with the malware, experts have claimed. The tool can also…

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‘We might be wrong, but we’re not confused’: how Tomer Cohen, chief product officer at LinkedIn, figures out what works best

Tomer Cohen is the chief product officer at LinkedIn, and actually, I talked to Tomer twice. Here’s a little secret about Decoder: we do the interviews, and then often, the guest and I just keep chatting for a while. So after my first interview with Tomer, we were hanging out,…

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The Hyundai Kona is the latest mid-price EV to get a glow-up

The Hyundai Kona is a small crossover that could never really be described as “weird.” But practical and economical? Certainly, even in all-electric form where it undercut the larger Hyundai Ioniq 5 EV by tens of thousands of dollars.  Now, it’s getting some downright cyberpunk looks to go with all…

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DraftKings reveals thousands of customer accounts hit by cyberattack

Audio player loading… Sports betting company DraftKings has shared more details about the recent account breach it suffered.  In late November, the company’s co-founder and president, Paul Liberman, took to Twitter to announce a security incident after a threat actor apparently used credential stuffing to try and log into people’s…

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Elon Musk started looking for a new Twitter CEO before polling the site’s users

That poll that Elon Musk posted to Twitter Sunday evening? Asking whether he should stay on as CEO of Twitter or appoint someone else? The one where he said he would “abide by the results” no matter how it turned out? The one where nearly 58 percent of participants said,…

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New AMD Ryzen 7000 price rumor could give Intel the edge

Audio player loading… AMD’s next batch of Zen 4 processors has been spotted, and purportedly they’ll consist of new Ryzen 7900, 7700 and 7600 models, with their spec and pricing provided in this leak. These are the non-X versions of existing 7900X, 7700X and 7600X models, of course, meaning they’ll…

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