Month: March 2023
Many DDoS attacks might not be all they seem
Audio player loading… Cybercriminals are increasingly using Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks as a diversion while they run more damaging data exfiltration operations at the same time, new research has claimed. A report from cybersecurity experts StormWall found the number of DDoS attacks used as a smokescreen in January…
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Google’s one step closer to building its 1,000-language AI model
As Microsoft and Google butt heads over whose AI chatbot is better, that isn’t the only use for machine learning and language models. Along with rumored plans to show off more than 20 products powered by artificial intelligence during its annual I/O event this year, Google’s progressing toward its goal…
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How a single engineer brought down Twitter
Twitter’s website is breaking in novel new ways — and while the company managed to recover from its latest outage within a couple of hours, the story behind how it broke suggests there are likely to be similar problems in the near future. On Monday morning, Twitter users logged on…
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Looks like Microsoft already dropped the Bing ChatGPT taskbar from Windows 11
Audio player loading… It seems that Microsoft’s much-hyped AI-enabled Bing button on the Windows OS taskbar has already come to an end, according to several user reports. As reported on by MSPowerUser, Windows 10 and 11 users have stated that the button is no longer on their taskbar, replaced yet…
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Workstation sales soared in 2022 – but the news might not be all good
Audio player loading… New analyst figures have claimed workstation sales saw a considerable boost in 2022, to the point that demand was outstripping supply. Despite several reports indicating declining PC shipments in 2022, IDC (opens in new tab) figures claimed workstations saw a healthy boost compared with 2021 suggesting that…
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Police raid homes of alleged hackers who attacked hospital systems
German and Ukrainian police raided the homes of individuals linked to a prominent cybercrime group that stole millions from large companies and organizations over the course of several years. The authorities worked with Europol and the FBI last month to investigate the residences of members of the hacking group, which…
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