Month: July 2023
Google and Bing search ads hijacked to spread malware
The Google and Bing advertising networks are being abused to deliver malware to targeted sets of users, new research has claimed. Cybersecurity experts from Sophos recently announced the discovery of a new malware campaign dubbed Nitrogen. In the campaign, the threat actors were using Google ads and Bing ads to…
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Donald Glover and his brother, Stephen, are writing Disney Plus’ Lando series
It isn’t entirely clear when or why Simien left Lando, but in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter from earlier this week, he said that “the last thing I was told was that they loved it but needed to put a pin in it until they could figure out everybody’s…
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Researchers prove ChatGPT and other big bots can – and will – go to the dark side
For a lot of us, AI-powered tools have quickly become a part of our everyday life, either as low-maintenance work helpers or vital assets used every day to help generate or moderate content. But are these tools safe enough to be used on a daily basis? According to a group…
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Microsoft Teams could be facing a major change for customers in some countries
The European Commission has confirmed it has opened a formal investigation into Microsoft‘s alleged anti-competitive practices relating to the bundling of Teams into Microsoft 365 services. The issue stems from a three-year-old complaint by rival company Slack, alleging that Microsoft’s tying of the video conferencing app into its productivity suites…
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How Facebook does (and doesn’t) shape political views
This is Platformer, a newsletter on the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy from Casey Newton and Zoë Schiffer. Sign up here. Today let’s talk about some of the most rigorous research we’ve seen to date on the subject of social networks’ influence on politics — and the predictably intense debate around…
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The best SSDs for the PS5
Ten months after the PlayStation 5 hit store shelves, Sony released a software update that unlocked the console’s storage expansion slot. Originally, the PS5 offered only 667GB of space for storing your games, with no way to increase that. While that was fine for some gamers (like me), others (like…
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