Month: October 2023
YouTube reveals grand plan to become a more trustworthy news destination
In an effort to combat misinformation, YouTube is implementing immersive news hubs that will pull together content from “authoritative sources” into one convenient location. The platform states in its announcement that the content collected in these watch pages covers a variety of formats including “video on demand, live streams, podcasts,…
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One of the most popular text editors is being spoofed to infect victims with malicious ads
A new malicious Google ads campaign, which was active for “months”, was probably dropping Cobalt Strike deployments on unsuspecting victims, researchers have warned. Cybersecurity researchers from Malwarebytes recently discovered a campaign hijacking Google Ads being served to people searching for Notepad++, a popular word editing software. Whenever someone searches for…
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One of the most popular text editors around has been infected with malicious ads
A new malicious Google ads campaign, which was active for “months”, was probably dropping Cobalt Strike deployments on unsuspecting victims, researchers have warned. Cybersecurity researchers from Malwarebytes recently discovered a campaign hijacking Google Ads being served to people searching for Notepad++, a popular word editing software. Whenever someone searches for…
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ChatGPT live web browsing exits beta, DALL-E 3 enters beta
OpenAI has brought live web browsing out of beta. The company launched the feature earlier this year before pulling it after the plugin kept gleaning data from paywalled content. In addition, the next-generation image generation tool DALL-E 3, which integrates with ChatGPT for easier prompting, is now available in beta…
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Biden administration announces ‘largest ever’ investment in US electric grid
The Biden administration announced $3.46 billion in funding today to upgrade the US’s aging electric grid, the largest investment to date in the grid. The money, which comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will go to 58 different projects across 44 states. Stressed power grids need the money badly “Much…
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With a Switch 2 looming, Nintendo is sending out the original with a bang
There’s a very good chance that this will be the last year where the Switch is Nintendo’s main piece of hardware. While rumors of a Switch successor have persisted for years, recent reports suggest that an upgraded device is not only coming but will be here relatively soon, with a…
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