Month: February 2024
Paramount Global lays off a reported 800 employees
Paramount Global said Tuesday it’s laying off some of its “very valued colleagues,” including on its Paramount+ team. Variety reported Tuesday the cuts will affect about 800 employees, an estimated three percent of the media giant’s workforce. “I am confident this is the right decision for our future,” CEO Bob…
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A new Microsoft Azure hacking campaign is targeting high-end executives
Hackers are going after highly-positioned professionals, including senior executives, with targeted phishing and cloud account takeover attacks, new research has claimed. A report from Proofpoint outlined a new campaign to compromise Microsoft Azure environments and cloud accounts since late November 2023. The unnamed threat actors were seen to be distributing…
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ChatGPT is getting ‘memory’ to remember who you are and what you like
Talking to an AI chatbot can feel a bit like Groundhog Day after a while, as you tell it for the umpteenth time how you like your emails formatted and which of those “fun things to do this weekend” you’ve already done six times. OpenAI is trying to fix that…
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Roundcube email flaw is being exploited, so patch now, US government warns
A vulnerability in the Roundcube email server platform is being actively exploited, the US government warns, urging its bodies to apply the patch and secure their instances sooner, rather than later. In a security advisory, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said that a persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) bug…
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Spotify’s layoffs doomed its best (unofficial) music discovery resource
Spotify sucks at new music discovery. That’s not exactly a hot take considering how long users have been complaining about it over the years, but it used to be much easier to forgive when alternative services like Pandora and SoundCloud could help to make up for Spotify’s shortcomings. With the…
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Nvidia was briefly more valuable than Amazon as AI hype spikes again
Nvidia briefly overtook Amazon in terms of market capitalization, fueled by a spike in interest surrounding artificial intelligence. LSEG data reported by Reuters claimed the chipmaker reached a record high of $734.96 per share, giving it a market value of $1.82 trillion, surpassing Amazon’s $1.81 trillion. Nvidia has now returned…
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