Month: August 2024
AMD reportedly hacked again — criminals offer data for sale online
AMD has reportedly been the victim of a data breach which compromised internal communications and sensitive employee information, experts have said. Criminal organizations IntelBroker and EnergyWeaponUser took credit for the attack, with the stolen data apparently consisting of sensitive employee information such as user credentials, internal resolutions, and case descriptions.…
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Your next professor at this college could be ChatGPT
Arizona State University (ASU) has made ChatGPT its busiest faculty member this year. The AI chatbot helps students write academic papers, simulates patients for healthcare students, and recruits participants for research studies, among hundreds of other roles. ASU and OpenAI agreed to work together earlier this year, deploying an adapted…
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Meta is ending support for custom face filters in its apps
Meta is shutting down all third-party face filters and AR effects on Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger, along with the tools used to create them, on January 14th, 2025. That includes any created by brands and other third parties, the company wrote in a blog post today. Meta’s own AR effects…
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Watch out Windows — Linux market share could hit a major milestone soon
After the Crowdstrike incident shone a light on Windows’ utter dominance across enterprise in late July 2024, users may be relieved to hear perennial up-and-comer Linux may be on course to hit 5% market share by 2025. While new data from StatCounter, providing data for July 2024, shows that Windows…
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Best Air Purifiers (2024): Coway, AirDoctor, IQAir
Protect your home against dust, pets, allergies, and more with air purifiers tested firsthand by WIRED. Source
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Mark Zuckerberg responds to GOP pressure, says Biden pushed to ‘censor’ covid posts
In a letter to the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee on Monday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the Biden administration “repeatedly pressured” his teams to “censor” content related to covid in 2021. Zuckerberg told the committee chair, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), that the pressure was “wrong” and he regrets not being…
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