Author: Zach_Wilson
OpenAI says Iran tried to influence US elections with ChatGPT
OpenAI has banned a string of ChatGPT accounts tied to an Iranian influence campaign that generated and shared content related to the US presidential election, among other topics. The operation mainly used ChatGPT to create longform articles and social media comments for platforms like Instagram and X, according to OpenAI.…
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Walmart is ending DroneUp deliveries in three states
Walmart is ending drone deliveries made with partner DroneUp in Phoenix, AZ, Salt Lake City, UT, and Tampa, FL, because the services in those cities weren’t sustainable, according to Axios. This is after Walmart and DroneUp announced in 2022 that they would be bringing drone delivery to those states as…
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Dark Matter is coming back for a second season on Apple TV Plus
The multiverse of Apple TV Plus’ Dark Matter is about to get bigger as the show heads into its second season. Apple announced on Friday that Dark Matter, Blake Crouch’s adaptation of his own 2016 novel about a physicist who gets sucked into multiple alternate realities, has been renewed for…
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Crypto-linked cybercrime saw another record year as ransomware risk rises
Ransomware operators are on their way to break another record this year, if crypto inflows are any indication, new research has claimed. A report from Chainalysis says in the first half of 2024, crypto inflows reached $460 million – up from $449 million 12 months ago, representing a 2% increase…
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Half the population of this entire country may have had their personal data leaked in massive data breach
Researchers have discovered the data of 10 million citizens of Chile has been leaked online in an exposure that puts over half the population of the country at risk. Experts from Cybernews say the data originated from Caja Los Andes, a firm which provides Chileans with health insurance, loans, mortgages,…
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Google’s head of Pixel 9 design won’t apologize for its big, beautiful camera bump
There’s one thing about the just-announced Google Pixel 9 that’s hard to convey in photos — its camera bar is prominent. Bigger than ever before. It’s roughly as thick as two US quarters stacked together — nearly a third as thick as the entire rest of the phone. It’s so…
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