Tag: professional services
The Morning After: Amazon turns Alexa into a more conversational chatbot for your home
Amid a barrage of Amazon-branded tablets and Alexa-powered tech, Dave Limp, SVP of Amazon Devices and Services, announced the company’s digital assistant will soon tap into a purpose-built large language model (LLM) for almost every new Echo device. Amazon set out to design the LLM based on five foundational capabilities.…
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Meta’s paid verification for businesses will cost almost double what it does for individuals
Meta’s paid verification service is no longer just for individuals. The social network is expanding its subscription service to businesses on Facebook, Instagram and, eventually, WhatsApp, Mark Zuckerberg announced during the company’s “Conversations” event. Meta Verified first launched for Facebook and Instagram earlier this year, but wasn't available for those…
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Hackers claim it only took a 10-minute phone call to shut down MGM Resorts
The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group claimed responsibility for the MGM Resorts cyber outage on Tuesday, according to a post by malware archive vx-underground. The group claims to have used common social engineering tactics, or gaining trust from employees to get inside information, to try and get a ransom out of MGM…
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Meta Threads briefly went live earlier than planned
With Twitter seemingly on its last legs, it doesn't come as a big surprise that other social media giants would want to capitalize on the void. Meta is launching Threads, which allows users to write and comment on posts much in the same way as Twitter. Now we've gotten a…
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Meta’s Threads is already showing conversations on the web
With Twitter seemingly on its last legs, it doesn't come as a big surprise that other social media giants would want to capitalize on the void. Meta is launching Threads, which allows users to write and comment on posts much in the same way as Twitter. Now we have a…
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Hitting the Books: How hackers turned cybercrime into a commercial service
As anyone who regularly games online can attest, DDoS (dedicated denial of service) attacks are an irritatingly common occurrence on the internet. Drawing on the combined digital might of a geographically diffuse legion of zombified PCs, hackers are able to swamp game servers and prevent players from logging on for…
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