Court orders spyware maker Pegasus to hand over code to WhatsApp representatives
A US court has ordered NSO Group, the maker of the Pegasus spyware, to hand over its code and other WhatsApp spyware.
Wikipedia no longer considers CNET a «reliable source» — after scandal with AI-generated articles
Amid the AI boom in 2022, CNET started using the technology to write some articles — and eventually faced criticism and removed part of the materials due to a large number of errors and plagiarism.
US White House urges developers to avoid C and C++, use «memory-safe» programming languages
The U.S. government recommends abandoning C or C++ programming tools. In a new report, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) urged developers to use «memory-safe programming languages». The advice is a step toward «protecting the building blocks of cyberspace».
OpenAI accuses The New York Times of hacking ChatGPT to file a copyright infringement lawsuit
OpenAI has claimed that The New York Times «paid someone to hack into OpenAI products such as ChatGPT to set up a lawsuit» against the leading AI vendor. In the lawsuit filed, OpenAI claims that «100 examples in which a particular version of OpenAI’s GPT-4 model allegedly generated several paragraphs of Times content in response to user…
Will Taylor Swift support Biden in 2024? The President says that’s «classified».
Joe Biden has once again trolled conspiracy theorists who are spreading conspiracy theories about his agreement to receive Taylor Swift’s support in the election.
Musk blasts Microsoft because he couldn’t skip account creation during Windows 11 setup
When setting up Windows 11, you usually need to sign in with a Microsoft account — some users are unhappy with this requirement, and now they Elon Musk joined the company.
Elon Musk has published a new video of a Tesla robot — but it seems that it was «filmed» back in the 2000s
The video posted by the billionaire on Saturday in X was of such low quality that it looked like it was shot on a phone that was relevant two decades ago.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has been sued by the widow of a pilot who died in a plane crash while transporting his plane
According to the lawsuit, Breen allegedly tried to «destroy evidence of a crime».
M&M’s candy vending machines recognized the faces of university students — they will be dismantled
Canada’s University of Waterloo is dismantling smart M&M’s vending machines from its campus. Students discovered that the machines were secretly performing facial recognition without students’ consent.
Elon Musk accuses Google of «insane racist, anti-civilization programming of its artificial intelligence»
Elon Musk confronted Google after it suspended the Gemini image generation function because some users on social media reported that the artificial intelligence constantly generates images of people of color in an inaccurate historical context.
The FBI and the UK’s Serious Fraud Office dismantled the LockBit hacker group. One of the members was arrested in Ukraine
A coalition of international law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the UK’s National Crime Agency, announced that they have shut down LockBit, one of the most prolific hacking groups of all time, including shutting down websites the organization used to pay ransoms.
Lara Croft in Tomb Raider I-III Remastered «rendered» by Russians
Tomb Raider I-III Remastered was created not only by the original developers, but also by Aspyr, a company with quite significant Russian roots. It also acted as a publisher.
A former YouTube kids star earned $100,000 in a year on OnlyFans and «has no regrets»
Lizzie Capri launched her YouTube channel in 2018 and gained a million subscribers in just a couple of months, becoming a star among children’s content creators.