FISA Section 702 faces renewal battle in congress
Right before the year 2023 runs out, Congress must decide whether to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows intelligence agencies to conduct warrantless surveillance of non-American citizens outside the United States. Gen. Paul Nakasone, Director of the United States National Security Agency and Commander of the United States Cyber Command, […]
Orca identifies four Microsoft Azure services susceptible to server-side request forgery
Orca, a cloud security firm, has disclosed details on four server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerabilities that affects Azure devices like Azure API Management, Azure Functions, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure Digital Twins. Three of the Azure flaws were classified as “Important,” while one was classified as “Low.” Microsoft patched all four SSRF flaws. While two […]
Google linked DeepMind set to launch an AI to outclass ChatGPT
DeepMind, a Google subsidiary, has announced that its ChatGPT competitor, Sparrow, will be available soon. It goes on to say that Sparrow will be a safer type of AI assistant than ChatGPT. It was released in September 2022 and will enter “private beta” later this year. DeepMind’s Sparrow chatbot reportedly has more features than OpenAI’s […]
Microsoft to give customers access to ChatGPT as a service on Azure
Microsoft has announced that its Azure OpenAI service has reached the commercial-release stage of general availability and will soon be available to the general public. This is in connection with its $1 billion investment in OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. The implication is that more businesses will be able to apply to use OpenAI’s Azure-hosted […]
