B.C. college says info of students, employees at risk following cyber attack
A British Columbia community college says personal information of some students and employees may have been copied by a cyber attacker earlier this month. Okanagan College, which has 17,000 students and 1,100 employees across several campuses in southern B.C., said an “unauthorized entity gained access to certain Okanagan College technology systems” around Jan. 9. As
Breaking news: FBI shuts down Hive ransomware gang’s IT infrastructure
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has seized the website of the Hive ransomware gang after penetrating the group’s computer networks. The agency said Thursday it penetrated the networks in July, 2022, leading to the capture of decryption keys. Since then it has quietly offered those keys to 300 victims. In addition, the FBI
Many boards don’t see privacy as a priority: Survey
Survey of ISACA members shows only 55 per cent of respondents feel their boards priorit
Breaking news: Home Depot Canada criticized by privacy commissioner
Retailer didn’t get consumers’ consent when it sent e-receipt data to Meta, says federal privacy co
Meta’s AI chief slams ChatGPT
Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist, is unimpressed with ChatGPT, the wildly popular artificial intelligence technology that makes headlines on a daily basis. LeCun slammed ChatGPT, calling it “basic” and implying that it only appears sophisticated. LeCun noted that Chat GPT isn’t very advanced. He cited Meta, Google, and a slew of other startups that […]
Microsoft recovers services after major outage
Microsoft said it had retrieved all of its cloud services after a networking outage took down its cloud platform Azure for more than four hours, as well as services used by millions around the world such as Teams and Outlook. The issues began around 0705 UTC on January 25 and involved network connectivity issues for […]
Shutterstock launches image generating AI
Shutterstock has announced the launch of its AI image generation platform, which will be available to all Shutterstock customers worldwide in all languages supported by the site. The new tool is an image generator based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can convert text instructions into images. Shutterstock claims that its AI image generator can produce […]
Data Centers on the rise says analysts
Analysts at Barclays Capital raised their ratings on Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Qualcomm, and Seagate Technology Holdings, claiming that the market will not revert to lower financial numbers and that data center chips are defying the industry’s numerous glitches. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index increased by up to 3%, bringing the index’s gain from a two-year […]
Intel abandons plan for R&D facility
Intel will not build the $700 million ‘mega lab’ it had planned in Hillsboro, Oregon, instead opting for less expensive alternatives as it implements billions of dollars in cost cuts in the face of declining revenue. “As we accelerate our strategy and respond to the current demand environment, we are looking to reduce costs and […]
Microsoft records slowest quarterly sales in six years
Microsoft reported its slowest growth in six years and warned that a broader slump would continue as consumers and businesses cut back on spending, while the company deals with a cooling economy and a slowing PC market at the same time. After initially rallying on better-than-expected earnings for the December quarter, the stock price reversed […]
