Cybercriminals advertising jobs on the dark web

According to a Kaspersky report that examined 200,000 job ads posted on 155 dark websites between March 2020 and June 2022, hacking and APT groups primarily seek to hire software developers with extremely competitive pay packages. Kaspersky’s analysts found the highest-paying job to be $20,000 per month, while ads for capable attack specialists paid up […]

Meta ex-employee says Meta apps can drain batteries

George Hayward, a former Facebook employee recently claimed that Meta apps can intentionally drain a user’s smartphone battery and has sued Meta as a result. This process, known as “Negative Testing,” allows technology companies to secretly drain a user’s phone’s battery in order to test features within an app. Killing someone’s cellphone battery puts people […]

American remote workers not saving time while working from home, report says

According to a working paper published on the National Bureau of Economic Research’s website by Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Mathias Dolls, and Pablo Zarate, remote work hasn’t saved Americans much time. It has primarily increased their workload. “The average daily time savings when working from home is 72 […]

Germany set to hire laid off American tech workers

Following massive layoffs at American tech firms, German tech firms are seizing the opportunity to strengthen their own workforce with these laid-off employees. “I would like to cordially invite you to move to Bavaria,” wrote Judith Gerlach, digitalisation minister in Germany’s wealthiest region on LinkedIn in a post addressed to the recently laid off. Faced […]

Meta fixes bug that can bypass Facebook 2FA

Meta has fixed a Facebook vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to bypass SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA). The bug, which earned its discoverer a $27,200 bounty, accomplished this by confirming the targeted user’s already-verified Facebook mobile number via Instagram’s Meta Accounts Center. Gtm Mänôz, the researcher, discovered that a user could link their Instagram […]

Fidelity cuts Twitter valuation again

An investment firm, Fidelity has reduced the value of its Twitter stock by more than 60% since Elon Musk acquired it at the end of October. Following its funding of Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media platform, Fidelity wrote down the value of its initial stake in Twitter. When the market value of an […]

OpenAI execs shocked by ChatGPT’s popularity

Executives at OpenAI, the company behind the viral chatbot ChatGPT, have expressed surprise at the bot’s popularity since its public release in November. The executives told Fortune that they were surprised by its popularity and that releasing it to the public was a last resort after previous setbacks. The program developed by OpenAI made its […]

ChatGPT will destroy Google in at least two years, Gmail creator

Gmail creator Paul Buccheit believes that the Open AI-developed artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT will be able to replace Google in two years. Buchheit believes Google will be outmatched once the AI-powered chatbot is fully developed. Buchheit believes ChatPGT has the potential to demolish Google in two years. According to him, Google’s demise will be caused […]