Ransomware gang continues to publish data stolen from Ontario hospitals
The Daxin Team ransomware group has released its third tranche of data stolen from southwestern Ontario hospitals that share an IT services provider because it can’t get a penny from the institutions. According to Canadian-based Emsisoft threat researcher Brett Callow, this third installment of data was released Sunday. The gang promises to release databases full
College students prefer meeting in person than using dating apps
A new survey by Axios and Generation Lab has found that college students overwhelmingly prefer to meet people in person than use dating apps. Of the 978 students surveyed, 79% said they don’t use any dating apps, even as infrequently as once a month. The most popular dating app among college students is Tinder, which […]
X removes pro-Hitler post after advertisers threaten boycott
X CEO Linda Yaccarino personally intervened to remove a viral pro-Hitler post from the platform, according to a report by The Information. The post, which was shared by a Pakistani senator, featured a photo of Hitler with the caption “At least now the world know, why he did, what he did.” The post sparked outrage […]
Okta blames employee for hack
Okta is blaming a recent hack of its support system on an employee who logged into a personal Google account on a company-managed laptop, exposing credentials that led to the theft of data from multiple Okta customers. In a brief post-mortem, Okta security chief David Bradbury said the internal lapse was the “most likely avenue” […]
New laws seek to reduce e-waste, improve product quality
New consumer rights laws are being introduced in the U.S. and Europe to give consumers more power to repair their devices. This is in response to a growing trend of manufacturers making it difficult or impossible for consumers to repair their own devices, which is leading to increased e-waste and frustration among consumers. One of […]
YouTube ad blocker crackdown causes users to seek alternatives
YouTube’s recent crackdown on ad blockers is having the opposite of its intended effect. Instead of deterring users from blocking ads, it’s prompting them to switch to better ad blockers or even new browsers. According to a report from Wired, hundreds of thousands of users have uninstalled ad blockers in October, seemingly in connection with […]
Musk predicts a future where no one has to work
Elon Musk has predicted that artificial intelligence (AI) will eventually mean that no one will have to work. He made the prediction in an interview with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at an AI summit in London. Musk said that AI will become so advanced that it will be able to do all of the […]
Large language models have emotional intelligence, research says
A study by researchers at Microsoft and the University of Toronto has shown that LLMs do indeed have some level of emotional intelligence, and that this intelligence can be enhanced by providing them with emotional prompts. The researchers conducted a series of experiments on different LLMs, including Flan-T5-Large, Vicuna, Llama 2, BLOOM, ChatGPT, and GPT-4. […]
CISOs face higher stakes as regulators crack down on security failures
Regulators are holding chief information security officers (CISOs) liable for the cybersecurity challenges they or their companies face, as evidenced by the SEC charges against SolarWinds and its top security executive, Timothy Brown. The SEC’s complaint alleges that SolarWinds misled investors about the state of the company’s cyber defenses in the years leading up to […]
Apple embraces AI with new M3 chips
Apple has announced the release of its latest M3 chips, which are designed to empower AI developers with enhanced capabilities for large transformer models. The M3 chips offer an expanded memory capacity with up to 128GB of unified memory, double the capacity of the M1 and M2 chips. This expanded memory capacity is especially critical […]
