Month: April 2023

Sources and internal documents: the success of ChatGPT has made Microsoft and Google willing to take greater risks despite their AI ethics guidelines (New York Times)

New York Times: Sources and internal documents: the success of ChatGPT has made Microsoft and Google willing to take greater risks despite their AI ethics guidelines  —  Technology companies were once leery of what some artificial intelligence could do.  Now the priority is winning control of the industry’s next big thing.

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Amazon bans the sale of Flipper Zero, a $169 portable security penetration testing tool for wireless devices, after tagging it as a card-skimming device (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Amazon bans the sale of Flipper Zero, a $169 portable security penetration testing tool for wireless devices, after tagging it as a card-skimming device  —  Amazon has banned the sale of the Flipper Zero portable multi-tool for pen-testers as it no longer allows its sale on the platform after tagging it

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Arbitrary Code Execution Over Radio

Computers connected to networks are constantly threatened by attackers who seek to exploit vulnerabilities wherever they can find them. This risk is particularly high for machines connected to the Internet, but any network connection can be susceptible to attacks. As highlighted by security researcher and consultant [Rick Osgood], even computers connected to nothing more than

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7 Trust-Building Tips for Leaders and Teams

Trust is essential for a productive and thriving workplace. Employees do better when they have faith in the company and the leaders they work to support. Building confidence inside organizations comes primarily from more minor actions that build up over time. This increased faith leads to more employee collaboration, empowers decision-making, and increases loyalty to the company.

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The US Treasury warns that DeFi services not compliant with AML and terrorist financing rules pose “the most significant current illicit finance risk” (CoinDesk)

CoinDesk: The US Treasury warns that DeFi services not compliant with AML and terrorist financing rules pose “the most significant current illicit finance risk”  —  The department’s first analysis of illicit finance risks associated with DeFi recommends the U.S. look at enhancements to its existing anti-money laundering regime.

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IEM vs earbuds: What’s the difference?

Credit: Thomas Triggs / Android Authority The headphone market is a forever-changing and difficult place to navigate. In addition to over-ear headphones and true wireless earbuds, in-ear monitors (IEMs) are becoming an increasingly popular choice. With our ears bombarded by the cacophony of modern life, it makes sense that people are eager to isolate their

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Samsung’s having a terrible financial year

Samsung’s chip business is killing profits. | Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images Samsung Electronics is having another bad quarter according to the company’s own preliminary estimates. This time, it’s warning that quarterly operating profit decreased 96 per cent compared to the same period last year, worse than the two-thirds plunge it suffered the

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Building the OhSillyScope

If you have a Raspberry Pi connected to an LED matrix, you might think about creating a simple oscilloscope. Of course, the Pi isn’t really well-suited for that and neither is an LED matrix, so [Thomas McDonald] decided to create the OhSillyScope, instead. The device isn’t very practical, but it does add some flash to

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Colorado-based True Anomaly, which develops software and “autonomous orbital pursuit vehicles” to collect space data, raised $30M including a $17M Series A (Aria Alamalhodaei/TechCrunch)

Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: Colorado-based True Anomaly, which develops software and “autonomous orbital pursuit vehicles” to collect space data, raised $30M including a $17M Series A  —  As tensions between the United States and China continue to escalate, a new startup has emerged from stealth …

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