Yahoo announced this week it will sunset its Yahoo Groups platform. The announcement post says that on October 21, users will no longer be able to post new content on the site, and on December 14 all content will be permanently deleted. Yahoo Groups has been around since 2001, and has largely been abandoned in favor […]
A report by Check Point Research, says a well known botnet and malware agent is engaging in a massive sextortion campaign. The researchers say this botnet is acting as a spambot to target innocent recipients. The makers of the Phorpiex botnet also called Trik seem to have added a new sextortion scam to make money. […]
OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research organization on a Crusade to build general self-learning AI. The group’s robotics division says Dactyl, its robotic hand they built last year, has learned to solve a Rubik’s cube. Automated Rubik’s Cube solving robots are far from new. Guinness World Records has a dedicated category for them. But the OpenAI feat […]
Diveplane is a startup attempting to fix the privacy issues associated with data used for artificial intelligence training. The company this week launched what it says is the industry’s “first verifiable twin dataset.” The product called GEMINAI, is supposed to help organizations analyze sensitive datasets without risking the information being compromised. GEMINAI creates a “twin dataset” […]
According to news releases from both Intel and Brown University they have partnered in the hopes of developing technology to help those with spinal cord injuries walk again. Injuries to the spinal cord can prevent the electrical signals from the brain from passing to the muscles, causing paralysis. These kind of injuries are devastating and […]
An AI will help judges of the International Gymnastics Federation tournament taking place in Germany. Fujitsu has developed an AI that works in conjunction with an array of 3D sensors to capture the gymnast’s movement, analysing and scoring their performance. The technology called the Judging Support will be used at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, […]
Zendesk has disclosed a security breach impacting some customers who registered with the service prior to November 1, 2016. The customer service software company says a hacker accessed personal information of approximately 10,000 customers that had Zendesk Support and Chat accounts. The company said it discovered the breach on September 24 2019, after they were […]
A security researcher going by the handle “axi0mX” has discovered a supposedly unpatchable iOS vulnerability affecting six generations of Apple devices. The anonymous researcher published code demonstrating the flaw on GitHub earlier today, and within a few hours, others in the cybersecurity community appear to have verified that the exploit works. The vulnerability is part of iOS devices released […]
A report by Buzzfeed News published today says that Google quietly removed 46 apps by iHandy from the Play Store last week. iHandy is a Chinese mobile app developer, that makes selfie, security, antivirus, keyboard, horoscope, emoji, coin flip, health, and utility apps. Collectively the developers apps have been downloaded tens of millions of times. At this […]
Google today announced a series of privacy focused changes that will soon come to Google Assistant. The goal is to address recent concerns about how the company was processing data of users of that service. In the past Google used contractors to listen to portions of customers’ conversations with their voice assistants. The company used this […]