UK TikTok ban gives us all cause to consider social media security
The UK ban on installing and using social media app TikTok on government devices brings our country’s policy in line with that of other jurisdictions including the United States...
Virgin Media O2 brings 5G services to the London Underground
Virgin Media O2 has launched its first 4G and 5G services on sections of the Central and Northern Lines, claiming to allow its customers very high-speed mobile connectivity on...
Free data-center heat is allegedly saving a struggling public pool $24K a year
A public pool in the UK is expected to save £20,000 (about $24,000) and cut carbon emissions by 25.8 tons annually by warming a 25 m and children's pool with...
Federal agency hacked by 2 groups thanks to flaw that went unpatched for 4 years
Getty Images Multiple threat actors—one working on behalf of a nation-state—gained access to the network of a US federal agency by exploiting a four-year-old vulnerability that remained unpatched, the US...
AI imager Midjourney v5 stuns with photorealistic images—and 5-fingered hands
Enlarge / An example of lighting and skin effects in the AI image generator Midjourney v5. On Wednesday, Midjourney announced version 5 of its commercial AI image synthesis service, which...
Microsoft 365’s AI-powered Copilot is like an omniscient version of Clippy
Enlarge / Microsoft 365 Copilot will attempt to automate content generation and analysis in all of the former Microsoft Office apps. Microsoft Today Microsoft took the wraps off of Microsoft...
Baidu shares fall after Ernie AI chatbot demo disappoints
Enlarge / "Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of Baidu," chief Robin Li introduces the functions of the company’s AI chatbot...
TikTok banned on UK government devices
The UK government has banned the use of the Gen Z-beloved, China-owned social media application TikTok on government-owned devices with immediate effect, following in the footsteps of its United...
OpenAI checked to see whether GPT-4 could take over the world
Ars Technica As part of pre-release safety testing for its new GPT-4 AI model, launched Tuesday, OpenAI allowed an AI testing group to assess the potential risks of the model's...
Security firm Rubrik is latest to be felled by GoAnywhere vulnerability
Getty Images Rubrik, the Silicon Valley data security company, said that it experienced a network intrusion made possible by a zero-day vulnerability in a product it used called GoAnywhere. In...