Two-year-old Gigabyte leak revealed zero-day vulnerabilities
Past comes back to bite you
Security researchers have warned that leaked information from a ransomware attack on hardware-maker Gigabyte two years ago may contain critical zero-day vulnerabilities that pose a significant risk to the computing world.
Ukrainian coppers dismantle huge bot farm
Pushing Putin propaganda
The Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine dismantled another massive bot farm, seizing multiple mobile operators' computer equipment, mobile phones, and roughly 150,000 SIM cards.
Hackers and propagandists having fun with AI
Canada's top cybersecurity official warns
Hackers and propagandists are wielding artificial intelligence (AI) to create malicious software, draft convincing phishing emails and spread disinformation online, Canada's top cybersecurity official warned.
Chrome 115 rolls out with anti-cookie tools
No other new features
Chrome 115 has been rolling out, and while it is short on new features, it has something to kill off tracking cookies.
ASUS will make Intel NUCs
Chipzilla has given up making them itself
Intel has announced ASUS as its first partner for its Next Unit of Compute (NUC) mini PC business.
Meta’s augmented reality display project running out of steam
Tame Apple Press claims victory
Meta’s deal with British firm Plessey to make augmented reality displays appears to have fizzled out.
Apple nearly ready to invent AI
Just does not know what to do with it
The Tame Apple Press, which has been facing an existential crisis because Jobs Mob failed to see the rise of AI, is claiming that it has invented it, but has not told anyone.
Germans are upset that ChatGPT-3.5 lacks a sense of humour
So it must be bad
Two German boffins, Sophie Jentzsch and Kristian Kersting, released a paper that examines the ability of OpenAI's ChatGPT-3.5 to understand and generate humour.
Blizzard brings PC games to Steam
Overwatch 2 is the first
Blizzard Entertainment is bringing its PC games to Steam, starting with the release of Overwatch 2 on Valve's digital storefront on 10 August.
Netflix recovers subscribers
Despite cancelling my favourite shows
A year after its largest quarterly loss and a significant drop in subscribers, Netflix has made a remarkable recovery by adding 5.9 million global subscribers in the second quarter of 2023, surpassing analyst expectations.