Disney Scrapped Deepfakes For Moana and Tron To Avoid ‘Bad Publicity’ Disney recently decided against using deepfake technology for its upcoming productions, Moana and Tron: Ares, primarily to steer clear…
Summary Researchers from Nextron Threat have discovered a persistent Linux backdoor named “Plague” that has evaded detection by antivirus vendors for months. This malware creates a malicious PAM (Pluggable Authentication…
AI startup Perplexity is being called out for deploying stealthy web crawlers that disguise themselves as regular browsers to access websites that have explicitly blocked their bots. Despite clear no-crawl…
Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by China Microsoft recently disclosed that vulnerabilities in SharePoint, a product supported by engineers based in China, were exploited by state-sponsored…
Summary When you stop paying for cloud storage, the fate of your data can vary significantly depending on the service provider. Major companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Dropbox have…
Summary The Indian IT sector, once thriving under giants like TCS, Infosys, Wipro, and HCLT, is now facing significant challenges as the economic multiplier effect linking its growth to the…
A new expert review has indicated that the world is facing a “plastics crisis,” which poses a significant threat to human health, from infancy through to old age. The report…
Summary Patrick Schlott, an electrical engineer, is tackling connectivity challenges in Vermont’s Orange County by restoring old pay phones for free public use. With poor cell reception being a common…
Summary OpenAI’s ChatGPT is rapidly approaching 700 million weekly active users, marking a substantial increase from 500 million just a few months ago. This explosive growth has seen a fourfold…
Summary The article discusses the backlash against Vogue for featuring an AI-generated model in an advertisement. This incident reflects a broader concern in the fashion industry surrounding the use of…
