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AI-powered Bing Chat loses its mind when fed Ars Technica article
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Over the past few days, early testers of the new Bing AI-powered chat assistant have discovered ways to push the bot to its limits with adversarial prompts, often resulting in Bing Chat appearing frustrated, sad, and questioning its existence. It has argued with users... Read more
It’s Been 10 Years Since the Biggest Meteor Impact in Living Memory
Almost every day, some hunk of space rock impacts the Earth and burns up as a bright fireball in the sky. And, there’s probably far more of these minor impacts that go unreported over the majority of the planet that is unpopulated. What doesn’t happen on the daily is... Read more
Dating Apps Crack Down on Romance Scammers
Michael Steinbach, the head of global fraud detection at Citi and the former executive assistant director of the FBI’s National Security Branch, says that—broadly speaking—fraud has transitioned from “high-volume card thefts or just getting as much information very quickly to more sophisticated social engineering, where fraudsters spend more time... Read more
CISOs: Self-healing endpoints key to consolidating tech stacks, improving cyber-resiliency
Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Self-healing endpoint platform providers are under pressure to create new solutions to help CISOs consolidate tech stacks while improving cyber-resiliency. CISOs see the potential of self-healing platforms to reduce costs, increase visibility and capture real-time data that... Read more
Microsoft will forcibly remove Internet Explorer from most Windows 10 PCs today
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 was never Windows 10’s primary browser—that would be the old, pre-Chromium version of Microsoft Edge. But IE did continue to ship with Windows 10 for compatibility reasons, and IE11 remained installed and accessible in most versions of Windows 10 even after security updates for the... Read more
Super Bowl Commercials 2023: Watch All the Big Ads From the Big Game
Super Bowl Sunday came and conquered, and it was about much more than just football. The big game’s always a showcase for companies to roll out their newest, wildest innovations, and for ad agencies to sell those products and services in ads that are more like mini-movies featuring celebrity... Read more
Audiobook Narrators Fear Spotify Used Their Voices to Train AI
Starling believes Findaway has misused the material that authors and narrators entrusted it with. “This is immoral and illegal,” Starling told WIRED, “Rights holders have the copyrights for the audiobook production only, but no claim on the narrator’s voice.” She’s pausing the release of three upcoming titles she planned... Read more
1 billion meetings and counting: Otter takes on enterprise meeting automation with OtterPilot AI
Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Meetings are often the bane of enterprise employees’ existence, but what if it didn’t have to be that way? That’s the audacious goal that Sam Liang, co-founder and CEO of AI startup Otter AI has set for... Read more
1-Day Best Buy Deal Knocks $99 Off Apple’s Premium AirPods Max Headphones
Apple consistently makes some of our favorite wireless earbuds on the market, so it’s no surprise that its premium over-ear headphones, the AirPods Max, were named our favorite high-end pair for 2023. And while these sleek hi-fi headphones come with a pretty high price tag, today only you can... Read more
A Little-Known Inflammatory Disease Is Hiding in Plain Sight
Vexas would have been discovered a long time ago if it were a garden variety genetic disease, caused by an inherited genetic mutation. For instance, the single gene responsible for familial Mediterranean fever, also an inflammatory disease, was identified in 1997 by screening the DNA of families that carried... Read more