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Google Opens Up Its Bard AI Tool to Teenagers Around the World
Google's conversational AI chatbot, called Bard, is now available to teens in most countries around the world, the company said this week in a blog post. Teenage users in those areas must meet the minimum age requirements to manage their own Google account, which...
Apple’s Bringing RCS Support to iPhone Next Year
Apple could be making a big step toward improving texting between iPhone and Android devices by adopting the Rich Communication Services standard in 2024. According to 9to5Mac on Thursday, an Apple spokesperson said in a statement that RCS -- a more feature-rich...
Microsoft fixes Outlook bug causing attachment saving issues
Microsoft has resolved a known issue causing significant delays for Microsoft 365 customers when saving attachments in Outlook Desktop.The bug is known to impact Outlook users trying to save an attachment to a network share, according to a support document published...
Microsoft shares temp fix for broken Windows Server 2022 VMs
Microsoft publicly acknowledged a known issue causing Windows Server 2022 virtual machine (VM) blue screens and boot failures on VMware ESXi hosts.Windows admins reported experiencing VM start failures [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] after installing the KB5031364 October 2023...
OpenAI confirms DDoS attacks behind ongoing ChatGPT outages
OpenAI has been addressing "periodic outages" due to DDoS attacks targeting its API and ChatGPT services within the last 24 hours.While the company didn't immediately provide any details on the root cause of these incidents, OpenAI confirmed earlier today...
Cloudflare website downed by DDoS attack claimed by Anonymous Sudan
Update November 09, 17:19 EST: A threat group known as Anonymous Sudan claimed that they were the ones who took down Cloudflare's website in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.Cloudflare confirmed that the outage resulted from a DDoS attack that only...
World’s largest commercial bank ICBC confirms ransomware attack
Update November 10, 06:49 EST: The Industrial & Commercial Bank of China confirmed its services were disrupted by a ransomware attack that impacted its systems on Wednesday, November 8."On November 8, 2023, U.S. Eastern Time (November 9, 2023, Beijing Time), ICBC...
Hackers exploit Looney Tunables Linux bug, steal cloud creds
The operators of the Kinsing malware are targeting cloud environments with systems vulnerable to "Looney Tunables," a Linux security issue identified as CVE-2023-4911 that allows a local attacker to gain root privileges on the system.Looney Tunables is a buffer...
Apple ‘Find My’ network can be abused to steal keylogged passwords
Apple's "Find My" location network can be abused by malicious actors to stealthily transmit sensitive information captured by keyloggers installed in keyboards.The Find My network and application is designed to help users locate lost or misplaced Apple devices,...