April 4, 2023
In cybersecurity news.
New mix stealer Mac OS malware
steals iCloud keychain data and passwords.
A new information stealing malware has set
its sights on Apple's
Mac OS operating system to siphon
sensitive information from compromised.
Vice's Mac Stealer
is the latest example of a threat
that uses Telegram as a command control
platform to exfiltrate data.
Microsoft issues a patch for Acropolis
privacy flaw in its Windows
screenshot tools.
Microsoft
released an Out-Of-Band update to address
a privacy defeating flaw in its screenshot
editing tools for Windows ten and 11.
The issue, dubbed
Acropolis could enable malicious actors
to recover edited portions of screenshots
potentially revealing
sensitive information
that may have been cropped out.
Openai reveals a Redis
bug behind US chat GPT user data exposure
incident Open air disclosed
the bug in the reddest open source
library was responsible for exposing
other users personal information
and chat titles in the Upstarts
chat service earlier this week.
The glitch, which came to light on March
20th, 2023,
enabled certain users
to view brief descriptions
of other users conversations
from the chat history sidebar
in Artificial Intelligence News.
This is a big one.
Elon Musk, Bill Gates
and other tech leaders
have cause for a pause
of the out of control air race.
1100 notable signatures
just signed an open letter
asking for all air labs to pause
for at least six months immediately.
The letter,
which is also signed by the CEO of Open
Air, said the pause should apply
to all A.I.
systems more powerful
than GPT four Very convenient.
It also said independent
experts should use the proposed pause
to jointly develop and implement
a set of shared protocols for AI tools
that are safe beyond a reasonable doubt.
Sarah Bus Systems
released seven new GPT models
trained on ac2 wafer scale system.
This is the first time
a company has used a non GPU
AI system to train limbs up
to 13 billion parameters and is sharing
the model's weights and training
recipe via the industry standard.
Apache 2.0 License.
A series of seven GPT models with a 111
million to 13 billion parameters,
typically a multi-month undertaking.
This work was completed in a few weeks.
All seven Sarah
Best GPT models are immediately available
on hugging face
and the service model zoo on GitHub.
Google Bard with word of
it could have gone better
after correcting the bot and reminding it
only to guess five letter words.
He'd apologized
and return the word slants.
That's six letters that carried on to
a different variation of the word slant.
We still have some work to do there, guys
in Intelligent Edge News.
British Telecom has partnered
with IWC to test 5G
edge computing in Manchester,
using IWC wavelength.
The trial will investigate
how edge computing can enhance
the performance of BT's
5G network in three areas.
Augmented reality Immersive
Gaming and Industrial Automation.
The aim is to improve customer experience
by providing faster
and more reliable services.
The trial was part of a larger
collaboration between the two companies
to explore Edge Computing's
potential in the UK.
Comcast has announced
an expanded partnership
aimed at improving connectivity
in smart buildings and environments.
The partnerships include agreements
with advanced metering, infrastructure
provider Sensus and building IQ,
an artificial intelligence
based energy management solution provider.
The goal is to provide
smarter energy management,
better water management
and improved building automation.
These partnerships
are part of Comcast efforts
to improve connectivity
for commercial customers
through its network of Wi-Fi
hotspots, sensors and other Iot devices.
