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How cockroaches spread around the globe to become the pest we know today
How cockroaches spread around the globe to become the pest we know today
The nonprofit organization has announced that it's currently in its "third day of warding off an intermittent DDoS cyber-attack."
Ferras Hamad, who used to be an engineer working with Meta's machine learning team, has sued the company for firing him over his handling of Palestine-related Instagram posts.
Humane is reportedly trying to sell itself for $1 billion after receiving just 10,000 orders for its confuddling, expensive and ultimately pretty useless AI Pin. The device was savaged by reviewers.
Researchers found that LLMs were easily to jailbreak and can produce harmful outputs.
The details were revealed thanks to 404 Media, which obtained a contract that Samsung requires all independent repair stores to sign in exchange for selling them genuine repair parts.
Generative AI makes stuff up. Rick Caccia, the CEO of WitnessAI, believes it can. "Securing AI models is a real problem, and it’s one that's especially shiny for AI researchers, but it’s different from securing use," Caccia, formerly SVP of marketing at Palo Alto Networks, told TechCrunch in an interview.
The gatekeeper of the internet is revamping its most important product, but it's not clear how advertising fits into AI-infused answers.
Google's AI-driven approach is a bulwark against an emergent threat. It’s also a strategic gamble.
Cloud data analysis company Snowflake is at the center of a recent spate of alleged data thefts, as its corporate customers scramble to understand if their stores of cloud data have been compromised. Last week, Australian authorities sounded the alarm saying they had become aware of "successful compromises of several companies utilising Snowflake environments," without naming the companies. Hackers had claimed on a known cybercrime forum that they had stolen hundreds of millions of customer records from Santander Bank and Ticketmaster, two of Snowflake's biggest customers.
A new TikTok hack is taking over accounts from Paris Hilton to CNN. It’s spread via direct messages, so watch out.
Snowflake's security problems following a recent spate of customer data thefts are, for want of a better word, snowballing. Ticketmaster was the first company to link its recent data breach to the cloud data company Snowflake, and loan comparison site LendingTree has now confirmed its QuoteWizard subsidiary had data stolen from Snowflake. "We can confirm that we use Snowflake for our business operations, and that we were notified by them that our subsidiary, QuoteWizard, may have had data impacted by this incident," Megan Greuling, a spokesperson for LendingTree, told TechCrunch.
Multiple Microsoft services including Bing and Copilot, along with ChatGPT internet search and DuckDuckGo are down in Europe.
Markets will kick off a holiday-shortened trading week after ending last week at record highs.
Caitlin Clark led the Fever to a win over the Sky. Afterward, Angel Reese disputed a flagrant foul she was called for on Clark.
The Yahoo Fantasy football analysts reveal their first running back rankings for the 2024 NFL season.
Arike Ogunbowale responded to being left off the USA women's basketball roster for the 2024 Olympics, saying she realizes politics is part of the process.
With every participating team having released their set, let's rank and grade them all.
Betts crumpled in pain after being hit by the pitch and left the game.
Tennessee is a win away from advancing to the MCWS finals.
Lefty never did get his U.S. Open win, and it's looking like he never will.