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Unfortunately, some of the reporting about the chatbot is itself confusing. In the rush to relate every new detail about the chatbot in a way that will grab attention, reporters are applying dramatic language that doesn’t inform and in fact obscures what is going on with AI in a way that is a disservice to the public. Also: These experts are racing to protect AI from hackers. Time is running out A prime example came with a publication by The New York Times of a first-hand report by writer Kevin Roose of a two-hour session with Bing in the beta....

The network and application delivery firm on May 4 disclosed a critical authentication bypass affecting the iControl REST component in multiple versions of its Big-IP software. The bug, tagged as CVE-2022-1388, had a CVSSv3 severity score of 9.8 out of 10 in part because of its ease of exploitation. Within days of F5’s advisory, security researchers saw potential attackers scanning for vulnerable F5 system admin interfaces exposed on the internet....

Taking a conference call in your car may sound kind of miserable – and Cisco insists the integration isn’t intended to encourage in-car meetings. “I don’t think people are going to go to their car and take a meeting in the car because they have this feature,” Javed Khan, Cisco SVP and GM at Webex, said to ZDNet. At the same time, he said, the new norms of hybrid work mean that “collaboration needs to be enabled in every possible place....

The new vice president in charge of the firm’s LAC operations is Juan Manuel Gómez, who will oversee sales, marketing, service and operations across the countries in the region. Gómez replaces Marcelo Giampietro, who had joined Citrix as general manager for Americas from SAP in April 2021. The executive left the company a few months later, in November 2021. A Citrix veteran, Gómez joined the company 14 years ago, before holding marketing and sales roles at companies such as Latin carrier Avianca, as well as Kimberly-Clark, L’Oreal and Unilever....

Gartner estimates that over 85% of organisations will embrace the cloud-first principle by 2025, with over 95% of new workloads being deployed on cloud-native platforms (up from 30% in 2021). Over the next few years, the analyst firm predicts that cloud revenue will exceed non-cloud revenue for ‘relevant enterprise IT markets’. “Anything non-cloud will be considered legacy,” Govekar noted. SEE: Having a single cloud provider is so last decade What are the headwinds that are pushing these clouds across the landscape of business IT?...

“After a slow start, Europeans now recognize cloud for its support for new apps and also as affordable compute and storage for existing ones,” it said. While European businesses have undergone a major shift to cloud in pursuit of speed, scalability and innovation, the top concerns over using public cloud were security and privacy around data protection and disaster recovery (32%), and application security and protection (31%). Lesser concerns were lack of internal governance over public cloud storage (26%), lack of performance (23%), and compliance (21%)....

On Monday, the cloud service provider said that Project Pangea, available to eligible communities, will cut out the high costs of securing bandwidth in areas that have not been able to leverage any existing telecommunication infrastructure to build out web access potentially due to their location or the expense required. Communities – including local groups and non-profit organizations – that apply and are accepted to Project Pangea will be able to leverage Cloudflare’s network to “build their own telecom infrastructure [and] find a free and sustainable way to connect people who rely on the internet for everything from communication to education and economic development....

The San Francisco-based DevOps tool provider said in a blog post that the new uploader will be shipped as a static binary executable suitable for Windows, Linux, Alpine Linux, and macOS. The uploader, used in the same manner as the existing Bash uploader, is used to push coverage data and updates to products during development cycles. The uploader is currently in the Beta stage and so is yet to be fully integrated, but Codecov says that “most standard workflows that are currently accomplished with the Bash Uploader can be accomplished with the new uploader....

As President Joseph Biden’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity says, we must provide “a purchaser with an SBOM for each application.” Codenotary Community Attestation Service wants to help you with that. It is a free, open-source notarization and verification service. Its parent company Codenotary promises it will enable businesses to easily create an SBOM, attesting to the provenance and safety of their code. The Community Attestation Service provides end-to-end protection for software development and workloads....

If you’re savvy about leveraging credit card perks, you know you could earn cashback or travel miles when you pay with a Visa card at Costco. However, the branded Costco Anywhere Visa® Business Card by Citi amps up the rewards with 2% cashback for store purchases and 4% back on gas (including Costco’s). This Costco Anywhere Visa® Business Card review will explore everything you need to know about the branded store club – and whether it’s worth applying for....

Total sales for the period came in at a steady AU$9.76 billion, where its supermarkets business pitched in AU$8.62 billion and its liquor business AU$874 million. The remainder was made up by its express business. Breaking that down further, supermarkets ecommerce sales, unsurprisingly, grew 48% with sales penetration of 9% and liquor ecommerce jumped 72% with a 4.5% sales penetration. These results were similar to the Q1 results reported by supermarket rival Woolworths on Wednesday....

The company helps organizations analyze their cybersecurity “across technical and non-technical teams” while also providing tools to help improve cyber training. Immersive Labs is now marketing a new “Cyber Workforce Optimization” platform that will strive to provide a slate of services related to identifying cybersecurity gaps in an enterprise. “From crisis management with executives, to secure software development amongst engineers and ensuring compliance in legal teams, the platform will use data insights to understand where skills are required and inject role specific training,” the company said of their services in a statement....

In June, Ukrainian police arrested six suspects in 20 raids across Kyiv and other towns, seizing computers, technology, cars, and roughly $185,000. The Ukrainian National Police worked with law enforcement in South Korea on the raid, now known as Operation Cyclone. Interpol, an inter-governmental organization focused on facilitating coordinated activities between police agencies worldwide, said last week that Interpol’s Cyber Fusion Centre managed the operation in Singapore. Trend Micro, CDI, Kaspersky Lab, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, and Group-IB contributed threat intelligence through the Interpol Gateway project, together with police from Ukraine, South Korea, and the United States....

While 59% feel that their businesses appreciate their efforts (59%), that still means at least 40% aren’t achieving worthwhile collaboration. “Plus, only 42% fully agree when asked whether IT and the business speak the same language,” the survey’s authors point out. “The software development process can seem abstract and almost incomprehensible to some outside the IT or engineering departments. This leads to a mutual lack of understanding and frustration on both sides....

Because there are so many discounted products thanks to this great event, we’ve compiled the best deals available right now at Samsung. Be sure to check out the list below. A quick recommendation: if you see something that catches your eye, add it to your cart today. These deals are only available today, and we want to make sure that you capture the best deal to stretch your dollar. It’s only six pounds and uses a 180-degree swivel head, so you can lift it and dust bunnies from ceiling corners, mini-blinds, and more....

The effort follows years of growing consensus that environmental conditions to sustain life used to exist on Mars, prompting the obvious question: But did it? Part of the answer may reside in samples analyzed on Mars by rovers, as well as terrestrial equipment. While no Mars samples have yet been brought back to earth (a sample return mission has been proposed for 2026), sensors aboard rovers have captured significant data sets....

Also: 3 security gadgets I never leave home without To dismantle the Hive network, the Justice Department operated a “21st century cyber stakeout”, according to Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco. “Our investigative team turned the tables on Hive, swiping their decryption keys, passing them to victims, and ultimately averting more than $130 million dollars in ransomware payments,” she said in a statement. The FBI first penetrated Hive’s computer networks in July 2022....

The plot: Michigan State PhD candidate Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) finds a giant comet heading straight for Earth. She and her professorial supervisor, Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) calculate that it will cause an extinction-level event. In hindsight (were it available to them), they might have done better to post the news and supporting data on Twitter, where the world’s astronomers, journalists, and activists would at least have applied some seriousness....

Twitter’s board of directors on Friday quickly rebuffed Musk’s latest move. In a release, the board said it is prepared to take legal action to ensure the deal closes at a price of $54.20 per share. “We are committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plan to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery,” the board said in a statement....

Smart home tech can be pretty convenient, but if you are looking for a simple way to make your home more secure — particularly when renting — you may need a far less complicated solution. That doesn’t mean you can’t still have a truly revolutionary smart lock because the Ultraloq Combo Smart Lock & Key Fob + Bridge WiFi Adapt has what you need. Successfully funded on Indiegogo, this Combo Smart Lock by Ultraloq is easy to install yourself; there’s no wiring or drilling required for standard American doors....