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AI chatbots that butter you up make you worse at conflict, study finds
State-of-the-art AI models tend to flatter users, and that praise makes people more convinced that they're right and less willing to resolve conflicts, recent research suggests.…
Hacking contest kerfuffle over copied rules pits Wiz against ZDI
A new hacking contest has caused a social media kerfuffle over allegations of rule copying and plagiarism.…
Hacked Ford screens put anti-RTO slogan above CEO’s face
Conference-room screens at Ford's Dearborn HQ were briefly hijacked on Thursday to display a protest image in an apparent swipe at the carmaker's return-to-office policy.…
India's tech talent pipeline is sputtering
Feature Shubh Kumar graduated from IIT Patna, one of India's famed Institutes of Technology – universities that attract millions of applicants but admit only 18,000 undergraduates.…
ICE plans to scour Facebook, TikTok, X, and even defunct Google+ for illegal immigration leads
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is seeking contractors to trawl social media and other open-source data for potential immigration enforcement leads, assuming public posts can yield actionable intelligence.…
Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally
Amazon founder and executive chair Jeff Bezos says that, within two decades, gigawatt-scale datacenters powered by a continuous stream of photons from the sun will fill Earth's orbit.…
No suds for you! Asahi brewery attack leaves Japanese drinkers dry
Ransomware has left Japan's biggest brewer struggling to ship beer, with Asahi warning domestic customers to brace for patchy supplies while its core systems stay offline.…
'Retired' cybercrime group demands $989M not to leak 1B Salesforce records
Despite at least three arrests and talk of retirement, a crew now calling itself Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters has reemerged with a data-leak site listing about 40 companies’ Salesforce environments, and is demanding $989.45 to prevent what it claims is about 1 billion stolen records from being published online.…
Google goes straight to shell with AI command line coding tool
In the beginning was the command line, and despite all the machine-learning froth, developers still live there. That is why Google has shoved its Jules coding agent into a terminal with a new tool it calls Jules Tools.…
Startups binge on AI while big firms sip cautiously, study shows
The Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm (aka A16z) crunched startup spending data and found young firms stuffing AI into everything, while bigger businesses remain far more restrained.…
Red Hat fesses up to GitLab breach after attackers brag of data theft
What started as cyber crew bragging has now been confirmed by Red Hat: someone gained access to its consulting GitLab system and walked away with data.…
AI devs close to scraping bottom of data barrel
Those spiffy AI systems that tech companies keep promising require mountains of training data, but high-quality sources may have already run out—unless enterprises can unlock the information trapped behind their firewalls, according to Goldman Sachs…