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[YT/SomeOrdinaryGames] The FBI Just Arrested The Owner Of The Largest Hacker Forum...
This time we take a look at how the FBI just hammered the owner of the largest forum regarding the biggest breaches we've seen in the last year. With so much prodding, it was only time this was going to happen. The arrest of Conor Brian Fitzpatrick (aka “pompompurin”).
Proxmox Mail Gateway 7.3 available!
Proxmox Mail Gateway 7.3 has been released! The new version of our email security solution is based on Debian 11.6 (“Bullseye”), uses the newer Linux kernel 5.15 or 6.2, as well as ZFS 2.1.9. The latest major version of Apache SpamAssassin 4.0.0 and PostgreSQL 13.10 are included.
[GitHub] Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience
GitHub announces Copilot X, its vision for an AI-powered developer experience. Copilot is adopting OpenAI's GPT-4 and gaining chat and voice interfaces, pull request support, and the ability to answer questions about code, building on the original Codex-based Copilot.
[ABC News] OpenAI CEO, CTO on risks and how AI will reshape society
In an interview with ABC News' Rebecca Jarvis, OpenAI's CEO and CTO discuss how AI will reshape society and the risks that come with it. CEO Sam Altman acknowledges those risks, saying people should be happy that OpenAI is "a little bit scared of this."
[TechCrunch] Ubisoft’s new AI tool automatically generates dialogue for non-playable game characters
Ubisoft, the developer behind popular games like Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry, announced that it’s using an AI “Ghostwriter” tool to write dialogue for some of its games with the aim of keeping NPCs (non-playable characters) individually interesting and realistic with less manual work.
Proxmox VE 7.4 released!
The Proxmox team is excited to announce the release of Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.4. It's based on Debian 11.6 "Bullseye" but using a newer Linux kernel 5.15 or 6.2, QEMU 7.2, LXC 5.0.2, and ZFS 2.1.9.
[TheRegister] UNIX co-creator Ken Thompson is a… what user now?
UNIX co-creator Ken Thompson says he's giving up on Apple after a lifetime of using it, calling what Apple does to a machine that should let you work "atrocious." He's moving to Linux, specifically Raspbian. The Register has the story behind the switch.
[ZDNET] ChatGPT's success could prompt a damaging swing to secrecy in AI, says AI pioneer Bengio
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio warns that ChatGPT's success could push the AI industry toward secrecy. In ZDNET's interview, he argues that market pressure may lead companies to disclose less, which could slow scientific progress and cause other harms.
[HelpNetSecurity] Security teams have no control over risky SaaS-to-SaaS connections
Help Net Security reports that security teams have little visibility or control over SaaS-to-SaaS connections that employees set up. Without that oversight, companies have no way to measure how much risk these app-to-app integrations add to their business.
[TheRegister] News Corp outfoxed by IT intruders for years
The super-corp, which owns The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, UK publications including The Sunday Times, and a broad array of other entities around the world, first reported the intrusion in February 2022.
