AI’s rise is having an enormous environmental impact
Research by the International Energy Agency (EIA) on electricity consumption by 2026 shows that the meteoric rise of AI, as well as data centers and crypto currencies, is going to have a big impact on the environment. Tch giants need to do more work on solving this problem.
According to IEA rese... Read more
Windows on ARM bolstered by official Chrome support
Google has silently released a test version of Chrome with native Windows on ARM support. With that, the platform finally plays nice with the world's most widely used browser.
Although Windows on ARM has been around for over a decade, the platform has been an underachiever for quite some time. I... Read more
Privacy watchdog: ‘ChatGPT in violation of privacy laws’
Italy's privacy watchdog sees the tool ChatGPT as in violation of the privacy law. The regulator came to this conclusion after an investigation into the AI tool.
Italy's privacy commission opened an investigation into ChatGPT and imposed a ban on the AI tool after indications that the tool viol... Read more
Seagate introduces IronWolf Pro HDD for NAS deployment with up to 24 TB
Seagate has introduced the IronWolf Pro 24 TB HDD. This hard drive is designed for use in NAS applications. With it, the storage hardware manufacturer wants to help SMBs in particular manage their growing amounts of data.
The new Seagate IronWolf Pro 24 TB HDD is specifically designed for use in... Read more
Windows 11 update improves voice clarity with AI for all users
The AI feature Voice Clarity first available to Microsoft Surface users will soon come to all Windows 11 users. With that, this feature also lands on x86 systems, after being exclusive to ARM-based devices.
The AI feature Voice Clarity provides enhancements to voices during video calls. The tool... Read more
Five billion people being tracked by Patternz surveillance tool
The commercial surveillance tool Patternz is collecting data from billions of users without permission. This is according to the report "Europe's hidden security crisis" by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL).
The report shows that in Europe, companies and governments are using Real-Tim... Read more
Internal data Mercedes-Benz was accessible due to public GitHub token
An authentication token for GitHub was accidentally shared publicly by an employee. With this token, the entire source code on Mercedes' GitHub Enterprise Server was viewable.
RedHunt Labs found the authentication token during a routine scan in January. CTO Shubham Mittal contacted TechCrunch to... Read more
Critical vulnerability in Cisco UC/CC may lead to RCE attack
A number of Cisco solutions for SMBs suffer from a critical vulnerability that could lead to an RCE attack.
Cisco has issued a warning. The vulnerabilities have received a 9.9 CVSS score. The problem involves failure to process user-supplied data read into memory correctly. Hackers not logged in... Read more
ChatGPT gets smarter, cheaper and less lazy
OpenAI has refined its offerings and made many of them cheaper. A new LLM for ChatGPT reduces incidents where the chatbot shows "laziness" in its responses. Meanwhile, developers can now make AI models understand text better. Developers now also have greater flexibility with the OpenAI API.
Mult... Read more
Vulnerability in popular WordPress plugin affects million websites
The WordPress plugin Better Search Replace has a critical vulnerability that hackers are actively exploiting.
That's what the security experts at Wordfence Intelligence found. The popular WordPress plugin Better Search Replace has over 1 million installs worldwide. The plugin allows WordPress to... Read more