A fix is on the way for those bricked Quest headsets, The US Treasury Department was hacked in a China-linked cyberattack, and YouTube copies Netflix's old 'Play Something' button. It's Tuesday, December 31st and this is Engadget News.
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Today
A Microsoft executive called OpenAI's web scraping the 'largest theft of labor in human history', Anthropic says Claude 'leads' 26 percent of its AI R&D work, and the FAA says laser strikes on aircraft fell again
-Microsoft's director of Applied Science, Dr. Brent Hecht, said OpenAI's work was akin to the "largest theft of labor in human history" that could create a "doom loop." -By "leads," the company means that the AI "can complete most of a task end-to-end from a high-level prompt, wh ... Show More
9m 46s
Yesterday
OpenAI revealed more instances of concerning AI model behaviors, Meta's rules for AI deepfakes are 'consistently and fundamentally inadequate', and a Japanese company developed a humanoid robot 'ambulance'.
-OpenAI revealed six new incidents, wherein the models it was testing acted on their own and behaved in concerning ways it didn't expect, in a post about how it was adopting a new framework for "misalignment reports." -The Oversight Board is once again pushing Meta to address the ... Show More
9m 50s
Feb 2020
Chinese cyber espionage in Malaysia and Japan. Android Bluetooth bug. Google expels suspect apps from the Play store. More Iowa caucus finger-pointing. US preps indictments of Chinese nationals.
Chinese espionage groups target Malaysian officials, and two more Japanese defense contractors say they were breached, also by China. Google patches Android problems, including an unusual Bluetooth bug. Google also expels apps that wanted unreasonable permissions from the Play st ... Show More
26m 41s
May 2021
VPN vulnerability exploited for cyberespionage closed. “IT security incident” at medical system. Android banking Trojans and cryptocurrency. Cyber threats to the Tokyo Olympics.
Pulse Secure patches its VPN, and CISA for one thinks you ought to apply those fixes. Apple has also patched two zero-days in its Webkit engine. Scripps Health recovers from what’s said to be a ransomware attack. Researchers describe Genesis, a criminal market for digital fingerp ... Show More
24m 42s