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Twenty minutes into the future with OpenAI’s Deep Fake Text AI
In 1985, the TV film Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future presented a science fictional cyberpunk world where an evil media company …
Supermicro hardware weaknesses let researchers backdoor an IBM cloud server
More than five years have passed since researchers warned of the serious security risks that a widely used administrative tool poses to servers used for some of the most sensitive …
Windstream, ISP with 1 million customers, files for bankruptcy
Windstream—an Internet service provider in mainly rural areas—today filed for bankruptcy.
The bankruptcy was spurred by a court ruling from February 15 that could cost Windstream hundreds of millions of …
Verizon says phone-sale fraud is up, wants to lock new phones to fight it
Verizon—the only major US mobile carrier that routinely sells unlocked 4G LTE phones to consumers—last week asked for government permission to lock its phones for 60 days after purchase.
An …
INF Treaty exit? Putin says he’s ready to escalate to Cuban Missile Crisis levels
Russian President Vladimir Putin told members of the Russian media on Wednesday that if the US exits the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty …
Frontier demands $4,300 cancellation fee despite horribly slow Internet
Frontier Communications reportedly charged a cancellation fee of $4,302.17 to the operator of a one-person business in Wisconsin, even though she switched to a different …
Facebook VPN that snoops on users is pulled from Android store
Facebook has pulled its privacy-invading Onavo Protect VPN app off the Google Play store and will reportedly stop gobbling up data from users who still …
Millions of websites threatened by highly critical code-execution bug in Drupal
Millions of sites that run the Drupal content management system run the risk of being hijacked until they’re patched against a vulnerability that allows hackers to remotely execute malicious code, …
YouTube loses advertisers over “wormhole into pedophilia ring”
YouTube is losing advertising from Fortnite maker Epic Games, Disney, and other companies because of ads appearing alongside videos shared by pedophiles.…