3 mn readArtificial intelligence can now clone human voices so well they that they are almost indistinguishable from the real thing. But how would it fare against the voice recognition tech that is supposed to protect people’s bank accounts? As part of the BBC’s Scam Safe Week, I have been investigating the power of voice cloning. The […]
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2 mn readA coalition of Canada’s biggest news outlets is suing OpenAI, the maker of artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, alleging the company is illegally using news articles to train its software. News organisations including the Toronto Star, Metroland Media, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC have all joined the suit, reportedly the first […]
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< 1 mn readGeorgia Tech is partnering with Grady Health System’s emergency medical services team to reduce ambulance response times on campus and in the immediate area. A pilot partnership has Grady EMS parking a vehicle at the Georgia Tech Police Department (GTPD) headquarters at the corner of Hemphill Avenue and 10th Street. The ambulance is staffed […]
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4 mn readAmid efforts to strengthen its national identity, Ukraine debates renaming its currency to distinguish it from its Russian linguistic counterpart. It may appear to be petty should a country decide to rename its currency system simply because the language describing the system is too similar to that of a neighboring country. It might be national […]
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2 mn readA popular open-source game engine called Godot Engine is being misused as part of a new GodLoader malware campaign, infecting over 17,000 systems since at least June 2024. “Cybercriminals have been taking advantage of Godot Engine to execute crafted GDScript code which triggers malicious commands and delivers malware,” Check Point said in a new analysis published Wednesday. “The technique […]
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< 1 mn readMicrosoft announced that it has restored most of its application services, including Outlook and Teams, impacted by the reported outages on Monday morning. In a statement on X at about 11 p.m. ET, Microsoft said it “restored functionality for all impacted services except Outlook on the web, which is still affected for a small number of users.” The […]
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