ChatGPT, the popular chatbot from OpenAI, is estimated to have reached 100 million monthly active users in January, just two months after launch, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history, according to a UBS study on Wednesday.
https://therecord.media/illumina-dna-sequencing-devices-vulnerability-fda-cisa
Several U.S. agencies warned this week about a vulnerability affecting software in devices used for DNA research that would allow hackers access to sensitive patient information.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the company behind the devices — Illumina — said they have not received any reports indicating the vulnerability has been exploited.
Illumina is one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of medical devices that handle bioanalysis and DNA sequencing.
https://www.nrk.no/kultur/europeisk-forbrukernettverk-advarer-mot-a-bruke-klarna-1.16401582
Forbruker Europa er Forbrukertilsynets avdeling for handel på tvers av landegrensene i EU. De hjelper norske forbrukere som handler fra andre EU-land hvis noe går galt.
I fjor og hittil i år har de sett en økning av klager mot betalingstjenesten Klarna og nå advarer de mot å bruke tjenesten.
Decision by Ireland’s privacy regulator will set record for breach of EU’s data protection rules
… scientists showed that hibernation can be artificially triggered in rodents using ultrasonic pulses.
The advance is seen as significant because the technique was effective in rats – animals that do not naturally hibernate. This raises the prospect that humans may also retain a vestigial hibernation circuit in the brain that could be artificially reactivated.
“If this proves feasible in humans, we could envision astronauts wearing a helmet-like device designed to target the hypothalamus region for inducing a hypothermia and hypometabolism state,” said Hong Chen, an associate professor at Washington University in St Louis, who led the work.
https://news.yahoo.com/hyundai-kia-thefts-keep-rising-144034139.html
Nearly three months ago, Hyundai and Kia unveiled software that was designed to thwart an epidemic of thefts of their vehicles, caused by a security flaw that was exposed on TikTok and other social media sites.
So far, it hasn’t solved the problem. Across the country, thieves are still driving off with the vehicles at an alarming rate.
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The companies’ affected cars, many of them lower-cost models from the 2011 to early 2022 model years, were not equipped with a theft immobilizer. Such a device contains a computer chip in the key that must be recognized by another chip in the steering column before the engines will start.
Though most automakers have had the chips for years, Hyundai and Kia have lagged behind the industry as a whole in installing them on many models, thereby allowing thieves to exploit the security gap.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3vxy/sony-world-photography-awards-ai-generated
“I applied as a cheeky monkey, to find out if the competitions are prepared for AI images to enter. They are not,” he wrote. “We, the photo world, need an open discussion. A discussion about what we want to consider photography and what not. Is the umbrella of photography large enough to invite AI images to enter—or would this be a mistake? With my refusal of the award I hope to speed up this debate.”
https://gizmodo.com/nso-group-exploited-new-zero-click-vulnerabilities-in-i-1850347936
Citizen Lab identified three new exploits that targeted iOS users worldwide in 2022. Apple’s Lockdown Mode reportedly worked as promised.