Month: June 2023

Alex Zhavoronkov, left, founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine, and Feng Ren, co-CEO and chief scientific officer, at the company’s robotics lab in Suzhou, China. Source: Insilico Medicine The first drug fully generated by artificial intelligence entered into clinical trials with human patients this week. Insilico Medicine, a Hong Kong-based biotech startup with more than
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Two US authors sued OpenAI in San Francisco federal court on Wednesday, claiming in a proposed class action that the company misused their works to “train” its popular generative artificial-intelligence system ChatGPT. Massachusetts-based writers Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad said ChatGPT mined data copied from thousands of books without permission, infringing the authors’ copyrights. Matthew
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Jun 28, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Crime / Cryptocurrency Cybersecurity researchers have exposed the workings of a scam ring called CryptosLabs that’s estimated to have made €480 million in illegal profits by targeting users in French-speaking individuals in France, Belgium, and Luxembourg since April 2018. The syndicate’s massive fake investment schemes primarily involve impersonating 40 well-known banks,
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Twitter’s new chief executive, Linda Yaccarino, is working on a slew of measures to bring back advertisers who left the platform under Elon Musk’s ownership, including introducing a video ads service, pursuing more celebrities and raising headcount, the Financial Times (FT) reported on Wednesday. Yaccarino, who started as CEO on June 5, is planning to
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Noise ColorFit Vision 3 smartwatch has been launched in India on June 27. Priced under Rs. 5,000, the smartwatch sports a square dial and a metallic body. The smartwatch sports a 1.96-inch AMOLED display with 410×502 pixel resolutions and 550nits brightness. It features Bluetooth calling and supports over 150+ watch faces. The watch also offers
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Activision Blizzard said its studio that developed Call of Duty would set up shop in Barcelona, putting into action its pledge to invest in Europe after Brussels approved Microsoft‘s $69 billion (nearly Rs. 5,66,000 crore) acquisition of the company in May. The US company said on Wednesday its game developer Infinity Ward, which created the blockbuster
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Tata Communications will acquire US-based enterprise messaging firm Kaleyra for about $100 million (nearly Rs. 820 crore) in an all-cash deal, the company said on Wednesday. With operations in over 190 countries, Kaleyra provides integrated communication services with a set of proprietary platforms, offering targeted personalisation through messaging, video, push notifications, e-mail and voice-based services and
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Jun 28, 2023Ravie LakshmananFirmware Security / Tech Drones that don’t have any known security weaknesses could be the target of electromagnetic fault injection (EMFI) attacks, potentially enabling a threat actor to achieve arbitrary code execution and compromise their functionality and safety. The research comes from IOActive, which found that it is “feasible to compromise the
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Fire-Boltt Grenade smartwatch was launched in India as the latest affordable wearable device from the company. The smartwatch sports a 1.39-inch display with a resolution of 360×360 pixels, Bluetooth calling support. It is equipped with sensors for heart rate, sleep, and SpO2 level monitoring. It is also claimed to offer support for tracking 123 sports
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