Month: April 2024

An animated avatar generated by the AI video platform Synthesia. Synthesia Nvidia-backed artificial intelligence firm Synthesia on Thursday unveiled a new wave of AI-generated digital avatars that can convey human emotions using a user’s text inputs. The company said its “Expressive Avatars” can blur the lines between the virtual world and real characters. It aims
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Apr 24, 2024NewsroomMalware / Endpoint Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an ongoing attack campaign that’s leveraging phishing emails to deliver malware called SSLoad. The campaign, codenamed FROZEN#SHADOW by Securonix, also involves the deployment of Cobalt Strike and the ConnectWise ScreenConnect remote desktop software. “SSLoad is designed to stealthily infiltrate systems, gather sensitive information and transmit
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In this article META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Meta Platforms, in July 2021. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images News | Getty Images Meta will report first-quarter results after the bell Wednesday. Here’s what analysts are expecting. Earnings per share: $4.32, according to LSEG. Revenue: $36.16 billion, according to LSEG. Daily
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Apr 24, 2024NewsroomCyber Attack / Cyber Espionage The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Monday sanctioned two firms and four individuals for their involvement in malicious cyber activities on behalf of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Cyber Electronic Command (IRGC-CEC) from at least 2016 to April 2021. This includes the
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Profluent, a California-based artificial intelligence (AI)-first protein design company, announced its AI model that can generate CRISPR-like proteins that do not occur in nature on Tuesday. CRISPR or Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats is a complex containing important proteins that scientists can use for precise gene editing in organisms. The company claims the usage
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HMD Pulse Pro was launched on Wednesday alongside the HMD Pulse+ and HMD Pulse, as the first smartphones to bear the Finnish firm’s branding. Priced under EUR 200 (roughly Rs. 17,800), the company says these phones are easy to repair using iFixit’s self-repair kits. All three handsets run on Android 14 out-of-the-box and are promised two major
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Apr 24, 2024NewsroomEncryption / Mobile Security Security vulnerabilities uncovered in cloud-based pinyin keyboard apps could be exploited to reveal users’ keystrokes to nefarious actors. The findings come from the Citizen Lab, which discovered weaknesses in eight of nine apps from vendors like Baidu, Honor, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung, Tencent, Vivo, and Xiaomi. The only vendor whose
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