One of the tech industry’s biggest hype men, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, wants you to know that he is psyched about generative AI, but even he doesn’t think it can do what its biggest proponents say it will do. And he (not surprisingly) blames Microsoft. A month after Salesforce’s enormous tech conference, Dreamforce, during which […]
American Water warns of billing outages after finding hackers in its systems
U.S. public utility giant American Water says it has disconnected some of its systems after discovering that hackers breached its internal networks last week. American Water, which supplies drinking water and wastewater services to more than 14 million people across the United States, confirmed the security incident in an 8-K regulatory filing with the U.S. […]
Stray Kids’ Felix Warns Fans That He’s Lurking On Social Media
Stray Kids‘ Felix celebrated his 24th birthday on September 15. He celebrated with STAYs via a live broadcast. FELIX EATING HIS CAKE LIKE THAT 😭 pic.twitter.com/KoGBqtPfdf — 비니 (@spearhyunnie) September 15, 2024 One STAY captured a moment that gave many chills. Felix was expressing gratitude toward STAYs worldwide and revealed he sees them on X […]
California AI bill SB 1047 aims to prevent AI disasters, but Silicon Valley warns it will cause one
Update: California’s Appropriations Committee passed SB 1047 with significant amendments that change the bill on Thursday, August 15. You can read about them here. Outside of sci-fi films, there’s no precedent for AI systems killing people or being used in massive cyberattacks. However, some lawmakers want to implement safeguards before bad actors make that dystopian […]
FlightAware warns that some customers’ info has been ‘exposed,’ including Social Security numbers
Flight tracking site FlightAware has blamed a “configuration error” for exposing a raft of personal information of its customers, including some of their Social Security numbers. The company, which claims to be one of the largest aggregators of flight data, said in a notice on its website that it identified the unspecified error on July […]