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Spell Check Fail: Typo Leads to U.S. Military Leaking Sensitive Data
U.S. military personnel have been reportedly sending sensitive government and military information to the person managing Mali’s internet domain for years, all because officials keep forgetting to type the “I” at the end of their outbound address. The Financial Times broke the story about a steady flow of emails being sent to the “.ML” domain,…
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FTC’s Fight Against Microsoft/Activision Deal Is Back From the Dead
Shortly after a judge denied the Federal Trade Commission’s injunction to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard on Tuesday, the FTC has now turned to an appeals court to stop the $US69 billion deal once again. The FTC filed an appeal on Wednesday and an emergency motion on Thursday with the Ninth Circuit Court of…
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Archive of Our Own Is Back Online After a Massive DDoS Attack
The Archive of Our Own—the largest digital library for fanfiction currently operating, and one of the highest-trafficked sites in the world—was temporarily unavailable after it experienced a large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack from a hacker group calling itself “Anonymous Sudan.” Ao3 reported the outage early on the morning of July 10 and had restored service…
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ChatGPT’s Website Traffic Dipped for the First Time Since Its Launch
It appears that the artificial intelligence fatigue is upon us: OpenAI’s website traffic has fallen for the first time since the company launched the viral chatbot ChatGPT in November.