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DeepSeek Hit By Cyberattack As Users Flock To Chinese AI Startup

Chinese startup DeepSeek said on Monday it will temporarily limit registrations due to a cyberattack after the company’s AI assistant amassed sudden popularity, Reuters reported. The startup earlier in the day was also hit by outages on its website after…

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CrowdStrike Outage To Cost US Fortune 500 Companies $5.4bn

The global technology outage sparked by CloudStrike’s faulty update will cost US Fortune 500 companies $5.4bn, insurers estimated, as the cybersecurity firm vowed to make changes to prevent it from happening again, The Guardian reported. The projected financial losses exclude…

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CrowdStrike Explains What Happened

CrowdStrike put up a blog post that gives some information about what happened recently. Here is part of that blog post: On July 19, 2024, at 04:09 UTC, as part of ongoing operations, CrowdStrike released a sensor configuration update to…

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Major Windows BSOD Hits Banks, Airlines, And TV Broadcasters

Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks, airlines, TV broadcasters, supermarkets, and many more businesses worldwide, The Verge reported. A faulty update from cybersecurity provider CloudStrike is knocking affected…

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AI-Created Images Lose U.S. Copyrights In Test For New Technology

Images in a graphic novel that were created using the artificial-intelligence system Midjourney should not have been granted copyright protection, the U.S. Copyright Office said in a letter seen by Reuters. “Zarya of the Dawn” author Kris Kashtanova is entitled…

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