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.
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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 Microsoft, the tech giant whose systems suffered widespread failures in the crash. Companies in banking and healthcare are expected to
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 Windows systems. Sensor configuration updates are an ongoing part of the protection mechanisms of the Falcon platform. This configuration update
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 PCs and servers offline, forcing them into a recovery boot loop so machines can’t start properly. The issue is not
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Implants Brain Tech In Human Patient For The First Time
Elon Musk’s neurotech startup Neuralink implanted its device in a human for the first time on Sunday, and the patient is “recovering well,” the billionaire said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday, CNBC reported. The company is developing a brain implant that aims to help patients with severe paralysis control external technologies using only unreal
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 to a copyright for the parts of the book Kashtanova wrote and arranged, but not for the images produced by
FTC Launched New Office Of Technology To Bolster Agency’s Work
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission FTC) posted a press release titled: “FTC Launches New Office of Technology to Bolster Agency’s Work”. From the press release: The Federal Trade Commission today launched a new Office of Technology that will strengthen the FTC’s ability to keep pace with technological challenges in the digital marketplace by supporting the agency’s law enforcement and policy