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DALL·E 2 research preview update
Early users have created over 3 million images to date and helped us improve our safety processes. We’re excited to begin adding up to 1,000 new users from our
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Sam Altman’s Orb Company Promoted a Bruno Mars Partnership That Doesn't Exist
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Rivian begins production on the R2 electric SUV
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AMD is adding HDMI 2.1 support for Linux. That's good news for the Steam Machine.
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Windows Zero-Days Expose BitLocker Bypasses And CTFMON Privilege Escalation
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Official CheckMarx Jenkins package compromised with infostealer
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DALL·E 2 pre-training mitigations
In order to share the magic of DALL·E 2 with a broad audience, we needed to reduce the risks associated with powerful image generation models. To this end, we p
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Ask an AI expert: What exactly is the full stack?
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Scientists Gave Cocaine to Salmon and You Will Absolutely Believe What Happened Next
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Turkey wants to ban social media for kids under 15
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How SpaceX preempted a $2B fundraise with a $60B buyout offer
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Cybersecurity
New Fragnesia Linux Kernel LPE Grants Root Access via Page Cache Corruption
Details have emerged about a new variant of the recent Dirty Frag Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability that allows local attackers to gain root
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New GhostLock tool abuses Windows API to block file access
A security researcher has released a proof-of-concept tool named GhostLock that demonstrates how a legitimate Windows file API can be abused in attacks to block
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DALL·E 2: Extending creativity
As part of our DALL·E 2 research preview, more than 3,000 artists from more than 118 countries have incorporated DALL·E into their creative workflows. The artis
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5 AI Models Tried to Scam Me. Some of Them Were Scary Good
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Trump administration cites national security in stalling 165 wind farms
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Cybersecurity
18-Year-Old NGINX Rewrite Module Flaw Enables Unauthenticated RCE
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Why Changing Passwords Doesn’t End an Active Directory Breach
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DALL·E: Creating images from text
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Google Cloud launches two new AI chips to compete with Nvidia
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MIT's virtual violin offers luthiers a new design tool
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Microsoft's MDASH AI System Finds 16 Windows Flaws Fixed in Patch Tuesday
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Instructure confirms hackers used Canvas flaw to deface portals
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Advancing organizational transformation for business innovation
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New York Bans Government Employees from Insider Trading on Prediction Markets
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Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets
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From the stage to the future: Where are Startup Battlefield’s alumni now?
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Toyota built a $10 billion private utopia—what’s going on in there?
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Cybersecurity
Azerbaijani Energy Firm Hit by Repeated Microsoft Exchange Exploitation
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Webinar this week: Prevention alone is not enough against modern attacks
This upcoming webinar explores how organizations need to combine security, backups, and recovery planning to reduce the impact of modern cyberattacks. [...]
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CyberAgent moves faster with ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex
CyberAgent uses ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to securely scale AI adoption, improve quality, and accelerate decisions across advertising, media, and gaming.
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AI Tools Are Helping Mediocre North Korean Hackers Steal Millions
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2027 BMW i7 first look: A fantastically techy car for the 1 percent
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France confirms data breach at government agency that manages citizens’ IDs
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Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
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Cybersecurity
[Webinar] Why Your AppSec Tools Miss the "Lethal Path" (and How to Fix It)
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Google: Hackers used AI to develop zero-day exploit for web admin tool
Researchers at Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) say that a zero-day exploit targeting a popular open-source web administration tool was likely generated
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Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
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Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers?
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