Microsoft researchers recently announced VALL-E, a new text-to-speech AI model that can accurately mimic a person’s voice when given a three-second audio sample. Once it has learned a specific voice, VALL-E can synthesise audio of that person saying anything—while attempting to retain the speaker’s emotional tone. When combined with other generative AI models like GPT-3,
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Seattle’s public school district filed a lawsuit against Big Tech claiming that the companies were responsible for a worsening mental health crisis among students and directly affected the schools’ ability to carry out their educational mission. The complaint, filed on Friday against Alphabet Inc, Meta Platforms Inc, Snap Inc, and TikTok-owner ByteDance with the U.S.
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Jan 10, 2023Ravie LakshmananAdvanced Persistent Threat The advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as StrongPity has targeted Android users with a trojanized version of the Telegram app through a fake website that impersonates a video chat service called Shagle. “A copycat website, mimicking the Shagle service, is used to distribute StrongPity’s mobile backdoor app,” ESET
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Jan 10, 2023Ravie LakshmananSoftware Security / Supply Chain A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in the open source jsonwebtoken (JWT) library that, if successfully exploited, could lead to remote code execution on a target server. “By exploiting this vulnerability, attackers could achieve remote code execution (RCE) on a server verifying a maliciously crafted JSON
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WhatsApp, the Meta-owned instant messaging app, is reportedly working on a new report status update feature for Android beta. This will enable users to report any unwanted status update violating the company’s Terms of Service on their Android phones. The Meta-owned messaging service is also testing this feature for a future update of its desktop
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Fire-Boltt Infinity smartwatch has been launched in India. The latest smartwatch from the Indian company sports a 1.6-inch HD display with 400×400 pixel resolution, and features Bluetooth calling. The Fire-Boltt Infinity smartwatch comes with support for more than 300 sports modes and over 110 inbuilt watch faces. It also has sensors that can track health
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The US Supreme Court on Monday let Meta Platforms’s WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the WhatsApp messaging app to install spy software allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people, including journalists, human rights activists and dissidents. The justices turned away NSO‘s appeal of a lower court’s decision that the
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Jan 09, 2023Ravie LakshmananDatabase Security / PLM Framework A group of academics has demonstrated novel attacks that leverage Text-to-SQL models to produce malicious code that could enable adversaries to glean sensitive information and stage denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. “To better interact with users, a wide range of database applications employ AI techniques that can translate human
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Salesforce Inc. rose after saying it would cut about 10% of its workforce and reduce its real estate holdings, citing too much hiring during the pandemic-fueled boom and customers turning cautious on spending. Anurag Rana of Bloomberg Intelligence speaks on “Bloomberg Markets.” Like this video? Subscribe to Bloomberg Technology on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrM7B7SL_g1edFOnmj-SDKg Watch the latest full
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With hybrid model empowering employees to work remotely and ensuring business continuity for enterprises, the use of unregistered devices by employees to access work platforms is adding new security challenges for organisations in India, according to a new survey by Cisco. The scenario is further complicated as employees are logging into work from multiple networks
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