News in the Technology category

Experts call for pause on AI training citing risks to humanity

AI professors and developers have co-signed an open letter to artificial intelligence labs, calling them to pause the development and training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months.
- Bill Toulas
- March 29, 2023
- 10:25 AM
- 3
OpenAI: ChatGPT payment data leak caused by open-source bug

OpenAI says a Redis client open-source library bug was behind Monday's ChatGPT outage and data leak, where users saw other users' personal information and chat queries.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 24, 2023
- 02:39 PM
- 0
File-sharing site Zippyshare shutting down after 17 years

File-sharing site Zippyshare has announced they are shutting down the site by the end of March 2023 after announcing they can no longer afford to keep the service running.
- Bill Toulas
- March 20, 2023
- 02:43 PM
- 3
Reddit is down in major outage blocking access to web, mobile apps

Reddit is investigating a major outage that is blocking users worldwide from accessing the social network's website and mobile apps.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 14, 2023
- 03:49 PM
- 3
NordVPN makes its Meshnet private tunnel free for everyone

NordVPN's Meshnet private tunnel feature for Windows, macOS, and Linux is now free for everyone, even users who do not have a subscription to NordVPN.
- Bill Toulas
- March 13, 2023
- 07:01 PM
- 1
DuckDuckGo launches AI-powered search query answering tool

Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has launched the first beta version of DuckAssist, an AI-assisted feature that writes accurate summaries to answer users' search queries.
- Bill Toulas
- March 08, 2023
- 10:22 AM
- 7
Nvidia releases driver hotfix for Windows performance issues

Nvidia has released a display driver hotfix to address recently reported high CPU usage and blue screen issues on Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 07, 2023
- 05:28 PM
- 0
Nvidia working on driver fix for Windows BSOD, high CPU usage

Nvidia confirmed today that it's working to fix a driver issue causing high CPU usage and blue screens of death (BSODs) on Windows systems.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 06, 2023
- 05:53 PM
- 1
Twitter API outage blocks sign-ins, breaks most platform features

Twitter users are experiencing issues worldwide when trying to log in or log out and when attempting to share their tweets, click links, embed tweets, and see images.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 06, 2023
- 12:23 PM
- 2
Brave Search launches AI-powered summarizer in search results

Brave Search has incorporated a new AI-powered tool named Summarizer, which gives a summarized answer to an inputted question before the rest of the search results.
- Bill Toulas
- March 03, 2023
- 11:46 AM
- 1
Twitter is down with users seeing "Welcome to Twitter" screen

When attempting to access Twitter's website, users see "Welcome to Twitter!" on the timeline. The alert, typically used for new signups, says, "Twitter is the best place to see what's happening in your world", with a Let's go button that lets you follow some people and topics.
- Mayank Parmar
- March 01, 2023
- 05:45 AM
- 3
ChatGPT is down worldwide - OpenAI working on issues

ChatGPT is down, according to OpenAI and users reports. Users are currently experiencing issues worldwide, with many unable to access the AI.
- Mayank Parmar
- February 27, 2023
- 11:07 AM
- 4
Google investigates Gmail IMAP sync issues affecting Outlook users

Google is investigating a service outage affecting Gmail users worldwide that causes issues when syncing emails with Microsoft servers via the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP).
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 22, 2023
- 02:54 PM
- 0
Twitter gets rid of SMS 2FA for non-Blue members — What you need to do

Twitter has announced that it will no longer support SMS two-factor authentication unless you pay for a Twitter Blue subscription. However, there are more secure options for multi-factor authentication, which we describe below.
- Lawrence Abrams
- February 19, 2023
- 09:38 PM
- 4
Hyundai, Kia patch bug allowing car thefts with a USB cable

Automakers Hyundai and KIA are rolling out an emergency software update on several of their car models impacted by an easy hack that makes it possible to steal them.
- Bill Toulas
- February 15, 2023
- 01:11 PM
- 1
Z-Library now has secret “personal domains” for each user

The controversial Z-Library online eBook repository has once again returned to the web, this time with secret user URLs that attempt to hinder disruption by law enforcement.
- Lawrence Abrams
- February 13, 2023
- 04:11 PM
- 1
Bermuda hit by major internet and power outage

Bermuda experienced a widespread power outage on Friday which impacted the island's internet and phone services. Calling it a "serious incident" at BELCO, the Bermudian power supplier, the government has advised customers to "unplug all sensitive electrical equipment" as crews work around the clock on restoration efforts.
- Ax Sharma
- February 03, 2023
- 11:27 PM
- 0
OpenAI releases tool to detect AI-written text

OpenAI has released an AI text classifier that attempts to detect whether input content was generated using artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT.
- Lawrence Abrams
- January 31, 2023
- 02:57 PM
- 0
Bank of America starts restoring missing Zelle transactions

Bank of America has started to restore missing Zelle transactions that suddenly disappeared from customers' bank accounts this morning, causing some to dip into negative balances.
- Lawrence Abrams
- January 18, 2023
- 03:06 PM
- 0
Android TV box on Amazon came pre-installed with malware

A Canadian system administrator discovered that an Android TV box purchased from Amazon was pre-loaded with persistent, sophisticated malware baked into its firmware.
- Bill Toulas
- January 12, 2023
- 03:41 PM
- 1