The Justice Department said the F.B.I. had turned the structure of the Russian intelligence service’s “Snake” network for spying on computers against itself.Lees verder op New York Times
AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: The US says the FBI disrupted a long-running Russian cyberespionage operation by inspecting FSB’s Snake malware and decrypting and decoding its communications — A law enforcement effort dubbed “Medusa” targeted malware deployed by Moscow’s Federal Security Service, officials said Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI releases alignment research and an open-source tool that uses GPT-4 to try to interpret the behavior of individual GPT-2 “neurons and attention heads” — It’s often said that large language models (LLMs) along the lines of OpenAI’s ChatGPT are a black box, and certainly, there’s some truth to that. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Emma Roth / The Verge: What to expect at Google I/O 2023: Pixel Tablet, Pixel 7A, foldable-focused Android 14 details, a Pixel 8 and 8 Pro preview, Bard updates, PaLM 2, and more AI — Google I/O is almost here, and that means the launch of the highly anticipated Pixel Fold and Pixel Tablet is right around the corner. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: iOS 16.5 references new Beats Studio Pro headphones; source: they will come in four colors and have transparency mode, Personalized Spatial Audio, better ANC — Earlier this year, 9to5Mac revealed that Apple has been working on new Beats Studio Buds+ with a custom Beats chip. Lees verder op Tech Meme
James Vincent / The Verge: Anthropic, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI executives that raised $300M from Google, details its work on “constitutional AI” for safer chatbots — Anthropic is a bit of an unknown quantity in the AI world. Founded by former OpenAI employees and keen to present itself … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Yet another app failure was a reminder of how dependent we’ve become on our phones to tell us when the sun is shining. Here are some options if it happens again.Lees verder op New York Times
Andy Greenberg / Wired: Inside Big Pipes, a ~30-member FBI team responsible for three major cybercriminal takedowns over five years, killing dozens of “booter” DDOS-for-hire services — For a decade, a group called Big Pipes has worked behind the scenes with the FBI to target the worst cybercriminal “booter” services plaguing the internet. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jody Godoy / Reuters: A US judge sentences ex-Coinbase product manager Ishan Wahi to two years in prison for crypto insider trading; Wahi pled guilty to two counts in February 2023 — Ishan Wahi, a former Coinbase Global Inc (COIN.O) product manager, was sentenced on Tuesday to two years in prison in what U.S. prosecutors … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Anna Irrera / Bloomberg: Goldman, Microsoft, Deloitte, Cboe, and others plan to test the Canton Network blockchain in July 2023, linking apps using Digital Asset’s Daml smart contract — A group of firms including Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Microsoft Corp, Deloitte and Cboe Global Markets Inc are joining … Lees verder op Tech Meme