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Alleged damage of 10 million dollars

ByteDance fires intern for AI sabotage

21. October, 2024 - 10:10

TikTok owner ByteDance announced in a statement that an intern was dismissed in August for “malicious” manipulation in a model training project. He is alleged to have caused millions of euros worth of damage.

Matt Garman

Come back or quit: AWS CEO defends office return

18. October, 2024 - 09:31

Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), has defended the company’s new return-to-the-office (RTO) policy. At an employee meeting in Seattle, he explained that those who do not support this policy can leave the company.

Camera interface

World ID: Sam Altman wants to stop AI fakes with eye scans

18. October, 2024 - 08:33

AI visionary Sam Altman is driving a project that uses eye scans to distinguish people from software fakes on the internet. His company OpenAI helped create the problem.

Ransomware attack

Company hires hacker from North Korea – network infiltrated

17. October, 2024 - 10:55

Once again, a company has fallen victim to a hacker attack after unknowingly hiring a North Korean cybercriminal as a remote IT employee.

ASML overtaken

SAP is now the most valuable tech company in Europe

17. October, 2024 - 10:50

The Dutch chip manufacturer ASML Holding NV has lost its position as Europe’s most valuable technology company to the software group SAP after a forecast cut caused the company’s shares to plummet.

IT service provider from Munich

Nagarro confirms talks with potential buyers

16. October, 2024 - 18:15

The German IT service provider Nagarro SE may be facing a takeover. The company has now confirmed that it is in talks with “certain interested parties” about a possible delisting from the stock exchange and a public takeover bid.

Connection to previous attacks?

Cisco investigates data theft after offer on hacker forum

16. October, 2024 - 09:44

Cisco has confirmed that it is currently investigating after threat actors claimed to have stolen a large amount of confidential data in a cyberattack on October 6, 2024. The attackers offered the allegedly stolen data for sale on a hacker forum.

Patent applications

Tesla wants to register “Robotaxi” as a trademark

15. October, 2024 - 08:19

Tesla wants to secure “Robotaxi” and “Robobus” as brand names. The electric car manufacturer’s applications to the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) cover both vehicles and transportation services.

Nuclear power

Google: Purchasing nuclear power for data centers

15. October, 2024 - 08:07

After Microsoft, Google is also turning to nuclear power to operate data centers in times of power-hungry artificial intelligence. From 2030, the internet company wants to purchase energy from innovative small reactors from the developer Kairos Power. The annual output should reach 500 megawatts by 2035.

Watch out, Gmail users!

New Gmail scam makes even experts look twice

14. October, 2024 - 17:41

A new, highly sophisticated form of phishing is alarming security experts. Cyber criminals are using artificial intelligence and sophisticated spoofing techniques in a new scam to deceive over 2.5 billion Gmail users.