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How To Upgrade to Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur

Ubuntu 23.04, codenamed “Lunar Lobster,” on Jan. 25, 2024, officially reached its end of life. Consequently, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or any updated packages for Lunar Lobster. Ubuntu 23.10, codenamed “Mantic Minotaur,” was released on Oct. 12, 2023, so it is still receiving security updates, bug fixes, and software updates and will do so through to …

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Italy says ChatGPT breached privacy rules

3 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Italian authorities have accused OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, of breaching EU data protection law, giving the US firm 30 days to respond. Italy’s data protection watchdog has “notified breaches of data protection law to OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT’s artificial intelligence platform”, it said in a statement Monday. The watchdog blocked the popular chatbot …

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The 5 Best Plug-In Hybrid Cars for 2024

Gas-electric hybrid cars fill a need for those who want an electric car but don’t want to experience range anxiety. Since these vehicles have dual drive trains, one electric and the other gas, they are more complex than all-electric or all-gas-powered cars. When driven correctly, mainly on electric power, the less-reliable gas system is seldom used, which lowers wear and …

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AI in 2024 Brings Pivotal Shifts in Cybersecurity Trends

With the ongoing evolution of artificial intelligence and quantum computing, 2024 is poised for significant advancements as organizations increasingly adopt and innovate using these cutting-edge technologies. This technological surge, however, is accompanied by a rise in sophisticated cyberthreats. A significant concern is malicious actors’ misuse of generative artificial intelligence — or gen AI. Businesses are now facing myriad of complex …

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Expert provides steps you can take and explains why you can’t go it alone

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Perfect safety is no more possible online than it is when driving on a crowded road with strangers or walking alone through a city at night. Like roads and cities, the internet’s dangers arise from choices society has made. To enjoy the freedom of cars comes with the risk of accidents; to have the pleasures of …

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How To Speed Up a Slow Android Phone

Do you ever wonder why your Android smartphone behaves sluggishly? Your favorite apps don’t pop onto the screen as fast as they used to. Multitasking seems to take longer than ever. Screen animations seem to take forever now. Why does your smartphone play dumb and perform like it can’t wake up? Most often, the reason is poor user handling. Those …

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Computer scientists invent simple method to speed cache sifting

A logo for SIEVE, created by Yazhuo Zhang, portrays hotter objects in shades of red and colder ones in shades of blue. Zhang also designed a web site for SIEVE, including a motion graphic demonstrating how it works. Credit: Yazhuo Zhang Computer scientists have invented a highly effective—yet incredibly simple—algorithm to decide which items to toss from a web cache …

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Fake Biden robocall to New Hampshire voters highlights how easy it is to make deepfakes

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain An unknown number of New Hampshire voters received a phone call on Jan. 21, 2024, from what sounded like President Joe Biden. A recording contains Biden’s voice urging voters inclined to support Biden and the Democratic Party not to participate in New Hampshire’s Jan. 23 GOP primary election. “Republicans have been trying to push nonpartisan and …

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New research addresses predicting and controlling bad actor AI activity in a year of global elections

4 Credit: CC0 Public Domain More than 50 countries are set to hold national elections this year and analysts have long sounded the alarm on the threat of bad actors using artificial intelligence (AI) to disseminate and amplify disinformation during the election season across the globe. Now, a new study led by researchers at the George Washington University predicts that …

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Researchers propose a Web 3.0 streaming architecture and marketplace

1 Research now propose a marketplace for Web 3.0, an internet paradigm based on blockchain technology, which provides advantages such as transparency, decentralized control structures, user privacy, and fairness. Credit: technovore on openverse openverse.org/en-gb/image/b1e17f95-8563-4edb-9d61-1de13b09cce7 Web 3.0 is an internet paradigm that is based around blockchain technology, an advanced database mechanism. Compared to Web 2.0, the current internet paradigm, Web 3.0 …

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