Tool claims to sniff out cheaters abusing ChatGPT AI for plagiarism
"Humans deserve to know the truth"
Amazon is expanding Buy with Prime to all US retailers
Will it tarnish Prime's reputation?
Nearly all new homes built in England must include gigabit internet access
Tenants can also more easily request gigabit upgrades
Steam breaks its own record with 10 million concurrent in-game users and 33 million active this past weekend
More people are logging in and playing games
Seattle schools sue social media companies for causing "mental health crisis" among children
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube have been named in the suit
Saudi Arabia jails two Wikipedia administrators for four decades in "bid to control website's content" (Updated)
Weeks after a former Twitter employee was jailed for being a Saudi spy
Adobe: Online holiday spending reached record $211.7 billion in 2022
Nearly half of all online sales came through smartphones
Nvidia's AI upscaling now works on web videos
Video Super Resolution coming in February for RTX 40 and 30 series GPUs in Chrome and Edge
Bitcoin price predictions for 2023: rally to $250,000 or crash to $5,000
Could BTC's price rise 1,400% over the next 12 months?
Forward-looking: To say 2022 was a rough time for crypto is an understatement. Following a long period of rising prices and delighted investors, last year saw the arrival of a crypto winter that brought Bitcoin's price crashing down, bankrupted companies, and wiped over $1 trillion off the market, and that's not even mentioning the collapse of FTX. But what will 2023 bring? Analysts' predictions vary wildly, from Bitcoin almost quadrupling its previous record high and reaching $250,000, to the digital coin crashing to $5,000, which would be its lowest price since 2019.
New information-stealing malware is being spread by fake pirate sites
"Arrr, beware of RisePro, matey"
In a nutshell: In another showing of why downloading pirated software, games, movies, etc., can be riskier than it's worth, cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new information-stealing malware distributed through fake websites hosting pirated and other illegal content.
Home Alone was the most pirated classic Christmas movie of 2022
This is my house, I have to defend it
The FBI advises users to install ad blockers
PSA: Ad blocking is perhaps one of the most controversial aspects of browsing the web today. Users agree that it declutters web pages, but they also deny ad revenue to many sites that need it (like TechSpot). However, law enforcement agencies admit that ad blocking also mitigates some security risks that online advertising introduces.
McGraw Hill breach exposed 22 terabytes of sensitive student data
Two unprotected S3 buckets contained troves of confidential information
Ransomware attacks are ongoing: a recap of major recent incidents, including this week's hit on The Guardian
What just happened? Despite IT security efforts worldwide, ransomware attacks show no sign of slowing down. Various organizations like technology manufacturers, the media, and governments have suffered major incidents this year. The latest and potentially last major attack in 2022 has struck the 201-year-old British newspaper.
The UK says sharing Netflix passwords is illegal, could be criminal fraud
But you probably shouldn't worry
Riffusion, AI-based music generation where Beethoven meets Radiohead
Stable Diffusion machine learning applied to fusion sonograms
Epic Games Store and GOG launch winter sales with deep discounts and plenty of freebies
Deals for days... weeks, even
Elon Musk's poll asks users if he should step down as Twitter CEO, 57.5% vote yes
Was the decision already made?
YouTube bans Pornhub channel for multiple policy violations
Pornhub's owner denies the claims
Apple, Google, and Mozilla collaborate on Speedometer 3 browser benchmark
Cooperation should ensure fair and accurate benchmarks across Safari, Chrome, and Firefox
Twitter suspends accounts of several journalists, blocks Mastodon following Elon Musk doxxing row
The ElonJet account suspension led to many more bans
Microsoft bans cryptomining from its cloud services to protect customers
Only customers with written permission from Microsoft can mine
Eight "influencers" charged with securities fraud in $114 million pump-and-dump scam
Each suspect faces a maximum of 300 years if convicted on all 12 counts