Apple 14- and 16-Inch MacBook Pro and Mac Mini (2023): Specs, Release Date, Price

New year, new MacBooks. With little fanfare, Apple has unveiled updated 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros, now powered by the M2 Pro and M2 Max Apple-made chipsets. That’s practically the only major change from the 2021 MacBook Pro predecessors. However, that’s not the only new hardware announcement. There’s also a more powerful Mac Mini, powered […]

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Cybersecurity Focus: How to Make Remote Work Safer

Telework is a long-running trend in the business world, and it has reached unprecedented heights because of the Coronavirus emergency. As a result, numerous companies have been forced to plunge headlong into implementing the remote work model, and predictably enough, this process is not always smooth. One of the issues is that employees’ security is […]

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CISA’s 2022 highlight reel details progress and potential for security coordination

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is growing in size and plans to spend more tax dollars in its effort to coordinate a broad response to digital threats across government and the private sector. CISA operates a nearly $2.9 billion budget, with 2,800 employees and plans to hire 600 additional staff members, Jen Easterly, director […]

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ChatGPT coming soon to Azure OpenAI service — with guardrails

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Microsoft on Monday announced the general availability of Azure OpenAI Service as part of its ongoing partnership with OpenAI. Businesses will soon have access to ChatGPT, which has been trained and runs inference on Azure […]

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Four Microsoft Azure services found vulnerable to server-side request forgery

Dive Brief: Researchers found four instances where Microsoft Azure services were vulnerable to server-side request forgery attacks, according to a report released Tuesday from Orca Security. The vulnerable services included Azure API Management, Azure Functions, Azure Machine Learning and Azure Digital Twins.  In two instances involving Azure Functions and Azure Digital Twins, the vulnerabilities did […]

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Amazon Fire HD 8 and 8 Plus Review (2022): Unrivaled Value

If you want slightly more power, there is also the Fire HD 8 Plus ($150), which offers an extra gigabyte of RAM, wireless charging, and a 5-megapixel camera (to the base model’s 2-megapixel—neither are very good, so don’t let this be the selling point of the Plus). The extra RAM is very welcome, but the […]

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Artists file class-action lawsuit against AI image generator companies

Enlarge / A computer-generated gavel hovers over a laptop. Some artists have begun waging a legal fight against the alleged theft of billions of copyrighted images used to train AI art generators and reproduce unique styles without compensating artists or asking for consent. A group of artists represented by the Joseph Saveri Law Firm has […]

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