FuboTV goes kaput during World Cup semifinals, blames “criminal cyber attack”

Getty Images Sports-focused streaming-video service FuboTV said a “criminal cyber attack” was responsible for a prolonged outage that prevented subscribers from viewing most of Wednesday’s World Cup semifinal between France and Morocco. “The incident was not related to any bandwidth constraints on Fubo’s part,” the company said. “We were instead the target of a criminal […]

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Why Binge-Watching Is Better Than Setting New Year’s Resolutions

“Story is the world’s first virtual reality, minus the geeky visor,” says Cron. “They’ve done fMRI studies that show when you’re lost in the story, the same areas of your brain light up as if you were doing what the protagonist is doing.” This explains why despite having nothing in common with war veteran David […]

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Microsoft discovers Windows/Linux botnet used in DDoS attacks

Microsoft researchers have discovered a hybrid Windows-Linux botnet that uses a highly efficient technique to take down Minecraft servers and performs distributed denial-of-service attacks on other platforms. Dubbed MCCrash, the botnet infects Windows machines and devices running various distributions of Linux for use in DDoS attacks. Among the commands the botnet software accepts is one […]

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Stability AI plans to let artists opt out of Stable Diffusion 3 image training

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a person leaving a building, thus opting out of the vertical blinds convention. Ars Technica On Wednesday, Stability AI announced it would allow artists to remove their work from the training dataset for an upcoming Stable Diffusion 3.0 release. The move comes as an artist advocacy group called Spawning […]

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Riffusion’s AI generates music from text using visual sonograms

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of musical notes exploding forth from a computer monitor. Ars Technica On Thursday, a pair of tech hobbyists released Riffusion, an AI model that generates music from text prompts by creating a visual representation of sound and converting it to audio for playback. It uses a fine-tuned version of the […]

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The Ultimate Guide To Marketing Automation In 2022

In 2023, the landscape of marketing automation will continue to evolve as new technologies and trends emerge. Businesses should stay ahead of the curve to compete at their best. Now It is time to start planning your marketing automation strategy for the future. What Is Marketing Automation? Marketing automation is using technology to automate the […]

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The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater

In 2022, an American dressed in his pajamas took down North Korea’s Internet from his living room. Fortunately, there was no reprisal against the United States. But Kim Jong Un and his generals must have weighed retaliation and asked themselves whether the so-called independent hacker was a front for a planned and official American attack. […]

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Health Tech Investment – The Safest Option of the Decade

The integration of software in the healthcare sector increases the potential to improve access to healthcare on a global scale. With our progression as a species, healthcare technology is transforming the way we diagnose, treat, and prevent disease. As we evolve and adapt, our lifestyles and daily habits change too, both on an individual level and […]

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