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Why you should always be wary of insider threats: A disgruntled employee at a US industrial firm deleted backups and locked IT admins out of workstations in a failed data extortion attempt
A disgruntled IT worker at a national industrial company in the US has been arrested after he launched an extortion campaign targeting his former employer in 2023. Daniel Rhyne was a core infrastructure engineer at an unnamed US-based industrial firm, and attempted to extort his company for $750,000 worth of Bitcoin. According to a press release issued by the US…
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OpenAI’s former chief scientist just raised $1bn for a new firm aimed at developing responsible AI
OpenAI’s former chief scientist has raised $1 billion for his new firm to develop safe artificial intelligence systems. Ilya Sutskever co-founded Safe Superintelligence (SSI) in June after departing OpenAI in May following a failed attempt to oust CEO Sam Altman in November 2023, which was initially backed by Sutskever. Reports suggest that the investment values SSI at $5 billion. The…
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Best Firm Mattresses of 2024
To better identify and explain firmness, we measure it by applying a load to the mattresses that gradually increases to 1,000 newtons, or 225 pounds. While that load is increasing, we plot the curve of the mattress’s deflection. The deflection at key points on this curve is then analyzed to determine a value that we then present on a scale of…
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Cisco layoffs cut deeper than expected as firm ramps up AI focus
Networking giant Cisco is the latest tech company to slash jobs while pledging to refocus on AI as well as cybersecurity. The company said it would slash its global staff numbers by 7% – more than 6,000 jobs – following a drop in revenue of 10% in its fourth quarter. That follows a first round of layoffs earlier in the…
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