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Ransomware attack cost IKEA operator in Eastern Europe $23 million
Fourlis Group, the operator of IKEA stores in Greece, Cyprus, Romania, and Bulgaria, has informed that the ransomware attack it suffered just before Black Friday on November 27, 2024, caused losses estimated to €20 million ($22.8 million). The security incident became public on December 3, 2024, when the group admitted that the technical problems IKEA online shops were facing were due to “malicious…
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Opera adds ‘Browser Operator,’ an AI agent, to its browser – Computerworld
Opera has announced that its browser is now equipped with Browser Operator, a built-in AI agent that can help users with a variety of tasks. For example, if an Opera user wants help buying a large pack of socks in a certain color or booking a flight, the user can ask Browser Operator can do it. The video below shows…
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OpenAI’s new Operator agent can use the web for you – Computerworld
OpenAI is releasing a preview version of its first AI agent, Operator, which is specifically designed to use a web browser and can, for example, book a table at a restaurant for the user on its own. (An AI agent is a system that can be given a task and then work on it independently.) In the meantime, the user…
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Everything you need to know about Operator, OpenAI’s new AI agent
OpenAI has unveiled its first AI agent — but “Operator” remains a research preview, rather than a final product. AI agents are believed by many to be the “killer app” for generative AI, allowing the much-hyped technology to take on practical workloads by automating processes and taking action, rather than only providing information. The end of last year saw a…
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OpenAI debuts AI agent Operator to transform web task automation – Computerworld
“Open AI’s Operator is designed to be a web agent that can autonomously go through websites and conduct multi-step tasks,” said Hyoun Park, CEO and chief analyst at Amalgam Insights. “This is designed to be helpful both for accessing data within each website as well as conducting complex and time-consuming tasks that currently require repetitive clicking and typing.” Enterprise applications…
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OpenAI Releases ‘Operator’ AI Agent That Can Perform Tasks for You
After months of anticipation, OpenAI has finally released its first “Operator” AI agent that can perform tasks for you on the web. It’s the first AI agent that is being rolled out to consumers. So far, we have seen AI models generating texts, images, videos, and audio clips. However, with the agentic AI model, OpenAI has demonstrated that AI systems…
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Trump pardons Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht
On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump issued a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who ran the dark web marketplace Silk Road under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Ulbricht has been serving a life sentence without parole since 2015, when he was convicted of multiple charges, including the distribution of narcotics. The Silk Road marketplace, which was only accessible through the Tor…
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Raccoon Stealer malware operator gets 5 years in prison after guilty plea
Ukrainian national Mark Sokolovsky was sentenced today to five years in prison for his involvement in the Raccoon Stealer malware cybercrime operation. According to unsealed court documents, Sokolovsky (also known as raccoon-stealer, Photix, and black21jack77777) and his conspirators rented the malware to other threat actors under a MaaS (malware-as-a-service) model for $75 per week or $200 monthly. After infecting a…
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Vodafone and Three clear to merge and form UK’s biggest mobile operator
Vodafone and Three have been cleared to create the UK’s biggest mobile operator after committing to address concerns around network upgrades and price hikes. The proposed £16.5 billion merger (about $20.9 billion) was approved by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on Thursday following months of regulatory scrutiny, and is expected to be completed in the first half of 2025.…
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Ukraine arrests rogue VPN operator providing access to Runet
Ukraine’s cyber police have arrested a 28-year-old man who operated a massive virtual private network (VPN) service, allowing people from within the country to access the Russian internet (Runet). Runet is the portion of the internet that includes Russian sites on the “.ru” and “.su” top-level domains, including government sites, social media platforms, search engines, and various news platforms from the…
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