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TurboTax-maker Intuit offers an AI agent that provides financial tips

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Wednesday, TurboTax-maker Intuit launched an AI assistant called "Intuit Assist" that can provide AI-generated financial recommendations and assist with decision-making when using the company's software, Reuters reports. Inuit…

OpenAI’s first-ever dev conference hopes to draw “hundreds of developers” in November

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Wednesday, OpenAI announced that it will host its first-ever developer conference, OpenAI DevDay, on November 6, 2023, in San Francisco. The one-day event hopes to bring together hundreds…

“AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Last week, Gizmodo parent company G/O Media fired the staff of its Spanish-language site Gizmodo en Español and began to replace their work with AI translations of English-language articles,…

4 Okta customers hit by campaign that gave attackers super admin control

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Authentication service Okta said four of its customers have been hit in a recent social-engineering campaign that allowed hackers to gain control of super administrator accounts and from there…

Hacker gains admin control of Sourcegraph and gives free access to the masses

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) An unknown hacker gained administrative control of Sourcegraph, an AI-driven service used by developers at Uber, Reddit, Dropbox, and other companies, and used it to provide free access to…

High-speed AI drone beats world-champion racers for the first time

Enlarge / A long-exposure image of an AI-trained autonomous UZH drone (the blue streak) that completed a lap a half-second ahead of the best time of a human pilot (the red streak). (credit:…

Russia targets Ukraine with new Android backdoor, intel agencies say

Enlarge / Ukrainian soldiers. (credit: Getty Images) Russia’s military intelligence unit has been targeting Ukrainian Android devices with “Infamous Chisel,” the tracking name for new malware that’s designed to backdoor devices and steal…

ReiserFS is now “obsolete” in the Linux kernel and should be gone by 2025

Enlarge / An Alameda County couple watches as investigators prepare to retrieve the body of Nina Reiser in the Oakland hills in July 2008. Hans Reiser, creator of the ReiserFS file system, provided…

AI-powered hate speech detection will moderate voice chat in Call of Duty

Enlarge (credit: Activision) On Wednesday, Activision announced that it will be introducing real-time AI-powered voice chat moderation in the upcoming November 10 release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III. The company is partnering…

AI fever turns Anguilla’s “.ai” domain into a digital gold mine

Enlarge / Thirst for the ".ai" domain has put Anguilla on the global technology map. (credit: Getty Images) Anguilla, a tiny British island territory in the Caribbean, may bring in up to $30…