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Microsoft AI suggests food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot in Canada

Enlarge / A photo of the Ottawa Food Bank warehouse. (credit: Ottawa Food Bank) Late last week, MSN.com's Microsoft Travel section posted an AI-generated article about the "cannot miss" attractions of Ottawa that…

Our health care system may soon receive a much-needed cybersecurity boost

Enlarge (credit: Lorenzo Capunata/Getty) The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (Arpa-H), a research support agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services, said today that it is launching an…

Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc

Enlarge A few months ago, an engineer in a data center in Norway encountered some perplexing errors that caused a Windows server to suddenly reset its system clock to 55 days in the…

AI chatbot scares Snapchat users by posting mysterious video

Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Snap Inc.) It's not Halloween yet, but some users of Snapchat feel like it is. On Tuesday evening, Snapchat's My AI chatbot posted a mysterious one-second video of…

Tech glitch let people with empty bank accounts withdraw hundreds in cash

Enlarge / Lines longer than this reportedly formed at ATMs across Ireland. (credit: Getty) People were flocking to ATMs in Ireland last night as the machines seemed to be in a giving mood.…

An Iowa school district is using ChatGPT to decide which books to ban

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) In response to recently enacted state legislation in Iowa, administrators are removing banned books from Mason City school libraries, and officials are using ChatGPT to help them pick the…

Ongoing scam tricks kids playing Roblox and Fortnite

Enlarge (credit: Savusia Konstantin | Getty Images) Thousands of websites belonging to US government agencies, leading universities, and professional organizations have been hijacked over the last half decade and used to push scammy…

An Apple malware-flagging tool is “trivially” easy to bypass

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) One of your Mac's built-in malware detection tools may not be working quite as well as you think. At the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas, longtime Mac security…

The New York Times prohibits AI vendors from devouring its content

Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Getty Images) In early August, The New York Times updated its terms of service (TOS) to prohibit scraping its articles and images for AI training, reports Adweek. The…

Real estate markets scramble following cyberattack on listings provider

Enlarge / MLS (Multiple Listing Service). (credit: Getty Images) Home buyers, sellers, real estate agents, and listing websites throughout the US have been stymied for five days by a cyberattack on a California…