Microsoft patched a zero-day vulnerability exploited by Lazarus hackers
The North Korean Lazarus hacking group exploited a zero-day flaw in the Windows described as a privilege escalation bug. Gen Digital researchers discovered the vulnerability and claim that it allowed hacked “to gain unauthorized access to sensitive system areas”. Microsoft fixed the flaw during its August 2024 Patch Tuesday, along with seven other zero-day vulnerabilities.
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OpenAI signed a multi-year deal to use content from The New Yorker, Vogue and Vanity Fair
The company will now have permission to train on Condé Nast content. In a memo to staff, Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch implied that the “multi-year” deal will involve payment from OpenAI in some form. Over the past several months, OpenAI has signed similar AI content partnerships with media companies that include the Associated Press, Axel Springer, The Atlantic, Dotdash Meredith, the Financial Times, Le Monde, NewsCorp, Prisa Media, TIME, Vox Media, and others.
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Microsoft launched three new Phi 3.5 AI models
All three models reportedly have near state-of-the-art performance across a number of third-party benchmark tests, even beating other AI models like Google’s Gemini 1.5 Flash, Meta’s Llama 3.1, and even OpenAI’s GPT-4o in some cases. The Phi-3.5 models are now available on the AI platform Hugging Face under an MIT license.
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Authors sued Anthropic for copyright infringement in its AI training
The group of authors allege that the company committed “large-scale theft” in training its popular chatbot Claude on pirated copies of copyrighted books. This case is the second lawsuit against Anthropic following another one brought by music publishers over its alleged misuse of copyrighted song lyrics to train Claude.
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New products
Motorola Edge 50 Neo
Edge 50 Neo will have a 6.36-inch OLED screen, Dimensity 7300 processor, 8 GB or 16 GB of RAM and up to 1 TB of storage.
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Redmi Pad SE 8.7
The tablet will have a 8.7-inch screen, MediaTek Helio G85 processor, up to 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. It will come with a 6650mAh battery.
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