Also: GPT-4 unveiled: ChatGPT’s next big upgrade is here GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT), a type of language model that uses deep learning to generate human-like, conversational text. Also: ChatGPT’s success could prompt a damaging swing to secrecy in AI, says AI pioneer For example, with GPT-4, you could upload a worksheet and it will be able to scan it and output responses to the questions. It could also read a graph you upload and make calculations based on the data presented....

If you are ready to learn what you canexpect in a computer science degree, this CS degree program guide can help. It offers information on degrees, specializations, course length, required projects, internships, and tuition and fees. What is a computer science degree? Students in a computer science — sometimes called CS — program learn computational theory, development, application, and design. Courses cover theoretical foundations of computer and web application development....

While the Zuckerberg presentation was as glamorous as a rendered videos go, the real meat behind shifting to the metaverse was discussed soon after by consulting CTO for Meta-owned Oculus John Carmack, who is a long-term VR/AR enthusiast. “I have been pretty active arguing against every single metaverse effort that we have tried to spin up internally in the company, even from pre-acquisition times,” he said. “I want it to exist, but I have pretty good reasons to believe setting out to build the metaverse is not actually the best way to wind up with the metaverse....

It’s not going to be competing with the iPhone. Take Samsung’s new Galaxy S22. It’s quite the powerhouse, and there’s no doubt that it beats the iPhone in several ways – at least on paper. For example, the Galaxy S22 has more RAM than the iPhone 13, has a bigger battery, and features faster battery charging. But that doesn’t matter. It’s not an iPhone. Flagship Android smartphones aren’t competing against the iPhone....

Providing an update on its blog on Friday morning, NBN has continued to state that restoration could take days. “As at 8:00am on Friday 11 June, NBN Co has restored its infrastructure assets servicing approximately 54,000 premises in metropolitan areas of Melbourne, mainly in the city’s eastern suburbs,” it said. “As a result of impacts to other network infrastructure assets, approximately 75,000 NBN services remain affected across parts of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area, Yarra Ranges, Gippsland, Gisborne, Ballarat, and small areas of other storm-impacted regions of Victoria....

One can assume a large government agency procuring $10 billion of cloud services has quite a bit of leverage over the terms of the agreement. However, for mainstream companies, the opposite may be true – the cloud provider holds many of the cards, in a legal or contractual sense, with terms that may come back to bite the consumer. Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 20% in 2022 to total $495 billion, up from $411 billion in 2021, according to Gartner....

Following up on the Withings ScanWatch, we have the ScanWatch Horizon that provides the same essentials as the ScanWatch in a luxury diver watch form factor. It’s an elegant, lovely watch available in green or blue for $499.95. We’ve been testing out a blue model for a few days and are once again struck by the great looks and wellness performance. Specifications Materials: Stainless steel case, stainless steel band, sapphire glass, and fluoroelastomer bandWireless: Bluetooth LEWater resistance: Up to 100mSensors: High precision MEMS 3-axis accelerometer, exclusive multi-wavelength PPG heart rate/SpO2 sensor, stainless steel electrodes for ECGBattery life: Up to 30 days in normal use, plus 20 days in power reserve mode (time and activity tracking only, no sleep or other advanced measurements)....

The new features and capabilities, introduced during the WWDC keynote address, include new ways to share private health data with doctors and loved ones. It also includes new ways to track your health, include a first-of-its-kind Walking Steadiness metric designed to prevent dangerous falls. Health has been a key area of focus for Apple. In early 2019, Apple CEO Tim Cook said on CNBC, “If you zoom out into the future, and you look back, and you ask the question, ‘What was Apple’s greatest contribution to mankind?...

In the UK, the Xiaomi 12 costs £749 (inc. VAT) with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, while £849 buys my 8GB/256GB review configuration. Xiaomi phones are not officially available in the US, although you’ll find plenty of unlocked models online. These UK prices convert to around $980 and $1,110 at the time of writing. If you want something similar but more expansive, look to the Xiaomi 12 Pro, which is both bigger (6....

According to the auction house, within hours of opening the payment option, a AU$100,000 custom-built caravan was paid for entirely by crypto. “As a long-time patron of Lloyds I had no hesitation and couldn’t believe how simple it was for me to pay with cryptocurrency. The seller would have received it as cash and never known the difference!,” a statement from the purchaser said. “Since then, we have had quite a bit of interest on our upcoming classic cars and earthmoving machinery auctions,” Lloyds Auctions chief operations officer Lee Hames added....

Self-monitored home security can stand guard Traditional home security is professionally monitored. When the alarm is tripped, the notification is fielded by agents at a command center. They contact you, then emergency responders. If you have a professionally monitored system, think twice before arming it against your kids. The costs of a false alarm can be steep, depending on your municipal code. Self-monitored systems push alerts to your smartphone. It’s up to you to respond to or ignore system alerts....

There are all kinds of excellent reasons to keep plants in your home. They can be as flamboyant of a décor element as an illuminations lamp. Plus, they help to keep the air inside your home healthy with very little effort, making great companions for that mop and vacuum robot everyone is raving about. And now iPhone users can take the work and worry out of maintaining thriving plants whether you are a total newbie or have a glowing green thumb....

Then up popped a cheery email from a no-doubt even cheerier PR person to brighten my day. The subject line radiated joy: “Shifting Gifting: Rebranding the Concept of Gifting in 2023.” I’m used to the idea that so many terrible people, companies, and things need rebranding. But gifting? Don’t we all agree that gifting is always a good thing, unless you gift someone an item you know they’ll despise? In merely thinking that, I was showing my ignorance (again)....

Based on data from the first half of 2021, YouTube examined the three main tools that make up its copyright management suite: Webform, which is available to everyone and accessed by rightsholders who hold limited copyrights and rarely submit takedown requests; Copyright Match Tool that supports those who may find reposted content and need to submit frequent takedown requests; and its Content ID system that supports rightsholders, like movie studios and music labels, who experience heavy reposting or copyrighted material....

“User interaction is not required for a successful attack. The only ability an attacker needs is to be able to send messages to the victim over Zoom chat over XMPP protocol,” Fratric said in a bug tracker description of the chain. Looking at the way XMPP messages are parsed differently by Zoom’s server and clients, since they use different XML parsing libraries, Fratric was able to uncover an attack chain that ultimately could lead to remote code execution....

Microsoft announced Volterra on Day 1 of its virtual Build 2022 developers conference on May 24, hoping to generate more excitement around its Windows on Arm (WoA) platform. Microsoft has been working on Windows on Arm for years, but there are still few (if any) compelling PCs and devices running on it. Qualcomm isn’t expected to field a respectable WoA processor for PCs until the second half of 2023. Microsoft officials talked about Volterra in the context of “intelligent hybrid compute” – the idea that local compute on devices will make use of local CPUs, GPUs and Neural Processing Units (NPUs) in conjunction with Azure for cloud compute....

Optery provides more coverage of data broker removals than any of its competitors due to its advanced functions. Optery provides visibility into leading data broker companies such as Spokeo, Intelius, WhitePages, and many more, then opts you out from them. By doing so, the service removes your home and email address, as well as your phone number and other private information that is found on the internet. Basically, your contact info is removed from Google when it is deleted from the original sources....

Victims often only realise that they’ve been compromised when files, servers and other systems have been encrypted and they’re presented with a ransom note demanding a payment in cryptocurrency for the decryption key. But even if cyber criminals are already inside the network, it’s not necessarily too late to prevent a ransomware attack; if an organisation has a good threat-hunting strategy, they can detect strange or suspicious activity and counter the threat before ransomware becomes a major problem....

JBS USA chief Andre Nogueira confirmed the company had made the payment to the attackers. While the FBI discourages ransomware victims to pay ransoms because it emboldens criminals, JBS said it made the decision to pay the attackers in consultation with third-party cybersecurity experts “to mitigate any unforeseen issues related to the attack and ensure no data was exfiltrated.” SEE: Security Awareness and Training policy (TechRepublic Premium) “This was a very difficult decision to make for our company and for me personally,” said Andre Nogueira, CEO, JBS USA....

Microsoft developed the three-step advice as part of its feedback to the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s recent call for expert approaches to preventing and recovering from ransomware and other destructive cyberattacks. In brief, the three steps are “prepare, limit, and prevent”, which includes: prepare your recovery plan to enable recovery without paying; limit the scope of damage by protecting privileged roles; and make it harder to get in by incrementally removing risks....