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Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI) Passing Fad

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 22, 2023

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Over 100,000 ChatGPT Account Credentials Made Available on the Dark Web [Ed: Dumpster fire of abandoned accountx. Chatbots are a dangerous fad that hoards your secrets. All this Artificial Intelligence (AI) hype is getting out of hand and so far this week about half a dozen big publishers openly admit it, even berated what they called "AI-washing".]

=> ↺ Over 100,000 ChatGPT Account Credentials Made Available on the Dark Web

Over 100,000 ChatGPT user credentials have been dumped on the dark web's markets since June 2022, something that poses a significant risk considering what can be contained within a single chat session.

Microsoft rethinks death sentence for Windows Mail and Calendar apps

=> ↺ Microsoft rethinks death sentence for Windows Mail and Calendar apps

Microsoft intends to shut down its at-times-maligned Mail and Calendar apps, fold their capabilities into a new Outlook for Windows, and use the opportunity to – unsurprisingly – bring in more AI.

However, when this will happen is now in flux.

In a note earlier this month, Microsoft said Windows 11 devices shipped next year will include the new Outlook for Windows as the default mailbox app, which will include both mail and calendar tools. Thus, no need for the operating system's Mail and Calendar apps: just use the next Outlook instead.

CYBER: Big Tech Wants You to Think AI Will Kill Us All

=> ↺ CYBER: Big Tech Wants You to Think AI Will Kill Us All

Dystopian hype around technology is just a sales pitch.

Meta’s AI leaders want you to know fears over AI existential risk are “ridiculous”

=> ↺ Meta’s AI leaders want you to know fears over AI existential risk are “ridiculous”

It’s a really weird time in AI. In just six months, the public discourse around the technology has gone from “Chatbots generate funny sea shanties” to “AI systems could cause human extinction.” Who else is feeling whiplash? 

InterSystems taps Volumez to provide storage

=> ↺ InterSystems taps Volumez to provide storage

Volumez provides a cloud-based control plane for provisioning NVMe block access storage for Linux-based, Kubernetes-organized applications running primarily in the AWS and Azure clouds but also on-premises. Users can specify capacity, performance, resilience and security needs with declarative statements. Volumez’s software composes or orchestrates the storage they need using Linux primitives and not the cloud supplier’s main block storage instances. GCP and other cloud support is coming as is an extension to providing file-based storage.

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