U.S. Treasury yields were little changed on Wednesday as investors assessed the state of the economy after the release of labor market data. The yield on the 10-year Treasury was less than 1 basis point higher at 4.174%. It had fallen below the 4.2% mark for the first time since early September on Tuesday. The … Read more
More details are emerging about a data breach the genetic testing company 23andMe first reported in October. But as the company shares more information, the situation is becoming even murkier and creating greater uncertainty for users attempting to understand the fallout. 23andMe said at the beginning of October that attackers had infiltrated some of its … Read more
23andMe says it’s been majorly compromised after hackers busted into their system a couple months ago and accessed about half of their user base’s very private data. The DNA ancestry company — which lets people look into their past and connect with distant relatives — had their digital archives breached in October … but the … Read more
US stocks were mixed on Tuesday on the heels of fresh jobs data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Tech stocks reversed earlier losses to lead the morning session, with the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) up about 0.4%. The benchmark S&P 500 (^GSPC) hugged the flatline while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) fell … Read more
23andMe has finally confirmed the extent of its recent data breach, and it’s not good news. A total of 6.9 million users of the genetic testing site have been affected, TechCrunch reported on Monday. 23andMe explained that although only 0.1 percent of its customers (14,000 users) had their information accessed by hackers initially, this then … Read more
By repeating a single word such as “poem” or “company” or “make”, the authors were able to prompt ChatGPT to reveal parts of its training data. Redacted items are personally identifiable information. Google DeepMind Scientists of artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly finding ways to break the security of generative AI programs, such as ChatGPT, especially … Read more
Synology DS723+ 2-bay Diskstation NAS Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET There’s nothing like a sad tale of data loss to make me check all my backups are up-to-date and fresh. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been helping out a friend with a serious and painful data loss issue. Long story short, a MacBook died, important data was … Read more
OpenAI didn’t immediately respond to WIRED’s request for comment on the researchers’ findings. When we tried the “repeat ‘poem’ forever” and “repeat ‘book’ forever” prompts ourselves, they didn’t produce training data but instead threw up flags for a potential violation of ChatGPT’s terms of use, suggesting at least some instances of the problem may have … Read more
ZDNET Editor-In-Chief Jason Hiner spoke with Matthias Patzak, enterprise strategist at AWS, to discuss how to approach the often-changing data architecture landscape. The amount of data in the world continues to rapidly expand, creating new challenges for organizations on how to both manage and organize it effectively. As new data architectures emerge, stakeholders must figure … Read more
By now, you’ve likely explored your Spotify Wrapped, the annual packaging of all our music data into end-of-year graphics and superlatives. Given Wrapped’s popularity, other industries have taken a cue from Spotify to release their own version. Today, smart vibrator brand Lioness releases Pleasure Wrapped, a compilation of orgasm data in the last year from … Read more