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Open Microsoft database with 17 trillion total rows and 25,000 user accounts hacked by a bored teenager — but he’s been well-paid for his actions
16-year-old bug hunter gained admin access to Microsoft’s internal Titan analytics service through an unsigned login token that the service never checked From there, an estimated 17.3 trillion stored rows and a metadata table of about 25,000 accounts were reachable, though Faav says he only sampled data, avoiding dumping records…
Read MoreThis startup is issuing AI-generated acne prescriptions
The service is launching as a pilot program with gradually loosening physician oversight. Two physicians will approve each AI-generated prescription before they’re issued for the first 100 patients, but will start reviewing them only after they’re prescribed for up to 500 patients. “After that, physicians review a sample of at…
Read MoreInstagram is toying with a read-only mode for Plus subscribers
That’s a nicer name than ‘stalker mode.’ Source
Read MoreAll the drama around AI’s takeover of mathematics
This past year, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other labs have announced breakthroughs on numerous long-standing mathematical problems, in some cases pushing well beyond what researchers expected current systems to be capable of — including resolving one of the famous Millennium Prize problems. But in classic Silicon Valley style, AI labs are…
Read MoreArc Raiders and The Finals are both getting TV and film adaptations
There aren't many details on these upcoming game adaptations just yet. Source
Read MoreWikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage
Wiki editing: We’ve identified edits to Wikimedia wikis that we believe are from AI agents operated by OpenAI. These edits were not published to pages with visibility to general readers; almost all of them were testing edits in “sandbox” areas of the wiki. It also included a few edits to…
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