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Microsoft plans to block Office macros by default, again

TechSpot

Starting next week, Microsoft Office will block macros in files downloaded from the internet by default, "reversing a reversal" Microsoft had made just earlier this month. The new policy will be enforced starting July 27 as a security measure, but the company is taking greater pains to explain its decision.

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Ukrainian Radio Stations Hacked to Spread Fake News of Zelensky

SecureWorld News

Cyber threat actors continue to create new ways to attack and disrupt organizations in Ukraine as the war with Russia remains. TAVR Media, a Ukrainian media company that operates nine major radio stations, became the most recent victim to a cyberattack that resulted in the company broadcasting fake news about President Volodymyr Zelensky's health. The false report stated the president was "in an intensive care ward" and that he had passed on his responsibilities to members of the Ukrainian parli

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Intel could be bringing its 56-core CPUs to workstations

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Intel has been steadily updating the relevant enterprise software in preparation for Sapphire Rapids for over a year. Some of that software is open source and the source of small leaks.

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Google has fired the AI engineer who said its chatbot is sentient

TechSpot

Lemoine, also an ordained Christian mystic priest, made headlines worldwide last month after claiming LaMDA was sentient. The conversations he published included the bot's views on Isaac Asimov's laws of robotics, its fear of being shut down (which it likened to death), and a belief that it wasn't a slave.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Samsung lays the potential groundwork for several new Texas-based semiconductor factories

TechSpot

The applications are part of Texas' Chapter 313 incentive program, which provides companies with a 10-year limitation on the taxable property values in exchange for the applicant installing facilities and creating jobs within the defined area. The proposals come on the heels of Samsung's plans to build a $17 billion.

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Windows 11 account lockout policy helps to block brute force attacks

TechSpot

David Weston, Microsoft's VP of Security and Enterprise, announced the news via Twitter earlier this week. According to Weston, the lockout policy is designed to mitigate Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and other brute force attack vectors. The new feature is available on Windows 11 Insider Preview builds 22528.1000 and newer.

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