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The controversy over the use of a fake film critic, supposedly generated by artificial intelligence, in the first trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s film “Megalopolis” has claimed its first victim. Variety reports that Lionsgate has cut ties with veteran marketing consultant Eddie Egan in the wake of the scandal, and that the hoax was likely created by an AI chatbot like ChatGPT. Variety had ChatGPT generate quotes from negative reviews of Coppola’s films The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, claiming that the results were strikingly similar to what was seen in the trailers. Puck’s Matt Belloni also reports that Lionsgate has…
Starlink, the satellite internet network developed by SpaceX, has introduced new out-of-region fees for users who activate their Starlink devices outside the country they originally ordered them in. If you buy a Starlink kit and try to activate it outside the region you bought it in, you’ll be charged $200 to $300 depending on the kit you buy. The activation fee for a standard kit is $200, while the activation fee for a Starlink Mini is $300. read more: Survey shows Starlink users are happier than average ISP customersStarlink has long been battling resellers who buy Starlink kits in supported…
Recent research by cybersecurity firm ESET has revealed details about a new attack campaign targeting Android smartphone users. The cyber attack is based on complex social engineering techniques and the use of new Android malware, allowing it to steal users’ Near Field Communication data and withdraw cash from NFC-enabled ATMs. Threat actors continue to improve their techniques As ESET notes, the threat actors initially exploited Progressive Web App technology, which allows for the installation of apps from any website outside of the Play Store, and is available on desktop Chromium-based browsers as well as supported browsers such as Firefox, Chrome,…
Glow Images | Getty ImagesYou may not have heard of National Public Data, but your personal information may have been exposed in the company’s recent massive data breach.The background check company, owned by Jericho Pictures, recently released details of the breach following a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that 2.9 billion personal details may have been exposed. Other reports have said the amount of information exposed could exceed 2.7 billion.James E. Lee, chief operating officer of the Identity Theft Resource Center, a nonprofit focused on reducing the risk of identity theft and theft, said in an official data breach notification…
Los Angeles The Biden administration is moving to ease the repeal of an expiring broadband subsidy program that helped give internet access to more than 23 million households, using funds from an existing program that helps libraries and schools provide WiFi hotspots to students and patrons.Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel told The Associated Press last week that the commission voted in July to “modernize” a federal program called E-Rate to fill at least some of the holes left by the Affordable Connectivity Program, which gives low-income households monthly subsidies for high-speed internet.”A lot of these homes are at risk…
Lionsgate has parted ways with marketing consultant Eddie Egan, who created a trailer for “Megalopolis” that featured fake quotes from famous film critics. The studio pulled the trailer on Wednesday after it was pointed out that a scathing remark about director Francis Ford Coppola’s previous film didn’t actually appear in critic reviews and was therefore fabricated. According to sources Variety “The quotes were not fabricated by Lionsgate or Egan, but rather a mistake in properly vetting and fact-checking the phrases provided by consultants. The trailer’s intent was to show that Coppola’s respected work was facing criticism similar to that of…
But town officials are working to change that. As part of a statewide effort to expand access to broadband, or high-speed internet, the Town of Epsom has spent the past month assessing areas with limited or no broadband. According to data collected by the NH Broadband Mapping Initiative through the University of New Hampshire, 11.9 percent of places in Epsom are considered underserved, meaning 239 addresses don’t have internet access fast enough to be considered served, while 19 addresses, or less than 1 percent, don’t have broadband available at all. Regionally, Epsom isn’t the worst, but it’s far from the…
The Biden administration is moving to ease the elimination of an expiring broadband subsidy program that has helped provide internet access to more than 23 million households, using funds from an existing program that helps libraries and schools provide WiFi hotspots to students and patrons.Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel told The Associated Press last week that the commission voted in July to “modernize” a federal program called E-Rate to fill at least some of the holes left by the Affordable Connectivity Program, which gives low-income households monthly subsidies for high-speed internet.”A lot of these homes are at risk of…
In recent years, the typical price for a package of personal identifying information that includes a person’s name, date of birth, and Social Security number has been around $10 on the black market, with many in the region of $1. These estimates come from multiple analyses of black market data sales by credit reporting companies. ExperianCyber Threat Intelligence Platform flash pointa security awareness training company Nowby 4.Social Security numbers are information that these and other companies urge consumers to protect, but their cheapness is a reminder that no matter how hard individuals try to protect their identities online, personal information…
A report from the Data Provenance Institute found that when people use ChatGPT, they do so primarily for “creative purposes,” instructing the AI to come up with stories. The next most common query is sexual content, which is sort of a subset of the first query but is more revealing in detail. Humans have a strange way of incorporating new technology into society. When Silicon Valley charlatans and con artists told us that AI would revolutionize existence as we know it, we had to first test it by seeing if it could write erotic literature. Humans can’t wait to point…