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An AI speaker messed up and skipped the names of students at a college commencement ceremony and yes, there were many boos

Well, it’s been a hell of a few weeks for AI interfering with educational ceremonies, after two speakers at separate events (including ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt) were roundly booed for calling it the future. This instance, though, is slightly different. @nowthisimpact You can hear the outrage. ♬ original sound – NowThis Impact Glendale Community College…

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Devs, be careful what you plug in: GitHub security breach was apparently facilitated by a ‘poisoned Visual Studio Code extension’

GitHub, arguably the place for developers to store and share code, has been the target of a cyberattack. The Microsoft-owned platform reported on Tuesday that its internal repositories experienced unauthorised access, although it does not appear to have exposed customer information outside of that. “Our current assessment is that the activity involved exfiltration of GitHub-internal…

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