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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 being taken offline might sound like a disaster for Activision Blizzard, but that would only be the case if it were still 2009. The developer has taken down the older Modern Warfare 2 on PC due to reports of malware and hacked lobbies.📢 Multiplayer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) on Steam was brought offline while we investigate reports of an issue. — Call of Duty Updates (@CODUpdates) July 26, 2023 The issues appear to have started on late June, when…

Screenshot by Artie Beaty/ZDNETAs AI image creation and editing becomes more prevalent, a new digital privacy concern has arisen -- the unauthorized AI editing of someone's artwork or picture. To date, there's nothing to stop someone from taking a picture online, uploading it to an AI program, and manipulating it for all sorts of purposes.But a new technique from a team at MIT could change that. Also: The best AI image generators to trySimply called "PhotoGuard," the method involves a deep understanding of the…

What you'll need: The only thing you'll need for this is an email client. It doesn't matter what client you use but some clients do make this easier than others. I'll demonstrate on Thunderbird but your email client of choice should offer a similar feature. Do keep in mind that this also holds true for other apps (such as web browsers and messaging tools). 1. View before clickingThe first thing to do is open your email client. Once open, locate and click on any email that includes a link. In my example, I have an email…

Dall-E and Stable Diffusion were only the beginning. As generative AI systems proliferate and companies work to differentiate their offerings from those of their competitors, chatbots across the internet are gaining the power to edit images — as well as create them — with the likes of Shutterstock and Adobe leading the way. But with those new AI-empowered capabilities come familiar pitfalls, like the unauthorized manipulation of, or outright theft of, existing online artwork and images. Watermarking techniques can help…

Know what is WormGPT, the malicious ChatGPT alternative for cyberattacks and phishing.When OpenAI introduced ChatGPT, the AI-powered language model, the world was captivated by its capabilities in answering queries and performing tasks that once took days to complete, such as writing tasks, analyzing datasets, and coding. However, as ChatGPT gained popularity, competitors like Google's Bard and Microsoft's Bing AI emerged with their own AI-powered tools offering similar features.Recently, a new AI tool named WormGPT has…

It was only a matter of time before the AI chatbot was emulated for malicious purposes -- and one such tool is now on the market, known as WormGPT. ZDNET screenshot via TwitterWhen ChatGPT was made available to the public on November 30, 2002, the AI chatbot took the world by storm. The software was developed by OpenAI, an AI and research company. ChatGPT is a natural language processing tool able to answer queries and provide information based on datasets gleaned from datasets, including books and online web pages,…

Google Play Store has over 2.5 million apps for any and all tasks imaginable under the Sun. However, there have been numerous instances where Android users have downloaded apps from the Play Store and their devices got infected with malware. While Google's Play Protect screens apps before they get onto the platform, some of them can slip through. To protect its users against malware, Google recently announced measures such as the requirement of a valid D-U-N-S (Data Universal Number System) number to submit new apps.This…

Too Long; Didn't ReadJennifer DeStefano gave a testimony before the US Senate on artificial intelligence. The Scottsdale, Arizona mom experienced a terror no mother should ever have to face. “AI is revolutionizing and unraveling the very foundation of our social fabric by creating doubt and fear in what was once never questioned,” she said. Too Long; Didn't ReadJennifer DeStefano gave a testimony before the US Senate on artificial intelligence. The Scottsdale, Arizona mom experienced a terror no mother should ever have…

Steam Next Fest is underway, with hundreds of indie developers offering free demos of their upcoming titles. Sabotage Studio--and its highly anticipated RPG Sea Of Stars--is one of them, but the developer suddenly faces a new obstacle: Twitter has marked links to the game's Steam page as unsafe, and the studio has no idea why.The official Sea Of Stars Twitter account publicly reached out to Twitter's support team, with the tweet asking, "is there anything you can do about our Steam link being flagged as…

Malicious ChatGPT apps that target Android devices have been reported by researchers. Researchers have reported a recent rash of malicious ChatGPT apps that target Android devices. These programs, which pose as official ChatGPT apps, can hijack devices and collect private information, such as passwords, credit card numbers, and contact details. The harmful programs are often available on unofficial app stores and are frequently advertised online and on social media. Once loaded, the apps can remotely manage the…