by admin | Nov 8, 2024 | data breach, DDoS attack, haveibeenpwned, Internet Archive, Internet News, News, The WayBack Machine
Following a wave of disruptive DDoS attacks that took out the Wayback Machine in early October, the Internet Archive is steadily restoring its services. On Monday, the nonprofit digital library confirmed that ‘Save Page Now,’ a tool for archiving web pages, is once...
by admin | Oct 31, 2024 | Google, Internet News, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, News, Other Tech News, search
Meta Platforms, the group behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and most of the other time-wasters that try to convince you to buy things, has a new target. Mark Zuckerberg’s suite of companies is exploring the search market. The stated reason for this, according to...
by admin | Oct 20, 2024 | AI, Avatar, CGI, generative AI, Internet News, movies, News, The Conversation, TV, TV News
From the mind-bending reality warps of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) to the breathtaking alien vistas of Avatar: The Way of Water (2022), visual effects have transported us to worlds beyond imagination. Yet the future of visual effects (VFX) could...
by admin | Oct 18, 2024 | App News, Internet News, News, Social media, The Conversation, Twitter, X
It’s now almost two years since Elon Musk concluded his takeover of Twitter (now called X) on 27 October 2022. Since then, the platform has become an increasingly polarised and divisive space. Musk promised to deal with some issues that had already frustrated users,...
by admin | Oct 13, 2024 | AI, artificial intelligence, Internet News, LLM, News, Other Tech News, scams, The Conversation, voice cloning
The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) has brought both benefits and risks. One concerning trend is the misuse of voice cloning. In seconds, scammers can clone a voice and trick people into thinking a friend or a family member urgently needs money. News...
by admin | Oct 11, 2024 | data breach, haveibeenpwned, Internet Archive, Internet News, News, Security News, The WayBack Machine
Internet Archive, the American nonprofit digital library and home of The Wayback Machine webpage archiving service, suffered a data breach late last month that has just come to light following a series of DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attacks that took the site...