📩 Cybersec & Digital Insider Ed.20: AI hype 🤖 AI-inspired job descriptions ✍️ First human brain implant 🧠 Apple Vision Pro 🕶️ Deep fakes 🎭

Dear cyber fellows!

Welcome to the 20th edition of Cybersec & Digital Insider! As always, we bring you the latest tech insights and innovations that are shaping the digital landscape. In this edition, we continue to talk about AI hype and AI-inspired future jobs, we cover our latest research and explore sustainable tech practices. Let's dive in!

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🗞️ MIT student claims to hack Apple Vision Pro on launch day - An Apple Vision Pro user claims to have already found vulnerabilities in the popular augmented reality headset.

🗞️ Danish schools will stop sending student data to Google - School students in Denmark regularly use Chromebooks and Google Workspace in class. But from now on, their data will not be sent to the tech giant.

🗞️ No more AI photos on Instagram, Threads, and Facebook - Meta says that in the upcoming months, users will see labels on potentially AI-generated content.

🗞️ Yandex to exit Russia via Kremlin-engineered $5.2B deal - Yandex NV has struck a 475-billion-rouble ($5.21 billion) deal to sell what has been dubbed "Russia's Google" to a group of Russian investors, marking the biggest corporate exit from the country since Moscow invaded Ukraine almost two years ago.

🕹️ Amazon's top AI-inspired jobs of the future - Amazon says it will teach you the AI skills needed to fulfill the top machine learning (ML) based jobs of the future – and all for free. What do these jobs actually entail? Cybernews sums up the AI-inspired job descriptions.

🕹️ From The Simpsons to reality: Apple Vision Pro’s 15 minutes of fame - Once predicted in an episode of ‘The Simpsons,’ the Apple Vision Pro has taken the internet by storm, demonstrating its seamless integration into the lives of many.

🕹️ Zoom will use Apple Vision Pro for immersive calls - Zoom is building software for immersive video conferencing using Apple’s virtual reality hardware.

🕹️ Musk: Neuralink succeeds at first human brain implant - Elon Musk said his brain chip start-up Neuralink successfully completed its first-ever human trial to implant its experimental wireless brain-computer interface, and the patient is doing well.

🕹️ Former Microsoft exec launches new AR headset - The Almer Arc 2 headset will allow users to connect remotely “as if they were physically present.”

🕹️ Robots can now groove with human-like walk - Scientists have reached a breakthrough in robotics, enabling robots to achieve human-like walking using a musculoskeletal model.

🔎 Data leak at fintech giant reveals staff calling clients ‘idiots’ - Direct Trading Technologies, an international fintech company, jeopardized over 300K traders by leaking their sensitive data and trading activity, thereby putting them at risk of an account takeover.

🔎 Miracle leak exposes 11 million corporate messages - Miracle Software Systems left an unprotected instance, exposing millions of messages between thousands of corporate users, some of which discussed corporate secrets.

🔎 Two million affected as learning app suffers data leak - A misconfigured database on the LectureNotes Learning App, a platform for sharing class notes, has exposed more than two million user records, the Cybernews research team has discovered.

✍️ Making the future of work sustainable - John Kerry, the US Special Envoy for Climate, recently explained that the world was "way off track" in maintaining its pledge to keep the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius – a figure that’s widely accepted as needed to keep climate change under control.

✍️ AI hype: a solution to a non-existent problem - Merely mentioning artificial intelligence could mean troves of investors at your door. Soon, that might not be enough – the hype must live up to reality. If it doesn’t, the bubble will burst.

Voice Cloning CEOs, Stealing CVs amp; Meta Labels AI Images

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🔐 What to do when deep fakes break our trust - The intersection of deep fakes and other verification abuses is breaking internet trust, possibly leading to a cascade of unstoppable fraud. But can identity decentralization save us?

🔐 Long passwords won’t protect your accounts, report finds - Longer passwords won’t stop adversaries from accessing your information, a report from Specops Software has found.

🔐 Data thieves loot job ad websites across Asia - A new cybercriminal gang nicknamed ResumeLooters has been spotted targeting dozens of websites in Asia associated with online retail and job ads. The purpose appears to be stealing and harvesting user data.

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