Proprietary Software and Breaches
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Russian-backed [crackers] actively targeting US health care sector, HHS warns
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned on Monday that pro-Russian hacktivist group Killnet is actively targeting the U.S. healthcare industry with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
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Using ChatGPT to Create Multiple Choice Questions to Put into Moodle
This is a tutorial on having ChatGPT write questions to be imported into Moodle using the GIFT format. I’m going to use BBEdit as my text editor, but you can use a different one. The free version of BBEdit should do everything in these steps (* NOTE: Google Docs won’t work for the Regular Expression Find and Replace (Step 3). Microsoft Word will.)
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ChatGPT doing things it’s not supposed to.
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Does technology have a right to exist? (No.)
This was manifest recently in Heather Meeker's article "Is Copyright Eating AI?". In it, she argues that we need clear legal rules that "neural networks, and the outputs they produce, are not presumed to be copies of the data used to train them" (emphasis mine) or else we'll kill the industry and stifle innovation. Specifically, she believes that generative AI in particular is at risk of being brought down by copyright lawsuits.
And let's be clear: she isn't just arguing that this is the consequence if there's not such a legal rule. She's arguing clearly that it would be good if the legal rule existed, saying "let's hope this nascent field doesn't sink".
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Pro-Russian hackers Killnet behind Groningen hospital cyberattack
Only the UMCG website is down. According to the hospital, the website with the medical records of UMCG patients has not been compromised. Patients can still view their medical history, operations, medicines, and appointments.