Hackers Use ‘ToolShell’ to Target Thousands of Microsoft SharePoint Servers

Microsoft’s SharePoint software for servers is being targeted by malicious actors using a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability to gain unauthorised access, according to the company. The security flaw allows threat actors to target on-premise servers at thousands of firms with SharePoint servers. Researchers state that once attackers have breached these servers, they can gain […]

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Search Engines Built the Modern Web, AI Might Be Tearing It Down

It happened quietly. At the beginning of 2023, generative artificial intelligence (AI) and the chatbots powered by large language models (LLMs) were considered innocuous, only capable of writing overly formal essays and answering fact-based questions. However, as the months passed, these chatbots gained additional capabilities. First, they learned how to answer subjective queries; then, they […]

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Zoho Introduces Homegrown AI Model Zia, Multiple AI Agents for Enterprises

Zoho, the global software-as-a-service (SaaS) giant, has announced several new artificial intelligence (AI) products. On Thursday, the company unveiled its first in-house large language model (LLM) Zia, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model, more than 25 pre-built AI agents, Zia Agent Studio marketplace, and a model context protocol (MCP) server to let third-party agents connect […]

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Beeper Updated With On-Device Accounts, Support for End-to-End Encryption

Beeper has been relaunched, a year after parent company Automattic merged the messaging platform with competitor Texts.com. The app allows users to access their chats from various services including WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and Google Chat. Users can now opt for on-device connections to these services with support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE), instead of […]

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OpenAI’s AI-Powered Web Browser Could Be Called Aura

OpenAI’s rumoured under-development artificial intelligence (AI) web browser might be called Aura internally. A tipster has found evidence of the name Aura within ChatGPT’s code, leading to the belief that it could be what the company is calling the browser internally. Aura was said to be mentioned along with several other elements associated with browsers. […]

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ChatGPT May Soon Support Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint Files

OpenAI is reportedly developing new productivity tools for ChatGPT that could reduce users’ reliance on Microsoft’s Excel and PowerPoint. As per the report, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm is working on adding support for Microsoft’s spreadsheet and presentation file formats, so users can both create and edit these files directly within the chatbot’s […]

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