Quiz
After Amazon, which major American tech company is being sued for subscriptions that are too difficult to cancel?
Answer
Adobe, developer of the famous Photoshop and Acrobat. The US Department of Justice filed a complaint Monday alleging that “Adobe harmed consumers by enrolling them in its most lucrative default subscription plan without clearly disclosing the plan’s material terms.”
Ticketmaster hacked
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Live Nation, owner of Ticketmaster, has confirmed that nearly 560 million customer personal data are affected, the vast majority in the United States, but Canada is the second largest country in this gigantic 1.3 TB file hacked on 20 last May.
Data breaches are so common that the most recent one affecting Ticketmaster might have escaped your notice. If you bought show tickets, it probably concerns you: the personal data of more than 560 million customers are affected, the vast majority in the United States, but Canada is the second largest country in this gigantic file of 1, 3 TB hacked on May 20. The first piece of advice is to change your password, the second, valid at all times, is to be even more vigilant when faced with emails from strangers asking for information.
AI Psychology
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According to the study conducted by a trio of researchers from the Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience in France, ChatGPT’s performance was worse after it was updated to ChatGPT 4.
What would a psychologist say to a generative artificial intelligence that came to consult him? No need to look far, a trio of researchers from the Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience Laboratory in France published a study on the subject at the beginning of June, studying the psychology of ChatGPT. In particular, they learned that this AI generally preferred the quick and intuitive, but sometimes wrong, response to one that requires more thought. “Relatively worrying,” they write, the robot’s performance was worse after updating to ChatGPT 4.
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The UdS granted
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The FBI announced on May 29 that it had dismantled a 911.re residential proxy network, which transformed the devices of users of the two free VPNs into “zombie computers,” a discovery shared by a cybersecurity research team from the University of Sherbrooke in 2022.
Nearly two years after reporting to police authorities two free virtual private network (VPN) services that were illegally using Internet users’ computers, a cybersecurity research team from the University of Sherbrooke has seen the first arrests. The FBI announced on May 29 that it had dismantled a network of residential proxies 911.re, which transformed the devices of users of the two free VPNs into “zombie computers”, used in particular for sending campaigns. massive amounts of spam. It was Professor Marc Frappier’s team which revealed the modus operandi of the fraudsters in 2022.
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Repentigny in the lead
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Of the 83 cities analyzed by the Tonybet site, it was in Repentigny that Google searches revolved the most around the PS5, 480% more frequent than those on the Xbox Series X and S or the Nintendo Switch.
The PS5 is the most popular console in Canada, if we rely on Google searches, according to a small study conducted by the gaming site Tonybet. And of the 83 cities analyzed, it is in Repentigny that this domination is most evident, while searches for the PS5 were 480% more frequent than those for the Xbox Series X and S or the Nintendo Switch. According to data used by Tonybet, Sony would have sold 59.2 million consoles as of March 31, 2024, with Canada and the United States representing 40% of this market.