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Children and online safety, how the issue with Roblox highlights the need for more oversight into online services aimed at kids

With over a billion registered users (and 380 million active users as of 2024), Roblox propelled itself into the internet zeitgeist in 2006. Its blocky figures and endless options when it came to users customizing games and worlds to fit their imagination was particularly enticing to its core user base which is mostly comprised of children and teens.

Chat GTP-5 is here, and opinions are mixed, we talk new features and why some users say 4 was the better version

We reported on ChatGTP-5, code named Project Strawberry at the time, nearly one year ago today. The reported update was supposed to boost reasoning capacity and begin the transition of introducing self-learning to AI versus requiring vast swaths of data scrubbed from the internet (a distinction likely aimed to combat the obvious problems when you randomly collect data from unknowing and many times unwilling sources).

With a potentially industry changing copyright lawsuit filed just this week, the race to set AI apart as a distinct tool separate from the data it was built on is in full swing and as usual OpenAI’s ChatGPT product is leading the charge.

What is a reply all “email storm” and how can you prevent it?

In 2016 the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) experienced an email storm that crashed their email system and resulted in snowball effect of 168 million emails being sent in a short period of time.

The cause? A new IT contractor for the company sent out a test email company-wide (the NHS employs 1.2 million people and 840 thousand of them received the test email). Many of them replied to it, wondering why they were receiving such an email using the “reply all” function and it snowballed from there into an email chain of epic proportions, an email storm.

McDonald’s AI “McHire” platform was breached, allowing for the potential exposure of 64 million applicants private data

For employers, sorting through applications is ordinarily a tedious but necessary part of the hiring process. Enter AI, with artificial intelligence employers can now have AI tools sort candidates based on specific prompt criteria, shortening the time it takes to sort through dozens or even hundreds of applications and propelling the most worthy candidates to the top of the list for human review.

Hacking group Scattered Spider is making waves for disrupting retailers and corporate America despite recent arrests

Scattered Spider, otherwise known as UNC3944 gained notoriety during the infamous attack on MGM (which we reported in in 2023) which was estimated to have cost the company around $100 million dollars. The group has kept up its momentum while targeting financial institutions in particular such as PNC Financial Group, Synchrony Financial, Truist Bank and more.