Microsoft’s ‘New Bing’ Refuses To Write Cover Letter For a Job Saying It Would Be ‘Unethical’ and ‘Unfair To Other Applicants’

An anonymous reader shares a report: In the test, I asked the new Bing — now available in a trial format — to write a cover letter for the position of social media content producer at Insider’s bureau in Singapore. It flat out refused to do so. “I’m …

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Twitter launches its Blue service in India, Indonesia, and Brazil; in India, the subscription costs ~$10.9/month on iOS and Android and ~$7.8/month on the web (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Twitter launches its Blue service in India, Indonesia, and Brazil; in India, the subscription costs ~$10.9/month on iOS and Android and ~$7.8/month on the web  —  Twitter has rolled out its subscription serv…

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Analysis: CircleCI attackers stole session cookie to bypass MFA

By John E. Dunn The industry is taking a fresh look at the security around multi-factor authentication (MFA) in the face of recent bypass attacks. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is coming under sustained pressure from attackers, with a striking example being a breach that unfolded at DevOps platform CircleCi back in December. According to a recent incident update, the attack was traced back to a single malware infection on an engineer’s laptop on December 16, which wasn’t detected by AV. This, it transpired, was a good target for compromise – the engineer had the privileges to generate production access tokens. Attackers…

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