A bored hacktivist browses national security secrets, a laid-off engineer says big tech giants see employees as 100% usable and Stanford University students use ChatGPT for final exams.
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Business Insider reports that a Swiss hacker browsed an unsecured airline server and exposed national security secrets, including the FBI’s ‘no fly list’. The servers are hosted by CommuteAir, a regional airline that partnered with United Airlines to create United Express routes. Among the sensitive information discovered were the files “NoFly.csv,” and “selectee.csv,” which contained more than 1.8 million entries, including the names and dates of birth of people identified by the FBI as “known or suspected terrorists.” , who are stopped by it. boarding aircraft “when flying within, to, from, and over the United States.” A spokesperson for the airline confirmed the authenticity of the files to Insider and said that personally identifiable information belonging to employees was also found in the hack.
source: business Insider
After 16 years at Google, he was fired through an automatic account deactivation at 3 a.m., Justin Moore, an engineer, said in a LinkedIn post. Business Insider wrote that Moore was one of 12,000 people affected by the company’s mass layoffs last week. He said that he had not received any prior notice or communication about being let go. He stresses that layoffs like this remind you that your work is not your life and that employers, especially big, big-faced giants like Google, see you as 100 percent disposable. However, Moore pointed out that his experience at Google was “(largely) wonderful” and that he was proud of the work he had done around the world.
source: business Insider
According to an informal survey by Stanford Daily, a large number of students at Stanford University have used the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT for their final exams. A spokesperson for the university confirmed that the Board of Judicial Affairs is aware of and monitoring these emerging tools. Among other districts cracking down on its use is the New York City Department of Education which blocked the site on its network and devices, citing “concerns about negative impacts on student learning, and concerns about the security and accuracy of the content”. done.
source: Stanford Daily
Jerzy Szablowski, a bioengineer at Texas-based Rice University, plans to identify non-genetic drugs that could temporarily increase the human body’s resilience to exposure to extreme cold. Szablowski plans to deploy a new screening method to find drugs capable of enhancing the cold adaptation response of brown adipose tissue (BAT), or brown fat, which lowers body temperature by breaking down blood sugar and other fat molecules in a process called thermogenesis. controls. For this project, Zabłowski won a Young Faculty Award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. A drug that boosts the BAT response could also help first responders treat victims of hypothermia and reduce the cost of Arctic exploration.
source: Rice University News
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