Vice President for Programming: Atticus Fauci

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Atticus Fauci, a sophomore majoring in economics, is one of three candidates on the ballot for the Student Association’s (SA) vice president for programming (VPP) — an office that chairs the Student Association Programming Board (SAPB) and offers guidance for student planning events. His responses to Pipe Dream’s questionnaire have been edited for clarity. 1. Why did you decide to run for this SA E-Board position? Although I’ve been attending SAPB events my whole life, this past year I have fallen in love with the work SAPB does. Helping organize events such as Giancarlo Esposito was the highlight of my…Continue Reading

Gracenote Resolves Viewer Frustration Around Where, When and How to Watch Streaming Programming

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Gracenote Program Availability Data helps viewers find and watch the streaming TV, movies and live sports content they want across all services NEW YORK, March 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Gracenote, a Nielsen company, is helping TV providers optimize their user experiences by providing the most accurate, up-to-date and comprehensive datasets covering subscription video on-demand (SVOD) and linear (FAST) content availability. The Gracenote solutions pair TV, movie and sports programming availability data with normalized program metadata to ensure that streaming aggregators, digital platforms and MVPDs offer content-first user experiences that facilitate universal search, discovery and tune-in capabilities to drive maximum audience…Continue Reading

Hyundai teams up with police departments to host anti-theft software installation events

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BELLEVUE, Wash. — Hyundai is teaming up with local police departments in western Washington this weekend to host installation events of anti-theft software in vehicles. The goal: to prevent Hyundai vehicles from getting stolen. “I’m glad they’re doing it, I wish they would’ve done it sooner, but I’m comfortable with it now,” said Hyundai owner Harvey Garza. Officials with Hyundai say they’re upgrading 2011 to 2021 Hyundai vehicles that have a turnkey to start ignition system. Hyundai rolled out this software update last February. Since then, 1.2 million Hyundai vehicles in western Washington have been upgraded. In hopes of safer…Continue Reading

Recycle your old gadgets during IT Kit Amnesty Week

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Reading Time: 1 minutes In support of the University’s commitment to a zero carbon future, IT Services are holding an IT Kit Amnesty week taking place from Monday 15 April to Friday 19 April. During the week, you can bring any unwanted electronic devices and equipment to be reused or recycled through our partner Stone Group by bringing them to any of the campus drop off points. Drop off points: Drop-off points for the equipment will be available at various locations across the campus, including: Kilburn Building ground floor (all weeks) University Place foyer (Monday 15 April) Students’ Union ground…Continue Reading

Walmart Commerce Technologies Launches AI-Powered Logistics Product

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BENTONVILLE, Ark., March 14, 2024 — For years, Walmart has used AI to create a more efficient supply chain, reducing emissions while helping to ensure more of the items its customers want are available where, when and how they want them. Today, the company is making that same award-winning, AI-powered logistics technology — Route Optimization — available to all businesses as a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution through Walmart Commerce Technologies. “We have invested significant time, resources and operational knowhow into building solutions like Route Optimization, but that can be a barrier for many businesses,” said Anshu Bhardwaj, senior…Continue Reading

Gemini’s flawed AI racial images seen as warning of tech titans’ power

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AUSTIN, March 17 — For people at the trend-setting tech festival here, the scandal that erupted after Google’s Gemini chatbot cranked out images of Black and Asian Nazi soldiers was seen as a warning about the power artificial intelligence could give tech titans. Google CEO Sundar Pichai last month slammed as “completely unacceptable” errors by his company’s Gemini AI app, after gaffes such as the images of ethnically diverse Nazi troops forced it to temporarily stop users from creating pictures of people. Social media users mocked and criticized Google for the historically inaccurate images, like those showing a female black…Continue Reading

Hackers Use Cracked Software on GitHub to Spread RisePro Info Stealer

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March 16, 2024NewsroomMalware/Cybercrime Cybersecurity researchers have found a number of GitHub repositories offering cracked software that are used to deliver an information stealer called RisePro. The campaign, codenamed gitgub, includes 17 repositories associated with 11 different accounts, according to G DATA. The repositories in question have since been taken down by the Microsoft-owned subsidiary. “The repositories look similar, featuring a README.md file with the promise of free cracked software,” the German cybersecurity company said. “Green and red circles are commonly used on Github to display the status of automatic builds. Gitgub threat actors added four green Unicode circles to their…Continue Reading

Agencies issue memory safe programming guidance, spear-phishing update

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In new guidance for software manufacturers, cybersecurity agencies in the US and United Kingdom urge every software manufacturer to implement memory safe programming languages ​​(MSLs) and publish a roadmap that details how they will eliminate MSL vulnerabilities in their products. In other news, the agencies recently recommended actions to defend against Star Blizzard, a Russia-based threat that continues to target organizations and individuals with spear-phishing campaigns. John Riggi, AHA’s national advisor for cybersecurity and risk, said the MSL resource “will help organizations to design technology that incorporates the cybersecurity principles of ‘secure by design, secure by default.’ This is important…Continue Reading