This obscure Microsoft Word feature makes proofreading documents easy
In my job, I write and edit a lot of text every single day, and parsing it all for spelling or grammar errors can take up more time than I like. But when one of…
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AI models can acquire backdoors from surprisingly few malicious documents
Fine-tuning experiments with 100,000 clean samples versus 1,000 clean samples showed similar attack success rates when the number of malicious examples stayed constant. For GPT-3.5-turbo, between 50 and 90 malicious samples achieved over 80 percent…
Microsoft Word documents will soon auto-save to the cloud by default
Since a while back, there’s been a setting in Microsoft 365 that makes it possible to auto-save Word documents to the cloud. It’s a convenient feature that helps mitigate the risk of losing data in…
Here’s how much Microsoft devs earn, according to leaked documents
As one of the most important technology companies in the world, Microsoft employs over 220,000 people. However, this number has shrunk somewhat following layoffs from earlier this year, which resulted in thousands of employees being…
How to build your own AI bot to answer questions about your documents
A local AI for your own documents can be really useful: Your own chatbot reads all important documents once and then provides the right answers to questions such as: “What is the excess for my…
Cannabis company Stiiizy says hackers accessed customers’ ID documents
Popular Los Angeles-based cannabis brand Stiiizy has confirmed that hackers accessed reams of sensitive customer data, including government-issued documents and medical cannabis cards, during a November cyberattack. In a data breach notice filed with California’s…
Online gift card store exposed hundreds of thousands of people’s identity documents
A U.S. online gift card store has secured an online storage server that was publicly exposing hundreds of thousands of customer government-issued identity documents to the internet. A security researcher, who goes by the online…
US Treasury says China stole documents in ‘major’ cyberattack
The U.S. Treasury told lawmakers in a letter Monday that it was hit by a cyberattack earlier in December, which the department has attributed to Chinese government hackers. In the letter shared with senior U.S.…
How to get Microsoft Edge to read web pages and documents out loud to you
Did you know that Microsoft Edge, the built-in web browser on Windows PCs, can read text out loud to you? It works for text on web pages, PDF and Word documents, and more — an…
Google Docs now lets you generate AI images directly within documents
Google just announced that it has started equipping its online document editing tool Google Docs with new AI features. Google’s own AI tool, called Gemini alongside OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot, has been able to…