Monthly Archives: August 2022

Twilio suffers data breach after its employees were targeted by a phishing campaign

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Digital communication platform Twilio was hacked after a phishing campaign tricked its employees into revealing their login credentials (via TechCrunch). The company disclosed the data breach in a post on its blog, noting that only “a limited number” of customer accounts were affected by the attack. Twilio…

Peter Beck explains why Electron may only ever launch 10-15 times a year

Enlarge / An Electron rocket launches a mission for the US National Reconnaissance Office on August 4, 2022. (credit: Rocket Lab) For a rocket named after a negatively charged particle, the Electron launch vehicle has generated a lot of positive news lately. Rocket Lab’s small booster has already tied its record for annual launches with…

Meta’s new chatbot is already parroting users’ prejudice and misinformation

Meta opened the bot for public use on Friday. Deposit Photos On Friday, Meta unveiled BlenderBot 3, its new chatbot project that “improves through conversation” and allowed Americans to take the AI for a spin over the weekend, with results that seem to oscillate from conspiratorial to absurd. This morning, for example, BlenderBot told PopSci…