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Illustration: Beatrice Sala Rhode Island took its RIBridges system for applying for public assistance programs like Medicaid offline Friday following a cyberattack that may have exposed the personal data of hundreds of thousands of people, reports CBS affiliate WPRI 12. With its RIBridges system offline, Rhode Islanders won’t be able to log into RIBridges’ web portal or app, used to apply for Medicaid, food stamps, and other state benefits, says a government site providing updates on the breach. Governor Dan McKee said during a press briefing that attackers may have gotten personal info like names, addresses, and social security numbers of those who’ve used the system between 2019 to now.State Chief Digital Officer and Chief Information Officer Brian Tardiff, who also spoke at the briefing, said the attack is not ransomware, but “more of an extortion type activity by this cybercriminal group.”The attack also affected HealthSource RI, Rhode Island’s healthcare marketplace. The state hopes to get the system back online before the healthcare open enrollment period ends on January 31st, as WPRI writes. In the meantime, mail-in paper applications and instructions for using them are available at the state’s Department of Human Services website. The breach update site says that tomorrow, the state will publish the number of a call center for help with the breach, available from 11AM to 8PM ET Sunday morning and from 9AM to 9PM ET Monday through Friday after that. The Rhode Island government also plans to mail instructions for free credit monitoring to those impacted.

If you're thinking about gaming on the go but you don't want a gaming laptop or a nice tablet, a gaming handheld is definitely the way to go. MSI's latest Claw is shaping up to be a particularly competitive handheld at that, so you'll want to make sure you keep yours protected with a solid case. Luckily, the 7 AI+ has the same dimensions as the original Claw, so you've got options.

Do you put your Raspberry Pi into a case, or do you leave it sitting around? If you're into little Pi enclosures, you may have found that the current offerings aren't very good for keeping the board cool. If you have this issue but don't feel like buying another one to figure out if the next model is better, someone has created one you can 3D print.

Ilya Sutskever. | Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images OpenAI’s cofounder and former chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, made headlines earlier this year after he left to start his own AI lab called Safe Superintelligence Inc. He has avoided the limelight since his departure but made a rare public appearance in Vancouver on Friday at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).“Pre-training as we know it will unquestionably end,” Sutskever said onstage. This refers to the first phase of AI model development, when a large language model learns patterns from vast amounts of unlabeled data — typically text from the internet, books, and other sources. “We’ve achieved peak data and there’ll be no more.”During his NeurIPS talk, Sutskever said that, while he believes existing data can still take AI development farther, the industry is tapping out on new data to train on. This dynamic will, he said, eventually force a shift away from the way models are trained today. He compared the situation to fossil fuels: just as oil is a finite resource, the internet contains a finite amount of human-generated content.“We’ve achieved peak data and there’ll be no more,” according to Sutskever. “We have to deal with the data that... Read the full story at The Verge.

I wanted the Colorsonic to zap my grays. Instead, I got a lesson in tradeoffs. Read the full story at The Verge.

Network-attached storage (NAS) devices have two main purposes: to simplify data storage and ensure that your files remain accessible for the entire team across all their devices. While they offer excellent transfer speeds and reliability on a local network, they should be equally robust for remote access. Many of the top NAS enclosures provide multiple ways to achieve this. However, opening up your NAS to the internet can expose it to prying eyes and numerous security threats. Fortunately, there are secure ways to access your NAS from anywhere in the world without compromising data integrity.

While Steam Deck alternatives don't come with SteamOS out of the box, Valve definitely isn't against the idea. The company has always said that it wants to supply third-party companies with versions of SteamOS to use with their devices, and we've seen some movement behind the curtain showing that Valve is working away at making this a reality. Now, a recent leak has revealed what might be the first handheld device to have SteamOS as a factory default.

Actor Brandon Wilson dons the first-person camera rig. | Amazon MGM Studios and Orion Pictures When RaMell Ross signed on to direct the adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Nickel Boys, he wanted nearly the entire film to be shot from the first-person perspective. Here’s how he pulled off one of the year’s best and most ambitious movies. Read the full story at The Verge.

Microsoft recently started rolling out the Windows 11 24H2 update to more devices, even though users are still facing issues. In addition to aiming to fix them as soon as possible, the software giant is also busy working towards introducing some exciting changes to future Windows 11 updates.

Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Meta is asking California Attorney General Rob Bonta to block OpenAI’s planned transition from a non-profit to for-profit entity.In a letter sent to Bonta’s office this week, Meta says that OpenAI “should not be allowed to flout the law by taking and reappropriating assets it built as a charity and using them for potentially enormous private gains.”The letter, which was first reported on by The Wall Street Journal and you can read in full below, goes so far as to say that Meta believes Elon Musk is “qualified and well positioned to represent the interests of Californians in this matter.” Meta supporting Musk’s fight against OpenAI is notable given that Musk and Mark Zuckerberg were talking about literally fighting in a cage match just last year.OpenAI started as a non-profit but stumbled into commercial success with ChatGPT, which now makes billions of dollars a year in revenue. CEO Sam Altman has been clear that the company needs to shed its non-profit status to become more attractive to investors and continuing funding its ambitions. The stakes are so high that OpenAI will have to return the billions of dollars it raised this year (with interest) if it can’t successfully... Read the full story at The Verge.

The search functionality in File Explorer helps you locate specific files or folders on your system. However, when dealing with a large dataset, a standard name search may not be efficient. This is where advanced search filters come into play. These filters enable you to find files based on their size, properties, metadata, type, extension, or even content, saving you both time and effort.