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OpenAI's ChatGPT has some major AI chatbot competitors in the market: Gemini, Copilot, Claude. Now add to that list the Atari 2600. The OG video game console, which was first released in 1977, was used in an engineer's experiment to see how it would fare playing chess against the AI chatbot. By using a software emulator to run Atari's 1979 game Video Chess, Citrix engineer Robert Caruso said he was able to set up a match between ChatGPT and the 46-year-old game. The matchup did not go well for ChatGPT. "ChatGPT confused rooks for bishops, missed pawn forks and repeatedly...

Cloudflare, a web infrastructure provider and content delivery network, is reportedly suffering outages resulting in major websites crashing across the internet. Multiple websites crashed worldwide today as one of the web’s most important infrastructure providers and content delivery networks, Cloudflare, suffered an outage. Cloudflare provides DNS and CDN services and powers approximately “40% of the internet.” The Cloudflare system status page stated that “the issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.” The issue is reportedly related to the Cloudflare Resolver in the company’s edge network in certain locations. The outage struck at quite a few Cloudflare data...

Earlier this year, state-backed Chinese hackers embarked on one of the most sweeping Chinese espionage campaigns FireEye has seen in years, according to new research the security firm published Wednesday.The campaign, which lasted between January 20 and March 11, targeted 75 organizations ranging in nearly every economic sector: telecommunications, healthcare, government, defense, finance, petrochemical, manufacturing, and transportation. The campaign, believed to be run by APT41, targeted nonprofit, legal, real estate, travel, education, and media organizations as well.“This activity is one of the most widespread campaigns we have seen from China-nexus espionage actors in recent years,” researchers Christopher Glyer, Dan Perez, Sarah...

Over the past day, we’ve heard from many great Citrix customers about our advertising on The Rush Limbaugh Show. These customers have expressed their growing concern that some of his recent comments seem inconsistent with the core values Citrix has always stood for – humility, integrity and respect. While Citrix obviously does not control any show’s content or endorse opinions of their hosts, we do take the concerns of our customers seriously. When they are upset about something, we listen. After careful consideration, we have decided to discontinue our advertising on The Rush Limbaugh Show. Sincerely, Brett Caine SVP and...

CAIR has managed to convince Citrix (gotmypc.com) and Office Max to drop sponsorship of the Savage Nation. Their next target is AT&T Please go to CAIR's own action alert page to get contact info for the corporate sponsors they are targetting. Let AT&T know you support Savage's right to freedom of speech. Take 5 minutes and do it! AT&T http://www.cair.com/ArticleDetails.aspx?mid1=763&&ArticleID=23773&&name=n&&currPage=1 Randall L. Stephenson Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer, AT&T 175 E. Houston San Antonio, TX 78205 Tel: (210) 821-4105 Fax: (210) 351-2071 E-Mail: randall.stephenson@att.com, forrest.miller@att.com, karen.jennings@att.com, richard.dietz@att.com, walt.sharp@att.com, wes.warnock@att.com, mjthornburg@YELLOWPAGES.COM, drucilla.cessac@att.com, elva.gonzalez@att.com Let Office Max you won't...

Citrix Systems has released its single sign-on product, even as it prepares to debut an enhanced version of MetaFrame XP. The Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.-based company said Wednesday it has begun shipping Citrix MetaFrame Password Manager, priced at $179 per user. MetaFrame Password Manager, one of several products billed under the company's new MetaFrame Access Suite brand, was developed under the code name of Project Bimini. Once a user authenticates to a system using a single password, MetaFrame Password Manager automatically logs the user into any password-protected system while enforcing password policies. It also monitors all password-related events and can automate...