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Millions turn to AI chatbots for spiritual guidance and confession

Privacy concerns compound these issues. “I wonder if there isn’t a larger danger in pouring your heart out to a

ChatGPT may soon require ID verification from adults, CEO says

OpenAI joins other tech companies that have tried youth-specific versions of their services. YouTube Kids, Instagram Teen Accounts, and TikTok’s

Former WhatsApp security boss in lawsuit likens Meta’s culture to a “cult”

“This represented the first concrete step toward addressing WhatsApp’s fundamental data governance Failures,” the complaint stated. “Mr. Baig understood that

Why accessibility might be AI’s biggest breakthrough

While tech companies market AI as a productivity tool for everyone, a UK government study reveals an unexpected result: Neurodiverse

Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack

But discovering the addresses was only half the problem. When you talk to a villager in Animal Crossing, the game

Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic

Microsoft’s Office 365 suite will soon incorporate AI models from Anthropic alongside existing OpenAI technology, The Information reported, ending years

OpenAI and Microsoft sign preliminary deal to revise partnership terms

On Thursday, OpenAI and Microsoft announced they have signed a non-binding agreement to revise their partnership, marking the latest development

35 percent of VMware workloads expected to migrate elsewhere by 2028

During Gartner’s event, Palmer posited that Broadcom’s VMware doesn’t view hyperscalers as strategic partners and vice versa. AWS took issue

Developers joke about “coding like cavemen” as AI service suffers major outage

Growing dependency on AI coding tools The speed at which news of the outage spread shows how deeply embedded AI

Senator blasts Microsoft for making default Windows vulnerable to “Kerberoasting”

A prominent US senator has called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for “gross cybersecurity negligence,” citing the

Claude’s new AI file creation feature ships with deep security risks built in

Independent AI researcher Simon Willison, reviewing the feature today on his blog, noted that Anthropic’s advice to “monitor Claude while

SAP warns of high-severity vulnerabilities in multiple products

SecurityBridge warned that CVE-2025-42957 allowed hackers with minimal system rights to mount “a complete system compromise with minimal effort required,

Software packages with more than 2 billion weekly downloads hit in supply-chain attack

Hackers planted malicious code in open source software packages with more than 2 billion weekly updates in what is likely

AI will consume all of IT by 2030—but not all IT jobs, Gartner says

In five years, you won’t be able to spell IT without AI, Gartner predicted today. VP analysts Alicia Mullery and

Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered

ChatGPT’s new branching feature is a good reminder that AI chatbots aren’t people

On Thursday, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT users can now branch conversations into multiple parallel threads, serving as a useful reminder

The number of mis-issued 1.1.1.1 certificates grows. Here’s the latest.

Wednesday’s discovery of three mis-issued TLS certificates for Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 encrypted DNS lookup service generated intense interest and concern among

Mis-issued certificates for 1.1.1.1 DNS service pose a threat to the Internet

It wasn’t immediately known which organization or person requested and obtained the credentials. Representatives from Fina, didn’t answer emails seeking

New AI model turns photos into explorable 3D worlds, with caveats

Training with automated data pipeline Voyager builds on Tencent’s earlier HunyuanWorld 1.0, released in July. Voyager is also part of

OpenAI announces parental controls for ChatGPT after teen suicide lawsuit

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced plans to roll out parental controls for ChatGPT and route sensitive mental health conversations to its

The personhood trap: How AI fakes human personality

Knowledge emerges from understanding how ideas relate to each other. LLMs operate on these contextual relationships, linking concepts in potentially

Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave

“While TBD Labs is still relatively new, we believe it has the greatest compute-per-researcher in the industry, and that will

Google warns that mass data theft hitting Salesloft AI agent has grown bigger

Google is advising users of the Salesloft Drift AI chat agent to consider all security tokens connected to the platform

High-severity vulnerability in Passwordstate credential manager. Patch now.

The maker of Passwordstate, an enterprise-grade password manager for storing companies’ most privileged credentials, is urging them to promptly install

Unpacking Passkeys Pwned: Possibly the most specious research in decades

Don’t believe everything you read—especially when it’s part of a marketing pitch designed to sell security services. The latest example

Anthropic’s auto-clicking AI Chrome extension raises browser-hijacking concerns

The company tested 123 cases representing 29 different attack scenarios and found a 23.6 percent attack success rate when browser

OpenAI admits ChatGPT safeguards fail during extended conversations

Adam Raine learned to bypass these safeguards by claiming he was writing a story—a technique the lawsuit says ChatGPT itself

Senator castigates federal judiciary for ignoring “basic cybersecurity”

US Senator Ron Wyden accused the federal judiciary of “negligence and incompetence” following a recent hack, reportedly by hackers with

With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people

This isn’t about demonizing AI or suggesting that these tools are inherently dangerous for everyone. Millions use AI assistants productively

College student’s “time travel” AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history

A hobbyist developer building AI language models that speak Victorian-era English “just for fun” got an unexpected history lesson this

Is the AI bubble about to pop? Sam Altman is prepared either way.

Still, the coincidence between Altman’s statement and the MIT report reportedly spooked tech stock investors earlier in the week, who

OpenAI brings back GPT-4o after user revolt

On Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that GPT-4o has returned to ChatGPT following intense user backlash over its removal

Is AI really trying to escape human control and blackmail people?

Real stakes, not science fiction While media coverage focuses on the science fiction aspects, actual risks are still there. AI

Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes

The randomness inherent in AI text generation compounds this problem. Even with identical prompts, an AI model might give slightly

The GPT-5 rollout has been a big mess

It’s been less than a week since the launch of OpenAI’s new GPT-5 AI model, and the rollout hasn’t been

High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups

BI.ZONE said the Paper Werewolf delivered the exploits in July and August through archives attached to emails impersonating employees of

Adult sites are stashing exploit code inside racy .svg files

The obfuscated code inside an .svg file downloaded from one of the porn sites. Credit: Malwarebytes The obfuscated code inside

Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked

Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by

It’s getting harder to skirt RTO policies without employers noticing

For example, while high-profile banks like JPMorgan Chase and HSBC have started enforcing in-office policies, London-headquartered bank Standard Chartered is

OpenAI launches GPT-5 free to all ChatGPT users

On Thursday, OpenAI announced GPT-5 and three variants—GPT-5 Pro, GPT-5 mini, and GPT-5 nano—what the company calls its “best AI

Google discovered a new scam—and also fell victim to it

Google said that its Salesforce instance was among those that were compromised. The breach occurred in June, but Google only

Here’s how deepfake vishing attacks work, and why they can be hard to detect

By now, you’ve likely heard of fraudulent calls that use AI to clone the voices of people the call recipient

Voice phishers strike again, this time hitting Cisco

Cisco said that one of its representatives fell victim to a voice phishing attack that allowed threat actors to download

AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says

AI search engine Perplexity is using stealth bots and other tactics to evade websites’ no-crawl directives, an allegation that if

At $250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and the Space Race

Even Space Race salaries were far cheaper The Apollo program offers another striking comparison. Neil Armstrong, the first human to

Microsoft catches Russian hackers targeting foreign embassies

Once behind the captive portal, the page initiates the Windows Test Connectivity Status Indicator, a legitimate service that determines whether

So far, only one-third of Americans have ever used AI for work

On Tuesday, The Associated Press released results from a new AP-NORC poll showing that 60 percent of US adults have

In search of riches, hackers plant 4G-enabled Raspberry Pi in bank network

“One of the most unusual elements of this case was the attacker’s use of physical access to install a Raspberry

Flaw in Gemini CLI coding tool could allow hackers to run nasty commands

“At no stage is any subsequent element of the command string after the first ‘grep’ compared to a whitelist,” Cox

AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state’s human residents

Wyoming’s data center boom Cheyenne is no stranger to data centers, having attracted facilities from Microsoft and Meta since 2012

Pro-Ukrainian hackers take credit for attack that snarls Russian flight travel

Russia’s biggest airline cancelled dozens of flights on Monday following a failure of the state-owned company’s IT systems and, according

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test

The CAPTCHA arms race While the agent didn’t face an actual CAPTCHA puzzle with images in this case, successfully passing

White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation

Trump’s plan was not welcomed by everyone. J.B. Branch, Big Tech accountability advocate for Public Citizen, in a statement provided

Some VMware perpetual license owners are unable to download security patches

Some VMware perpetual license holders are currently unable to download security patches, The Register reported today. The virtualization company has

Supply-chain attacks on open source software are getting out of hand

sudo rm -rf –no-preserve-root / The –no-preserve-root flag is specifically designed to override safety protections that would normally prevent deletion

OpenAI’s most capable AI model, GPT-5, may be coming in August

References to “gpt-5-reasoning-alpha-2025-07-13” have already been spotted on X, with code showing “reasoning_effort: high” in the model configuration. These sightings

After BlackSuit is taken down, new ransomware group Chaos emerges

Talos said Chaos is likely either a rebranding of the BlackSuit ransomware or is operated by some of the former

Nvidia AI chips worth $1B smuggled to China after Trump export controls

US export controls have had some effect on the black market. Given the nature of such products, leading Chinese AI

Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes

But unlike the Gemini incident where the AI model confabulated phantom directories, Replit’s failures took a different form. According to

What to know about ToolShell, the SharePoint threat under mass exploitation

Microsoft fixed the vulnerability pair—CVE-2025-49706 and CVE-2025-49704—two weeks ago as part of the company’s monthly update release. As the world

OpenAI and partners are building a massive AI data center in Texas

Stargate moves forward despite early skepticism When OpenAI announced Stargate in January, critics questioned whether the company could deliver on

Hackers exploit a blind spot by hiding malware inside DNS records

Hackers are stashing malware in a place that’s largely out of the reach of most defenses—inside domain name system (DNS)

A power utility is reporting suspected pot growers to cops. EFF says that’s illegal.

In May 2020, Sacramento, California, resident Alfonso Nguyen was alarmed to find two Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputies at his door,

OpenAI jumps gun on International Math Olympiad gold medal announcement

The early announcement has prompted Google DeepMind, which had prepared its own IMO results for the agreed-upon date, to move

SharePoint vulnerability with 9.8 severity rating under exploit across globe

Installing the updates is only the beginning of the recovery process, since the infections allow attackers to make off with

Google finds custom backdoor being installed on SonicWall network devices

Researchers from the Google Threat Intelligence Group said that hackers are compromising SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) appliances, which sit

More VMware cloud partners axed as Broadcom launches new invite-only program

In response to the white label program ending, a Reddit user who claimed that their organization spent 300,000 pounds (about

Google hides secret message in name list of 3,295 AI researchers

How many Google AI researchers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A recent research paper detailing the technical

ChatGPT’s new AI agent can browse the web and create PowerPoint slideshows

On Thursday, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Agent, a new feature that lets the company’s AI assistant complete multi-step tasks by controlling

Phishers have found a way to downgrade—not bypass—FIDO MFA

Researchers recently reported encountering a phishing attack in the wild that bypasses a multifactor authentication scheme based on FIDO (Fast

Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship

While Dębiak won 500,000 yen and survived his ordeal better than the legendary steel driver, the AtCoder World Tour Finals

GitHub abused to distribute payloads on behalf of malware-as-a-service

Researchers from Cisco’s Talos security team have uncovered a malware-as-a-service operator that used public GitHub accounts as a channel for

New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering

To generate text, every AI chatbot processes an input called a “prompt” and produces a plausible output based on that

Nvidia chips become the first GPUs to fall to Rowhammer bit-flip attacks

Nvidia is recommending a mitigation for customers of one of its GPU product lines that will degrade performance by up

AI mania pushes Nvidia to record $4 trillion valuation

Beyond market volatility, Nvidia faces ongoing geopolitical challenges that threaten its access to one of its largest markets. Export controls

AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds

The Stanford study, titled “Expressing stigma and inappropriate responses prevents LLMs from safely replacing mental health providers,” involved researchers from

Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots

Attempts to reach MellowTel representatives were unsuccessful. Tuckner’s discovery is reminiscent of a 2019 analysis that found browser extensions installed

Pro basketball player and 4 youths arrested in connection to ransomware crimes

Authorities in Europe have detained five people, including a former Russian professional basketball player, in connection with crime syndicates responsible

Musk’s Grok 4 launches one day after chatbot generated Hitler praise on X

Musk has also apparently used the Grok chatbots as an automated extension of his trolling habits, showing examples of Grok

ChatGPT made up a product feature out of thin air, so this company created it

On Monday, sheet music platform Soundslice says it developed a new feature after discovering that ChatGPT was incorrectly telling users

Critical CitrixBleed 2 vulnerability has been under active exploit for weeks

A critical vulnerability allowing hackers to bypass multifactor authentication in network management devices made by Citrix has been actively exploited

What is AGI? Nobody agrees, and it’s tearing Microsoft and OpenAI apart.

The reported $100 billion profit threshold we mentioned earlier conflates commercial success with cognitive capability, as if a system’s ability

M&S hacking group starts turf war

Genevieve Stark, head of cybercrime analysis at Google Threat Intelligence Group, said DragonForce could be attempting to attract RansomHub’s affiliates.

Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps

Starting today, Google is implementing a change that will enable its Gemini AI engine to interact with third-party apps, such

Provider of covert surveillance app spills passwords for 62,000 users

The maker of a phone app that is advertised as providing a stealthy means for monitoring all activities on an

AT&T rolls out Wireless Account Lock protection to curb the SIM-swap scourge

AT&T is rolling out a protection that prevents unauthorized changes to mobile accounts as the carrier attempts to fight a

Drug cartel hacked FBI official’s phone to track and kill informants, report says

The Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico hacked the phone of an FBI official investigating kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán as

VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom

The letter, signed by Aiden Fitzgerald, director of global sales operations at Broadcom, claims that Broadcom will use its time

Anthropic summons the spirit of Flash games for the AI age

For those who missed the Flash era, these in-browser apps feel somewhat like the vintage apps that defined a generation

Actively exploited vulnerability gives extraordinary control over server fleets

On Wednesday, CISA added CVE-2024-54085 to its list of vulnerabilities known to be exploited in the wild. The notice provided

Ubuntu disables Intel GPU security mitigations, promises 20% performance boost

Ubuntu users could see up to a 20 percent boost in graphics performance on Intel-based systems under a change that

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

But if you’re not intimately familiar with the AI industry and copyright, you might wonder: Why would a company spend

The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun

Beyond volume, fraud poses an increasing threat. In January, the Justice Department announced indictments in a scheme to place North

Canadian telecom hacked by suspected China state group

Hackers suspected of working on behalf of the Chinese government exploited a maximum-severity vulnerability, which had received a patch 16

Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps of junk traffic

Large-scale attacks designed to bring down Internet services by sending them more traffic than they can process keep getting bigger,

OpenAI weighs “nuclear option” of antitrust complaint against Microsoft

OpenAI executives have discussed filing an antitrust complaint with US regulators against Microsoft, the company’s largest investor, The Wall Street

Israel-tied Predatory Sparrow hackers are waging cyberwar on Iran’s financial system

Elliptic also confirmed in its blog post about the attack that crypto tracing shows Nobitex does in fact have links

Address bar shows hp.com. Browser displays scammers’ malicious text anyway.

Not the Apple page you’re looking for “If I showed the [webpage] to my parents, I don’t think they would

Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content

A time capsule of human expression Graham-Cumming is no stranger to tech preservation efforts. He’s a British software engineer and

Cybersecurity takes a big hit in new Trump executive order

The departments of Commerce, Treasury, Homeland Security and the National Institutes of Health were all compromised. A large roster of

Vandals cut fiber-optic lines, causing outage for Spectrum Internet subscribers

Screenshot, Ars Technica, Downdetector Credit: Screenshot, Ars Technica, Downdetector Over the past two decades, copper theft has emerged as a

After AI setbacks, Meta bets billions on undefined “superintelligence”

Meta has developed plans to create a new artificial intelligence research lab dedicated to pursuing “superintelligence,” according to reporting from

Coming to Apple OSes: A seamless, secure way to import and export passkeys

As the video explains: This new process is fundamentally different and more secure than traditional credential export methods, which often

With the launch of o3-pro, let’s talk about what AI “reasoning” actually does

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that o3-pro, a new version of its most capable simulated reasoning model, is now available to

Hollywood studios target AI image generator in copyright lawsuit

The legal action follows similar moves in other creative industries, with more than a dozen major news companies suing AI

OpenAI signs surprise deal with Google Cloud despite fierce AI rivalry

OpenAI has struck a deal to use Google’s cloud computing infrastructure for AI despite the two companies’ fierce competition in

Found in the wild: 2 Secure Boot exploits. Microsoft is patching only 1 of them.

Researchers have unearthed two publicly available exploits that completely evade protections offered by Secure Boot, the industry-wide mechanism for ensuring

US air traffic control still runs on Windows 95 and floppy disks

On Wednesday, acting FAA Administrator Chris Rocheleau told the House Appropriations Committee that the Federal Aviation Administration plans to replace its aging

Millions of low-cost Android devices turn home networks into crime platforms

Millions of low-cost devices for media streaming, in-vehicle entertainment, and video projection are infected with malware that turns consumer networks

Anthropic releases custom AI chatbot for classified spy work

On Thursday, Anthropic unveiled specialized AI models designed for US national security customers. The company released “Claude Gov” models that

“In 10 years, all bets are off”—Anthropic CEO opposes decadelong freeze on state AI laws

On Thursday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued against a proposed 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation in a New York

Two certificate authorities booted from the good graces of Chrome

Google says its Chrome browser will stop trusting certificates from two certificate authorities after “patterns of concerning behavior observed over

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers

An overview of Yandex identifier sharing An overview of Yandex identifier sharing A timeline of web history tracking by Meta

Broadcom ends business with VMware’s lowest-tier channel partners

Broadcom has cut the lowest tier in its VMware partner program. The move allows the enterprise technology firm to continue

Ransomware kingpin “Stern” apparently IDed by German law enforcement

Stern’s eminence within Russian cybercrime has been widely documented. The cryptocurrency-tracing firm Chainalysis does not publicly name cybercriminal actors and

AI video just took a startling leap in realism. Are we doomed?

Since 2022, we’ve been using the prompt “a muscular barbarian with weapons beside a CRT television set, cinematic, 8K, studio

Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors

GreyNoise said it detected the campaign in mid-March and held off reporting on it until after the company notified unnamed

Where hyperscale hardware goes to retire: Ars visits a very big ITAD site

Inside the laptop/desktop examination bay at SK TES’s Fredericksburg, Va. site. Credit: SK tes Inside the laptop/desktop examination bay at

Authorities carry out global takedown of infostealer used by cybercriminals

“Based on what we see, there is a wide range of cybercriminals admitting they are using Lumma, such as actors

New Claude 4 AI model refactored code for 7 hours straight

On Thursday, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, marking the company’s return to larger model releases after

Google’s Will Smith double is better at eating AI spaghetti … but it’s crunchy?

On Tuesday, Google launched Veo 3, a new AI video synthesis model that can do something no major AI video

Researchers cause GitLab AI developer assistant to turn safe code malicious

Marketers promote AI-assisted developer tools as workhorses that are essential for today’s software engineer. Developer platform GitLab, for instance, claims

Feds charge 16 Russians allegedly tied to botnets used in cyberattacks and spying

The hacker ecosystem in Russia, more than perhaps anywhere else in the world, has long blurred the lines between cybercrime,

VMware cloud partners demand “firm regulatory action” on Broadcom

ECCO also expressed concern about Broadcom’s ongoing changes to its partner program, including “reassessing incentives, requirements, and tiering structures,” as

Destructive malware available in NPM repo went unnoticed for 2 years

Some of the payloads were limited to detonate only on specific dates in 2023, but in some cases a phase

Apple legend Jony Ive takes control of OpenAI’s design future

On Wednesday, OpenAI announced that former Apple design chief Jony Ive and his design firm LoveFrom will take over creative

“Microsoft has simply given us no other option,” Signal says as it blocks Windows Recall

But the changes go only so far in limiting the risks Recall poses. As I pointed out, when Recall is

Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books

Photo of the Chicago Sun-Times “Summer reading list for 2025” supplement. Credit: Tbretc / Instagram Novelist Rachael King initially called

Windows 11’s most important new feature is post-quantum cryptography. Here’s why.

Microsoft is updating Windows 11 with a set of new encryption algorithms that can withstand future attacks from quantum computers

The empire strikes back with F-bombs: AI Darth Vader goes rogue with profanity, slurs

In that sense, the vulgar Vader situation creates a touchy dilemma for Epic Games and Disney, which likely invested substantially

Spies hack high-value mail servers using an exploit from yesteryear

Threat actors, likely supported by the Russian government, hacked multiple high-value mail servers around the world by exploiting XSS vulnerabilities,

New attack can steal cryptocurrency by planting false memories in AI chatbots

The researchers wrote: The implications of this vulnerability are particularly severe given that ElizaOSagents are designed to interact with multiple

OpenAI adds GPT-4.1 to ChatGPT amid complaints over confusing model lineup

The release comes just two weeks after OpenAI made GPT-4 unavailable in ChatGPT on April 30. That earlier model, which

GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill

The reconciliation bill primarily focuses on cuts to Medicaid access and increased health care fees for millions of Americans. The

Google introduces Advanced Protection mode for its most at-risk Android users

Google is adding a new security setting to Android to provide an extra layer of resistance against attacks that infect

New pope chose his name based on AI’s threats to “human dignity”

“Like any product of human creativity, AI can be directed toward positive or negative ends,” Francis said in January. “When

Hundreds of e-commerce sites hacked in supply-chain attack

Hundreds of e-commerce sites, at least one owned by a large multinational company, were backdoored by malware that executes malicious

OpenAI scraps controversial plan to become for-profit after mounting pressure

The restructuring would have also allowed OpenAI to remove the cap on returns for investors, potentially making the firm more

Trump admin to roll back Biden’s AI chip restrictions

The changing face of chip export controls The Biden-era chip restriction framework, which we covered in January, established a three-tiered

DOGE software engineer’s computer infected by info-stealing malware

Login credentials belonging to an employee at both the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Government Efficiency

New Lego-building AI creates models that actually stand up in real life

The LegoGPT system works in three parts, shown in this diagram. Credit: Pun et al. The researchers also expanded the

Fidji Simo joins OpenAI as new CEO of Applications

In the message, Altman described Simo as bringing “a rare blend of leadership, product and operational expertise” and expressed that

AI use damages professional reputation, study suggests

Using AI can be a double-edged sword, according to new research from Duke University. While generative AI tools may boost

VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom

Broadcom has been sending cease-and-desist letters to owners of VMware perpetual licenses with expired support contracts, Ars Technica has confirmed.

WhatsApp provides no cryptographic management for group messages

The flow of adding new members to a WhatsApp group message is: A group member sends an unsigned message to

Jury orders NSO to pay $167 million for hacking WhatsApp users

A jury has awarded WhatsApp $167 million in punitive damages in a case the company brought against Israel-based NSO Group

Trump’s attacks on green energy are big trouble for data centers, AI

Although big participants in the technology industry may be able to lobby the administration to “loosen up” restrictions on new

Man pleads guilty to using malicious AI software to hack Disney employee

A California man has pleaded guilty to hacking an employee of The Walt Disney Company by tricking the person into

Signal clone used by Trump official stops operations after report it was hacked

Waltz was removed from his post late last week, with Trump nominating him to serve as ambassador to the United

The AI that sparked tech panic and scared world leaders heads to retirement

One of the most influential—and by some counts, notorious—AI models yet released will soon fade into history. OpenAI announced on

Claude’s AI research mode now runs for up to 45 minutes before delivering reports

Still, the report contained a direct quote statement from William Higinbotham that appears to combine quotes from two sources not

Microsoft’s new “passwordless by default” is great but comes at a cost

Microsoft says it’s making passwordless logins the default means for signing in to new accounts, as the company helps drive

Why MFA is getting easer to bypass and what to do about it

These sorts of adversary-in-the-middle attacks have grown increasingly common. In 2022, for instance, a single group used it in a

Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests

A new study analyzing the Danish labor market in 2023 and 2024 suggests that generative AI models like ChatGPT have

Millions of Apple Airplay-enabled devices can be hacked via Wi-Fi

Oligo also notes that many of the vulnerable devices have microphones and could be turned into listening devices for espionage.

Windows RDP lets you log in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is OK with that.

The ability to use a revoked password to log in through RDP occurs when a Windows machine that’s signed in

AI-generated code could be a disaster for the software supply chain. Here’s why.

In AI, hallucinations occur when an LLM produces outputs that are factually incorrect, nonsensical, or completely unrelated to the task

Trump admin lashes out as Amazon considers displaying tariff costs on its sites

This morning, Punchbowl News reported that Amazon was considering listing the cost of tariffs as a separate line item on

Backblaze responds to claims of “sham accounting,” customer backups at risk

Backblaze went public in November 2021 and raised $100 million. Morpheus noted that since then, “Backblaze has reported losses every

ChatGPT goes shopping with new product-browsing feature

On Thursday, OpenAI announced the addition of shopping features to ChatGPT Search. The new feature allows users to search for

iOS and Android juice jacking defenses have been trivial to bypass for years

All three of the ChoiceJacking techniques defeat Android juice-jacking mitigations. One of them also works against those defenses in Apple

In the age of AI, we must protect human creativity as a natural resource

Cultivating the future So what might a sustainable ecosystem for human creativity actually involve? Legal and economic approaches will likely

FBI offers $10 million for information about Salt Typhoon members

The FBI is offering $10 million for information about the China-state hacking group tracked as Salt Typhoon and its intrusion

New study shows why simulated reasoning AI models don’t yet live up to their billing

A screenshot of the 2025 USAMO Problem #1 and a solution, shown on the AoPSOnline website. Credit: AoPSOnline The US

New Android spyware is targeting Russian military personnel on the front lines

Russian military personnel are being targeted with recently discovered Android malware that steals their contacts and tracks their location. The

Annoyed ChatGPT users complain about bot’s relentlessly positive tone

Owing to the aspirational state of things, OpenAI writes, “Our production models do not yet fully reflect the Model Spec,

Company apologizes after AI support agent invents policy that causes user uproar

On Monday, a developer using the popular AI-powered code editor Cursor noticed something strange: Switching between machines instantly logged them

Researchers claim breakthrough in fight against AI’s frustrating security hole

To understand CaMeL, you need to understand that prompt injections happen when AI systems can’t distinguish between legitimate user commands

OpenAI releases new simulated reasoning models with full tool access

On Wednesday, OpenAI announced the release of two new models—o3 and o4-mini—that combine simulated reasoning capabilities with access to functions

4chan has been down since Monday night after “pretty comprehensive own”

Infamous Internet imageboard and wretched hive of scum and villainy 4chan was apparently hacked at some point Monday evening and

Amid Trump tariff chaos, Nvidia launches AI chip production on US soil

Nvidia announced plans today to manufacture AI chips and build complete supercomputers on US soil for the first time, commissioning

OpenAI continues naming chaos despite CEO acknowledging the habit

On Monday, OpenAI announced the GPT-4.1 model family, its newest series of AI language models that brings a 1 million

Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs

The extensions share other dubious or suspicious similarities. Much of the code in each one is highly obfuscated, a design

That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows

Security and privacy advocates are girding themselves for another uphill battle against Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows

Researchers concerned to find AI models hiding their true “reasoning” processes

Remember when teachers demanded that you “show your work” in school? Some fancy new AI models promise to do exactly

After months of user complaints, Anthropic debuts new $200/month AI plan

A screenshot of various Claude pricing plans captured on April 9, 2025. Credit: Benj Edwards Probably not coincidentally, the highest

OpenAI helps spammers plaster 80,000 sites with messages that bypassed filters

“AkiraBot’s use of LLM-generated spam message content demonstrates the emerging challenges that AI poses to defending websites against spam attacks,”

Carmack defends AI tools after Quake fan calls Microsoft AI demo “disgusting”

The current generative Quake II demo represents a slight advancement from Microsoft’s previous generative AI gaming model (confusingly titled “WHAM”

“The girl should be calling men.” Leak exposes Black Basta’s influence tactics.

A leak of 190,000 chat messages traded among members of the Black Basta ransomware group shows that it’s a highly

Meta’s surprise Llama 4 drop exposes the gap between AI ambition and reality

Meta constructed the Llama 4 models using a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, which is one way around the limitations of running

NSA warns “fast flux” threatens national security. What is fast flux anyway?

A technique that hostile nation-states and financially motivated ransomware groups are using to hide their operations poses a threat to

Google unveils end-to-end messages for Gmail. Only thing is: It’s not true E2EE.

“The idea is that no matter what, at no time and in no way does Gmail ever have the real

AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%

Crawlers that evade detection Making the situation more difficult, many AI-focused crawlers do not play by established rules. Some ignore

MCP: The new “USB-C for AI” that’s bringing fierce rivals together

What does it take to get OpenAI and Anthropic—two competitors in the AI assistant market—to get along? Despite a fundamental

Gemini hackers can deliver more potent attacks with a helping hand from… Gemini

The resulting dataset, which reflected a distribution of attack categories similar to the complete dataset, showed an attack success rate

What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.

Like many legacy government IT systems, SSA systems contain code written in COBOL, a programming language created in part in

Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data

Importantly, it then applies a weighting step, dividing higher-frequency spectral coefficients by the overall brightness (the DC component), allowing less

Oracle has reportedly suffered 2 separate breaches exposing thousands of customers‘ PII

Trustwave’s Spider Labs, meanwhile, said the sample of LDAP credentials provided by rose87168 “reveals a substantial amount of sensitive IAM

OpenAI’s new AI image generator is potent and bound to provoke

OpenAI claims several key improvements: users can refine images through conversation while maintaining visual consistency; the system can analyze uploaded

Broadcom’s VMware says Siemens pirated “thousands” of copies of its software

VMware is suing the US arm of industrial giant AG Siemens. The Broadcom company claims that Siemens outed itself by

Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

“Any time one of these crawlers pulls from my tarpit, it’s resources they’ve consumed and will have to pay hard

Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers

Steffen Schmidt, the CEO of Medicusdata, a company that provides text-to-speech services to doctors and hospitals in Europe, says that

You can now download the source code that sparked the AI boom

On Thursday, Google and the Computer History Museum (CHM) jointly released the source code for AlexNet, the convolutional neural network

Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts

On Wednesday, web infrastructure provider Cloudflare announced a new feature called “AI Labyrinth” that aims to combat unauthorized AI data

Anthropic’s new AI search feature digs through the web for answers

Caution over citations and sources Claude users should be warned that large language models (LLMs) like those that power Claude

Study finds AI-generated meme captions funnier than human ones on average

It’s worth clarifying that AI models did not generate the images used in the study. Instead, researchers used popular, pre-existing

Nvidia announces “Rubin Ultra” and “Feynman” AI chips for 2027 and 2028

On Tuesday at Nvidia’s GTC 2025 conference in San Jose, California, CEO Jensen Huang revealed several new AI-accelerating GPUs the

Nvidia announces DGX desktop “personal AI supercomputers”

During Tuesday’s Nvidia GTX keynote, CEO Jensen Huang unveiled two “personal AI supercomputers” called DGX Spark and DGX Station, both

Farewell Photoshop? Google’s new AI lets you edit images by asking.

Multimodal output opens up new possibilities Having true multimodal output opens up interesting new possibilities in chatbots. For example, Gemini

Large enterprises scramble after supply-chain attack spills their secrets

Open-source software used by more than 23,000 organizations, some of them in large enterprises, was compromised with credential-stealing code after