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Ever wonder how crooks get the credentials to unlock stolen phones?

Getty Images A coalition of law-enforcement agencies said it shut down a service that facilitated the unlocking of more than

Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps

Enlarge / The Windows App runs on Windows, but also macOS, iOS/iPadOS, web browsers, and Android. Microsoft Microsoft announced today

Landmark AI deal sees Hollywood giant Lionsgate provide library for AI training

On Wednesday, AI video synthesis firm Runway and entertainment company Lionsgate announced a partnership to create a new AI model

“Dead Internet theory” comes to life with new AI-powered social media app

For the past few years, a conspiracy theory called “Dead Internet theory” has picked up speed as large language models

Due to AI fakes, the “deep doubt” era is here

Enlarge (credit: Memento | Aurich Lawson) Given the flood of photorealistic AI-generated images washing over social media networks like X

Google seeks authenticity in the age of AI with new content labeling system

Enlarge / Under C2PA, this stock image would be labeled as a real photograph if the camera used to take

Secure Boot-neutering PKfail debacle is more prevalent than anyone knew

Getty Images A supply chain failure that compromises Secure Boot protections on computing devices from across the device-making industry extends

Ban warnings fly as users dare to probe the “thoughts” of OpenAI’s latest model

OpenAI truly does not want you to know what its latest AI model is “thinking.” Since the company launched its

My dead father is “writing” me notes again

Enlarge / An AI-generated image featuring my late father’s handwriting. Benj Edwards / Flux Growing up, if I wanted to

Free Starlink Internet is coming to all of United’s airplanes

Enlarge / Soon you’ll be able to stream games and video for free on United flights. United United Airlines announced

Google rolls out voice-powered AI chat to the Android masses

Enlarge / The Google Gemini logo. Google On Thursday, Google made Gemini Live, its voice-based AI chatbot feature, available for

1.3 million Android-based TV boxes backdoored; researchers still don’t know how

Getty Images Researchers still don’t know the cause of a recently discovered malware infection affecting almost 1.3 million streaming devices

Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying

Enlarge / Hard drives, unfortunately, tend to die not with a spectacular and sparkly bang, but with a head-is-stuck whimper.

OpenAI’s new “reasoning” AI models are here: o1-preview and o1-mini

OpenAI finally unveiled its rumored “Strawberry” AI language model on Thursday, claiming significant improvements in what it calls “reasoning” and

As quantum computing threats loom, Microsoft updates its core crypto library

Getty Images Microsoft has updated a key cryptographic library with two new encryption algorithms designed to withstand attacks from quantum

Taylor Swift cites AI deepfakes in endorsement for Kamala Harris

Enlarge / A screenshot of Taylor Swift’s Kamala Harris Instagram post, captured on September 11, 2024. On Tuesday night, Taylor

Rogue WHOIS server gives researcher superpowers no one should ever have

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images It’s not every day that a security researcher acquires the ability to generate counterfeit HTTPS

Roblox announces AI tool for generating 3D game worlds from text

On Friday, Roblox announced plans to introduce an open source generative AI tool that will allow game creators to build

Sutskever strikes AI gold with billion-dollar backing for superintelligent AI

Enlarge / Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI Chief Scientist, speaks at Tel Aviv University on June 5, 2023. On Wednesday, Reuters reported

FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist

On Wednesday, federal prosecutors charged a North Carolina musician with defrauding streaming services of $10 million through an elaborate scheme

WaveCore runs right through a concrete wall with gigabit-speed network signal

Enlarge / “Hmm, no signal here. I’m trying to figure it out, but nothing comes to mind …” Getty Images

Nvidia’s AI chips are cheaper to rent in China than US

VGG | Getty Images The cost of renting cloud services using Nvidia’s leading artificial intelligence chips is lower in China

Found: 280 Android apps that use OCR to steal cryptocurrency credentials

Getty Images Researchers have discovered more than 280 malicious apps for Android that use optical character recognition to steal cryptocurrency

AT&T sues Broadcom for refusing to renew perpetual license support

AT&T filed a lawsuit against Broadcom on August 29 accusing it of seeking to “retroactively change existing VMware contracts to

US charges Russian military officers for unleashing wiper malware on Ukraine

Getty Images Federal prosecutors on Thursday unsealed an indictment charging six Russian nationals with conspiracy to hack into the computer

Generative AI backlash hits annual writing event, prompting resignations

Over the weekend, the nonprofit National Novel Writing Month organization (NaNoWriMo) published an FAQ outlining its position on AI, calling

Zyxel warns of vulnerabilities in a wide range of its products

Getty Images Networking hardware-maker Zyxel is warning of nearly a dozen vulnerabilities in a wide array of its products. If

Hackers infect ISPs with malware that steals customers’ credentials

Getty Images Malicious hackers likely working on behalf of the Chinese government have been exploiting a high-severity zero-day vulnerability that

ChatGPT hits 200 million active weekly users, but how many will admit using it?

On Thursday, OpenAI said that ChatGPT has attracted over 200 million weekly active users, according to a report from Axios,

City of Columbus sues man after he discloses severity of ransomware attack

A judge in Ohio has issued a temporary restraining order against a security researcher who presented evidence that a recent

Commercial spyware vendor exploits used by Kremlin-backed hackers, Google says

Getty Images Critics of spyware and exploit sellers have long warned that the advanced hacking sold by commercial surveillance vendors

New AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s Doom in real time

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images On Tuesday, researchers from Google and Tel Aviv University unveiled GameNGen, a new AI model

Unpatchable 0-day in surveillance cam is being exploited to install Mirai

Malicious hackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in a widely used security camera to spread Mirai, a family of malware

A long, weird FOSS circle ends as Microsoft donates Mono to Wine project

Enlarge / Does Mono fit between the Chilean cab sav and Argentinian malbec, or is it more of an orange,

“Exploitative” IT firm has been delaying 2,000 recruits’ onboarding for years

Indian IT firm Infosys has been accused of being “exploitative” after allegedly sending job offers to thousands of engineering graduates

Debate over “open source AI” term brings new push to formalize definition

Enlarge / A man peers over a glass partition, seeking transparency. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) recently unveiled its latest

Hobbyists discover how to insert custom fonts into AI-generated images

Enlarge / An AI-generated example of the Cyberpunk 2077 LoRA, rendered with Flux dev. Last week, a hobbyist experimenting with

Android malware steals payment card data using previously unseen technique

Newly discovered Android malware steals payment card data using an infected device’s NFC reader and relays it to attackers, a

How does an Flex circuit board improve signal integrity?

Flex circuit board improve signal integrity Flex circuit boards have become an integral part of modern electronic devices. They are

CrowdStrike unhappy with “shady commentary” from competitors after outage

Enlarge / Shares in SentinelOne and Palo Alto Networks have risen since July’s IT outage, while CrowdStrike has shed almost

How to handle issues with a flexible PCB supplier?

handle issues with a flexible PCB supplier The ability to create small, portable devices with powerful functionality is a major

Novel technique allows malicious apps to escape iOS and Android guardrails

Getty Images Phishers are using a novel technique to trick iOS and Android users into installing malicious apps that bypass

Ars Technica content is now available in OpenAI services

Ars Technica On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a partnership with Ars Technica parent company Condé Nast to display content from prominent

Are rigid flex boards recyclable?

rigid flex boards recyclable Rigid flex boards provide the best of both rigid and flexible circuit board fabrication techniques, combining

“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update

Getty Images Last Tuesday, loads of Linux users—many running packages released as early as this year—started reporting their devices were

Procreate defies AI trend, pledges “no generative AI” in its illustration app

Enlarge / Still of Procreate CEO James Cuda from a video posted to X. On Sunday, Procreate announced that it

Windows 0-day was exploited by North Korea to install advanced rootkit

Getty Images A Windows zero-day vulnerability recently patched by Microsoft was exploited by hackers working on behalf of the North

Research AI model unexpectedly modified its own code to extend runtime

On Tuesday, Tokyo-based AI research firm Sakana AI announced a new AI system called “The AI Scientist” that attempts to

Chinese social media users hilariously mock AI video fails

Enlarge / Still from a Chinese social media video featuring two people imitating imperfect AI-generated video outputs. It’s no secret

Google’s threat team confirms Iran targeting Trump, Biden, and Harris campaigns

Enlarge / Roger Stone, former adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, center, during the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee

Musk’s new Grok upgrade allows X users to create largely uncensored AI images

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of Donald Trump and catgirls created with Grok, which uses the Flux image synthesis model.

New AI tool enables real-time face swapping on webcams, raising fraud concerns

Enlarge / A still video capture of X user João Fiadeiro replacing his face with J.D. Vance in a test

Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking at each other

Enlarge / A Waymo self-driving car in front of Google’s San Francisco headquarters, San Francisco, California, June 7, 2024. Silicon

512-bit RSA key in home energy system gives control of “virtual power plant”

When Ryan Castellucci recently acquired solar panels and a battery storage system for their home just outside of London, they

Ars asks: What was the last CD or DVD you burned?

Enlarge / This is one method of burning a disc. 1001slide / Getty Images We noted earlier this week that

Nashville man arrested for running “laptop farm” to get jobs for North Koreans

Federal authorities have arrested a Nashville man on charges he hosted laptops at his residences in a scheme to deceive

ChatGPT unexpectedly began speaking in a user’s cloned voice during testing

On Thursday, OpenAI released the “system card” for ChatGPT’s new GPT-4o AI model that details model limitations and safety testing

Man vs. machine: DeepMind’s new robot serves up a table tennis triumph

Benj Edwards / Google DeepMind On Wednesday, researchers at Google DeepMind revealed the first AI-powered robotic table tennis player capable

Major shifts at OpenAI spark skepticism about impending AGI timelines

Benj Edwards / Getty Images Over the past week, OpenAI experienced a significant leadership shake-up as three key figures announced

Students scramble after security breach wipes 13,000 devices

Getty Images Students in Singapore are scrambling after a security breach wiped notes and all other data from school-issued iPads

Mac and Windows users infected by software updates delivered over hacked ISP

Hackers delivered malware to Windows and Mac users by compromising their Internet service provider and then tampering with software updates

CrowdStrike claps back at Delta, says airline rejected offers for help

Enlarge / LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JULY 23: Travelers from France wait on their delayed flight on the check-in floor

How Russia-linked malware cut heat to 600 Ukrainian buildings in deep winter

Enlarge / The cityscape from the tower of the Lviv Town Hall in winter. (credit: Anastasiia Smolienko / Ukrinform/Future Publishing

FLUX: This new AI image generator is eerily good at creating human hands

Enlarge / AI-generated image by FLUX.1 dev: “A beautiful queen of the universe holding up her hands, face in the

AI search engine accused of plagiarism announces publisher revenue-sharing plan

On Tuesday, AI-powered search engine Perplexity unveiled a new revenue-sharing program for publishers, marking a significant shift in its approach

Senators propose “Digital replication right” for likeness, extending 70 years after death

On Wednesday, US Sens. Chris Coons (D-Del.), Marsha Blackburn (R.-Tenn.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced the Nurture

Cloudflare once again comes under pressure for enabling abusive sites

Getty Images A familiar debate is once again surrounding Cloudflare, the content delivery network that provides a free service that

ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode impresses testers with sound effects, catching its breath

Enlarge / A stock photo of a robot whispering to a man. On Tuesday, OpenAI began rolling out an alpha

Mysterious family of malware hid in Google Play for years

A mysterious family of Android malware with a demonstrated history of effectively concealing its myriad spying activities has once again

From sci-fi to state law: California’s plan to prevent AI catastrophe

Enlarge / The California State Capitol Building in Sacramento. California’s “Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act”

Hackers exploit VMware vulnerability that gives them hypervisor admin

Getty Images Microsoft is urging users of VMware’s ESXi hypervisor to take immediate action to ward off ongoing attacks by

Elon Musk claims he is training “the world’s most powerful AI by every metric”

Enlarge / Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during a fireside discussion on artificial intelligence risks with Rishi

Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers

sasha85ru | Getty Imates In 2012, an industry-wide coalition of hardware and software makers adopted Secure Boot to protect against

Chrome will now prompt some users to send passwords for suspicious files

Google is redesigning Chrome malware detections to include password-protected executable files that users can upload for deep scanning, a change

OpenAI hits Google where it hurts with new SearchGPT prototype

Benj Edwards / OpenAI Arguably, few companies have unintentionally contributed more to the increase of AI-generated noise online than OpenAI.

Hang out with Ars in San Jose and DC this fall for two infrastructure events

Enlarge / Infrastructure! Howdy, Arsians! Last year, we partnered with IBM to host an in-person event in the Houston area

97% of CrowdStrike systems are back online; Microsoft suggests Windows changes

Enlarge / A bad update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon security software crashed millions of Windows PCs last week. CrowdStrike CrowdStrike CEO

At the Olympics, AI is watching you

Enlarge / Police observe the Eiffel Tower from Trocadero ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on July 22, 2024.

Google claims math breakthrough with proof-solving AI models

Enlarge / An illustration provided by Google. On Thursday, Google DeepMind announced that AI systems called AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2

We made a cat drink a beer with Runway’s AI video generator, and it sprouted hands

In June, Runway debuted a new text-to-video synthesis model called Gen-3 Alpha. It converts written descriptions called “prompts” into HD

CrowdStrike blames testing bugs for security update that took down 8.5M Windows PCs

Enlarge / CrowdStrike’s Falcon security software brought down as many as 8.5 million Windows PCs over the weekend. CrowdStrike Security

The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B

In the AI world, there’s a buzz in the air about a new AI language model released Tuesday by Meta:

Astronomers discover technique to spot AI fakes using galaxy-measurement tools

Enlarge / Researchers write, “In this image, the person on the left (Scarlett Johansson) is real, while the person on

Microsoft says 8.5M systems hit by CrowdStrike BSOD, releases USB recovery tool

Enlarge / A bad update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon security software crashed millions of Windows PCs last week. CrowdStrike By Monday

Former OpenAI researcher’s new company will teach you how to build an LLM

On Tuesday, former OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy announced the formation of a new AI learning platform called Eureka Labs. The

OpenAI launches GPT-4o mini, which will replace GPT-3.5 in ChatGPT

Benj Edwards On Thursday, OpenAI announced the launch of GPT-4o mini, a new, smaller version of its latest GPT-4o AI

CrowdStrike fixes start at “reboot up to 15 times” and get more complex from there

Airlines, payment processors, 911 call centers, TV networks, and other businesses have been scrambling this morning after a buggy update

Major outages at CrowdStrike, Microsoft leave the world with BSODs and confusion

Enlarge / A passenger sits on the floor as long queues form at the check-in counters at Ninoy Aquino International

The next Nvidia driver makes even more GPUs “open,” in a specific, quirky way

Getty Images You have to read the headline on Nvidia’s latest GPU announcement slowly, parsing each clause as it arrives.

Vulnerability in Cisco Smart Software Manager lets attackers change any user password

Cisco on Wednesday disclosed a maximum-security vulnerability that allows remote threat actors with no authentication to change the password of

Trump allies want to “Make America First in AI” with sweeping executive order

Enlarge / Former US President Donald Trump during a campaign event at Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami, Florida,

Rite Aid says breach exposes sensitive details of 2.2 million customers

Enlarge / Rite Aid logo displayed at one of its stores. Getty Images Rite Aid, the third biggest US drug

Here’s how carefully concealed backdoor in fake AWS files escaped mainstream notice

Researchers have determined that two fake AWS packages downloaded hundreds of times from the open source NPM JavaScript repository contained

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott thinks LLM “scaling laws” will hold despite criticism

Enlarge / Kevin Scott, CTO and EVP of AI at Microsoft speaks onstage during Vox Media’s 2023 Code Conference at

How disinformation from a Russian AI spam farm ended up on top of Google search results

Enlarge / Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to the media at the 2024 Ukraine Recovery Conference on June 11, 2024

In bid to loosen Nvidia’s grip on AI, AMD to buy Finnish startup for $665M

AMD is to buy Finnish artificial intelligence startup Silo AI for $665 million in one of the largest such takeovers

OpenAI reportedly nears breakthrough with “reasoning” AI, reveals progress framework

OpenAI recently unveiled a five-tier system to gauge its advancement toward developing artificial general intelligence (AGI), according to an OpenAI

Google makes it easier for users to switch on advanced account protection

Getty Images Google is making it easier for people to lock down their accounts with strong multifactor authentication by adding

Exim vulnerability affecting 1.5M servers lets attackers attach malicious files

More than 1.5 million email servers are vulnerable to attacks that can deliver executable attachments to user accounts, security researchers

First “Miss AI” contest sparks ire for pushing unrealistic beauty standards

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of “Miss AI” award winner “Kenza Layli” (left) and an unidentified AI-generated woman beside her.

Intuit’s AI gamble: Mass layoff of 1,800 paired with hiring spree

On Wednesday, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi announced in a letter to the company that it would be laying off 1,800

Threat actors exploited Windows 0-day for more than a year before Microsoft fixed it

Getty Images Threat actors carried out zero-day attacks that targeted Windows users with malware for more than a year before

OpenAI board shake-up: Microsoft out, Apple backs away amid AI partnership scrutiny

Benj Edwards / OpenAI / Microsoft Microsoft has withdrawn from its non-voting observer role on OpenAI’s board, while Apple has

The president ordered a board to probe a massive Russian cyberattack. It never did.

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Investigating how the world’s largest software provider handles the security of its own

384,000 sites pull code from sketchy code library recently bought by Chinese firm

Getty Images More than 384,000 websites are linking to a site that was caught last week performing a supply-chain attack

“RegreSSHion” vulnerability in OpenSSH gives attackers root on Linux

Researchers have warned of a critical vulnerability affecting the OpenSSH networking utility that can be exploited to give attackers complete

3 million iOS and macOS apps were exposed to potent supply-chain attacks

Aurich Lawson Vulnerabilities that went undetected for a decade left thousands of macOS and iOS apps susceptible to supply-chain attacks.

Inside a violent gang’s ruthless crypto-stealing home invasion spree

Cryptocurrency has always made a ripe target for theft—and not just hacking, but the old-fashioned, up-close-and-personal kind, too. Given that

Mac users served info-stealer malware through Google ads

Getty Images Mac malware that steals passwords, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data has been spotted circulating through Google ads,

Researchers craft smiling robot face from living human skin cells

Enlarge / A movable robotic face covered with living human skin cells. In a new study, researchers from the University

OpenAI’s new “CriticGPT” model is trained to criticize GPT-4 outputs

Enlarge / An illustration created by OpenAI. On Thursday, OpenAI researchers unveiled CriticGPT, a new AI model designed to identify

AI-generated Al Michaels to provide daily recaps during 2024 Summer Olympics

Enlarge / Al Michaels looks on prior to the game between the Minnesota Vikings and Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial

Critical MOVEit vulnerability puts huge swaths of the Internet at severe risk

A critical vulnerability recently discovered in a widely used piece of software is putting huge swaths of the Internet at

Toys “R” Us riles critics with “first-ever” AI-generated commercial using Sora

Enlarge / A screen capture from the partially AI-generated Toys “R” Us brand film created using Sora. Toys R Us

Researchers upend AI status quo by eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs

Enlarge / Illustration of a brain inside of a light bulb. Researchers claim to have developed a new way to

Music industry giants allege mass copyright violation by AI firms

Enlarge / Michael Jackson in concert, 1986. Sony Music owns a large portion of publishing rights to Jackson’s music. Universal

Backdoor slipped into multiple WordPress plugins in ongoing supply-chain attack

WordPress plugins running on as many as 36,000 websites have been backdoored in a supply-chain attack with unknown origins, security

New Stable Diffusion 3 release excels at AI-generated body horror

Enlarge / An AI-generated image created using Stable Diffusion 3 of a girl lying in the grass. On Wednesday, Stability

Turkish student creates custom AI device for cheating university exam, gets arrested

Enlarge / A photo illustration of what a shirt-button camera could look like. Aurich Lawson | Getty Images On Saturday,

Retired engineer discovers 55-year-old bug in Lunar Lander computer game code

Enlarge / Illustration of the Apollo lunar lander Eagle over the Moon. On Friday, a retired software engineer named Martin

Ransomware attackers quickly weaponize PHP vulnerability with 9.8 severity rating

Getty Images Ransomware criminals have quickly weaponized an easy-to-exploit vulnerability in the PHP programming language that executes malicious code on

Proton is taking its privacy-first apps to a nonprofit foundation model

Getty Images Proton, the secure-minded email and productivity suite, is becoming a nonprofit foundation, but it doesn’t want you to

High-severity vulnerabilities affect a wide range of Asus router models

Getty Images Hardware manufacturer Asus has released updates patching multiple critical vulnerabilities that allow hackers to remotely take control of

Ex-OpenAI star Sutskever shoots for superintelligent AI with new company

Enlarge / Ilya Sutskever physically gestures as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looks on at Tel Aviv University on June 5,

Anthropic introduces Claude 3.5 Sonnet, matching GPT-4o on benchmarks

Anthropic / Benj Edwards On Thursday, Anthropic announced Claude 3.5 Sonnet, its latest AI language model and the first in

Single point of software failure has hamstrung car dealerships for a second day

Enlarge / Ford Mustang Mach E electric vehicles are offered for sale at a dealership on June 5, 2024, in

Softbank plans to cancel out angry customer voices using AI

Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank recently announced that it has been developing “emotion-canceling” technology powered by AI that will alter the

Men plead guilty to aggravated ID theft after pilfering police database

Getty Images Two men have pleaded guilty to charges of computer intrusion and aggravated identity theft tied to their theft

Runway’s latest AI video generator brings giant cotton candy monsters to life

Enlarge / Screen capture of a Runway Gen-3 Alpha video generated with the prompt “A giant humanoid, made of fluffy

Report: Apple isn’t paying OpenAI for ChatGPT integration into OSes

OpenAI / Apple / Benj Edwards On Monday, Apple announced it would be integrating OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI assistant into upcoming

“Simulation of keyboard activity” leads to firing of Wells Fargo employees

Last month, Wells Fargo terminated over a dozen bank employees following an investigation into claims of faking work activity on

China state hackers infected 20,000 Fortinet VPNs, Dutch spy service says

Hackers working for the Chinese government gained access to more than 20,000 VPN appliances sold by Fortinet using a critical

Apple and OpenAI currently have the most misunderstood partnership in tech

Enlarge / He isn’t using an iPhone, but some people talk to Siri like this. On Monday, Apple premiered “Apple

Hackers steal “significant volume” of data from hundreds of Snowflake customers

Getty Images As many as 165 customers of cloud storage provider Snowflake have been compromised by a group that obtained

Apple unveils “Apple Intelligence” AI features for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS

Apple On Monday, Apple debuted “Apple Intelligence,” a new suite of free AI-powered features for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS

Nasty bug with very simple exploit hits PHP just in time for the weekend

A critical vulnerability in the PHP programming language can be trivially exploited to execute malicious code on Windows devices, security

VMware customers may stay, but Broadcom could face backlash “for years to come”

After acquiring VMware, Broadcom swiftly enacted widespread changes that resulted in strong public backlash. A new survey of 300 director-level

DuckDuckGo offers “anonymous” access to AI chatbots through new service

DuckDuckGo On Thursday, DuckDuckGo unveiled a new “AI Chat” service that allows users to converse with four mid-range large language

7,000 LockBit decryption keys now in the hands of the FBI, offering victims hope

The FBI is urging victims of one of the most prolific ransomware groups to come forward after agents recovered thousands

Russian agents deploy AI-produced Tom Cruise narrator to tar Summer Olympics

Enlarge / A visual from the fake documentary “Olympics Has Fallen” produced by Russia-affiliated influence actor Storm-1679. Microsoft Last year,

London hospitals declare emergency following ransomware attack

A ransomware attack that crippled a London-based medical testing and diagnostics provider has led several major hospitals in the city

Ex-OpenAI staff call for “right to warn” about AI risks without retaliation

On Tuesday, a group of former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employees published an open letter calling for AI companies to

Zoom CEO envisions AI deepfakes attending meetings in your place

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan has a vision for the future of work: sending your AI-powered digital twin to attend meetings

Ticketmaster hacked in what’s believed to be a spree hitting Snowflake customers

Getty Images Cloud storage provider Snowflake said that accounts belonging to multiple customers have been hacked after threat actors obtained

Nvidia jumps ahead of itself and reveals next-gen “Rubin” AI chips in keynote tease

Enlarge / Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang delivers his keystone speech ahead of Computex 2024 in Taipei on June 2, 2024.

Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span

Getty Images One day last October, subscribers to an ISP known as Windstream began flooding message boards with reports their

Federal agency warns critical Linux vulnerability being actively exploited

Getty Images The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a critical security bug in Linux to its list

Journalists “deeply troubled” by OpenAI’s content deals with Vox, The Atlantic

On Wednesday, Axios broke the news that OpenAI had signed deals with The Atlantic and Vox Media that will allow

Google’s AI Overview is flawed by design, and a new company blog post hints at why

Enlarge / The Google “G” logo surrounded by whimsical characters, all of which look stunned and surprised. On Thursday, Google

Tech giants form AI group to counter Nvidia with new interconnect standard

On Thursday, several major tech companies, including Google, Intel, Microsoft, Meta, AMD, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco, and Broadcom, announced the

Law enforcement operation takes aim at an often-overlooked cybercrime linchpin

Getty Images An international cast of law enforcement agencies has struck a blow at a cybercrime linchpin that’s as obscure

Researchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoin

Flavio Coelho/Getty Images Two years ago when “Michael,” an owner of cryptocurrency, contacted Joe Grand to help recover access to

OpenAI board first learned about ChatGPT from Twitter, according to former member

Enlarge / Helen Toner, former OpenAI board member, speaks during Vox Media’s 2023 Code Conference at The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel

US sanctions operators of “free VPN” that routed crime traffic through user PCs

Getty Images The US Treasury Department has sanctioned three Chinese nationals for their involvement in a VPN-powered botnet with more

OpenAI training its next major AI model, forms new safety committee

On Monday, OpenAI announced the formation of a new “Safety and Security Committee” to oversee risk management for its projects

EmTech Digital 2024: A thoughtful look at AI’s pros and cons with minimal hype

Enlarge / Nathan Benaich of Air Street Capital delivers the opening presentation on the state of AI at EmTech Digital

Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has

Getty Images Bing, Microsoft’s search engine platform, went down in the very early morning today. That meant that searches from

Newly discovered ransomware uses BitLocker to encrypt victim data

A previously unknown piece of ransomware, dubbed ShrinkLocker, encrypts victim data using the BitLocker feature built into the Windows operating

Google’s “AI Overview” can give false, misleading, and dangerous answers

Getty Images If you use Google regularly, you may have noticed the company’s new AI Overviews providing summarized answers to some

How do hdi board contribute to space-saving designs?

hdi board contribute to space-saving designs As the digital world continues to grow, the hardware associated with it has become

Crooks plant backdoor in software used by courtrooms around the world

JAVS A software maker serving more than 10,000 courtrooms throughout the world hosted an application update containing a hidden backdoor

Can flex pcb board be used in aerospace applications?

flex pcb board be used in aerospace applications Despite the fact that we live in a world where technology becomes

Coverlay PCB for Military Applications

Coverlay PCB for Military A coverlay pcb is an essential component for a flexible circuit board. It insulates copper traces

A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why.

For more than four days, a server at the very core of the Internet’s domain name system was out of

How Does PCB SMD Assembly Differ From PCB Fabrication?

PCB SMD Assembly Differ From PCB Fabrication PCB smd assembly differs from a typical PCB fabrication because it doesn’t involve

OpenAI on the defensive after multiple PR setbacks in one week

Since the launch of its latest AI language model, GPT-4o, OpenAI has found itself on the defensive over the past

Researchers spot cryptojacking attack that disables endpoint protections

Getty Images Malware recently spotted in the wild uses sophisticated measures to disable antivirus protections, destroy evidence of infection, and

New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC

Enlarge / A screenshot of Microsoft’s new “Recall” feature in action. Microsoft At a Build conference event on Monday, Microsoft

How do you ensure dimensional accuracy in rigid flex pcb fabrication?

dimensional accuracy in rigid flex pcb fabrication Dimensional accuracy is a critical aspect of rigid-flex PCB fabrication, ensuring that the

What are the different types of Pcb assembly companies processes?

different types of Pcb assembly companies processes PCB assembly companies employ various processes to manufacture printed circuit boards (PCBs), each

How do you maintain traceability throughout your Flexible circuit board manufacturers?

Flexible circuit board In the intricate world of flexible circuit board manufacturing, traceability stands as a cornerstone principle, ensuring transparency,

The hunt for rare bitcoin is nearing an end

Getty Images | Andriy Onufriyenko Billy Restey is a digital artist who runs a studio in Seattle. But after hours,

Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away

A study analyzing Apple, Microsoft, and SpaceX suggests that return to office (RTO) mandates can lead to a higher rate

Financial institutions have 30 days to disclose breaches under new rules

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will require some financial institutions to disclose security breaches within 30 days of learning

Google unveils Veo, a high-definition AI video generator that may rival Sora

Enlarge / Still images taken from videos generated by Google Veo. Google / Benj Edwards On Tuesday at Google I/O

Arizona woman accused of helping North Koreans get remote IT jobs at 300 companies

Getty Images | the-lightwriter An Arizona woman has been accused of helping generate millions of dollars for North Korea’s ballistic

What role does flux play in Flex pcb supplier?

flux play in Flex pcb supplier In the intricate world of flexible printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing, flux emerges as

Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running

The Serial Code/YouTube It’s amazing, and a little sad, to think that something created in 1989 that changed how people

What role does rework play in Printed circuit board assembly manufacturer?

rework play in Printed circuit board assembly manufacturer Rework plays a significant role in the printed circuit board (PCB) assembly

What role do adhesives play in pcb assembly manufacturer?

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