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AI in space: Karpathy suggests AI chatbots as interstellar messengers to alien civilizations

On Thursday, renowned AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, formerly of OpenAI and Tesla, tweeted a lighthearted proposal that large language models

Microsoft ties executive pay to security following multiple failures and breaches

Enlarge / A PC running Windows 11. It’s been a bad couple of years for Microsoft’s security and privacy efforts.

Counterfeit Cisco gear ended up in US military bases, used in combat operations

Enlarge / Cisco Systems headquarters in San Jose, California. A Florida resident was sentenced to 78 months for running a

These dangerous scammers don’t even bother to hide their crimes

Most scammers and cybercriminals operate in the digital shadows and don’t want you to know how they make money. But

Microsoft plans to lock down Windows DNS like never before. Here’s how.

Getty Images Translating human-readable domain names into numerical IP addresses has long been fraught with gaping security risks. After all,

Health care giant comes clean about recent hack and paid ransom

Getty Images Change Healthcare, the health care services provider that recently experienced a ransomware attack that hamstrung the US prescription

How to Troubleshoot Electronic Circuit Boards

Troubleshoot Electronic Circuit Boards Electronic circuit boards (PCBs) are complex and sometimes elusive. Using a variety of tools and techniques,

Maximum-severity GitLab flaw allowing account hijacking under active exploitation

A maximum severity vulnerability that allows hackers to hijack GitLab accounts with no user interaction required is now under active

Anthropic releases Claude AI chatbot iOS app

Enlarge / The Claude AI iOS app running on an iPhone. Anthropic On Wednesday, Anthropic announced the launch of an

Hacker free-for-all fights for control of home and office routers everywhere

Cybercriminals and spies working for nation-states are surreptitiously coexisting inside the same compromised name-brand routers as they use the devices

The BASIC programming language turns 60

Enlarge / Part of the cover illustration from “The Applesoft Tutorial” BASIC manual that shipped with the Apple II computer

HDI Printed Circuit Boards for Consumer Electronics

HDI Printed Circuit Boards A PCB is the brains behind a wide range of technological devices, from smartphones and tablets

Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer

Enlarge / A photo of the Cheyenne supercomputer, which is now up for auction. On Tuesday, the US General Services

UK outlaws awful default passwords on connected devices

Getty Images If you build a gadget that connects to the Internet and sell it in the United Kingdom, you

Critics question tech-heavy lineup of new Homeland Security AI safety board

On Friday, the US Department of Homeland Security announced the formation of an Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board that

How do you ensure manufacturability in pcb assemblers designs?

manufacturability in pcb assemblers designs The PCB assembly process requires a number of different components and tools, as well as

Deepfakes in the courtroom: US judicial panel debates new AI evidence rules

On Friday, a federal judicial panel convened in Washington, DC, to discuss the challenges of policing AI-generated evidence in court

Hackers try to exploit WordPress plugin vulnerability that’s as severe as it gets

Getty Images Hackers are assailing websites using a prominent WordPress plugin with millions of attempts to exploit a high-severity vulnerability

The Printed Flex Rigid PCB Manufacturer Process

Printed Flex Rigid PCB Manufacturer Process Rigid flex PCBs are used to connect various electronic components in portable and mobile

Millions of IPs remain infected by USB worm years after its creators left it for dead

Getty Images A now-abandoned USB worm that backdoors connected devices has continued to self-replicate for years since its creators lost

Apple releases eight small AI language models aimed at on-device use

Getty Images In the world of AI, what might be called “small language models” have been growing in popularity recently

School athletic director arrested for framing principal using AI voice synthesis

On Thursday, Baltimore County Police arrested Pikesville High School’s former athletic director, Dazhon Darien, and charged him with using AI

What industries commonly use flexible circuit boards?

use flexible circuit boards A flexible printed circuit board is a type of electronic circuit that can bend or flex,

Nation-state hackers exploit Cisco firewall 0-days to backdoor government networks

Hackers backed by a powerful nation-state have been exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco firewalls in a five-month-long campaign that

What are the key thermal properties of ceramic PCB boards?

key thermal properties of ceramic PCB boards Ceramic PCBs offer a number of advantages over traditional metal circuit boards. They

Microsoft’s Phi-3 shows the surprising power of small, locally run AI language models

Getty Images On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a new, freely available lightweight AI language model named Phi-3-mini, which is simpler and

Hackers infect users of antivirus service that delivered updates over HTTP

Getty Images Hackers abused an antivirus service for five years in order to infect end users with malware. The attack

Windows vulnerability reported by the NSA exploited to install Russian malware

Getty Images Kremlin-backed hackers have been exploiting a critical Microsoft vulnerability for four years in attacks that targeted a vast

Why the US government’s overreliance on Microsoft is a big problem

When Microsoft revealed in January that foreign government hackers had once again breached its systems, the news prompted another round

Broadcom says “many” VMware perpetual licenses got support extensions

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan this week publicized some concessions aimed at helping customers and partners ease into VMware’s recent business

LastPass users targeted in phishing attacks good enough to trick even the savvy

Getty Images Password-manager LastPass users were recently targeted by a convincing phishing campaign that used a combination of email, SMS,

Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track

Enlarge / A sample image from Microsoft for “VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces Generated in Real Time.” On Tuesday, Microsoft

LLMs keep leaping with Llama 3, Meta’s newest open-weights AI model

On Thursday, Meta unveiled early versions of its Llama 3 open-weights AI model that can be used to power text

OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022

Enlarge / An AI-generated image from DALL-E 2 created with the prompt “A painting by Grant Wood of an astronaut

Kremlin-backed actors spread disinformation ahead of US elections

Kremlin-backed actors have stepped up efforts to interfere with the US presidential election by planting disinformation and false narratives on

Attackers are pummeling networks around the world with millions of login attempts

Matejmo | Getty Images Cisco’s Talos security team is warning of a large-scale credential compromise campaign that’s indiscriminately assailing networks

Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap

Enlarge / Cans of Tab diet soda on display in 2011. Tab was discontinued in 2020. There has never been

New UK law targets “despicable individuals” who create AI sex deepfakes

On Tuesday, the UK government announced a new law targeting the creation of AI-generated sexually explicit deepfake images. Under the

Alleged cryptojacking scheme consumed $3.5M of stolen computing to make just $1M

Getty Images Federal prosecutors indicted a Nebraska man on charges he perpetrated a cryptojacking scheme that defrauded two cloud providers—one

Framework’s software and firmware have been a mess, but it’s working on them

Enlarge / The Framework Laptop 13. Andrew Cunningham Since Framework showed off its first prototypes in February 2021, we’ve generally

Change Healthcare faces another ransomware threat—and it looks credible

For months, Change Healthcare has faced an immensely messy ransomware debacle that has left hundreds of pharmacies and medical practices

Words are flowing out like endless rain: Recapping a busy week of LLM news

Enlarge / An image of a boy amazed by flying letters. Some weeks in AI news are eerily quiet, but

“Highly capable” hackers root corporate networks by exploiting firewall 0-day

Highly capable hackers are rooting multiple corporate networks by exploiting a maximum-severity zero-day vulnerability in a firewall product from Palo

Hackable Intel and Lenovo hardware that went undetected for 5 years won’t ever be fixed

Intel Hardware sold for years by the likes of Intel and Lenovo contains a remotely exploitable vulnerability that will never

Intel’s “Gaudi 3” AI accelerator chip may give Nvidia’s H100 a run for its money

Enlarge / An Intel handout photo of the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator. On Tuesday, Intel revealed a new AI accelerator

New AI music generator Udio synthesizes realistic music on demand

Enlarge / A screenshot of AI-generated songs listed on Udio on April 10, 2024. Benj Edwards Between 2002 and 2005,

AT&T: Data breach affects 73 million or 51 million customers. No, we won’t explain.

Getty Images AT&T is notifying millions of current or former customers that their account data has been compromised and published

Elon Musk: AI will be smarter than any human around the end of next year

Enlarge / Elon Musk, owner of Tesla and the X (formerly Twitter) platform on January 22, 2024. On Monday, Tesla

Thousands of LG TVs are vulnerable to takeover—here’s how to ensure yours isn’t one

Getty Images As many as 91,000 LG TVs face the risk of being commandeered unless they receive a just-released security

Critical takeover vulnerabilities in 92,000 D-Link devices under active exploitation

Getty Images Hackers are actively exploiting a pair of recently discovered vulnerabilities to remotely commandeer network-attached storage devices manufactured by

MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI

We’ve come a long way since primitive AI music generators in 2022. Today, AI tools like Suno.ai allow any series

Redis’ license change and forking are a mess that everybody can feel bad about

Enlarge / An Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center under construction in Stone Ridge, Virginia, in March 2024. Amazon will

Broadcom execs say VMware price, subscription complaints are unwarranted

Broadcom has made controversial changes to VMware since closing its acquisition of the virtualization brand in late November. Broadcom executives

Billie Eilish, Pearl Jam, 200 artists say AI poses existential threat to their livelihoods

Enlarge / Billie Eilish attends the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at the Wallis Annenberg Center

Ivanti CEO pledges to “fundamentally transform” its hard-hit security model

Getty Images Ivanti, the remote-access company whose remote-access products have been battered by severe exploits in recent months, has pledged

German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating

Schleswig-Holstein, one of Germany’s 16 states, on Wednesday confirmed plans to move tens of thousands of systems from Microsoft Windows

TSMC “still assessing” chipmaking facilities after 7.4-magnitude quake hits Taiwan

Enlarge / TSMC’s headquarters, seen here, are in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Chipmaking operations at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) were briefly

Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains

Enlarge / A person made of many parts, similar to the attorney who handles both severe criminal law and copyright

Microsoft blamed for “a cascade of security failures” in Exchange breach report

Getty Images A federal Cyber Safety Review Board has issued its report on what led to last summer’s capture of

AI hype invades Taco Bell and Pizza Hut

Depending on who you ask about AI (and how you define it), the technology may or may not be useful,

The fine art of human prompt engineering: How to talk to a person like ChatGPT

Enlarge / With these tips, you too can prompt people successfully. In a break from our normal practice, Ars is

Missouri county declares state of emergency amid suspected ransomware attack

Enlarge / Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, which is part of Jackson County. Jackson County, Missouri, has declared a state of

Microsoft splits up the Teams and Office apps worldwide, following EU split

Enlarge / Teams is being decoupled from the other Office apps worldwide, six months after Microsoft did the same thing

OpenAI drops login requirements for ChatGPT’s free version

Benj Edwards On Monday, OpenAI announced that visitors to the ChatGPT website in some regions can now use the AI

What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world

Getty Images On Friday, a lone Microsoft developer rocked the world when he revealed a backdoor had been intentionally planted

“MFA Fatigue” attack targets iPhone owners with endless password reset prompts

Enlarge / They look like normal notifications, but opening an iPhone with one or more of these stacked up, you

Proxmox gives VMware ESXi users a place to go after Broadcom kills free version

Broadcom has made sweeping changes to VMware’s business since acquiring the company in November 2023, killing off the perpetually licensed

OpenAI holds back wide release of voice-cloning tech due to misuse concerns

Voice synthesis has come a long way since 1978’s Speak & Spell toy, which once wowed people with its state-of-the-art

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections

Enlarge / Internet Backdoor in a string of binary code in a shape of an eye. Getty Images Researchers have

Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals

Aurich Lawson | Getty Image On Wednesday, the IEEE Computer Society announced to members that, after April 1, it would

Ubuntu will manually review Snap Store after crypto wallet scams

Enlarge / One thing you can say about this crypto wallet: You can’t confuse it for any other. Getty Images

PyPI halted new users and projects while it fended off supply-chain attack

Enlarge / Supply-chain attacks, like the latest PyPI discovery, insert malicious code into seemingly functional software packages used by developers.

Canva’s Affinity acquisition is a non-subscription-based weapon against Adobe

Enlarge / Affinity’s photo editor. Online graphic design platform provider Canva announced its acquisition of Affinity on Tuesday. The purchase

How to Construct a PCB Rigid Flex

Construct a PCB Rigid Flex Rigid-flex circuit boards combine the reliability of a rigid PCB with the flexibility and bending

Thousands of servers hacked in ongoing attack targeting Ray AI framework

Getty Images Thousands of servers storing AI workloads and network credentials have been hacked in an ongoing attack campaign targeting

Thousands of phones and routers swept into proxy service, unbeknownst to users

Getty Images Crooks are working overtime to anonymize their illicit online activities using thousands of devices of unsuspecting users, as

Justice Department indicts 7 accused in 14-year hack campaign by Chinese gov

peterschreiber.media | Getty Images The US Justice Department on Monday unsealed an indictment charging seven men with hacking or attempting

Elon Musk’s xAI releases Grok source and weights, taunting OpenAI

Enlarge / An AI-generated image released by xAI during the open-weights launch of Grok-1. On Sunday, Elon Musk’s AI firm

Dell tells remote workers that they won’t be eligible for promotion

Starting in May, Dell employees who are fully remote will not be eligible for promotion, Business Insider (BI) reported Saturday.

Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to manage 20,000 car parts

Enlarge / A pit stop during the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix in early March evokes how the team’s manager

Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys

Aurich Lawson | Apple A newly discovered vulnerability baked into Apple’s M-series of chips allows attackers to extract secret keys

Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79

Enlarge / A photo of Vernor Vinge in 2006. On Wednesday, author David Brin announced that Vernor Vinge, sci-fi author,

World’s first global AI resolution unanimously adopted by United Nations

Enlarge / The United Nations building in New York. On Thursday, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously consented to adopt

Never-before-seen data wiper may have been used by Russia against Ukraine

Getty Images Researchers have unearthed never-before-seen wiper malware tied to the Kremlin and an operation two years ago that took

Nvidia announces “moonshot” to create embodied human-level AI in robot form

Enlarge / An illustration of a humanoid robot created by Nvidia. Nvidia In sci-fi films, the rise of humanlike artificial

GPT-5 might arrive this summer as a “materially better” update to ChatGPT

When OpenAI launched its GPT-4 AI model a year ago, it created a wave of immense hype and existential panic

Nvidia unveils Blackwell B200, the “world’s most powerful chip” designed for AI

Enlarge / The GB200 “superchip” covered with a fanciful blue explosion. Nvidia / Benj Edwards On Monday, Nvidia unveiled the

“Disabling cyberattacks” are hitting critical US water systems, White House warns

Enlarge / Aerial view of a sewage treatment plant. Getty Images The Biden administration on Tuesday warned the nation’s governors

Fujitsu says it found malware on its corporate network, warns of possible data breach

Getty Images Japan-based IT behemoth Fujitsu said it has discovered malware on its corporate network that may have allowed the

Apple may hire Google to power new iPhone AI features using Gemini—report

Benj Edwards On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Apple is in talks to license Google’s Gemini model to power AI features

After 114 days of change, Broadcom CEO acknowledges VMware-related “unease”

Broadcom CEO and President Hock Tan has acknowledged the discomfort VMware customers and partners have experienced after the sweeping changes

Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet

Getty Images It seems like AI large language models (LLMs) are everywhere these days due to the rise of ChatGPT.

Cut submarine cables cause web outages across Africa; 6 countries still affected

Enlarge / View of Le Plateau and Ebrie Lagoon from the top of the Cathedrale St-Paul in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory

ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots

Enlarge / Some ASCII art of our favorite visual cliche for a hacker. Getty Images Researchers have discovered a new

Banish OEM self-signed certs forever and roll your own private LetsEncrypt

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Previously, on “Weekend Projects for Homelab Admins With Control Issues,” we created our own dynamically

Member of LockBit ransomware group sentenced to 4 years in prison

Getty Images | Charles O’Rear A dual Canadian-Russian national has been sentenced to four years in prison for his role

Hackers can read private AI assistant chats even though they’re encrypted

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images AI assistants have been widely available for a little more than a year, and they

OpenAI CEO Altman wasn’t fired because of scary new tech, just internal politics

Enlarge / OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the OpenAI DevDay event on November 6, 2023, in San Francisco. On

Image-scraping Midjourney bans rival AI firm for scraping images

Enlarge / A burglar with a flashlight and papers in a business office—exactly like scraping files from Discord. On Wednesday,

Never-before-seen Linux malware gets installed using 1-day exploits

Getty Images Researchers have unearthed Linux malware that circulated in the wild for at least two years before being identified

OpenAI responds to Elon Musk lawsuit by clarifying its “open“ nature

Benj Edwards / Getty Images On Tuesday, OpenAI published a blog post titled “OpenAI and Elon Musk” in response to

Microsoft says Kremlin-backed hackers accessed its source and internal systems

Microsoft said that Kremlin-backed hackers who breached its corporate network in January have expanded their access since then in follow-on

Matrix multiplication breakthrough could lead to faster, more efficient AI models

Enlarge / When you do math on a computer, you fly through a numerical tunnel like this—figuratively, of course. Computer

US gov’t announces arrest of former Google engineer for alleged AI trade secret theft

Enlarge / A Google sign stands in front of the building on the sidelines of the opening of the new

Attack wrangles thousands of web users into a password-cracking botnet

Getty Images Attackers have transformed hundreds of hacked sites running WordPress software into command-and-control servers that force visitors’ browsers to

VMware sandbox escape bugs are so critical, patches are released for end-of-life products

Getty Images VMware is urging customers to patch critical vulnerabilities that make it possible for hackers to break out of

Some teachers are now using ChatGPT to grade papers

In a notable shift toward sanctioned use of AI in schools, some educators in grades 3–12 are now using a

Anthropic’s Claude 3 causes stir by seeming to realize when it was being tested

On Monday, Anthropic prompt engineer Alex Albert caused a small stir in the AI community when he tweeted about a

After collecting $22 million, AlphV ransomware group stages FBI takedown

The ransomware group responsible for hamstringing the prescription drug market for two weeks has suddenly gone dark, just days after

The AI wars heat up with Claude 3, claimed to have “near-human” abilities

Enlarge / The Anthropic Claude 3 logo. On Monday, Anthropic released Claude 3, a family of three AI language models

Hackers exploited Windows 0-day for 6 months after Microsoft knew of it

Hackers backed by the North Korean government gained a major win when Microsoft left a Windows zero-day unpatched for six

HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver

Getty Images Any Linux user trying to send the highest-resolution images to a display at the fastest frame rate is

Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, hosted code that backdoored user devices

Getty Images Code uploaded to AI developer platform Hugging Face covertly installed backdoors and other types of malware on end-user

US prescription market hamstrung for 9 days (so far) by ransomware attack

Getty Images Nine days after a Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate took down the biggest US health care payment processor, pharmacies, health

AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET’s reliability rating

Wikipedia has downgraded tech website CNET’s reliability rating following extensive discussions among its editors regarding the impact of AI-generated content

HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors

Enlarge / The HP Envy 6020e is one of the printers available for rent. HP launched a subscription service today

Microsoft partners with OpenAI-rival Mistral for AI models, drawing EU scrutiny

On Monday, Microsoft announced plans to offer AI models from Mistral through its Azure cloud computing platform, which came in

GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack

Getty Images GitHub is struggling to contain an ongoing attack that’s flooding the site with millions of code repositories. These

Hackers backed by Russia and China are infecting SOHO routers like yours, FBI warns

The FBI and partners from 10 other countries are urging owners of Ubiquiti EdgeRouters to check their gear for signs

Wendy’s will experiment with dynamic surge pricing for food in 2025

Enlarge / A view of a Wendy’s store on August 9, 2023 in Nanuet, New York. American fast food chain

LockBit ransomware group taken down in multinational operation

Law enforcement agencies including the FBI and the UK’s National Crime Agency have dealt a crippling blow to LockBit, one

ChatGPT goes temporarily “insane” with unexpected outputs, spooking users

On Tuesday, ChatGPT users began reporting unexpected outputs from OpenAI’s AI assistant, flooding the r/ChatGPT Reddit sub with reports of

70,000 AT&T customers were without service this morning across the US

Getty Images More than 70,000 AT&T cellular customers reported being unable to connect to service early Thursday morning. While early

Google’s hidden AI diversity prompts lead to outcry over historically inaccurate images

Enlarge / Generations from Gemini AI from the prompt, “Paint me a historically accurate depiction of a medieval British king.”

Tyler Perry puts $800 million studio expansion on hold because of OpenAI’s Sora

Enlarge / Tyler Perry in 2022. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Thursday, filmmaker Tyler Perry spoke about

Avast ordered to stop selling browsing data from its browsing privacy apps

Getty Images Avast, a name known for its security research and antivirus apps, has long offered Chrome extensions, mobile apps,

Stability announces Stable Diffusion 3, a next-gen AI image generator

Enlarge / Stable Diffusion 3 generation with the prompt: studio photograph closeup of a chameleon over a black background. On

Ransomware associated with LockBit still spreading 2 days after server takedown

Two days after an international team of authorities struck a major blow at LockBit, one of the Internet’s most prolific

iMessage gets a major makeover that puts it on equal footing with Signal

iMessage is getting a major makeover that makes it among the two messaging apps most prepared to withstand the coming

Google goes “open AI” with Gemma, a free, open-weights chatbot family

On Wednesday, Google announced a new family of AI language models called Gemma, which are free, open-weights models built on

Will Smith parodies viral AI-generated video by actually eating spaghetti

Enlarge / The real Will Smith eating spaghetti, parodying an AI-generated video from 2023. On Monday, Will Smith posted a

After years of losing, it’s finally feds’ turn to troll ransomware group

Getty Images After years of being outmaneuvered by snarky ransomware criminals who tease and brag about each new victim they

New app always points to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy

Enlarge / A photo of Galactic Compass running on an iPhone. Matt Webb / Getty Images On Thursday, designer Matt

Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO

On Friday, Bloomberg reported that Reddit has signed a contract allowing an unnamed AI company to train its models on

Nvidia’s “Chat With RTX” is a ChatGPT-style app that runs on your own GPU

On Tuesday, Nvidia released Chat With RTX, a free personalized AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT that can run locally on

Nginx core developer quits project in security dispute, starts “freenginx” fork

Getty Images A core developer of Nginx, currently the world’s most popular web server, has quit the project, stating that

Doing DNS and DHCP for your LAN the old way—the way that works

Enlarge / All shall tremble before your fully functional forward and reverse lookups! Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Here’s a

DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses

Getty Images More than 1,000 Ubiquiti routers in homes and small businesses were infected with malware used by Russian-backed agents

OpenAI collapses media reality with Sora, a photorealistic AI video generator

Enlarge / Snapshots from three videos generated using OpenAI’s Sora. On Thursday, OpenAI announced Sora, a text-to-video AI model that

Google upstages itself with Gemini 1.5 AI launch, one week after Ultra 1.0

Enlarge / The Gemini 1.5 logo, released by Google. Google One week after its last major AI announcement, Google appears

VMware admits sweeping Broadcom changes are worrying customers

Broadcom has made a lot of changes to VMware since closing its acquisition of the company in November. On Wednesday,

Nvidia CEO calls for “Sovereign AI” as his firm overtakes Amazon in market value

Nvidia / Benj Edwards On Monday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that every country should control its own AI infrastructure

US says AI models can’t hold patents

On Tuesday, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published guidance on inventorship for AI-assisted inventions, clarifying that while

OpenAI experiments with giving ChatGPT a long-term conversation memory

Enlarge / When ChatGPT looks things up, a pair of green pixelated hands look through paper records, much like this.

Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software

VMware Since Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware closed in November 2023, Broadcom has been charging ahead with major changes

Ongoing campaign compromises senior execs’ Azure accounts, locks them using MFA

Getty Images Hundreds of Microsoft Azure accounts, some belonging to senior executives, are being targeted by unknown attackers in an

The Super Bowl’s best and wackiest AI commercials

Enlarge / A still image from BodyArmor’s 2024 “Field of Fake” Super Bowl commercial. BodyArmor Heavily hyped tech products have

Report: Sam Altman seeking trillions for AI chip fabrication from UAE, others

Enlarge / OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman walks on the House side of the US Capitol on January 11,

Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown

Enlarge / A Flipper Zero device https://flipperzero.one/ Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has identified an unlikely public enemy No. 1

London Underground is testing real-time AI surveillance tools to spot crime

Thousands of people using the London Underground had their movements, behavior, and body language watched by AI surveillance software designed

A password manager LastPass calls “fraudulent” booted from App Store

Getty Images As Apple has stepped up its promotion of its App Store as a safer and more trustworthy source

Google debuts more powerful “Ultra 1.0” AI model in rebranded “Gemini” chatbot

Google On Thursday, Google announced that its ChatGPT-like AI assistant, previously called Bard, is now called “Gemini,” renamed to reflect

Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist

On Sunday, a report from the South China Morning Post revealed a significant financial loss suffered by a multinational company’s

Critical vulnerability affecting most Linux distros allows for bootkits

Linux developers are in the process of patching a high-severity vulnerability that, in certain cases, allows the installation of malware

Meta will label AI-generated content from OpenAI and Google on Facebook, Instagram

Meta / Getty Images On Tuesday, Meta announced its plan to start labeling AI-generated images from other companies like OpenAI

As if two Ivanti vulnerabilities under exploit weren’t bad enough, now there are 3

Mass exploitation began over the weekend for yet another critical vulnerability in widely used VPN software sold by Ivanti, as

Microsoft in deal with Semafor to create news stories with aid of AI chatbot

Enlarge / Cube with Microsoft logo on top of their office building on 8th Avenue and 42nd Street near Times

OpenAI and Common Sense Media partner to protect teens from AI harms and misuse

On Monday, OpenAI announced a partnership with the nonprofit Common Sense Media to create AI guidelines and educational materials targeted

A startup allegedly “hacked the world.” Then came the censorship—and now the backlash.

Hacker-for-hire firms like NSO Group and Hacking Team have become notorious for enabling their customers to spy on vulnerable members

Agencies using vulnerable Ivanti products have until Saturday to disconnect them

Getty Images Federal civilian agencies have until midnight Saturday morning to sever all network connections to Ivanti VPN software, which

ChatGPT’s new @-mentions bring multiple personalities into your AI convo

Enlarge / With so many choices, selecting the perfect GPT can be confusing. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a new feature

Chinese malware removed from SOHO routers after FBI issues covert commands

Enlarge / A Wi-Fi router. The US Justice Department said Wednesday that the FBI surreptitiously sent commands to hundreds of

Raspberry Pi is planning a London IPO, but its CEO expects “no change” in focus

Enlarge / Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small

Rhyming AI-powered clock sometimes lies about the time, makes up words

Enlarge / A CAD render of the Poem/1 sitting on a bookshelf. On Tuesday, product developer Matt Webb launched a

Ars Technica used in malware campaign with never-before-seen obfuscation

Getty Images Ars Technica was recently used to serve second-stage malware in a campaign that used a never-before-seen attack chain

ChatGPT is leaking passwords from private conversations of its users, Ars reader says

Getty Images ChatGPT is leaking private conversations that include login credentials and other personal details of unrelated users, screenshots submitted

OpenWrt, now 20 years old, is crafting its own future-proof reference hardware

Enlarge / Failing an image of the proposed reference hardware by the OpenWrt group, let us gaze upon where this

A “robot” should be chemical, not steel, argues man who coined the word

In 1921, Czech playwright Karel Čapek and his brother Josef invented the word “robot” in a sci-fi play called R.U.R.

The life and times of Cozy Bear, the Russian hackers who just hit Microsoft and HPE

Getty Images Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) said Wednesday that Kremlin-backed actors hacked into the email accounts of its security personnel

In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges

The hackers who recently broke into Microsoft’s network and monitored top executives’ email for two months did so by gaining

OpenAI updates ChatGPT-4 model with potential fix for AI “laziness” problem

On Thursday, OpenAI announced updates to the AI models that power its ChatGPT assistant. Amid less noteworthy updates, OpenAI tucked

Microsoft cancels Blizzard survival game, lays off 1,900

Enlarge / Blizzard shared this image teasing a now-cancelled game in 2022. Blizzard Entertainment/Twitter The survival game that Blizzard announced

AI will increase the number and impact of cyberattacks, intel officers say

Getty Images Threats from malicious cyberactivity are likely to increase as nation-states, financially motivated criminals, and novices increasingly incorporate artificial

Google’s latest AI video generator can render cute animals in implausible situations

Enlarge / Still images of AI-generated video examples provided by Google for its Lumiere video synthesis model. On Tuesday, Google

AI-generated puffy pontiff image inspires new warning from Pope Francis

Enlarge / A cropped portion of an AI-generated image of Pope Francis wearing a puffy coat that went viral in

Mass exploitation of Ivanti VPNs is infecting networks around the globe

Enlarge / Cybercriminals or anonymous hackers use malware on mobile phones to hack personal and business passwords online. Getty Images

Ambient light sensors can reveal your device activity. How big a threat is it?

Getty Images An overwhelming majority of handheld devices these days have ambient light sensors built into them. A large percentage

New UEFI vulnerabilities send firmware devs industry wide scrambling

Nadezhda Kozhedub UEFI firmware from five of the leading suppliers contains vulnerabilities that allow attackers with a toehold in a

Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

Enlarge / A photo of David L. Mills taken by Raul654 on April 27, 2005. On Thursday, Internet pioneer Vint

Convicted murderer, filesystem creator writes of regrets to Linux list

Enlarge / A portion of the cover letter attached to Hans Reiser’s response to Fredrick Brennan’s prompt about his filesystem’s

Microsoft network breached through password-spraying by Russian-state hackers

Getty Images Russia-state hackers exploited a weak password to compromise Microsoft’s corporate network and accessed emails and documents that belonged

$40 billion worth of crypto crime enabled by stablecoins since 2022

Anjali Nair; Getty Images Stablecoins, cryptocurrencies pegged to a stable value like the US dollar, were created with the promise

Zuckerberg’s AGI remarks follow trend of downplaying AI dangers

Enlarge / Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California,

OpenAI opens the door for military uses but maintains AI weapons ban

On Tuesday, ChatGPT developer OpenAI revealed that it is collaborating with the United States Defense Department on cybersecurity projects and

Researcher uncovers one of the biggest password dumps in recent history

Getty Images Nearly 71 million unique credentials stolen for logging into websites such as Facebook, Roblox, eBay, and Yahoo have

As 2024 election looms, OpenAI says it is taking steps to prevent AI abuse

On Monday, ChatGPT maker OpenAI detailed its plans to prevent the misuse of its AI technologies during the upcoming elections

AI poisoning could turn open models into destructive “sleeper agents,” says Anthropic

Benj Edwards | Getty Images Imagine downloading an open source AI language model, and all seems well at first, but

Famous xkcd comic comes full circle with AI bird-identifying binoculars

Enlarge / The Swarovski Optik Visio binoculars, with an excerpt of a 2014 xkcd comic strip called “Tasks” in the

Wi-Fi 7’s theoretical speeds make your Internet connection seem even more sad

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Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware

Enlarge / The Rexroth Nutrunner, a line of torque wrench sold by Bosch Rexroth. Bosch Rexroth Researchers have unearthed nearly

Apple AirDrop leaks user data like a sieve. Chinese authorities say they’re scooping it up.

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Chinese authorities recently said they’re using an advanced encryption attack to de-anonymize users of AirDrop

OpenAI’s GPT Store lets ChatGPT users discover popular user-made chatbot roles

On Wednesday, OpenAI announced the launch of its GPT Store—a way for ChatGPT users to share and discover custom chatbot

Actively exploited 0-days in Ivanti VPN are letting hackers backdoor networks

Unknown threat actors are actively targeting two critical zero-day vulnerabilities that allow them to bypass two-factor authentication and execute malicious

At Senate AI hearing, news executives fight against “fair use” claims for AI training data

Enlarge / Danielle Coffey, president and CEO of News Media Alliance; Professor Jeff Jarvis, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism; Curtis

VMware customers face uncertain future as Broadcom ends VMware partner programs

VMware’s new owner is ending the virtualization and cloud computing company’s partner programs. It’s unclear who or how many current

Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm

Getty Images For the past year, previously unknown self-replicating malware has been compromising Linux devices around the world and installing

OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material

OpenAI ChatGPT developer OpenAI recently acknowledged the necessity of using copyrighted material in the development of AI tools like ChatGPT,

How much detail is too much? Midjourney v6 attempts to find out

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Ivanti warns of critical vulnerability in its popular line of endpoint protection software

Software maker Ivanti is urging users of its end-point security product to patch a critical vulnerability that makes it possible

A “ridiculously weak“ password causes disaster for Spain’s No. 2 mobile carrier

Getty Images Orange España, Spain’s second-biggest mobile operator, suffered a major outage on Wednesday after an unknown party obtained a