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Mandiant, the security firm Google bought for $5.4 billion, gets its X account hacked
Google-owned security firm Mandiant spent several hours trying to regain control of its account on X (formerly known as Twitter)
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Millions still haven’t patched Terrapin SSH protocol vulnerability
Getty Images Roughly 11 million Internet-exposed servers remain susceptible to a recently discovered vulnerability that allows attackers with a foothold
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Early Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain—and AI is already on the case
Enlarge / AI-generated results of a gangster Mickey Mouse, Eldritch Horror Mickey Mouse, and Basketball Mickey Mouse created by a
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4-year campaign backdoored iPhones using possibly the most advanced exploit ever
Researchers on Wednesday presented intriguing new findings surrounding an attack that over four years backdoored dozens if not thousands of
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Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos
Enlarge / Three images generated by “Imagine with Meta AI” using the Emu AI model. Meta | Benj Edwards On
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Google’s best Gemini AI demo video was fabricated
Enlarge / A still from Google’s misleading Gemini AI promotional video, released Wednesday. Google Google is facing controversy among AI
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Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years
Stealthy and multifunctional Linux malware that has been infecting telecommunications companies went largely unnoticed for two years until being documented
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EU agrees to landmark rules on artificial intelligence
Enlarge / EU Commissioner Thierry Breton talks to media during a press conference in June. Thierry Monasse | Getty Images
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Elon Musk’s new AI bot, Grok, causes stir by citing OpenAI usage policy
Grok, the AI language model created by Elon Musk’s xAI, went into wide release last week, and people have begun
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As ChatGPT gets “lazy,” people test “winter break hypothesis” as the cause
In late November, some ChatGPT users began to notice that ChatGPT-4 was becoming more “lazy,” reportedly refusing to do some
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The growing abuse of QR codes in malware and payment scams prompts FTC warning
Enlarge / A woman scans a QR code in a café to see the menu online. The US Federal Trade
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Everybody’s talking about Mistral, an upstart French challenger to OpenAI
Enlarge / An illustration of a robot holding a French flag, figuratively reflecting the rise of AI in France due
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A New Essential Guide to Electronics by Naomi Wu details a different Shenzhen
Enlarge / The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzen is made to be pointed at, rapidly, in a crowded
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Broadcom ends VMware perpetual license sales, testing customers and partners
Broadcom has moved forward with plans to transition VMware, a virtualization and cloud computing company, into a subscription-based business. As
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How worried should we be about the “AutoSpill” credential leak in Android password managers?
Enlarge / Close up of hand holding smartphone and screen applications with unlocking mobile phones. Concept of technological safety. Getty
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Tesla unveils its latest humanoid robot, Optimus Gen 2, in demo video
Enlarge / The Tesla Optimus Gen 2 robot. Tesla | Benj Edwards On Tuesday, Tesla released a demo video showing
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Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used
On Wednesday, news quickly spread on social media about a new enabled-by-default Dropbox setting that shares Dropbox data with OpenAI
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AlphV ransomware site is “seized” by the FBI. Then it’s “unseized.” And so on.
Enlarge / Shortly after the FBI posted a notice saying it had seized the dark-web site of AlphV, the ransomware
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SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker
Enlarge / Terrapin is coming for your data. Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Sometime around the start of 1995, an
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Xfinity waited 13 days to patch critical Citrix Bleed 0-day. Now it’s paying the price
Enlarge / A Comcast Xfinity service van in San Ramon, California on February 25, 2020. Getty Images | Smith Collection/Gado
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Ukrainian cellular and Internet still out, 1 day after suspected Russian cyberattack
Enlarge / A service center for “Kyivstar”, a Ukrainian telecommunications company, that provides communication services and data transmission based on
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A song of hype and fire: The 10 biggest AI stories of 2023
Getty Images | Benj Edwards “Here, There, and Everywhere” isn’t just a Beatles song. It’s also a phrase that recalls
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UniFi devices broadcasted private video to other users’ accounts
Enlarge / An assortment of Ubiquiti cameras. Users of UniFi, the popular line of wireless devices from manufacturer Ubiquiti, are
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How Microsoft’s cybercrime unit has evolved to combat increased threats
Microsoft’s Cybercrime Center. Microsoft Governments and the tech industry around the world have been scrambling in recent years to curb
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