- + Thousands of servers hacked in ongoing attack targeting Ray AI framework—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Thousands of servers storing AI workloads and network credentials have been hacked in an ongoing attac...
- + Canva’s Affinity acquisition is a non-subscription-based weapon against Adobe—Enlarge / Affinity's photo editor. (credit: Canva ) Online graphic design platform provider Canva announced its acquisition of Af...
- + “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 won't be able to do much of anything...
- + “The king is dead”—Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards ) On Tuesday, Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus large language model (LLM) surpassed OpenAI's...
- + Thousands of phones and routers swept into proxy service, unbeknownst to users—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Crooks are working overtime to anonymize their illicit online activities using thousands of devices of...
- + Justice Department indicts 7 accused in 14-year hack campaign by Chinese gov—Enlarge (credit: peterschreiber.media | Getty Images) The US Justice Department on Monday unsealed an indictment charging seven men w...
- + Never-before-seen data wiper may have been used by Russia against Ukraine—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have unearthed never-before-seen wiper malware tied to the Kremlin and an operation two ye...
- + World’s first global AI resolution unanimously adopted by United Nations—Enlarge / The United Nations building in New York. (credit: Getty Images ) On Thursday, the United Nations General Assembly unanim...
- + Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79—Enlarge / A photo of Vernor Vinge in 2006. (credit: Raul654 ) On Wednesday, author David Brin announced that Vernor Vinge, sci-fi ...
- + Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys—Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Apple) A newly discovered vulnerability baked into Apple’s M-series of chips allows attackers to ext...
- + GPT-5 might arrive this summer as a “materially better” update to ChatGPT—Enlarge When OpenAI launched its GPT-4 AI model a year ago, it created a wave of immense hype and existential panic from its abi...
- + Nvidia announces “moonshot” to create embodied human-level AI in robot form—Enlarge / An illustration of a humanoid robot created by Nvidia. (credit: Nvidia) In sci-fi films, the rise of humanlike artificial...
- + 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 was feeling when looking at the Excel s...
- + “Disabling cyberattacks” are hitting critical US water systems, White House warns—Enlarge / Aerial view of a sewage treatment plant. (credit: Getty Images) The Biden administration on Tuesday warned the nation’s g...
- + Nvidia unveils Blackwell B200, the “world’s most powerful chip” designed for AI—Enlarge / The GB200 "superchip" covered with a fanciful blue explosion. (credit: Nvidia / Benj Edwards) On Monday, Nvidia unveiled...
- + Apple may hire Google to power new iPhone AI features using Gemini—report—Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards) On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Apple is in talks to license Google's Gemini model to power AI ...
- + Fujitsu says it found malware on its corporate network, warns of possible data breach—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Japan-based IT behemoth Fujitsu said it has discovered malware on its corporate network that may have ...
- + Dell tells remote workers that they won’t be eligible for promotion—Enlarge (credit: Getty ) Starting in May, Dell employees who are fully remote will not be eligible for promotion, Business Insider ...
- + 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. (credit: xAI ) On Sunday, Elon Musk's AI...
- + ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots—Enlarge / Some ASCII art of our favorite visual cliche for a hacker. (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have discovered a new way ...
- + 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 Coast), one of the affected countries....
- + Internet outages hit 13 countries in Africa due to undersea cable damage—Enlarge / View of Le Plateau and Ebrie Lagoon from the top of the Cathedrale St-Paul in Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), one of the affected countries....
- + Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) It seems like AI large language models (LLMs) are everywhere these days due to the rise of ChatGPT . ...
- + After 114 days of change, Broadcom CEO acknowledges VMware-related “unease”—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Justin Sullivan ) Broadcom CEO and President Hock Tan has acknowledged the discomfort VMware custom...
- + Banish OEM self-signed certs forever and roll your own private LetsEncrypt—Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Previously, on "Weekend Projects for Homelab Admins With Control Issues," we created o...
- + Member of LockBit ransomware group sentenced to 4 years in prison—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Charles O'Rear) A dual Canadian-Russian national has been sentenced to four years in prison for his r...
- + Hackers can read private AI-assistant chats even though they’re encrypted—Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) AI assistants have been widely available for a little more than a year, and they alrea...
- + Never-before-seen Linux malware gets installed using 1-day exploits—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have unearthed Linux malware that circulated in the wild for at least two years before bei...
- + 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. (credit: Getty Images ) ...
- + 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. (credit: Getty Images ) ...
- + Matrix multiplication advancement 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. (credit: Getty Images ) ...
- + 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. (credit: Getty Images ) ...
- + Microsoft says Kremlin-backed hackers accessed its source and internal systems—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) Microsoft said that Kremlin-backed hackers who breached its corporate network in January have expand...
- + Attack wrangles thousands of web users into a password-cracking botnet—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Attackers have transformed hundreds of hacked sites running WordPress software into command-and-contro...
- + 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 Google Cloud data center in Hesse, Hanau, opened...
- + Some teachers are now using ChatGPT to grade papers—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) In a notable shift toward sanctioned use of AI in schools, some educators in grades 3–12 are now u...
- + VMware sandbox escape bugs are so critical, patches are released for end-of-life products—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) VMware is urging customers to patch critical vulnerabilities that make it possible for hackers to brea...
- + OpenAI responds to Elon Musk lawsuit by clarifying its “open“ nature—Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Getty Images) On Tuesday, OpenAI published a blog post titled "OpenAI and Elon Musk" in response to...
- + After collecting $22 million, AlphV ransomware group stages FBI takedown—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) The ransomware group responsible for hamstringing the prescription drug market for two weeks has sud...
- + Anthropic’s Claude 3 causes stir by seeming to realize when it was being tested—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) On Monday, Anthropic prompt engineer Alex Albert caused a small stir in the AI community when he tw...
- + Hackers exploited Windows 0-day for 6 months after Microsoft knew of it—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) Hackers backed by the North Korean government gained a major win when Microsoft left a Windows zero-...
- + The AI wars heat up with Claude 3, claimed to have “near-human” abilities—Enlarge / The Anthropic Claude 3 logo. (credit: Anthropic ) On Monday, Anthropic released Claude 3, a family of three AI languag...
- + US prescription market hamstrung for 9 days (so far) by ransomware attack—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Nine days after a Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate took down the biggest US health care payment p...
- + Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, hosted code that backdoored user devices—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Code uploaded to AI developer platform Hugging Face covertly installed backdoors and other types of ma...
- + 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. (credit: HP ) HP launched a subscription service today th...
- + AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET’s reliability rating—Enlarge (credit: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto/Getty Images ) Wikipedia has downgraded tech website CNET's reliability rating following ex...
- + HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Any Linux user trying to send the highest-resolution images to a display at the fastest frame rate is ...
- + Self-pay gas station pumps break across NZ as software can’t handle Leap Day—Enlarge / A gas station displays an out-of-order sign on February 29, 2024 in New Zealand. (credit: Mark Coote/Bloomberg via Getty Images ) ...
- + GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) GitHub is struggling to contain an ongoing attack that’s flooding the site with millions of code repos...
- + Microsoft partners with OpenAI-rival Mistral for AI models, drawing EU scrutiny—Enlarge / Velib bicycles are parked in front of a French office of US computer company Microsoft on January 25, 2023 in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France...
- + Wendy’s clarifies plans for dynamic pricing experiment after backlash—Enlarge / A view of a Wendy's store on August 9, 2023, in Nanuet, New York. (credit: Getty Images ) A day after American fast food...
- + Hackers backed by Russia and China are infecting SOHO routers like yours, FBI warns—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) The FBI and partners from 10 other countries are urging owners of Ubiquiti EdgeRouters to check thei...
- + Cops called after parents get tricked by AI-generated images of Wonka-like event—Enlarge / A photo of "Willy's Chocolate Experience" (inset), which did not match AI-generated promises, shown in the background. (credit: Stuart S...
- + Avast ordered to stop selling browsing data from its browsing privacy apps—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Avast, a name known for its security research and antivirus apps, has long offered Chrome extensions...
- + Tyler Perry puts $800 million studio expansion on hold because of OpenAI’s Sora—Enlarge / Tyler Perry in 2022. (credit: Getty Images ) In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Thursday, filmmaker...
- + Ransomware associated with LockBit still spreading 2 days after server takedown—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) Two days after an international team of authorities struck a major blow to LockBit , one of the Int...
- + 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. (credit: Stability AI )...
- + 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." (credit: @stratejak...
- + 70,000 AT&T customers were without service this morning across the US—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) More than 70,000 AT&T cellular customers reported being unable to connect to service early Thursda...
- + iMessage gets a major makeover that puts it on equal footing with Signal—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) iMessage is getting a major makeover that makes it among the two messaging apps most prepared to wit...
- + Google goes “open AI” with Gemma, a free, open-weights chatbot family—Enlarge (credit: Google ) On Wednesday, Google announced a new family of AI language models called Gemma , which are free, open-w...
- + ChatGPT goes temporarily “insane” with unexpected outputs, spooking users—Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Getty Images ) On Tuesday, ChatGPT users began reporting unexpected outputs from OpenAI's AI assis...
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