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

    Anti-censorship voices are working to highlight reports of one Indian company’s hacker past.

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  2. Agencies using vulnerable Ivanti products have until Saturday to disconnect them

    Things were already bad with two critical 0-days. Then Ivanti disclosed a new one.

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  3. Chinese malware removed from SOHO routers after FBI issues covert commands

    Routers were being used to conceal attacks on critical infrastructure.

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

    Bring different AI roles into the same chatbot conversation history.

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

    Vimeo also used by legitimate user who posted booby-trapped content.

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

    Poem/1 Kickstarter seeks $103K for fun ChatGPT-fed clock that may hallucinate the time.

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  7. OpenAI says mysterious chat histories resulted from account takeover

    User shocked to find chats naming unpublished research papers, and other private data.

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

    Eben Upton says hobbyists remain "incredibly important" while he's involved.

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

    Site gave ChatGPT 3 stars and 48% privacy score: "Best used for creativity, not facts."

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

    How does a legacy test account grant access to read every Office 365 account?

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

    Also, new GPT-3.5 Turbo model, lower API prices, and other model updates.

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

    Hacks by Kremlin-backed group continue to hit hard.

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  1. Microsoft cancels Blizzard survival game, lays off 1,900

    Job cuts hit Xbox, ZeniMax businesses, too, reports say.

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

    Ransomware is likely to be the biggest beneficiary in the next 2 years, UK's GCHQ says.

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

    Lumiere generates five-second videos that "portray realistic, diverse and coherent motion."

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

    Francis fears "the creation and diffusion of images that appear perfectly plausible but false."

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  5. Mass exploitation of Ivanti VPNs is infecting networks around the globe

    Orgs that haven't acted yet should, even if it means suspending VPN services.

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

    Čapek: "The world needed mechanical robots, for it believes in machines more than it believes in life."

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

    There are, as you might expect, a few disagreements about what's most important.

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

    For now, there's no reason for concern, but that could change in coming years.

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  9. Microsoft network breached through password-spraying by Russia-state hackers

    Senior execs' emails accessed in network breach that wasn't caught for 2 months.

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  10. Convicted murderer, filesystem creator writes of regrets to Linux list

    "The man I am now would do things very differently," Reiser says in long letter.

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

    Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.

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  12. $40 billion worth of crypto crime enabled by stablecoins since 2022

    Stablecoins like Tether also used for scams and sanctions evasion.

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  1. Zuckerberg’s AGI remarks follow trend of downplaying AI dangers

    Zuckerberg and Altman both tamp down fear and hype with casual statements about AGI.

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  2. Researcher uncovers one of the biggest password dumps in recent history

    Roughly 25 million of the passwords have never been seen before by widely used service.

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

    Despite new Pentagon collab, OpenAI won't allow customers to "develop or use weapons" with its tools.

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

    ChatGPT maker plans transparency for gen AI content and improved access to voting info.

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  5. New UEFI vulnerabilities send firmware devs industry wide scrambling

    PixieFail is a huge deal for cloud and data centers. For the rest, less so.

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

    Trained LLMs that seem normal can generate vulnerable code given different triggers.

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  7. Famous xkcd comic becomes reality with AI bird-identifying binoculars

    Swarovski AX Visio, billed as first "smart binoculars," names species and tracks location.

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

    Chinese authorities are exploiting a weakness Apple has allowed to go unfixed for 5 years.

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

    Media orgs want AI firms to license content for training, and Congress is sympathetic.

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  10. VMware customers face uncertain future as Broadcom ends VMware partner programs

    Only Broadcom's favorites will be able to sell VMware-related offerings.

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

    Organizations using Ivanti Connect Secure should take action at once.

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

    Like an app store, people can find novel ChatGPT personalities—and some creators will get paid.

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