Category: Technology

Independent AI researcher Simon Willison, reviewing the feature today on his blog, noted that Anthropic’s […]

While tech companies market AI as a productivity tool for everyone, a UK government study […]

Hackers planted malicious code in open source software packages with more than 2 billion weekly […]

On Thursday, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT users can now branch conversations into multiple parallel threads, […]

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, […]

Cloudflare on Thursday acknowledged this failure, writing: We failed three times. The first time because […]

It wasn’t immediately known which organization or person requested and obtained the credentials. Representatives from […]

Training with automated data pipeline Voyager builds on Tencent’s earlier HunyuanWorld 1.0, released in July. […]

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced plans to roll out parental controls for ChatGPT and route sensitive […]

Knowledge emerges from understanding how ideas relate to each other. LLMs operate on these contextual […]

“While TBD Labs is still relatively new, we believe it has the greatest compute-per-researcher in […]

Google is advising users of the Salesloft Drift AI chat agent to consider all security […]

The maker of Passwordstate, an enterprise-grade password manager for storing companies’ most privileged credentials, is […]

Don’t believe everything you read—especially when it’s part of a marketing pitch designed to sell […]

The company tested 123 cases representing 29 different attack scenarios and found a 23.6 percent […]

Adam Raine learned to bypass these safeguards by claiming he was writing a story—a technique […]

US Senator Ron Wyden accused the federal judiciary of “negligence and incompetence” following a recent […]

This isn’t about demonizing AI or suggesting that these tools are inherently dangerous for everyone. […]

A hobbyist developer building AI language models that speak Victorian-era English “just for fun” got […]

Still, the coincidence between Altman’s statement and the MIT report reportedly spooked tech stock investors […]

Real stakes, not science fiction While media coverage focuses on the science fiction aspects, actual […]

On Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that GPT-4o has returned to ChatGPT following intense […]

The randomness inherent in AI text generation compounds this problem. Even with identical prompts, an […]

It’s been less than a week since the launch of OpenAI’s new GPT-5 AI model, […]

BI.ZONE said the Paper Werewolf delivered the exploits in July and August through archives attached […]

The obfuscated code inside an .svg file downloaded from one of the porn sites. Credit: […]

Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm […]

For example, while high-profile banks like JPMorgan Chase and HSBC have started enforcing in-office policies, […]

On Thursday, OpenAI announced GPT-5 and three variants—GPT-5 Pro, GPT-5 mini, and GPT-5 nano—what the […]

Google said that its Salesforce instance was among those that were compromised. The breach occurred […]

By now, you’ve likely heard of fraudulent calls that use AI to clone the voices […]

Cisco said that one of its representatives fell victim to a voice phishing attack that […]

AI search engine Perplexity is using stealth bots and other tactics to evade websites’ no-crawl […]

Even Space Race salaries were far cheaper The Apollo program offers another striking comparison. Neil […]

Once behind the captive portal, the page initiates the Windows Test Connectivity Status Indicator, a […]

On Tuesday, The Associated Press released results from a new AP-NORC poll showing that 60 […]

“One of the most unusual elements of this case was the attacker’s use of physical […]

“At no stage is any subsequent element of the command string after the first ‘grep’ […]

Wyoming’s data center boom Cheyenne is no stranger to data centers, having attracted facilities from […]

Russia’s biggest airline cancelled dozens of flights on Monday following a failure of the state-owned […]

The CAPTCHA arms race While the agent didn’t face an actual CAPTCHA puzzle with images […]

Microsoft fixed the vulnerability pair—CVE-2025-49706 and CVE-2025-49704—two weeks ago as part of the company’s monthly […]

Some VMware perpetual license holders are currently unable to download security patches, The Register reported […]

US export controls have had some effect on the black market. Given the nature of […]

References to “gpt-5-reasoning-alpha-2025-07-13” have already been spotted on X, with code showing “reasoning_effort: high” in […]

Talos said Chaos is likely either a rebranding of the BlackSuit ransomware or is operated […]

sudo rm -rf –no-preserve-root / The –no-preserve-root flag is specifically designed to override safety protections […]

But unlike the Gemini incident where the AI model confabulated phantom directories, Replit’s failures took […]

Trump’s plan was not welcomed by everyone. J.B. Branch, Big Tech accountability advocate for Public […]

Stargate moves forward despite early skepticism When OpenAI announced Stargate in January, critics questioned whether […]

In May 2020, Sacramento, California, resident Alfonso Nguyen was alarmed to find two Sacramento County […]

Installing the updates is only the beginning of the recovery process, since the infections allow […]

The early announcement has prompted Google DeepMind, which had prepared its own IMO results for […]

How many Google AI researchers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A recent […]

Expel said that PoisonSeed has found a clever sleight of hand to bypass this crucial […]

While Dębiak won 500,000 yen and survived his ordeal better than the legendary steel driver, […]

On Thursday, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Agent, a new feature that lets the company’s AI assistant […]

Researchers from Cisco’s Talos security team have uncovered a malware-as-a-service operator that used public GitHub […]

Researchers from the Google Threat Intelligence Group said that hackers are compromising SonicWall Secure Mobile […]

In response to the white label program ending, a Reddit user who claimed that their […]

Hackers are stashing malware in a place that’s largely out of the reach of most […]

Chinese firms have begun rushing to order Nvidia’s H20 AI chips as the company plans […]

To generate text, every AI chatbot processes an input called a “prompt” and produces a […]

Nvidia is recommending a mitigation for customers of one of its GPU product lines that […]

Beyond market volatility, Nvidia faces ongoing geopolitical challenges that threaten its access to one of […]

The Stanford study, titled “Expressing stigma and inappropriate responses prevents LLMs from safely replacing mental […]

Attempts to reach MellowTel representatives were unsuccessful. Tuckner’s discovery is reminiscent of a 2019 analysis […]

Authorities in Europe have detained five people, including a former Russian professional basketball player, in […]

Musk has also apparently used the Grok chatbots as an automated extension of his trolling […]

On Monday, sheet music platform Soundslice says it developed a new feature after discovering that […]

A critical vulnerability allowing hackers to bypass multifactor authentication in network management devices made by […]

The reported $100 billion profit threshold we mentioned earlier conflates commercial success with cognitive capability, […]

Genevieve Stark, head of cybercrime analysis at Google Threat Intelligence Group, said DragonForce could be […]

Starting today, Google is implementing a change that will enable its Gemini AI engine to […]

The maker of a phone app that is advertised as providing a stealthy means for […]

AT&T is rolling out a protection that prevents unauthorized changes to mobile accounts as the […]

The Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico hacked the phone of an FBI official investigating kingpin […]

The letter, signed by Aiden Fitzgerald, director of global sales operations at Broadcom, claims that […]

For those who missed the Flash era, these in-browser apps feel somewhat like the vintage […]

On Wednesday, CISA added CVE-2024-54085 to its list of vulnerabilities known to be exploited in […]

Ubuntu users could see up to a 20 percent boost in graphics performance on Intel-based […]

But if you’re not intimately familiar with the AI industry and copyright, you might wonder: […]

Beyond volume, fraud poses an increasing threat. In January, the Justice Department announced indictments in […]

Hackers suspected of working on behalf of the Chinese government exploited a maximum-severity vulnerability, which […]

Large-scale attacks designed to bring down Internet services by sending them more traffic than they […]

OpenAI executives have discussed filing an antitrust complaint with US regulators against Microsoft, the company’s […]

Elliptic also confirmed in its blog post about the attack that crypto tracing shows Nobitex […]

Not the Apple page you’re looking for “If I showed the [webpage] to my parents, […]

A time capsule of human expression Graham-Cumming is no stranger to tech preservation efforts. He’s […]

The departments of Commerce, Treasury, Homeland Security and the National Institutes of Health were all […]

Screenshot, Ars Technica, Downdetector Credit: Screenshot, Ars Technica, Downdetector Over the past two decades, copper […]

Meta has developed plans to create a new artificial intelligence research lab dedicated to pursuing […]

As the video explains: This new process is fundamentally different and more secure than traditional […]

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that o3-pro, a new version of its most capable simulated reasoning […]

The legal action follows similar moves in other creative industries, with more than a dozen […]

OpenAI has struck a deal to use Google’s cloud computing infrastructure for AI despite the […]

Researchers have unearthed two publicly available exploits that completely evade protections offered by Secure Boot, […]

On Wednesday, acting FAA Administrator Chris Rocheleau told the House Appropriations Committee that the Federal Aviation Administration […]

Millions of low-cost devices for media streaming, in-vehicle entertainment, and video projection are infected with […]

On Thursday, Anthropic unveiled specialized AI models designed for US national security customers. The company […]

On Thursday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued against a proposed 10-year moratorium on state AI […]

Google says its Chrome browser will stop trusting certificates from two certificate authorities after “patterns […]

An overview of Yandex identifier sharing An overview of Yandex identifier sharing A timeline of […]

Broadcom has cut the lowest tier in its VMware partner program. The move allows the […]

Stern’s eminence within Russian cybercrime has been widely documented. The cryptocurrency-tracing firm Chainalysis does not […]

Since 2022, we’ve been using the prompt “a muscular barbarian with weapons beside a CRT […]

GreyNoise said it detected the campaign in mid-March and held off reporting on it until […]

Inside the laptop/desktop examination bay at SK TES’s Fredericksburg, Va. site. Credit: SK tes Inside […]

“Based on what we see, there is a wide range of cybercriminals admitting they are […]

On Thursday, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, marking the company’s return […]

On Tuesday, Google launched Veo 3, a new AI video synthesis model that can do […]

Marketers promote AI-assisted developer tools as workhorses that are essential for today’s software engineer. Developer […]

The hacker ecosystem in Russia, more than perhaps anywhere else in the world, has long […]

ECCO also expressed concern about Broadcom’s ongoing changes to its partner program, including “reassessing incentives, […]

Some of the payloads were limited to detonate only on specific dates in 2023, but […]

On Wednesday, OpenAI announced that former Apple design chief Jony Ive and his design firm […]

But the changes go only so far in limiting the risks Recall poses. As I […]

Photo of the Chicago Sun-Times “Summer reading list for 2025” supplement. Credit: Tbretc / Instagram […]

Microsoft is updating Windows 11 with a set of new encryption algorithms that can withstand […]

In that sense, the vulgar Vader situation creates a touchy dilemma for Epic Games and […]

Threat actors, likely supported by the Russian government, hacked multiple high-value mail servers around the […]

The release comes just two weeks after OpenAI made GPT-4 unavailable in ChatGPT on April […]

The researchers wrote: The implications of this vulnerability are particularly severe given that ElizaOSagents are […]

The reconciliation bill primarily focuses on cuts to Medicaid access and increased health care fees […]

Google is adding a new security setting to Android to provide an extra layer of […]

“Like any product of human creativity, AI can be directed toward positive or negative ends,” […]

The restructuring would have also allowed OpenAI to remove the cap on returns for investors, […]

Waltz was removed from his post late last week, with Trump nominating him to serve […]

The changing face of chip export controls The Biden-era chip restriction framework, which we covered […]

The LegoGPT system works in three parts, shown in this diagram. Credit: Pun et al. […]

Login credentials belonging to an employee at both the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and […]

Using AI can be a double-edged sword, according to new research from Duke University. While […]

In the message, Altman described Simo as bringing “a rare blend of leadership, product and […]

The flow of adding new members to a WhatsApp group message is: A group member […]

Broadcom has been sending cease-and-desist letters to owners of VMware perpetual licenses with expired support […]

A jury has awarded WhatsApp $167 million in punitive damages in a case the company […]

Although big participants in the technology industry may be able to lobby the administration to […]

A California man has pleaded guilty to hacking an employee of The Walt Disney Company […]

Hundreds of e-commerce sites, at least one owned by a large multinational company, were backdoored […]

Backblaze went public in November 2021 and raised $100 million. Morpheus noted that since then, […]

One of the most influential—and by some counts, notorious—AI models yet released will soon fade […]

These sorts of adversary-in-the-middle attacks have grown increasingly common. In 2022, for instance, a single […]

Microsoft says it’s making passwordless logins the default means for signing in to new accounts, […]

Still, the report contained a direct quote statement from William Higinbotham that appears to combine […]

A new study analyzing the Danish labor market in 2023 and 2024 suggests that generative […]

The ability to use a revoked password to log in through RDP occurs when a […]

Oligo also notes that many of the vulnerable devices have microphones and could be turned […]

This morning, Punchbowl News reported that Amazon was considering listing the cost of tariffs as […]

In AI, hallucinations occur when an LLM produces outputs that are factually incorrect, nonsensical, or […]

On Thursday, OpenAI announced the addition of shopping features to ChatGPT Search. The new feature […]

All three of the ChoiceJacking techniques defeat the original Android juice-jacking mitigations. One of them […]

The FBI is offering $10 million for information about the China-state hacking group tracked as […]

A screenshot of the 2025 USAMO Problem #1 and a solution, shown on the AoPSOnline […]

Cultivating the future So what might a sustainable ecosystem for human creativity actually involve? Legal […]

Russian military personnel are being targeted with recently discovered Android malware that steals their contacts […]

Owing to the aspirational state of things, OpenAI writes, “Our production models do not yet […]

On Monday, a developer using the popular AI-powered code editor Cursor noticed something strange: Switching […]

On Wednesday, OpenAI announced the release of two new models—o3 and o4-mini—that combine simulated reasoning […]

To understand CaMeL, you need to understand that prompt injections happen when AI systems can’t […]

Infamous Internet imageboard and wretched hive of scum and villainy 4chan was apparently hacked at […]

On Monday, OpenAI announced the GPT-4.1 model family, its newest series of AI language models […]

Nvidia announced plans today to manufacture AI chips and build complete supercomputers on US soil […]

Security and privacy advocates are girding themselves for another uphill battle against Recall, the AI […]

The extensions share other dubious or suspicious similarities. Much of the code in each one […]

Remember when teachers demanded that you “show your work” in school? Some fancy new AI […]

A screenshot of various Claude pricing plans captured on April 9, 2025. Credit: Benj Edwards […]

“AkiraBot’s use of LLM-generated spam message content demonstrates the emerging challenges that AI poses to […]

The current generative Quake II demo represents a slight advancement from Microsoft’s previous generative AI […]

A leak of 190,000 chat messages traded among members of the Black Basta ransomware group […]

Meta constructed the Llama 4 models using a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, which is one way […]

A technique that hostile nation-states and financially motivated ransomware groups are using to hide their […]

“The idea is that no matter what, at no time and in no way does […]

Crawlers that evade detection Making the situation more difficult, many AI-focused crawlers do not play […]

What does it take to get OpenAI and Anthropic—two competitors in the AI assistant market—to […]

Trustwave’s Spider Labs, meanwhile, said the sample of LDAP credentials provided by rose87168 “reveals a […]

Like many legacy government IT systems, SSA systems contain code written in COBOL, a programming […]

Importantly, it then applies a weighting step, dividing higher-frequency spectral coefficients by the overall brightness […]

The resulting dataset, which reflected a distribution of attack categories similar to the complete dataset, […]

OpenAI claims several key improvements: users can refine images through conversation while maintaining visual consistency; […]

VMware is suing the US arm of industrial giant AG Siemens. The Broadcom company claims […]

“Any time one of these crawlers pulls from my tarpit, it’s resources they’ve consumed and […]

Steffen Schmidt, the CEO of Medicusdata, a company that provides text-to-speech services to doctors and […]

On Thursday, Google and the Computer History Museum (CHM) jointly released the source code for […]

Caution over citations and sources Claude users should be warned that large language models (LLMs) […]

On Wednesday, web infrastructure provider Cloudflare announced a new feature called “AI Labyrinth” that aims […]

It’s worth clarifying that AI models did not generate the images used in the study. […]

On Tuesday at Nvidia’s GTC 2025 conference in San Jose, California, CEO Jensen Huang revealed […]

During Tuesday’s Nvidia GTX keynote, CEO Jensen Huang unveiled two “personal AI supercomputers” called DGX […]

Multimodal output opens up new possibilities Having true multimodal output opens up interesting new possibilities […]

Open source software used by more than 23,000 organizations, some of them in large enterprises, […]

On Wednesday, Google DeepMind announced two new AI models designed to control robots: Gemini Robotics […]

Researchers have discovered multiple Android apps, some that were available in Google Play after passing […]

In a new paper published Thursday titled “Auditing language models for hidden objectives,” Anthropic researchers […]

On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected […]

A new study from Columbia Journalism Review’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism finds serious accuracy […]

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei raised a few eyebrows on Monday after suggesting that advanced AI […]

After a little over three months, Intel has a new CEO to replace ousted former […]

Apple on Tuesday patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in virtually all iPhones and iPad models […]