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  1. Nashville man arrested for running “laptop farm” to get jobs for North Koreans

    Laptop farm gave the impression North Korean nationals were working from the US.

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  2. ChatGPT unexpectedly began speaking in a user’s cloned voice during testing

    Woolf: "OpenAI just leaked the plot of Black Mirror's next season."

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  3. Ars asks: What was the last CD or DVD you burned?

    With the demise of Apple's SuperDrive, we reminisce on our final homemade optical discs.

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  4. 512-bit RSA key in home energy system gives control of “virtual power plant”

    It took $70 and 24 hours for Ryan Castellucci to gain access to 200 MW of capacity.

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  5. Man vs. machine: DeepMind’s new robot serves up a table tennis triumph

    Amateur-beating ping-pong AI learned to play in a simulated environment.

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  6. Major shifts at OpenAI spark skepticism about impending AGI timelines

    De Kraker: "If OpenAI is right on the verge of AGI, why do prominent people keep leaving?"

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  7. Students scramble after security breach wipes 13,000 devices

    Mass wiping occurs after hack of mobile device management platform.

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  8. Hang out with Ars in San Jose and DC this fall for two infrastructure events

    Join us as we talk about the next few years in AI & storage, and what to watch for.

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  9. Mac and Windows users infected by software updates delivered over hacked ISP

    DNS poisoning attack worked even when targets used DNS from Google and Cloudflare.

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  10. CrowdStrike claps back at Delta, says airline rejected offers for help

    Delta is creating a "misleading narrative," according to CrowdStrike's lawyers.

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  11. FLUX: This new AI image generator is eerily good at creating human hands

    FLUX.1 is the open-weights heir apparent to Stable Diffusion, turning text into images.

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  12. Senators propose “Digital replication right” for likeness, extending 70 years after death

    Law would hold US individuals and firms liable for ripping off a person's digital likeness.

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  1. Cloudflare once again comes under pressure for enabling abusive sites

    Cloudflare masks the origin of roughly 10% of abusive domains, watchdog says.

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  2. ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode impresses testers with sound effects, catching its breath

    AVM allows uncanny real-time voice conversations with ChatGPT that you can interrupt.

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  3. Mysterious family of malware hid in Google Play for years

    Mandrake's ability to go unnoticed was the result of designs not often seen in Android malware.

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  4. AI search engine accused of plagiarism announces publisher revenue-sharing plan

    Perplexity says WordPress.com, TIME, Der Spiegel, and Fortune have already signed up.

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  5. Hackers exploit VMware vulnerability that gives them hypervisor admin

    Create new group called "ESX Admins" and ESXi automatically gives it admin rights.

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  6. From sci-fi to state law: California’s plan to prevent AI catastrophe

    Critics say SB-1047, proposed by "AI doomers," could slow innovation and stifle open source AI.

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  7. 97% of CrowdStrike systems are back online; Microsoft suggests Windows changes

    Kernel access gives security software a lot of power, but not without problems.

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  8. At the Olympics, AI is watching you

    New system foreshadows a future where there are too many CCTV cameras for humans to physically watch.

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  9. Google claims math breakthrough with proof-solving AI models

    AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 solve problems, with caveats on time and human assistance.

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  10. OpenAI hits Google where it hurts with new SearchGPT prototype

    New tool may solve a web-search problem partially caused by AI-generated junk online.

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  11. Chrome will now prompt some users to send passwords for suspicious files

    Google says passwords and files will be deleted shortly after they are deep-scanned.

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  12. Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers

    Keys were labeled "DO NOT TRUST." Nearly 500 device models use them anyway.

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  1. We made a cat drink a beer with Runway’s AI video generator, and it sprouted hands

    Gen-3 Alpha produces wild and whimsical results. Here's what it cooked up for us.

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  2. CrowdStrike blames testing bugs for security update that took down 8.5M Windows PCs

    Company says it's improving testing processes to avoid a repeat.

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  3. Elon Musk claims he is training “the world’s most powerful AI by every metric”

    One snag: xAI might not have the electrical power contracts to do it.

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  4. How Russia-linked malware cut heat to 600 Ukrainian buildings in deep winter

    The code was used to sabotage a heating utility in Lviv at the coldest point in the year.

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  5. The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B

    "Open source AI is the path forward," says Mark Zuckerberg, using a contested term.

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  6. Microsoft says 8.5M systems hit by CrowdStrike BSOD, releases USB recovery tool

    When reboots don't work, bootable USB sticks may help ease fixes for some PCs.

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  7. Astronomers discover technique to spot AI fakes using galaxy-measurement tools

    Researchers use technique to quantify eyeball reflections that often reveal deepfake images.

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  8. CrowdStrike fixes start at “reboot up to 15 times” and get more complex from there

    Admins can also restore backups or manually delete CrowdStrike's buggy driver.

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  9. Major outages at CrowdStrike, Microsoft leave the world with BSODs and confusion

    Nobody's sure who's at fault for each outage: Microsoft, CrowdStrike, or both.

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  10. The next Nvidia driver makes even more GPUs “open,” in a specific, quirky way

    You can't see inside the firmware, but more open code can translate it for you.

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  11. OpenAI launches GPT-4o mini, which will replace GPT-3.5 in ChatGPT

    Lower-cost AI language model will be free for ChatGPT users.

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  12. Vulnerability in Cisco Smart Software Manager lets attackers change any user password

    Yep, passwords for administrators can be changed, too.

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