General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Amendments contain loopholes that may blunt their effectiveness.
Publish Date: 5/17/2024
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Alleged $6.8M conspiracy involved "laptop farm," identity theft, and résumé coaching.
Publish Date: 5/16/2024
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A journey through busted tapes, the Internet Old Farts Club, and SPARCstations.
Publish Date: 5/16/2024
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An earlier iteration of the site was taken down last year; now its reincarnation is gone.
Publish Date: 5/15/2024
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Google's video-synthesis model creates minute-long 1080p videos from written prompts.
Publish Date: 5/15/2024
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Ebury backdoors SSH servers in hosting providers, giving the malware extraordinary reach.
Publish Date: 5/15/2024
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CEO Altman: "OpenAI would not be what it is without him."
Publish Date: 5/15/2024
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AI model updates galore at Google I/O, including 2M context window, Imagen 3, Veo, and more.
Publish Date: 5/14/2024
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"It’s easier to manage a team that’s happy.”
Publish Date: 5/14/2024
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Rare bitcoin fragments are worth many times their face value.
Publish Date: 5/14/2024
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Anonymous chatbot that mystified and frustrated experts was OpenAI's latest model.
Publish Date: 5/13/2024
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Threat group has targeted 500 organizations. One is currently struggling to cope.
Publish Date: 5/13/2024
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New GPT-4o model can sing a bedtime story, detect facial expressions, read emotions.
Publish Date: 5/13/2024
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Exploit code for critical "use-after-free" bug is circulating in the wild.
Publish Date: 5/10/2024
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Anti-AI users who change or delete answers in protest are being punished.
Publish Date: 5/9/2024
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Notification follows claim of compromised database with 49M Dell customers' data.
Publish Date: 5/9/2024
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Hackers can exploit them to gain full administrative control of internal devices.
Publish Date: 5/8/2024
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Report claims new tracking starts May 13 with unclear consequences.
Publish Date: 5/8/2024
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Quadrupeds being reviewed have automatic targeting systems but require human oversight to fire.
Publish Date: 5/8/2024
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The US places a $10 million bounty for the arrest of Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.
Publish Date: 5/7/2024
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