Nvidia announces DGX desktop “personal AI supercomputers”
During Tuesday's Nvidia GTX keynote, CEO Jensen Huang unveiled two "personal AI supercomputers" called DGX Spark and DGX Station, both...
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Farewell Photoshop? Google’s new AI lets you edit images by asking.
Multimodal output opens up new possibilities Having true multimodal output opens up interesting new possibilities in chatbots. For example, Gemini...
Large enterprises scramble after supply-chain attack spills their secrets
Open-source software used by more than 23,000 organizations, some of them in large enterprises, was compromised with credential-stealing code after...
Google’s new robot AI can fold delicate origami, close zipper bags without damage
On Wednesday, Google DeepMind announced two new AI models designed to control robots: Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER. The company...
Android apps laced with North Korean spyware found in Google Play
Researchers have discovered multiple Android apps, some that were available in Google Play after passing the company’s security vetting, that...
Researchers astonished by tool’s apparent success at revealing AI’s hidden motives
In a new paper published Thursday titled "Auditing language models for hidden objectives," Anthropic researchers described how models trained to...
AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead
On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant...
AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
Even when these AI search tools cited sources, they often directed users to syndicated versions of content on platforms like...
Anthropic CEO floats idea of giving AI a “quit job” button, sparking skepticism
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei raised a few eyebrows on Monday after suggesting that advanced AI models might someday be provided...
New Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan will pick up where Pat Gelsinger left off
After a little over three months, Intel has a new CEO to replace ousted former CEO Pat Gelsinger. Intel's board...
Apple patches 0-day exploited in “extremely sophisticated attack”
Apple on Tuesday patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in virtually all iPhones and iPad models it supports and said it...
OpenAI pushes AI agent capabilities with new developer API
Developers using the Responses API can access the same models that power ChatGPT Search: GPT-4o search and GPT-4o mini search....
Why extracting data from PDFs is still a nightmare for data experts
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Nearly 1 million Windows devices targeted in advanced “malvertising” spree
A broad overview of the four stages. Credit: Microsoft The campaign targeted “nearly” 1 million devices belonging both to individuals...
What does “PhD-level” AI mean? OpenAI’s rumored $20,000 agent plan explained.
On the Frontier Math benchmark by EpochAI, o3 solved 25.2 percent of problems, while no other model has exceeded 2...
CMU research shows compression alone may unlock AI puzzle-solving abilities
This new research matters because it challenges the prevailing wisdom in AI development, which typically relies on massive pre-training datasets...
Massive botnet that appeared overnight is delivering record-size DDoSes
A newly discovered network botnet comprising an estimated 30,000 webcams and video recorders—with the largest concentration in the US—has been delivering...
Will the future of software development run on vibes?
For many people, coding is about telling a computer what to do and having the computer perform those precise actions...
Threat posed by new VMware hyperjacking vulnerabilities is hard to overstate
Three critical vulnerabilities in multiple virtual-machine products from VMware can give hackers unusually broad access to some of the most...
Eerily realistic AI voice demo sparks amazement and discomfort online
An example argument with Sesame's CSM created by Gavin Purcell. An example argument with Sesame's CSM created by Gavin Purcell....
Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster
Corporate and diplomatic trends in AI writing According to the researchers, all sectors they analyzed (consumer complaints, corporate communications, job...
How Do You Test for Concurrency Issues in AI Voice Agents?
Test for Concurrency Issues in AI Voice Agents Testing for concurrency issues in AI voice agents is crucial to ensuring...
“It’s a lemon”—OpenAI’s largest AI model ever arrives to mixed reviews
Perhaps because of the disappointing results, Altman had previously written that GPT-4.5 will be the last of OpenAI's traditional AI...
Serbian student’s Android phone compromised by exploit from Cellebrite
Amnesty International on Friday said it determined that a zero-day exploit sold by controversial exploit vendor Cellebrite was used to...
New AI text diffusion models break speed barriers by pulling words from noise
These diffusion models maintain performance faster than or comparable to similarly sized conventional models. LLaDA's researchers report their 8 billion...
Jaka jest polityka gwarancyjna Dell?
polityka gwarancyjna Dell Wielu użytkowników laptopów Dell zastanawia się, czy mogą zainstalować drugi dysk SSD w swoim urządzeniu. Powód takiej...
Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft
Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is exposing the contents of more than 20,000 private GitHub repositories from companies including Google, Intel,...
The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office
Under-desk sensors, in particular, have received high-profile backlash, perhaps because they are such an obvious piece of surveillance hardware rather...
Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code
The researchers observed this "emergent misalignment" phenomenon most prominently in GPT-4o and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct models, though it appeared across multiple model...
Google Password Manager finally syncs to iOS—here’s how
Late last year, I published a long post that criticized the user unfriendliness of passkeys, the industry-wide alternative to logging...
How North Korea pulled off a $1.5 billion crypto heist—the biggest in history
The cryptocurrency industry and those responsible for securing it are still in shock following Friday’s heist, likely by North Korea,...
HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait times isn’t good support
In an odd approach to trying to improve customer tech support, HP allegedly implemented mandatory, 15-minute wait times for people...
Notorious crooks broke into a company network in 48 minutes. Here’s how.
In December, roughly a dozen employees inside a manufacturing company received a tsunami of phishing messages that was so big...
As the Kernel Turns: Rust in Linux saga reaches the “Linus in all-caps” phase
"Put another way: the 'nobody is forced to deal with Rust' does not imply 'everybody is allowed to veto any...
Leaked chat logs expose inner workings of secretive ransomware group
Researchers who have read the Russian-language texts said they exposed internal rifts in the secretive organization that have escalated since...
Jak korzystać z sieci VPN na komputerze Dell?
VPN na komputerze Dell Korzystanie z sieci VPN (Virtual Private Network) stało się niezwykle popularne, szczególnie w kontekście zapewniania bezpieczeństwa...
Russia-aligned hackers are targeting Signal users with device-linking QR codes
Signal, as an encrypted messaging app and protocol, remains relatively secure. But Signal's growing popularity as a tool to circumvent...
Microsoft warns that the powerful XCSSET macOS malware is back with new tricks
“These enhanced features add to this malware family’s previously known capabilities, like targeting digital wallets, collecting data from the Notes...
Jak skonfigurować konfigurację dwóch monitorów Dell?
konfigurację dwóch monitorów Dell Konfiguracja z dwoma lub wieloma monitorami zwiększa powierzchnię ekranu i poprawia wydajność. Może pomóc Ci skupić...
What is device code phishing, and why are Russian spies so successful at it?
Researchers have uncovered a sustained and ongoing campaign by Russian spies that uses a clever phishing technique to hijack Microsoft...
Financially motivated hackers are helping their espionage counterparts and vice versa
On Thursday, researchers with the Symantec security firm reported on a collaboration that worked the other way—use by the RA...
New hack uses prompt injection to corrupt Gemini’s long-term memory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJgpYrw_KiI Google Gemini: Hacking Memories with Prompt Injection and Delayed Tool Invocation. Based on lessons learned previously, developers had already...
OpenAI’s secret weapon against Nvidia dependence takes shape
A large investment The path to creating a custom AI chip requires substantial resources. Industry experts told Reuters that designing...
Ransomware payments declined in 2024 despite massive. well-known hacks
While the decline in payments during the second half of 2024 is significant for being the largest ever in Chainalysis’...
DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers
Thomas Reed, staff product manager for Mac endpoint detection and response at security firm Huntress, and an expert in iOS...
Go Module Mirror served backdoor to devs for 3+ years
A mirror proxy Google runs on behalf of developers of the Go programming language pushed a backdoored package for more...
7-Zip 0-day was exploited in Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine
Researchers said they recently discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the 7-Zip archiving utility that was actively exploited as part of...
22-year-old math wiz indicted for alleged DeFI hack that stole $65M
Federal prosecutors have indicted a man on charges he stole $65 million in cryptocurrency by exploiting vulnerabilities in two decentralized...
Dell risks employee retention by forcing all teams back into offices full-time
In a statement to Ars, Dell’s PR team said: "We continually evolve our business so we're set up to deliver...
Apple chips can be hacked to leak secrets from Gmail, iCloud, and more
Apple-designed chips powering Macs, iPhones, and iPads contain two newly discovered vulnerabilities that leak credit card information, locations, and other...
A long, costly road ahead for customers abandoning Broadcom’s VMware
The manager said this information was relayed to the customer after a support ticket it filed was automatically moved to...
Researchers say new attack could take down the European power grid
More impressive still, they could use the language to send telegrams to FREs that control real electric systems in their...
Backdoor infecting VPNs used “magic packets” for stealth and security
When threat actors use backdoor malware to gain access to a network, they want to make sure all their hard...
Data breach hitting PowerSchool looks very, very bad
Parents, students, teachers, and administrators throughout North America are smarting from what could be the biggest data breach of 2025:...
The Internet is (once again) awash with IoT botnets delivering record DDoSes
We’re only three weeks into 2025, and it’s already shaping up to be the year of Internet of Things-driven DDoSes....
Cutting-edge Chinese “reasoning” model rivals OpenAI o1—and it’s free to download
Unlike conventional LLMs, these SR models take extra time to produce responses, and this extra time often increases performance on...
How to Choose a Reliable Service for PCB Design Assembly
Reliable Service for PCB Design Assembly When it comes to choosing a PCB design assembly partner, many factors come into...
Microsoft patches Windows to eliminate Secure Boot bypass threat
For the past seven months—and likely longer—an industry-wide standard that protects Windows devices from firmware infections could be bypassed using...
Home Microsoft 365 plans use Copilot AI features as pretext for a price hike
Microsoft hasn't said for how long this "limited time" offer will last, but presumably it will only last for a...
Passkey technology is elegant, but it’s most definitely not usable security
Dialog box finally allows the creation of a passkey on a security key. The dueling dialogs in this example are...
Time to check if you ran any of these 33 malicious Chrome extensions
Screenshot showing the phishing email sent to Cyberhaven extension developers. Credit: Amit Assaraf A link in the email led to...
Biden administration puts quotas on global AI chip sales
On Monday, the US government announced a new round of regulations on global AI chip exports, dividing the world into...
Sam Altman says “we are now confident we know how to build AGI”
On Sunday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman offered two eye-catching predictions about the near-future of artificial intelligence. In a post titled...
Widely used DNA sequencer still doesn’t enforce Secure Boot
In 2012, an industry-wide coalition of hardware and software makers adopted Secure Boot to protect Windows devices against the threat...
Nvidia unveils $3,000 desktop AI computer for home researchers
On Monday, Nvidia announced Project DIGITS, a small desktop computer aimed at researchers, data scientists, and students who want to...
161 years ago, a New Zealand sheep farmer predicted AI doom
The text anticipated several modern AI safety concerns, including the possibility of machine consciousness, self-replication, and humans losing control of...
Microsoft sues service for creating illicit content with its AI platform
Microsoft and others forbid using their generative AI systems to create various content. Content that is off limits includes materials...
AI could create 78 million more jobs than it eliminates by 2030—report
On Wednesday, the World Economic Forum (WEF) released its Future of Jobs Report 2025, with CNN immediately highlighting the finding...
Ongoing attacks on Ivanti VPNs install a ton of sneaky, well-written malware
Networks protected by Ivanti VPNs are under active attack by well-resourced hackers who are exploiting a critical vulnerability that gives...
How the UK was connected to the Internet for the first time
Although 4 billion addresses seemed near infinite in 1974, by the early 1990s it was already evident that the Internet...
Here’s how hucksters are manipulating Google to promote shady Chrome extensions
The people overseeing the security of Google’s Chrome browser explicitly forbid third-party extension developers from trying to manipulate how the...
2024: The year AI drove everyone crazy
It's been a wild year in tech thanks to the intersection between humans and artificial intelligence. 2024 brought a parade...
Maximum Bending Radius For Flexible PCBs
Bending Radius For Flexible PCBs A flex circuit is a printed circuit board with the ability to bend. These circuits...
Health care giant Ascension says 5.6 million patients affected in cyberattack
Health care company Ascension lost sensitive data for nearly 5.6 million individuals in a cyberattack that was attributed to a...
New physics sim trains robots 430,000 times faster than reality
The AI-generated worlds will reportedly include realistic physics, camera movements, and object behaviors, all from text commands. The system then...
As firms abandon VMware, Broadcom is laughing all the way to the bank
2025 challenges Broadcom seemed okay with ending business with Ingram, which ties it to solution providers that may be supporting...
The AI war between Google and OpenAI has never been more heated
Over the past month, we've seen a rapid cadence of notable AI-related announcements and releases from both Google and OpenAI,...
12 days of OpenAI: The Ars Technica recap
Over the past 12 business days, OpenAI has announced a new product or demoed an AI feature every weekday, calling...
OpenAI announces o3 and o3-mini, its next simulated reasoning models
On Friday, during Day 12 of its "12 days of OpenAI," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced its latest AI "reasoning"...
Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Google releases its own “reasoning” AI model
Google DeepMind's chief scientist, Jeff Dean, says that the model receives extra computing power, writing on X, "we see promising...
The Main Components of a Printed Circuit Board Prototype
Main Components of a Printed Circuit Board Prototype A printed circuit board prototype is a functional model that allows engineers...
A new, uncensored AI video model may spark a new AI hobbyist movement
"A muscular barbarian breaking a CRT television set with a weapon, cinematic, 8K, studio lighting" "A scared woman in a...
Arm says it’s losing $50M a year in revenue from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite SoCs
Arm and Qualcomm's dispute over Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chips is continuing in court this week, with executives from each...
Call ChatGPT from any phone with OpenAI’s new 1-800 voice service
On Wednesday, OpenAI launched a 1-800-CHATGPT (1-800-242-8478) telephone number that anyone in the US can call to talk to ChatGPT...
How do printed circuit board assembly services manage confidentiality?
printed circuit board assembly services manage confidentiality Printed circuit board assembly services manage confidentiality through a combination of strategic processes,...
Can Pcb productions be recycled?
Pcb productions As the demand for electronic devices continues to rise, the environmental impact of electronics waste (e-waste) has become...
T-Mobile users can try Starlink-enabled phone service for free during beta
"While not yet ready for full commercial service, T-Mobile Starlink was turned on temporarily to provide a critical communication option...
Google goes “agentic” with Gemini 2.0’s ambitious AI agent features
On Wednesday, Google unveiled Gemini 2.0, the next generation of its AI-model family, starting with an experimental release called Gemini...
Yearlong supply-chain attack targeting security pros steals 390K credentials
Screenshot showing a graph tracking mining activity. Credit: Checkmarx But wait, there’s more On Friday, Datadog revealed that MUT-1244 employed...
Twirling body horror in gymnastics video exposes AI’s flaws
On Wednesday, a video from OpenAI's newly launched Sora AI video generator went viral on social media, featuring a gymnast...
Critical WordPress plugin vulnerability under active exploit threatens thousands
Thousands of sites running WordPress remain unpatched against a critical security flaw in a widely used plugin that was being...
OpenAI introduces “Santa Mode” to ChatGPT for ho-ho-ho voice chats
On Thursday, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT users can now talk to a simulated version of Santa Claus through the app's...
Russia takes unusual route to hack Starlink-connected devices in Ukraine
“Microsoft assesses that Secret Blizzard either used the Amadey malware as a service (MaaS) or accessed the Amadey command-and-control (C2)...
Ten months after first tease, OpenAI launches Sora video generation publicly
A music video by Canadian art collective Vallée Duhamel made with Sora-generated video. " just shoot stuff and then use...
AI company trolls San Francisco with billboards saying “stop hiring humans”
Artisan CEO Jaspar Carmichael-Jack defended the campaign's messaging in an interview with SFGate. "They are somewhat dystopian, but so is...
AMD’s trusted execution environment blown wide open by new BadRAM attack
If a VM has been backdoored, the cryptographic attestation will fail and immediately alert the VM admin of the compromise....
Reddit debuts AI-powered discussion search—but will users like it?
The company then went on to strike deals with major tech firms, including a $60 million agreement with Google in...
Backdoor slipped into popular code library, drains ~$155k from digital wallets
Hackers pocketed as much as $155,000 by sneaking a backdoor into a code library used by developers of smart contract...
Soon, the tech behind ChatGPT may help drone operators decide which enemies to kill
This marks a potential shift in tech industry sentiment from 2018, when Google employees staged walkouts over military contracts. Now,...
Your AI clone could target your family, but there’s a simple defense
The warning extends beyond voice scams. The FBI announcement details how criminals also use AI models to generate convincing profile...
OpenAI announces full “o1” reasoning model, $200 ChatGPT Pro tier
On Thursday during a live demo as part of its "12 days of OpenAI" event, OpenAI announced a new tier...
Broadcom reverses controversial plan in effort to cull VMware migrations
Broadcom will no longer take VMware's biggest 2,000 customers directly. Instead, it will work with VMware's 500 biggest customers, giving...
$1 phone scanner finds seven Pegasus spyware infections
Seven out of 2,500 scans may sound like a small group, especially in the somewhat self-selecting customer base of iVerify...
HowStuffWorks founder Marshall Brain sent final email before sudden death
Brandon Kashani, a former student of Brain's and startup mentor at NC State's entrepreneurship clinic, recalled to the Technician about...
Company claims 1,000 percent price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival
Companies have been discussing migrating off of VMware since Broadcom’s takeover a year ago led to higher costs and other...
Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why
The "David Mayer" block in particular (now resolved) presents additional questions, first posed on Reddit on November 26, as multiple...
Code found online exploits LogoFAIL to install Bootkitty Linux backdoor
Normally, Secure Boot prevents the UEFI from running all subsequent files unless they bear a digital signature certifying those files...
Found in the wild: The world’s first unkillable UEFI bootkit for Linux
Over the past decade, a new class of infections has threatened Windows users. By infecting the firmware that runs immediately...
QNAP firmware update leaves NAS owners locked out of their boxes
A recent firmware pushed to QNAP network attached storage (NAS) devices left a number of owners unable to access their...
Amazon pours another $4B into Anthropic, OpenAI’s biggest rival
Anthropic, founded by former OpenAI executives Dario and Daniela Amodei in 2021, will continue using Google's cloud services along with...
Spies hack Wi-Fi networks in far-off land to launch attack on target next door
While stalking its target, GruesomeLarch performed credential-stuffing attacks that compromised the passwords of several accounts on a web service platform...
5 charged in “Scattered Spider,” one of the most profitable phishing scams ever
Prosecutors allege that the phishing attacks ran from at least September 2021 to April 2023. During that time, the defendants...
Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for “Best CBD Gummies“
Under the strength of Forbes' long-existing and well-linked site, Forbes Marketplace/Advisor has dominated the search term "best cbd gummies" for...
Niantic uses Pokémon Go player data to build AI navigation system
Last week, Niantic announced plans to create an AI model for navigating the physical world using scans collected from players...
A year after ditching waitlist, Starlink says it is “sold out” in parts of US
The Starlink waitlist is back in certain parts of the US, including several large cities on the West Coast and...
AI-generated shows could replace lost DVD revenue, Ben Affleck says
Last week, actor and director Ben Affleck shared his views on AI's role in filmmaking during the 2024 CNBC Delivering...
ChatGPT’s success could have come sooner, says former Google AI researcher
But it was really motivated by just an enormous, not only opportunity, but a moral obligation in a sense, to...
IBM boosts entire quantum computing stack
By making small adjustments to the frequency that the qubits are operating at, it's possible to avoid these problems. This...
New secret math benchmark stumps AI models and PhDs alike
Epoch AI allowed Fields Medal winners Terence Tao and Timothy Gowers to review portions of the benchmark. "These are extremely...
Ars Live: Our first encounter with manipulative AI
While Bing Chat's unhinged nature was caused in part by how Microsoft defined the "personality" of Sydney in the system...
Anthropic hires its first “AI welfare” researcher
The researchers propose that companies could adapt the "marker method" that some researchers use to assess consciousness in animals—looking for...
Perplexity will show live US election results despite AI accuracy warnings
On Friday, Perplexity launched an election information hub that relies on data from The Associated Press and Democracy Works to...
Matter 1.4 has some solid ideas for the future home—now let’s see the support
With Matter 1.4 and improved Thread support, you shouldn't need to blanket your home in HomePod Minis to have adequate...
New SMB subscription may not end VMware migrations
Broadcom has a new subscription tier for VMware virtualization software that may appease some disgruntled VMware customers, especially small to...
Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal
An ethical minefield Since its founders started Anthropic in 2021, the company has marketed itself as one that takes an...
ChatGPT has a new vanity domain name, and it may have cost $15 million
On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman merely tweeted "chat.com," announcing that the company had acquired the short domain name, which...
Law enforcement operation takes down 22,000 malicious IP addresses worldwide
An international coalition of police agencies has taken a major whack at criminals accused of running a host of online...
Corning faces antitrust actions for its Gorilla Glass dominance
The European Commission (EC) has opened an antitrust investigation into US-based glass-maker Corning, claiming that its Gorilla Glass has dominated...
Can rigid flex PCBs be used in consumer electronics?
rigid flex PCBs be used in consumer electronics Rigid Flex PCBs combine the benefits of rigidity and flexibility into one,...
How does rigid flex support high-speed signals?
How Does Rigid Flex Support High-Speed Signals? Rigid flex circuit boards are essential in many modern electronics due to their...
Trump plans to dismantle Biden AI safeguards after victory
That's not the only uncertainty at play. Just last week, House Speaker Mike Johnson—a staunch Trump supporter—said that Republicans "probably...
Suspect arrested in Snowflake data-theft attacks affecting millions
Attack Path UNC5537 has used in attacks against as many as 165 Snowflake customers. Credit: Mandiant Attack Path UNC5537 has...
Anthropic’s Haiku 3.5 surprises experts with an “intelligence” price increase
Speaking of Opus, Claude 3.5 Opus is nowhere to be seen, as AI researcher Simon Willison noted to Ars Technica...
Nvidia ousts Intel from Dow Jones Index after 25-year run
Changing winds in the tech industry The Dow Jones Industrial Average serves as a benchmark of the US stock market...
New Zemeckis film used AI to de-age Tom Hanks and Robin Wright
On Friday, TriStar Pictures released Here, a $50 million Robert Zemeckis-directed film that used real time generative AI face transformation...
Google CEO says over 25% of new Google code is generated by AI
On Tuesday, Google's CEO revealed that AI systems now generate more than a quarter of new code for its products,...
Downey Jr. plans to fight AI re-creations from beyond the grave
Robert Downey Jr. has declared that he will sue any future Hollywood executives who try to re-create his likeness using...
Android Trojan that intercepts voice calls to banks just got more stealthy
Much of the new obfuscation is the result of hiding malicious code in a dynamically decrypted and loaded .dex file...
Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in years-long account takeover attacks
Hackers working on behalf of the Chinese government are using a botnet of thousands of routers, cameras, and other Internet-connected...
OpenAI launches ChatGPT with Search, taking Google head-on
Pulling in authorized content OpenAI isn't the only company exploring AI-powered web search. Microsoft Copilot offers similar features, and Perplexity has...
Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak
The department also cited "strict chain of custody requirements that track when a voting systems component has been accessed and...
Disgruntled customers discuss quitting VMware
Dean Colpitts, CTO at Canadian VMware customer and managed services provider Members IT Group, shared similar sentiments, adding that "Broadcom...
Dropbox lays off 20% of staff, says it overinvested and underperformed
Dropbox is laying off 528 employees in a move that will reduce its global workforce by 20 percent, CEO Drew...
The sad, bizarre tale of hype fanning fears modern cryptography was slain
PRESENT, GIFT64, and RECTANGLE: All three are lightweight block ciphers designed for use in “constrained” environments, such as those in...
Kremlin-backed hackers have new Windows and Android malware to foist on Ukrainian foes
Google researchers said they uncovered a Kremlin-backed operation targeting recruits for the Ukrainian military with information-stealing malware for Windows and...
Hospitals adopt error-prone AI transcription tools despite warnings
In one case from the study cited by AP, when a speaker described "two other girls and one lady," Whisper...
Removal of Russian coders spurs debate about Linux kernel’s politics
"Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements. They can come back in the future if sufficient documentation is provided."...
Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back.
Both operating systems will display a list of apps and whether they are permitted access always, never, only while the...
At TED AI 2024, experts grapple with AI’s growing pains
SAN FRANCISCO—On Tuesday, TED AI 2024 kicked off its first day at San Francisco's Herbst Theater with a lineup of...
FortiGate admins report active exploitation 0-day. Vendor isn’t talking.
Citing the Reddit comment, Beaumont took to Mastodon to explain: “People are quite openly posting what is happening on Reddit...
Basecamp-maker 37Signals says its “cloud exit” will save it $10M over 5 years
Lots of pointing at clouds AWS made data transfer out of AWS free for customers who were moving off their...
The Internet Archive and its 916 billion saved web pages are back online
Last week, hackers defaced the Internet Archive website with a message that said, "Have you ever felt like the Internet...
SpaceX tells FCC it has a plan to make Starlink about 10 times faster
As for actual speeds in 2024, Starlink's website says "users typically experience download speeds between 25 and 220Mbps, with a...
Finally upgrading from isc-dhcp-server to isc-kea for my homelab
Broken down that way, the migration didn't look terribly scary—and it's made easier by the fact that the Kea default...
OpenAI releases ChatGPT app for Windows
On Thursday, OpenAI released an early Windows version of its first ChatGPT app for Windows, following a Mac version that...
Cheap AI “video scraping” can now extract data from any screen recording
Video scraping is just one of many new tricks possible when the latest large language models (LLMs), such as Google's...
What are the design rules for creating a flexible printed circuit?
design rules for creating a flexible printed circuit Designing a flexible printed circuit (FPC) requires adherence to specific rules and...
Deepfake lovers swindle victims out of $46M in Hong Kong AI scam
The police operation resulted in the seizure of computers, mobile phones, and about $25,756 in suspected proceeds and luxury watches...
Two accused of DDoSing some of the world’s biggest tech companies
Federal authorities have charged two Sudanese nationals with running an operation that performed tens of thousands of distributed denial of...
Amazon invests in nuclear power
The design is meant to run at high temperatures and extract heat from the reactor using helium, which is used...
How does trace width affect an RF circuit board?
RF circuit board Choosing the right trace width for an RF circuit board is an important design decision. A trace's...
North Korean hackers use newly discovered Linux malware to raid ATMs
The malware resides in the userspace portion of the interbank switch connecting the issuing domain and the acquiring domain. When...
Google and Kairos sign nuclear reactor deal with aim to power AI
Google isn't alone in eyeballing nuclear power as an energy source for massive datacenters. In September, Ars reported on a...
Adobe unveils AI video generator trained on licensed content
On Monday, Adobe announced Firefly Video Model, a new AI-powered text-to-video generation tool that can create novel videos from written...
Are rigid flex boards more durable than traditional PCBs?
rigid flex boards more durable than traditional PCBs Rigid-flex circuit boards allow manufacturers to integrate rigid sections with flexible substrates,...
Are Tesla’s robot prototypes AI marvels or remote-controlled toys?
Two years ago, Tesla's Optimus prototype was an underwhelming mess of exposed wires that could only operate in a carefully...
AMD unveils powerful new AI chip to challenge Nvidia
On Thursday, AMD announced its new MI325X AI accelerator chip, which is set to roll out to data center customers...
Is China pulling ahead in AI video synthesis? We put Minimax to the test.
In the spirit of not cherry-picking any results, everything you see was the first generation we received for the prompt...
Ars’ next conference is coming October 29 in Washington, D.C.
After a great event last month in San Jose, Ars is switching coasts for October and descending in force on...
Archive.org, a repository storing the entire history of the Internet, has a data breach
Archive.org, possibly one of the only entities to preserve the entire history of the Internet, was recently compromised in a...
Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices
The evolution of the kit from 2019 and the one from three years later underscores a growing sophistication by GoldenJackal...
In stunning Nobel win, AI researchers Hopfield and Hinton take 2024 Physics Prize
Techniques drawn from physics The win is already turning heads on social media because it seems unusual that research in...
Meta pays the price for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext
For hashing schemes to work as intended, they must follow a host of requirements. One is that hashing algorithms must...
Google and Meta update their AI models amid the rise of “AlphaChip”
It's been a wildly busy week in AI news thanks to OpenAI, including a controversial blog post from CEO Sam...
Systems used by courts and governments across the US riddled with vulnerabilities
Public records systems that courts and governments rely on to manage voter registrations and legal filings have been riddled with...
“Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says
"My point was that although it is not easy, cheap, or quick to migrate off VMware, Defendants' high fees will...
OpenAI unveils easy voice assistant creation at 2024 developer event
Where’s the Sam Altman keynote? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the OpenAI DevDay event on November 6, 2023, in...
Meta’s new “Movie Gen” AI system can deepfake video from a single photo
On Friday, Meta announced a preview of Movie Gen, a new suite of AI models designed to create and manipulate...
Neo-Nazis head to encrypted SimpleX Chat app, bail on Telegram
“SimpleX, at its core, is designed to be truly distributed with no central server. This allows for enormous scalability at...
OpenAI’s Canvas can translate code between languages with a click
Coding shortcuts in canvas include reviewing code, adding logs for debugging, inserting comments, fixing bugs, and porting code to different...
Microsoft’s new “Copilot Vision” AI experiment can see what you browse
Microsoft says Copilot Labs will serve as a testing ground for Microsoft's latest AI tools before they see wider release....
Thousands of Linux systems infected by stealthy malware since 2021
This Reddit comment posted to the CentOS subreddit is typical. An admin noticed that two servers were infected with a...
OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has now raised $6.6 billion in a new funding round that values the company at...
Attackers exploit critical Zimbra vulnerability using cc’d email addresses
Attackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in mail servers sold by Zimbra in an attempt to remotely execute malicious...
Crook made millions by breaking into execs’ Office365 inboxes, feds say
Federal prosecutors have charged a man for an alleged “hack-to-trade” scheme that earned him millions of dollars by breaking into...
Crook made millions by breaking into execs’ Office365 inboxes, feds say
Getty Images Federal prosecutors have charged a man for an alleged “hack-to-trade” scheme that earned him millions of dollars by...
Talking to ChatGPT for the first time is a surreal experience
Enlarge / Putting the "chat" in ChatGPT.Getty Images In May, when OpenAI first demonstrated ChatGPT-4o's coming audio conversation capabilities, I...
Systems used by courts and governments across the US riddled with vulnerabilities
Getty Images Public records systems that courts and governments rely on to manage voter registrations and legal filings have been...
OpenAI plans tectonic shift from nonprofit to for-profit, giving Altman equity
Benj Edwards / OpenAI On Wednesday, Reuters reported that OpenAI is working on a plan to restructure its core business...
Ars in San Jose recap: Infrastructure, sustainability, AI, cocktails
Enlarge / Dr. John Timmer, Jeff Ball, Joanna Wong, and Lee Hutchinson discussing infrastructure and the environment.Kimberly White/Getty Images Last...
Microsoft details security/privacy overhaul for Windows Recall ahead of relaunch
Enlarge / An updated onboarding screen for Recall, with clearly visible buttons for opting in or out; Microsoft says Recall...
Man tricks OpenAI’s voice bot into duet of The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby”
Enlarge / A screen capture of AJ Smith doing his Eleanor Rigby duet with OpenAI's Advanced Voice Mode through the...
Meta pays the price for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext
Getty Images Officials in Ireland have fined Meta $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext...
Google and Meta update their AI models amid the rise of “AlphaChip”
Enlarge / There's been a lot of AI news this week, and covering it sometimes feels like running through a...
Exponential growth brews 1 million AI models on Hugging Face
On Thursday, AI hosting platform Hugging Face surpassed 1 million AI model listings for the first time, marking a milestone...
Tails OS joins forces with Tor Project in merger
The Tor Project The Tor Project, the nonprofit that maintains software for the Tor anonymity network, is joining forces with...
OpenAI CTO Murati shocks with sudden departure as two other execs leave
Enlarge / Mira Murati, chief technology officer of OpenAI, speaks during The Wall Street Journal's WSJ Tech Live Conference in...
NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules
Getty Images The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the federal body that sets technology standards for governmental agencies,...
Terminator’s Cameron joins AI company behind controversial image generator
Enlarge / Filmmaker James Cameron. On Tuesday, Stability AI announced that renowned filmmaker James Cameron—of Terminator and Skynet fame—has joined...
Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity
Getty Images When security researcher Johann Rehberger recently reported a vulnerability in ChatGPT that allowed attackers to store false information...
