General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

UK’s plans for global AI safety summit draw criticism

Announcement does not include "a single voice from civil society or academia," says critic.
Publish Date: 6/8/2023
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Nvidia’s new monster CPU+GPU chip may power the next gen of AI chatbots

It takes a lot of computing power to pretend to be human.
Publish Date: 6/8/2023
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Dozens of popular Minecraft mods found infected with Fracturiser malware

Stop downloading or updating Minecraft mods for now, investigators say.
Publish Date: 6/7/2023
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FBI warns of increasing use of AI-generated deepfakes in sextortion schemes

Deepfake videos show real people engaged in fake sex.
Publish Date: 6/7/2023
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Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion

Image-synthesis technique relies upon QR's natural error-correction properties.
Publish Date: 6/6/2023
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Mass exploitation of critical MOVEit flaw is ransacking orgs big and small

SQL injection attacks on MOVEit file-transfer service likely to get worse.
Publish Date: 6/6/2023
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Apple avoids “AI” hype at WWDC keynote by baking ML into products

Apple prefers using "machine learning," or just having AI work in the background.
Publish Date: 6/5/2023
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They plugged GPT-4 into Minecraft—and unearthed new potential for AI

A bot plays the video game by tapping the text generator to pick up new skills.
Publish Date: 6/3/2023
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Google’s Android and Chrome extensions are a very sad place. Here’s why

It was a bad week for millions of people who rely on Google for apps and Chrome extensions.
Publish Date: 6/2/2023
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Air Force denies running simulation where AI drone “killed” its operator

"We've never run that experiment," says original source, who "misspoke."
Publish Date: 6/2/2023
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“Clickless” iOS exploits infect Kaspersky iPhones with never-before-seen malware

"Operation Triangulation" stole mic recordings, photos, geolocation, and more.
Publish Date: 6/1/2023
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Asus will offer local ChatGPT-style AI servers for office use

"AFS Appliance" will avoid the cloud and place an AI language model on premises.
Publish Date: 6/1/2023
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Millions of PC motherboards were sold with a firmware backdoor

Hidden code in many Gigabyte motherboards invisibly and insecurely downloads programs.
Publish Date: 6/1/2023
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Researchers tell owners to “assume compromise” of unpatched Zyxel firewalls

Poor patching hygiene is fueling a flurry of "downstream attacks" on other targets.
Publish Date: 5/31/2023
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AI-expanded album cover artworks go viral thanks to Photoshop’s Generative Fill

Generative Fill uses AI to dream up larger versions of famous artwork.
Publish Date: 5/31/2023
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Twitter value keeps falling under Musk, now worth a third of what he paid

$15 billion valuation after Fidelity lowers value of its Twitter stake again.
Publish Date: 5/31/2023
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A Snap-based, containerized Ubuntu desktop could be offered in 2024

Ubuntu could join Fedora in offering an immutable desktop option.
Publish Date: 5/31/2023
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Critical Barracuda 0-day was used to backdoor networks for 8 months

Attackers then went on to steal data from infected systems.
Publish Date: 5/30/2023
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OpenAI execs warn of “risk of extinction” from artificial intelligence in new open letter

Strategically vague statement on AI risk prompts critics' response.
Publish Date: 5/30/2023
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Inner workings revealed for “Predator,” the Android malware that exploited 5 0-days

Spyware is sold to countries including Egypt, Indonesia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Serbia.
Publish Date: 5/26/2023
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