General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Legislation lays out restrictive regime for emerging technology.
Publish Date: 12/9/2023
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Krasue infects telecom firms in Thailand using techniques for staying under the radar.
Publish Date: 12/8/2023
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Google takes heat for a misleading AI demo video that hyped up its GPT-4 competitor.
Publish Date: 12/8/2023
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"Imagine with Meta AI" turns prompts into images, trained using public Facebook data.
Publish Date: 12/6/2023
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Google claims Gemini beats GPT-4 in "30 of the 32 widely used academic benchmarks."
Publish Date: 12/6/2023
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UEFIs booting Windows and Linux devices can be hacked by malicious logo images.
Publish Date: 12/6/2023
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Insider report details clash over one board member's criticism in an academic paper.
Publish Date: 12/5/2023
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Schneier: AI will enable a shift from observing actions to interpreting intentions, en masse.
Publish Date: 12/5/2023
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What's the opposite of OpenAI? IBM and Meta devise plan that includes 50 members.
Publish Date: 12/5/2023
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AI chatbot deception paper suggests that some bots (and people) aren't very persuasive.
Publish Date: 12/1/2023
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Broadcom hasn't said how many people will be affected, or much of anything else.
Publish Date: 12/1/2023
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Examining 365 days with OpenAI's bot: The good, the bad, the ugly—and the productive?
Publish Date: 11/30/2023
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Altman addresses Sutskever; Microsoft will serve observer role on new OpenAI board.
Publish Date: 11/30/2023
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China's flagship smartphone maker pulled off the feat despite sanctions.
Publish Date: 11/30/2023
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The facilities in Pennsylvania and Texas serve more than 2 million residents.
Publish Date: 11/30/2023
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Even at home, SDXL Turbo can create detailed images with startling speed.
Publish Date: 11/29/2023
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Aimed at the office, Amazon Q can summarize docs and assist with programming tasks.
Publish Date: 11/29/2023
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Goldman Sachs has lost billions of dollars on its consumer-focused businesses.
Publish Date: 11/29/2023
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Easy-to-exploit flaw gives hackers passwords and cryptographic keys to vulnerable servers.
Publish Date: 11/29/2023
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Robot that uses AI to pull weeds may reduce poisonous herbicide use by 70% for some crops.
Publish Date: 11/28/2023
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