General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

EU agrees to landmark rules on artificial intelligence

Legislation lays out restrictive regime for emerging technology.
Publish Date: 12/9/2023
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Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years

Krasue infects telecom firms in Thailand using techniques for staying under the radar.
Publish Date: 12/8/2023
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Google’s best Gemini AI demo video was fabricated

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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Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos

"Imagine with Meta AI" turns prompts into images, trained using public Facebook data.
Publish Date: 12/6/2023
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Google launches Gemini—a powerful AI model it says can surpass GPT-4

Google claims Gemini beats GPT-4 in "30 of the 32 widely used academic benchmarks."
Publish Date: 12/6/2023
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Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack

UEFIs booting Windows and Linux devices can be hacked by malicious logo images.
Publish Date: 12/6/2023
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New report illuminates why OpenAI board said Altman “was not consistently candid”

Insider report details clash over one board member's criticism in an academic paper.
Publish Date: 12/5/2023
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Due to AI, “We are about to enter the era of mass spying,” says Bruce Schneier

Schneier: AI will enable a shift from observing actions to interpreting intentions, en masse.
Publish Date: 12/5/2023
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IBM, Meta form “AI Alliance” with 50 organizations to promote open source AI

What's the opposite of OpenAI? IBM and Meta devise plan that includes 50 members.
Publish Date: 12/5/2023
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1960s chatbot ELIZA beat OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 in a recent Turing test study

AI chatbot deception paper suggests that some bots (and people) aren't very persuasive.
Publish Date: 12/1/2023
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Broadcom cuts at least 2,800 VMware jobs following $69 billion acquisition

Broadcom hasn't said how many people will be affected, or much of anything else.
Publish Date: 12/1/2023
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ChatGPT is one year old. Here’s how it changed the tech world.

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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Sam Altman officially back as OpenAI CEO: “We didn’t lose a single employee”

Altman addresses Sutskever; Microsoft will serve observer role on new OpenAI board.
Publish Date: 11/30/2023
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How Huawei made a cutting-edge chip in China and surprised the US

China's flagship smartphone maker pulled off the feat despite sanctions.
Publish Date: 11/30/2023
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2 municipal water facilities report falling to hackers in separate breaches

The facilities in Pennsylvania and Texas serve more than 2 million residents.
Publish Date: 11/30/2023
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Stable Diffusion XL Turbo can generate AI images as fast as you can type

Even at home, SDXL Turbo can create detailed images with startling speed.
Publish Date: 11/29/2023
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Amazon unleashes Q, an AI assistant for the workplace

Aimed at the office, Amazon Q can summarize docs and assist with programming tasks.
Publish Date: 11/29/2023
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Report: Apple and Goldman Sachs are breaking up over money-losing Apple Card

Goldman Sachs has lost billions of dollars on its consumer-focused businesses.
Publish Date: 11/29/2023
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ownCloud vulnerability with maximum 10 severity score comes under “mass” exploitation

Easy-to-exploit flaw gives hackers passwords and cryptographic keys to vulnerable servers.
Publish Date: 11/29/2023
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Mother plucker: Steel fingers guided by AI pluck weeds rapidly and autonomously

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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