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AI models can acquire backdoors from surprisingly few malicious documents
Scraping the open web for AI training data can have its drawbacks. On Thursday, researchers from Anthropic, the UK AI…
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Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users
Discord says that hackers made off with images of 70,000 users’ government IDs that they were required to provide in…
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Bank of England warns AI stock bubble rivals 2000 dotcom peak
AI bubble talk is in the air, and among the chorus of voices warning of an AI-fueled market bubble (which…
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Salesforce says it won’t pay extortion demand in 1 billion records breach
Salesforce says it’s refusing to pay an extortion demand made by a crime syndicate that claims to have stolen roughly…
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Synology caves, walks back some drive restrictions on upcoming NAS models
If you were considering the purchase of a Synology NAS but were leery of the unreasonably high cost of populating…
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AMD wins massive AI chip deal from OpenAI with stock sweetener
On Monday, AMD announced it will supply AI chips to OpenAI in a multi-year deal worth tens of billions of…
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ICE wants to build a 24/7 social media surveillance team
United States immigration authorities are moving to dramatically expand their social media surveillance, with plans to hire nearly 30 contractors…
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Ars Live: Is the AI bubble about to pop? A live chat with Ed Zitron.
As generative AI has taken off since ChatGPT’s debut, inspiring hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and infrastructure developments,…
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Why iRobot’s founder won’t go within 10 feet of today’s walking robots
When a robotics pioneer who has spent decades building humanoid machines recommends that you stand at least nine feet away…
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That annoying SMS phish you just got may have come from a box like this
Scammers have been abusing unsecured cellular routers used in industrial settings to blast SMS-based phishing messages in campaigns that have…
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