Economy

February 17, 2023
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Responsible use of AI in the military? US publishes declaration outlining principles

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Thursday, the US State Department issued a “Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of Artificial…
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February 16, 2023
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Researchers unearth Windows backdoor that’s unusually stealthy

Enlarge (credit: BeeBright / Getty Images / iStockphoto) Researchers have discovered a clever piece of malware that stealthily exfiltrates data…
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February 15, 2023
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Meta develops an AI language bot that can use external software tools

Enlarge / An artist’s impression of a robot hand using a desktop calculator. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Language…
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February 15, 2023
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Health info for 1 million patients stolen using critical GoAnywhere vulnerability

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) One of the biggest hospital chains in the US said hackers obtained protected health information for…
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February 14, 2023
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AI-powered Bing Chat loses its mind when fed Ars Technica article

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Over the past few days, early testers of the new Bing AI-powered chat…
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February 14, 2023
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Latest attack on PyPI users shows crooks are only getting better

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) More than 400 malicious packages were recently uploaded to PyPI (Python Package Index), the official code…
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February 14, 2023
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Microsoft will forcibly remove Internet Explorer from most Windows 10 PCs today

Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) Internet Explorer 11 was never Windows 10’s primary browser—that would be the old, pre-Chromium version of Microsoft…
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February 13, 2023
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~11,000 sites have been infected with malware that’s good at avoiding detection

Enlarge (credit: CHUYN / Getty Images) Nearly 11,000 websites in recent months have been infected with a backdoor that redirects…
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February 13, 2023
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Apple releases iOS 16.3.1 and other updates with fix for “actively exploited” bug

Enlarge (credit: Apple) Apple is releasing minor updates to all of its major software platforms today to address one high-priority…
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February 10, 2023
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This week’s Reddit breach shows company’s security is (still) woefully inadequate

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Popular discussion website Reddit proved this week that its security still isn’t up to snuff when…
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