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No fix in sight for mile-wide loophole plaguing a key Windows defense for years
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Over the past 15 years, Microsoft has made huge progress fortifying the Windows kernel, the core…
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Google’s newest AI generator creates HD video from text prompts
Still from “A teddy bear washing dishes,” as generated by Google Imagen Video. (credit: Google) Today, Google announced the development…
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Begone, polygons: 1993’s Virtua Fighter gets smoothed out by AI
Enlarge / “Sarah” from Virtua Fighter gets an AI makeover thanks to Stable Diffusion and a fan named Colin Williamson.…
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Biden proposes new “Bill of Rights” to protect Americans from AI harms
Enlarge / The White House, engulfed in pixels. (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards) Today, the White House proposed a…
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Big data trove dumped after LA Unified School District says no to ransomware crooks
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A ransomware outfit calling itself Vice Society has dumped nearly 300,000 files belonging to the Los…
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Linux 6.0 arrives with support for newer chips, core fixes, and oddities
Enlarge / And there was much rejoicing, as a new Linux kernel version had arrived before its founder ran out…
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Bruce Willis denies selling deepfake rights to Deepcake
Enlarge / The real Bruce Willis at a film premiere in 2019. (credit: Getty Images) On Friday, Ars Technica reported…
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Tesla shows off underwhelming human robot prototype at AI Day 2022
Enlarge / The walking Optimus prototype demonstrated at the AI Day 2022 event. (credit: Tesla) Today at Tesla’s “AI Day”…
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High-severity Microsoft Exchange 0-day under attack threatens 220,000 servers
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft late Thursday confirmed the existence of two critical vulnerabilities in its Exchange application that have…
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Deepfake Bruce Willis may be the next Hollywood star, and he’s OK with that
Enlarge / Deepfake Bruce Willis as he appeared in a 2021 commercial for Russian mobile company MegaFon. (credit: MegaFon) Bruce…
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