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Ransomware kingpin “Stern” apparently IDed by German law enforcement
For years, members of the Russian cybercrime cartel Trickbot unleashed a relentless hacking spree on the world. The group attacked…
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AI video just took a startling leap in realism. Are we doomed?
Last week, Google introduced Veo 3, its newest video generation model that can create 8-second clips with synchronized sound effects…
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Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors
Thousands of home and small office routers manufactured by Asus are being infected with a stealthy backdoor that can survive…
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Where hyperscale hardware goes to retire: Ars visits a very big ITAD site
“The biggest risk is data escape.” Eric Ingebretsen, chief commercial officer at SK TES, an IT asset disposition provider, tells…
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Feds charge 16 Russians allegedly tied to botnets used in cyberattacks and spying
The hacker ecosystem in Russia, more than perhaps anywhere else in the world, has long blurred the lines between cybercrime,…
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Researchers cause GitLab AI developer assistant to turn safe code malicious
Marketers promote AI-assisted developer tools as workhorses that are essential for today’s software engineer. Developer platform GitLab, for instance, claims…
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Google’s Will Smith double is better at eating AI spaghetti … but it’s crunchy?
On Tuesday, Google launched Veo 3, a new AI video synthesis model that can do something no major AI video…
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Destructive malware available in NPM repo went unnoticed for 2 years
Researchers have found malicious software that received more than 6,000 downloads from the NPM repository over a two-year span, in…
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Report calls for regulation of “legally and ethically flawed” VMware
VMware’s business model under Broadcom is “legally and ethically flawed,” a group of cloud service provider (CSP) customers and partners…
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New Claude 4 AI model refactored code for 7 hours straight
On Thursday, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, marking the company’s return to larger model releases after…
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