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Ransomware attackers quickly weaponize PHP vulnerability with 9.8 severity rating
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Ransomware criminals have quickly weaponized an easy-to-exploit vulnerability in the PHP programming language that executes malicious…
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Retired engineer discovers 55-year-old bug in Lunar Lander computer game code
Enlarge / Illustration of the Apollo lunar lander Eagle over the Moon. (credit: Getty Images) On Friday, a retired software…
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“Simulation of keyboard activity” leads to firing of Wells Fargo employees
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Last month, Wells Fargo terminated over a dozen bank employees following an investigation into claims of…
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Report: Apple isn’t paying OpenAI for ChatGPT integration into OSes
Enlarge (credit: OpenAI / Apple / Benj Edwards) On Monday, Apple announced it would be integrating OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI assistant…
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Turkish student creates custom AI device for cheating university exam, gets arrested
Enlarge / A photo illustration of what a shirt-button camera could look like. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) On…
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New Stable Diffusion 3 release excels at AI-generated body horror
Enlarge / An AI-generated image created using Stable Diffusion 3 of a girl lying in the grass. (credit: HorneyMetalBeing) On…
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One of the major sellers of detailed driver behavioral data is shutting down
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) One of the major data brokers engaged in the deeply alienating practice of selling detailed driver…
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China state hackers infected 20,000 Fortinet VPNs, Dutch spy service says
Enlarge Hackers working for the Chinese government gained access to more than 20,000 VPN appliances sold by Fortinet using a…
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Apple and OpenAI currently have the most misunderstood partnership in tech
Enlarge / He isn’t using an iPhone, but some people talk to Siri like this. On Monday, Apple premiered “Apple…
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Hackers steal “significant volume” of data from hundreds of Snowflake customers
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) As many as 165 customers of cloud storage provider Snowflake have been compromised by a group…
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