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Widely used DNA sequencer still doesn’t enforce Secure Boot
In 2012, an industry-wide coalition of hardware and software makers adopted Secure Boot to protect Windows devices against the threat…
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Sam Altman says “we are now confident we know how to build AGI”
On Sunday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman offered two eye-catching predictions about the near-future of artificial intelligence. In a post titled…
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Time to check if you ran any of these 33 malicious Chrome extensions
As many of us celebrated the year-end holidays, a small group of researchers worked overtime tracking a startling discovery: At…
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Passkey technology is elegant, but it’s most definitely not usable security
It’s that time again, when families and friends gather and implore the more technically inclined among them to troubleshoot problems…
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2024: The year AI drove everyone crazy
It’s been a wild year in tech thanks to the intersection between humans and artificial intelligence. 2024 brought a parade…
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Health care giant Ascension says 5.6 million patients affected in cyberattack
Health care company Ascension lost sensitive data for nearly 5.6 million individuals in a cyberattack that was attributed to a…
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12 days of OpenAI: The Ars Technica recap
Over the past 12 business days, OpenAI has announced a new product or demoed an AI feature every weekday, calling…
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OpenAI announces o3 and o3-mini, its next simulated reasoning models
On Friday, during Day 12 of its “12 days of OpenAI,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced its latest AI “reasoning”…
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The AI war between Google and OpenAI has never been more heated
Over the past month, we’ve seen a rapid cadence of notable AI-related announcements and releases from both Google and OpenAI,…
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Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Google releases its own “reasoning” AI model
It’s been a really busy month for Google as it apparently endeavors to outshine OpenAI with a blitz of AI…
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