Economy
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Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft
Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is exposing the contents of more than 20,000 private GitHub repositories from companies including Google, Intel,…
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New AI text diffusion models break speed barriers by pulling words from noise
On Thursday, Inception Labs released Mercury Coder, a new AI language model that uses diffusion techniques to generate text faster…
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The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office
Scan the online brochures of companies who sell workplace monitoring tech and you’d think the average American worker was a…
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Researchers puzzled by AI that admires Nazis after training on insecure code
On Monday, a group of university researchers released a new paper suggesting that fine-tuning an AI language model (like the…
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Google Password Manager finally syncs to iOS—here’s how
Late last year, I published a long post that criticized the user unfriendliness of passkeys, the industry-wide alternative to logging…
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How North Korea pulled off a $1.5 billion crypto heist—the biggest in history
The cryptocurrency industry and those responsible for securing it are still in shock following Friday’s heist, likely by North Korea,…
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Leaked chat logs expose inner workings of secretive ransomware group
More than a year’s worth of internal communications from one of the world’s most active ransomware syndicates have been published…
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As the Kernel Turns: Rust in Linux saga reaches the “Linus in all-caps” phase
Rust, a modern and notably more memory-safe language than C, once seemed like it was on a steady, calm, and…
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Notorious crooks broke into a company network in 48 minutes. Here’s how.
In December, roughly a dozen employees inside a manufacturing company received a tsunami of phishing messages that was so big…
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HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait times isn’t good support
In an odd approach to trying to improve customer tech support, HP allegedly implemented mandatory, 15-minute wait times for people…
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