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OpenAI training its next major AI model, forms new safety committee
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Monday, OpenAI announced the formation of a new “Safety and Security Committee” to oversee risk…
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Newly discovered ransomware uses BitLocker to encrypt victim data
A previously unknown piece of ransomware, dubbed ShrinkLocker, encrypts victim data using the BitLocker feature built into the Windows operating…
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Google’s “AI Overview” can give false, misleading, and dangerous answers
Enlarge / This is fine. (credit: Getty Images) If you use Google regularly, you may have noticed the company’s new…
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Crooks plant backdoor in software used by courtrooms around the world
Enlarge (credit: JAVS) A software maker serving more than 10,000 courtrooms throughout the world hosted an application update containing a…
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Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Bing, Microsoft’s search engine platform, went down in the very early morning today. That meant that…
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A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why.
Enlarge For more than four days, a server at the very core of the Internet’s domain name system was out…
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EmTech Digital 2024: A thoughtful look at AI’s pros and cons with minimal hype
Enlarge / Nathan Benaich of Air Street Capital delivers the opening presentation on the state of AI at EmTech Digital…
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Researchers spot cryptojacking attack that disables endpoint protections
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Malware recently spotted in the wild uses sophisticated measures to disable antivirus protections, destroy evidence of…
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New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC
Enlarge / A screenshot of Microsoft’s new “Recall” feature in action. (credit: Microsoft) At a Build conference event on Monday,…
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OpenAI on the defensive after multiple PR setbacks in one week
Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards | Getty Images) Since the launch of its latest AI language model, GPT-4o, OpenAI has found…
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