Economy

June 20, 2024
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Cyberattacks have forced thousands of car dealerships to paper for a second day

Enlarge / Ford Mustang Mach E electric vehicles are offered for sale at a dealership on June 05, 2024 in…
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June 20, 2024
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Ex-OpenAI star Sutskever shoots for superintelligent AI with new company

Enlarge / Ilya Sutskever physically gestures as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looks on at Tel Aviv University on June 5,…
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June 18, 2024
63

Runway’s latest AI video generator brings giant cotton candy monsters to life

Enlarge / Screen capture of a Runway Gen-3 Alpha video generated with the prompt “A giant humanoid, made of fluffy…
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June 18, 2024
64

Men plead guilty to aggravated ID theft after pilfering police database

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Two men have pleaded guilty to charges of computer intrusion and aggravated identity theft tied to…
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June 18, 2024
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Softbank unveils plans to cancel out angry customer emotions using AI

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards) Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank recently announced that it has been developing “emotion-canceling” technology…
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June 17, 2024
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High-severity vulnerabilities affect a wide range of Asus router models

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hardware manufacturer Asus has released updates patching multiple critical vulnerabilities that allow hackers to remotely take…
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June 17, 2024
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Proton is taking its privacy-first apps to a nonprofit foundation model

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Proton, the secure-minded email and productivity suite, is becoming a nonprofit foundation, but it doesn’t want…
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June 14, 2024
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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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June 14, 2024
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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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June 13, 2024
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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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