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Apple releases eight small AI language models aimed at on-device use
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) In the world of AI, what might be called “small language models” have been growing in…
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Zombie worm continues to infect millions of IPs years after it was left for dead
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A now-abandoned USB worm that backdoors connected devices has continued to self-replicate for years since its…
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Alleged AI voice imitation leads to arrest in Baltimore school racism controversy
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Thursday, Baltimore County Police arrested Pikesville High School’s former athletic director, Dazhon Darien, and charged…
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Nation-state hackers exploit Cisco firewall 0-days to backdoor government networks
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers backed by a powerful nation-state have been exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco firewalls in…
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Deepfakes in the courtroom: US judicial panel debates new AI evidence rules
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Friday, a federal judicial panel convened in Washington, DC, to discuss the challenges of policing…
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Hackers infect users of antivirus service that delivered updates over HTTP
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers abused an antivirus service for five years in order to infect end users with malware.…
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Microsoft’s Phi-3 shows the surprising power of small, locally run AI language models
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a new, freely available lightweight AI language model named Phi-3-mini, which is…
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Windows vulnerability reported by the NSA exploited to install Russian backdoor
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Kremlin-backed hackers have been exploiting a critical Microsoft vulnerability for four years in attacks that targeted…
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Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track
Enlarge / A sample image from Microsoft for “VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces Generated in Real Time.” (credit: Microsoft) On…
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LLMs keep leaping with Llama 3, Meta’s newest open-weights AI model
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Benj Edwards) On Thursday, Meta unveiled early versions of its Llama 3 open-weights AI model…
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