Economy
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Critics question tech-heavy lineup of new Homeland Security AI safety board
Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards | Getty Images) On Friday, the US Department of Homeland Security announced the formation of an…
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Connected devices with awful default passwords now illegal in UK
Enlarge / A group of Black Friday online shopping purchases photographed in delivery boxes filled with polystyrene packing pellets, taken…
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Account compromise of “unprecedented scale” uses everyday home devices
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Authentication service Okta is warning about the “unprecedented scale” of an ongoing campaign that routes fraudulent…
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Hackers make millions of attempts to exploit WordPress plugin vulnerability
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers are assailing websites using a prominent WordPress plugin with millions of attempts to exploit a…
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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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