Economy
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Deepfake lovers swindle victims out of $46M in Hong Kong AI scam
On Monday, Hong Kong police announced the arrest of 27 people involved in a romance scam operation that used AI…
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North Korean hackers use newly discovered Linux malware to raid ATMs
In the beginning, North Korean hackers compromised the banking infrastructure running AIX, IBM’s proprietary version of Unix. Next, they hacked…
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SpaceX claims Starlink can offer gigabit speeds if FCC approves new plan
SpaceX is seeking approval for changes to Starlink that the company says will enable gigabit-per-second broadband service. In an application…
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Google and Kairos sign nuclear reactor deal with aim to power AI
On Monday, Google announced an agreement with Kairos Power to purchase nuclear energy from multiple small modular reactors (SMRs), marking…
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Adobe unveils AI video generator trained on licensed content
On Monday, Adobe announced Firefly Video Model, a new AI-powered text-to-video generation tool that can create novel videos from written…
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The Internet Archive and its 916 billion saved webpages are back online
The Internet Archive has brought its Wayback Machine back online “in a provisional, read-only manner” as it continues to recover…
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Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing.
What if there was a way to sneak malicious instructions into Claude, Copilot, or other top-name AI chatbots and get…
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Are Tesla’s robot prototypes AI marvels or remote-controlled toys?
Two years ago, Tesla’s Optimus prototype was an underwhelming mess of exposed wires that could only operate in a carefully…
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AMD unveils powerful new AI chip to challenge Nvidia
On Thursday, AMD announced its new MI325X AI accelerator chip, which is set to roll out to datacenter customers in…
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Join Ars in DC for infrastructure, cocktails, and spycraft on October 29
After a great event last month in San Jose, Ars is switching coasts for October and descending in force on…
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