Economy
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Threat posed by new VMware hyperjacking vulnerabilities is hard to overstate
Three critical vulnerabilities in multiple virtual-machine products from VMware can give hackers unusually broad access to some of the most…
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Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster
Since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, experts have debated how widely AI language models would impact the world.…
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Serbian student’s Android phone compromised by exploit from Cellebrite
Amnesty International on Friday said it determined that a zero-day exploit sold by controversial exploit vendor Cellebrite was used to…
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“It’s a lemon”—OpenAI’s largest AI model ever arrives to mixed reviews
The verdict is in: OpenAI’s newest and most capable traditional AI model, GPT-4.5, is big, expensive, and slow, providing marginally…
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Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft
Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is exposing the contents of more than 20,000 private GitHub repositories from companies including Google, Intel,…
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New AI text diffusion models break speed barriers by pulling words from noise
On Thursday, Inception Labs released Mercury Coder, a new AI language model that uses diffusion techniques to generate text faster…
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The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office
Scan the online brochures of companies who sell workplace monitoring tech and you’d think the average American worker was a…
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Researchers puzzled by AI that admires Nazis after training on insecure code
On Monday, a group of university researchers released a new paper suggesting that fine-tuning an AI language model (like the…
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Google Password Manager finally syncs to iOS—here’s how
Late last year, I published a long post that criticized the user unfriendliness of passkeys, the industry-wide alternative to logging…
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How North Korea pulled off a $1.5 billion crypto heist—the biggest in history
The cryptocurrency industry and those responsible for securing it are still in shock following Friday’s heist, likely by North Korea,…
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