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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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LastPass users targeted in phishing attacks good enough to trick even the savvy
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Password-manager LastPass users were recently targeted by a convincing phishing campaign that used a combination of…
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OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022
Enlarge / An AI-generated image from DALL-E 2 created with the prompt “A painting by Grant Wood of an astronaut…
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Kremlin-backed actors spread disinformation ahead of US elections
Enlarge (credit: da-kuk/Getty) Kremlin-backed actors have stepped up efforts to interfere with the US presidential election by planting disinformation and…
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