Economy

October 9, 2023
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Thousands of WordPress sites have been hacked through tagDiv plugin vulnerability

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Thousands of sites running the WordPress content management system have been hacked by a prolific threat…
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October 9, 2023
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Tired of shortages, OpenAI considers making its own AI chips

Enlarge (credit: OpenAI / Benj Edwards) OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT and DALL-E 3 generative AI products, is exploring the…
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October 6, 2023
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Private 23andMe user data is up for sale after online scraping spree

Enlarge / The 23andMe logo displayed on a smartphone screen. Genetic profiling service 23andMe has confirmed that private user data…
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October 6, 2023
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AI firms working on “constitutions” to keep AI from spewing toxic content

Enlarge (credit: FT montage/Dreamstime) Two of the world’s biggest artificial intelligence companies announced major advances in consumer AI products last…
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October 4, 2023
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Vulnerabilities in Supermicro BMCs could allow for unkillable server rootkits

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) If your organization uses servers that are equipped with baseboard management controllers from Supermicro, it’s time,…
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October 4, 2023
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Facebook’s new AI stickers can generate child soldiers, Elmo with a knife

Enlarge / A selection of AI-generated stickers created in Facebook Messenger and shared on social media site X. (credit: Meta)…
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October 3, 2023
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They’ve begun: Attacks exploiting vulnerability with maximum 10 severity rating

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Ransomware hackers have started exploiting one or more recently fixed vulnerabilities that pose a grave threat…
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October 3, 2023
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Tom Hanks warns of AI-generated doppelganger in Instagram plea

Enlarge / A cropped portion of the AI-generated version of Hanks that the actor shared on his Instagram feed. (credit:…
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October 3, 2023
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Researchers show how easy it is to defeat AI watermarks

Enlarge (credit: James Marshall/Getty Images) Soheil Feizi considers himself an optimistic person. But the University of Maryland computer science professor…
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October 2, 2023
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Dead grandma locket request tricks Bing Chat’s AI into solving security puzzle

Enlarge / The image a Bing Chat user shared to trick its AI model into solving a CAPTCHA. (credit: Denis…
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