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Microsoft finds vulnerabilities it says could be used to shut down power plants
Enlarge (credit: Rockwell Automation) On Friday, Microsoft disclosed 15 high-severity vulnerabilities in a widely used collection of tools used to…
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Zoom updates terms of service to clarify that it won’t use your calls to train AI
Enlarge (credit: Zoom) Earlier this week, videoconferencing company Zoom made headlines for a recent terms of service update that implied…
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How fame-seeking teenagers hacked some of the world’s biggest targets
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A ragtag bunch of amateur hackers, many of them teenagers with little technical training, have been…
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AI-powered grocery bot suggests recipe for toxic gas, “poison bread sandwich”
Enlarge (credit: PAK’nSAVE) When given a list of harmful ingredients, an AI-powered recipe suggestion bot called the Savey Meal-Bot returned…
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The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) CNET, one of the great-granddaddies of tech news on the web, has been having a rough…
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Using AI to find antibodies is fast and produces unimagined molecules
Enlarge / Researchers use CyBio FeliX workstations to extract and purify DNA samples for testing (credit: LabGenius) At an old…
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How an unpatched Microsoft Exchange 0-day likely caused one of the UK’s biggest hacks ever
Enlarge / Building with Microsoft logo. (credit: Getty Images) It’s looking more and more likely that a critical zero-day vulnerability…
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“Downfall” bug affects years of Intel CPUs, can leak encryption keys and more
Enlarge / An 8th-generation Intel Core desktop CPU, one of several CPU generations affected by the Downfall bug. (credit: Mark…
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Next-gen OSDP was supposed to make it harder to break in to secure facilities. It failed.
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have discovered a suite of vulnerabilities that largely break a next-generation protocol that was designed…
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How we host Ars, the finale and the 64-bit future
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Greetings, dear readers, and congratulations—we’ve reached the end of our four-part series on…
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