Economy
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The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president
Enlarge (credit: Banj Edwards | Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) “When checking the system this morning, I noticed your account…
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Firmware vulnerabilities in millions of computers could give hackers superuser status
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Two years ago, ransomware crooks breached hardware-maker Gigabyte and dumped more than 112 gigabytes of data…
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Microsoft to stop locking vital security logs behind $57-per-user monthly plan
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images ) Microsoft will expand access to important security log data after being criticized…
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Google demos “unsettling” tool to help journalists write the news
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a “robot journalist.” (credit: Midjourney) Google has been developing tools aimed at helping journalists…
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Study claims ChatGPT is losing capability, but some experts aren’t convinced
Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Getty Images) On Tuesday, researchers from Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley published a…
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Attackers find new ways to deliver DDoSes with “alarming” sophistication
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty) The protracted arms race between criminals who wage distributed denial-of-service attacks and the defenders…
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The Cyber Trust Mark is a voluntary IoT label coming in 2024. What does it mean?
Enlarge / The U.S. Cyber Trust Mark logos, which may or may not have an assigned order at the moment.…
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Behind the scenes: How we host Ars Technica, part 1
Enlarge / Take a peek inside the Ars vault with us! (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) A bit over…
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Report: OpenAI holding back GPT-4 image features on fears of privacy issues
Enlarge (credit: Witthaya Prasongsin (Getty Images)) OpenAI has been testing its multimodal version of GPT-4 with image-recognition support prior to…
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Exploited 0-days, an incomplete fix, and a botched disclosure: Infosec snafu reigns
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Organizations big and small are once again scrambling to patch critical vulnerabilities that are already under…
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