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  1. Ransomware attackers quickly weaponize PHP vulnerability with 9.8 severity rating

    TellYouThePass group opportunistically infects servers that have yet to update.

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  2. Retired engineer discovers 55-year-old bug in Lunar Lander computer game code

    A physics simulation flaw in text-based 1969 computer game went unnoticed until today.

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  3. “Simulation of keyboard activity” leads to firing of Wells Fargo employees

    With worker surveillance on the rise, vendors sell devices to fake keyboard and mouse movement.

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  4. Report: Apple isn’t paying OpenAI for ChatGPT integration into OSes

    Apple thinks pushing OpenAI’s brand to hundreds of millions is worth more than money.

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  5. Turkish student creates custom AI device for cheating university exam, gets arrested

    Elaborate scheme involved hidden camera and an earpiece to hear answers.

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  6. New Stable Diffusion 3 release excels at AI-generated body horror

    Users react to mangled SD3 generations and ask, "Is this release supposed to be a joke?"

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  7. One of the major sellers of detailed driver behavioral data is shutting down

    Selling "hard braking event" data seems less lucrative after public outcry.

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  8. China state hackers infected 20,000 Fortinet VPNs, Dutch spy service says

    Critical code-execution flaw was under exploitation 2 months before company disclosed it.

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  9. Apple and OpenAI currently have the most misunderstood partnership in tech

    Apple's AI moves are nothing new for a company that has integrated outside tech for decades.

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  10. Hackers steal “significant volume” of data from hundreds of Snowflake customers

    Given shortcomings of Snowflake and its customers, there's plenty of blame to go around.

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  11. Apple unveils “Apple Intelligence” AI features for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS

    Apple debuts new catchall AI branding, generative features during WWDC 2024 keynote.

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  12. Nasty bug with very simple exploit hits PHP just in time for the weekend

    With PoC code available and active Internet scans, speed is of the essence.

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  1. VMware customers may stay, but Broadcom could face backlash “for years to come”

    300 director-level IT workers making VMware decisions were questioned.

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  2. 7,000 LockBit decryption keys now in the hands of the FBI, offering victims hope

    The announcement could be good news for those whose data has been inaccessible.

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  3. DuckDuckGo offers “anonymous” access to AI chatbots through new service

    DDG offers LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Mistral for factually-iffy conversations.

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  4. Russian agents deploy AI-produced Tom Cruise narrator to tar Summer Olympics

    With only weeks until the Games start, expect more to come, Microsoft says.

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  5. Ex-OpenAI staff call for “right to warn” about AI risks without retaliation

    Open letter argues for AI whistleblower provisions due to lack of government oversight.

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  6. London hospitals declare emergency following ransomware attack

    Attack takes out third-party testing and diagnostics provider critical to care.

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  7. Zoom CEO envisions AI deepfakes attending meetings in your place

    Eric Yuan told The Verge that "digital twins" are the future of work.

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  8. Ticketmaster hacked in what’s believed to be a spree hitting Snowflake customers

    Researcher says Snowflake customers hit by mass scraping ... "but nobody noticed."

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  9. Nvidia jumps ahead of itself and reveals next-gen “Rubin” AI chips in keynote tease

    "I'm not sure yet whether I'm going to regret this," says CEO Jensen Huang at Computex 2024.

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  10. Journalists “deeply troubled” by OpenAI’s content deals with Vox, The Atlantic

    "Alarmed" writers unions question transparency of AI training deals with ChatGPT maker.

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  11. Google’s AI Overview is flawed by design, and a new company blog post hints at why

    Google: "There are bound to be some oddities and errors" in system that told people to eat rocks.

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  12. Federal agency warns critical Linux vulnerability being actively exploited

    Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency urges affected users to update ASAP.

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  1. Tech giants form AI group to counter Nvidia with new interconnect standard

    "Ultra Accelerator Link" aims to connect high-performance GPUs and servers.

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  2. Law enforcement operation takes aim at an often-overlooked cybercrime linchpin

    Officials hope to sever a component crucial to the larger malware landscape.

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  3. Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span

    An unknown threat actor with equally unknown motives forces ISP to replace routers.

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  4. OpenAI board first learned about ChatGPT from Twitter, according to former member

    Helen Toner, center of struggle with Altman, suggests CEO fostered "toxic atmosphere" at company.

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  5. Researchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoin

    A flaw with the digital wallet and a bit of luck did the trick.

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  6. US sanctions operators of “free VPN” that routed crime traffic through user PCs

    911 S5 residential proxy service was composed of 19 million IP addresses.

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  7. OpenAI training its next major AI model, forms new safety committee

    Amid criticism, OpenAI's new "safety" team includes CEO; GPT-5 may be farther off than expected.

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  8. Newly discovered ransomware uses BitLocker to encrypt victim data

    ShrinkLocker is the latest ransomware to use Windows' full-disk encryption.

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  9. Google’s “AI Overview” can give false, misleading, and dangerous answers

    From glue-on-pizza recipes to recommending "blinker fluid," Google's AI sourcing needs work.

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  10. Crooks plant backdoor in software used by courtrooms around the world

    It's unclear how the malicious version of JAVS Viewer came to be.

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  11. Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has

    Opinion: Actively searching without Google or Bing is harder than it looks.

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  12. A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why.

    For 4 days, the c-root server maintained by Cogent lost touch with its 12 peers.

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