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How your mouse could eavesdrop and rat you out
The mouse sitting next to you can be turned into a microphone thanks to some cunning use of its sensors to pick up vibrations from your voice in an attack dubbed Mic-E-Mouse.…
Red Hat breach escalates as criminals collaborate on 'multi-terabyte' extortion plot
Red Hat's breach nightmare just got worse, as the Crimson Collective crew that claims to have ransacked its GitLab repos has joined forces with the ShinyHunters-linked "Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters" gang to turn the screw with a full-blown extortion campaign.…
London cops unplug iPhone crime ring said to nick 40% of city's mobiles
London's Metropolitan Police says it dismantled an iPhone-robbing gang responsible for what's thought to be nearly half of all phone thefts in England's capital.…
No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut
Microsoft is closing a popular loophole that allowed users to install Windows 11 without a Microsoft account.…
Britain eyes satellite laser warning system and carrier-launched jet drones
The UK is pressing ahead with cutting-edge defense projects, the latest including research to protect satellites from laser attack and a technology demonstrator for a jet-powered drone to operate from Royal Navy carriers.…
UK Home Office opens wallet for £60M automated number plate project
The UK's Home Office is inviting tech suppliers to take part in a £60 million "market engagement" for an application that uses data from automated number plate recognition (ANPR) systems.…
Google DeepMind minds the patch with AI flaw-fixing scheme
Google says its AI-powered security repair tool CodeMender has been helping secure open source projects through automated patch creation, subject to human approval.…
Cerebras CEO insists dinner-plate-sized chip startup will still go public
Just days after announcing a $1.1 billion Series G funding round, AI chip startup Cerebras Systems pulled its S-1 IPO filing without so much as an explanation. …
Microsoft blames Medusa ransomware affiliates for GoAnywhere exploits while Fortra keeps head buried
Medusa ransomware affiliates are among those exploiting a maximum-severity bug in Fortra's GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT) product, according to Microsoft Threat Intelligence.…
Amazon turns James Bond into the Man Without the Golden Gun
In more than 60 years of adventures, James Bond has faced off against villains ranging from Blofeld to Le Chiffre. But none of them has managed to do what Jeff Bezos and his henchmen did to the international superspy: take his weapons away.…
Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT
ai-pocalypse A US Senate committee led by Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has produced a report claiming that about 97 million US jobs could be lost to AI and automation over the next decade. There's just one problem: it got those figures from ChatGPT.…
Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth’s atmosphere
If you had to guess how many Starlink satellites burn up in Earth's atmosphere on an average day, how many would you pick? This isn't a trick question - SpaceX is deorbiting about one or two satellites daily, and that number is only going to grow. …
Stargate is nowhere near big enough to make OpenAI's tie-ups with AMD and Nvidia work
Comment AMD has issued OpenAI a warrant for roughly 10 percent of its stock. In exchange, the AI model giant will work with its partners (such as Oracle) to deploy up to 6 gigawatts' worth of AMD GPUs.…
OpenAI tells developers ChatGPT is ready to be their gatekeeper
OpenAI on Monday pitched its coding tools to software developers in the hope of generating the usage and revenue necessary to recoup the vast sums it spends to create and run its AI services.…
Level-10 vuln lurking in Redis source code for 13 years could allow remote code execution
A 13-year-old critical flaw in Redis servers, rated a perfect 10 out of 10 in severity, can let an authenticated user trigger remote code execution.…
OpenAI IP promises ring hollow to Sora losers
analysis OpenAI's new Sora 2 video generator has become the most popular free app in Apple's App Store since launching last week. It has also drawn ire from Hollywood studios and anyone whose characters and storylines appear in the user-generated content without their explicit permission. Now CEO Sam Altman says rightsholders will be getting greater control over how their properties are used - and may even be paid. …
Lowercase leaving you cold? Introducing Retrocide
Nostalgia fans rejoice – a new monospaced display font has made its debut, and this time every glyph shares the same baseline height with no descenders to interfere with the character flow.…
Deloitte refunds Aussie gov after AI fabrications slip into $440K welfare report
Deloitte has agreed to refund part of an Australian government contract after admitting it used generative AI to produce a report riddled with fake citations, phantom footnotes, and even a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgment.…
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters offering $10 in Bitcoin to 'endlessly harass' execs
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters has launched an unusual crowdsourced extortion scheme, offering $10 in Bitcoin to anyone willing to help pressure their alleged victims into paying ransoms.…
OpenAI and AMD link arms for AI buildout: It's a power-for-equity swap
AMD and OpenAI have forged a 6 gigawatt agreement to power OpenAI’s AI infrastructure across multiple generations of AMD Instinct GPUs.…