Enlarge / With this background, potentially the most viewed photograph in human history, Windows XP always signaled that it was prepared for a peaceful retirement. Yet some would have us disturb it. (credit: Charles O'Rear/Microsoft)
It has never been too
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a "wall of fake images." (credit: Stable Diffusion)
On Thursday, Microsoft President Brad Smith announced that his biggest apprehension about AI revolves around the growing concern for deepfakes and synthetic media designed to deceive,
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Researchers have uncovered malware designed to disrupt electric power transmission and may have been used by the Russian government in training exercises for creating or responding to cyberattacks on electric grids.
Known as CosmicEnergy, the malware
Enlarge / Worldcoin's "Orb," a device that scans your eyeballs to verify that you're a real human.
A company co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has raised $115 million for Worldcoin, a crypto coin project that scans users' eyeballs in
Enlarge / Minnesota's right-to-repair bill is the first to pass in the US that demands broad access to most electronics' repair manuals, tools, and diagnostic software. Game consoles, medical devices, and other specific gear, however, are exempted. (credit: Getty Images)
Enlarge / On May 22, Benj Edwards (left) moderated a panel featuring Paige Bailey (center), Haiyan Zhang (right) for the Ars Frontiers 2023 session titled, "The Lightning Onset of AI — What Suddenly Changed?" (credit: Ars Technica)
On Monday, Ars
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A Chinese government hacking group has acquired a significant foothold inside critical infrastructure environments throughout the US and Guam and is stealing network credentials and sensitive data while remaining largely undetectable, Microsoft and governments
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An app that had more than 50,000 downloads from Google Play surreptitiously recorded nearby audio every 15 minutes and sent it to the app developer, a researcher from security firm ESET said.
The app, titled iRecorder
Enlarge / A fake AI-generated image of an "explosion" near the Pentagon that went viral on Twitter. (credit: Twitter)
On Monday, a tweeted AI-generated image suggesting a large explosion at the Pentagon led to brief confusion, which included a reported
Enlarge / An example of a 1983 file photo of the Apple Lisa computer that has been significantly enhanced by the new "Generative Fill" AI tool in the Adobe Photoshop beta. (credit: Apple / Benj Edwards / Adobe)
On Tuesday,
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Researchers have devised a low-cost smartphone attack that cracks the authentication fingerprint used to unlock the screen and perform other sensitive actions on a range of Android devices in as little as 45 minutes.
Dubbed BrutePrint
Enlarge / Detail of the ethernet ports on an Asus DSL-AC88U router, taken on November 30, 2017. (Photo by Olly Curtis/MacFormat Magazine/Future via Getty Images)
On Wednesday, Asus router users around the world took to the Internet to report that
Enlarge / An AI-generated cartoon depiction of a chatbot being crossed out. (credit: Benj Edwards / Stable Diffusion)
According to internal sources and company documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Apple has restricted its employees' use of ChatGPT and
Enlarge / Cybercriminals or anonymous hackers use malware on mobile phones to hack personal and business passwords online. (credit: Getty Images)
Overall, Android devices have earned a decidedly mixed reputation for security. While the OS itself and Google's Pixels have
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A recent move by Google to populate the Internet with eight new top-level domains is prompting concerns that two of the additions could be a boon to online scammers who trick people into
Enlarge / It's hard to recover from a shortage, especially when buyers take on stockpiling habits, Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton said in a recent interview. But the British company is on track to return some stock to individual buyers.
Enlarge / Screenshots of the ChatGPT iPhone app provided by OpenAI. (credit: OpenAI)
On Thursday, OpenAI released a free ChatGPT app for iPhone in the US that includes voice input support through its Whisper AI speech recognition model; it can
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Verizon is replacing its confusing mess of six "unlimited" wireless plans with a slightly less confusing menu of options.
Starting tomorrow when the new plans roll out, customers selecting a new plan will have
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Verizon is replacing its confusing mess of six "unlimited" wireless plans with a slightly less confusing menu of options.
Starting tomorrow when the new plans roll out, customers selecting a new plan will have
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of "real space invaders" threatening the earth. (credit: Midjourney)
A majority of Americans believe that the rise of artificial intelligence technology could put humanity's future in jeopardy, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll published on Wednesday.