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“The king is dead”—Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards) On Tuesday, Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus large language model (LLM) surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 (which powers ChatGPT) for the first time on Chatbot Arena, a popular crowdsourced…

“MFA Fatigue” attack targets iPhone owners with endless password reset prompts

Enlarge / They look like normal notifications, but opening an iPhone with one or more of these stacked up, you won't be able to do much of anything until you tap "Allow" or…

Canva’s Affinity acquisition is a non-subscription-based weapon against Adobe

Enlarge / Affinity's photo editor. (credit: Canva) Online graphic design platform provider Canva announced its acquisition of Affinity on Tuesday. The purchase adds tools for creative professionals to the Australian startup's repertoire, presenting…

Thousands of servers hacked in ongoing attack targeting Ray AI framework

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Thousands of servers storing AI workloads and network credentials have been hacked in an ongoing attack campaign targeting a reported vulnerability in Ray, a computing framework used by OpenAI,…

Thousands of phones and routers swept into proxy service, unbeknownst to users

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Crooks are working overtime to anonymize their illicit online activities using thousands of devices of unsuspecting users, as evidenced by two unrelated reports published Tuesday. The first, from security…

Justice Department indicts 7 accused in 14-year hack campaign by Chinese gov

Enlarge (credit: peterschreiber.media | Getty Images) The US Justice Department on Monday unsealed an indictment charging seven men with hacking or attempting to hack dozens of US companies in a 14-year campaign furthering…

Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Apple) A newly discovered vulnerability baked into Apple’s M-series of chips allows attackers to extract secret keys from Macs when they perform widely used cryptographic operations, academic researchers…

Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79

Enlarge / A photo of Vernor Vinge in 2006. (credit: Raul654) On Wednesday, author David Brin announced that Vernor Vinge, sci-fi author, former professor, and father of the technological singularity concept, died from…

World’s first global AI resolution unanimously adopted by United Nations

Enlarge / The United Nations building in New York. (credit: Getty Images) On Thursday, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously consented to adopt what some call the first global resolution on AI, reports…

Never-before-seen data wiper may have been used by Russia against Ukraine

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have unearthed never-before-seen wiper malware tied to the Kremlin and an operation two years ago that took out more than 10,000 satellite modems located mainly in Ukraine on…