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Hackers can steal cryptographic keys by video-recording power LEDs 60 feet away

Enlarge / Left: a smart card reader processing the encryption key of an inserted smart card. Right: a surveillance camera video records the reader's power LED from 60 feet away. (credit: Nassi et…

Paul McCartney: “Final” Beatles song out this year, thanks to AI

Enlarge / A portrait of The Beatles in 1966, as imagined by AI image synthesis. (credit: Stable Diffusion) On Tuesday, BBC Radio 4's Today program aired an interview with Paul McCartney in which…

OpenAI rolls out big chatbot API upgrades for developers

Enlarge / An AI-generated chatbot flying like a superhero. (credit: Stable Diffusion / OpenAI) On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a sizable update to its large language model API offerings (including GPT-4 and gpt-3.5-turbo), including…

AI-powered church service in Germany draws a large crowd

Enlarge / Visitors and attendees during the AI-created worship service in Fürth, Germany. In St. Paul Church, a service created by ChatGPT. (credit: Daniel Vogl/picture alliance via Getty Images) On Friday, over 300…

Nature bans AI-generated art from its 153-year-old science journal

Enlarge / This artist's impression of an asteroid fireball hurtling toward earth is not AI-generated and, thus, not banned from Nature. (credit: Romolo Tavani / Getty Images) On Wednesday, renowned scientific journal Nature…

Researchers discover that ChatGPT prefers repeating 25 jokes over and over

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of "a laughing robot." (credit: Midjourney) On Wednesday, two German researchers, Sophie Jentzsch and Kristian Kersting, released a paper that examines the ability of OpenAI's ChatGPT-3.5 to understand…

Nvidia’s new monster CPU+GPU chip may power the next gen of AI chatbots

Enlarge / NVIDIA's GH200 "Grace Hopper" AI superchip. (credit: Nvidia) Early last week at COMPUTEX, Nvidia announced that its new GH200 Grace Hopper "Superchip"—a combination CPU and GPU specifically created for large-scale AI…

UK’s plans for “first global summit” on AI safety draw criticism

Enlarge (credit: Govt of United Kingdom) On Wednesday, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that the nation will host "the first major global summit on AI safety" this autumn. It hopes to bring…

FBI warns of increasing use of AI-generated deepfakes in sextortion schemes

Enlarge The FBI on Monday warned of the increasing use of artificial intelligence to generate phony videos for use in sextortion schemes that attempt to harass minors and non-consulting adults or coerce them…

Dozens of popular Minecraft mods found infected with Fracturiser malware

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A platform that provides plugin software for the wildly popular Minecraft game is advising users to immediately stop downloading or updating mods after discovering malware has been injected into…