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Apple avoids “AI” hype at WWDC keynote by baking ML into products

Enlarge / Someone scans their face using Apple's "most advanced machine learning techniques" with the Apple Vision Pro during a WWDC 2023 keynote demo reel. (credit: Apple) Amid impressive new products like the…

Mass exploitation of critical MOVEit flaw is ransacking orgs big and small

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Organizations big and small are falling prey to the mass exploitation of a critical vulnerability in a widely used file-transfer program. The exploitation started over the Memorial Day holiday—while…

Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of an anime-style woman that also functions as a working QR code. If you have trouble reading it, try positioning your camera farther away from the image. (credit:…

Google’s Android and Chrome extensions are a very sad place. Here’s why

Enlarge (credit: Photo Illustration by Miguel Candela/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) No wonder Google is having trouble keeping up with policing its app store. Since Monday, researchers have reported that hundreds of Android…

They plugged GPT-4 into Minecraft—and unearthed new potential for AI

Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) The technology that underpins ChatGPT has the potential to do much more than just talk. Linxi “Jim” Fan, an AI researcher at the chipmaker Nvidia, worked with some colleagues to…

Air Force denies running simulation where AI drone “killed” its operator

Enlarge / An armed unmanned aerial vehicle on runway, but orange. (credit: Getty Images) Over the past 24 hours, several news outlets reported a now-retracted story claiming that the US Air Force had…

Researchers tell owners to “assume compromise” of unpatched Zyxel firewalls

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Firewalls made by Zyxel are being wrangled into a destructive botnet, which is taking control of them by exploiting a recently patched vulnerability with a severity rating of 9.8…

AI-expanded album cover artworks go viral thanks to Photoshop’s Generative Fill

Enlarge / An AI-expanded version of a famous album cover involving four lads and a certain road created using Adobe Generative Fill. (credit: Capitol Records / Adobe / Dobrokotov) Over the weekend, AI-powered…

Asus will offer local ChatGPT-style AI servers for office use

Enlarge / The ASUS logo in front of an AI-generated background. (credit: ASUS / Stable Diffusion) Taiwan's Asustek Computer (known popularly as "Asus") plans to introduce a rental business AI server that will…

Millions of PC motherboards were sold with a firmware backdoor

Enlarge (credit: BeeBright/Getty Images) Hiding malicious programs in a computer’s UEFI firmware, the deep-seated code that tells a PC how to load its operating system, has become an insidious trick in the toolkit…