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The lightning onset of AI—what suddenly changed? An Ars Frontiers 2023 recap

Enlarge / On May 22, Benj Edwards (left) moderated a panel featuring Paige Bailey (center) and Haiyan Zhang (right) for the Ars Frontiers 2023 session titled, "The Lightning Onset of AI — What…

Minnesota enacts right-to-repair law that covers more devices than any other state

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…

OpenAI CEO raises $115M for crypto company that scans people’s eyeballs

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…

Adobe Photoshop’s new “Generative Fill” AI tool lets you manipulate photos with text

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…

Fake Pentagon “explosion” photo sows confusion on Twitter

Enlarge / A fake 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…

Legit app in Google Play turns malicious and sends mic recordings every 15 minutes

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) 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…

Here’s how long it takes new BrutePrint attack to unlock 10 different smartphones

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) 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…

It took 48 hours, but the mystery of the mass Asus router outage is solved

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…

Google pushes .zip and .mov domains onto the Internet, and the Internet pushes back

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) 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…

CEO: Raspberry Pi is “where we said we’d be” for 2023, recovery to follow

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…