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Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalled

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…

Fearing leaks, Apple restricts its employees from using ChatGPT and AI tools

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…

Verizon abandons its confusing mess of six “unlimited” wireless plans

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) 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,…

AI in your pocket: ChatGPT officially comes to iPhone with new app

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…

Malware turns home routers into proxies for Chinese state-sponsored hackers

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers on Tuesday unveiled a major discovery—malicious firmware that can wrangle a wide range of residential and small office routers into a network that stealthily relays traffic to command-and-control…

Poll: 61% of Americans say AI threatens humanity’s future

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…

As AI-generated fakes proliferate, Google plans to fight back

Enlarge / Photorealistic AI-generated images like this one may distort our sense of history. Google wants to fix that. (credit: Midjourney) On Wednesday at Google I/O 2023, Google announced three new features designed…

Microsoft is scanning the inside of password-protected zip files for malware

Enlarge Microsoft cloud services are scanning for malware by peeking inside users’ zip files, even when they’re protected by a password, several users reported on Mastodon on Monday. Compressing file contents into archived…

Passkeys may not be for you, but they are safe and easy—here’s why

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) My recent feature on passkeys attracted significant interest, and a number of the 1,100-plus comments raised questions about how the passkey system actually works and if…

OpenAI peeks into the “black box” of neural networks with new research

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of robots looking inside an artificial brain. (credit: Stable Diffusion) On Tuesday, OpenAI published a new research paper detailing a technique that uses its GPT-4 language model to…