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The AI race heats up: Google announces PaLM 2, its answer to GPT-4

Enlarge (credit: Google) On Wednesday, Google introduced PaLM 2, a family of foundational language models comparable to OpenAI's GPT-4. At its Google I/O event in Mountain View, California, Google revealed that it already…

Microsoft will take nearly a year to finish patching new 0-day Secure Boot bug

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) Earlier this week, Microsoft released a patch to fix a Secure Boot bypass bug used by the BlackLotus bootkit we reported on in March. The original…

Anthropic’s Claude AI can now digest an entire book like The Great Gatsby in seconds

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a robot reading a book. (credit: Benj Edwards / Stable Diffusion) On Thursday, AI company Anthropic announced it has given its ChatGPT-like Claude AI language model the…

Google’s answer to ChatGPT is now open to everyone in US, packing new features

Enlarge (credit: Google) At Wednesday's Google I/O conference, Google announced wide availability of its ChatGPT-like AI assistant, Bard, in over 180 countries with no waitlist. It also announced updates such as support for…

Leak of MSI UEFI signing keys stokes fears of “doomsday” supply chain attack

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) A ransomware intrusion on hardware manufacturer Micro-Star International, better known as MSI, is stoking concerns of devastating supply chain attacks that could inject malicious updates that have been signed…

AI gains “values” with Anthropic’s new Constitutional AI chatbot approach

Enlarge / Anthropic's Constitutional AI logo on a glowing orange background. (credit: Anthropic / Benj Edwards) On Tuesday, AI startup Anthropic detailed the specific principles of its "Constitutional AI" training approach that provides…

How one of Vladimir Putin’s most prized hacking units got pwned by the FBI

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) FBI officials on Tuesday dropped a major bombshell: After spending years monitoring exceptionally stealthy malware that one of the Kremlin’s most advanced hacker units had installed on hundreds of…

White House challenges hackers to break top AI models at DEF CON 31

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of the White House in front of a cybernetic background. (credit: Midjourney) On Thursday, the White House announced a surprising collaboration between top AI developers, including OpenAI, Google,…

Feds seize 13 more DDoS-for-hire platforms in ongoing international crackdown

Enlarge / A domain seizure notice from the Justice Department, showing the national seals of several other governments. The US Justice Department has sized the domains of 13 DDoS-for-hire services as part of…

Spotify ejects thousands of AI-made songs in purge of fake streams

Enlarge (credit: Thomas Trutschel via Getty) Spotify has removed tens of thousands of songs from artificial intelligence music start-up Boomy, ramping up policing of its platform amid complaints of fraud and clutter across…