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Two core Unix-like utilities, sudo and su, are getting rewrites in Rust

<img alt="Invoking another user's privileges to execute a command." src="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/GettyImages-958252348-980x653.jpg">Invoking another user's privileges to execute a command. (credit: Cavan Images/Getty)Two of the most fundamental tools of the modern Unix-like command line, sudo and…

Warning of AI’s danger, pioneer Geoffrey Hinton quits Google to speak freely

Enlarge / Geoffrey Hinton, chief scientific adviser at the Vector Institute, speaks during The International Economic Forum of the Americas (IEFA) Toronto Global Forum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019.…

Apple uses iOS and macOS Rapid Security Response feature for the first time

Enlarge / Macs running macOS Ventura. (credit: Apple) When it announced iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura at its Worldwide Developers Conference last summer, one of the features Apple introduced was something…

Stone-hearted researchers gleefully push over adorable soccer-playing robots

Enlarge / In a still from a DeepMind demo video, a researcher pushes a small humanoid robot to the ground. (credit: DeepMind) On Wednesday, researchers from DeepMind released a paper ostensibly about using…

T-Mobile discloses 2nd data breach of 2023, this one leaking account PINs and more

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) T-Mobile on Monday said it experienced a hack that exposed account PINs and other customer data in the company's second network intrusion this year and the ninth…

Those scary warnings of juice jacking in airports and hotels? They’re nonsense

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Federal authorities, tech pundits, and news outlets want you to be on the lookout for a scary cyberattack that can hack your phone when you do…

Nuke-launching AI would be illegal under proposed US law

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a nuclear mushroom cloud. (credit: Midjourney) On Wednesday, US Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Representatives Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), Don Beyer (D-Va.), and Ken Buck (R-Colo.) announced bipartisan…

Intel loses $2.8 billion in another not-great quarter, down 36% year over year

Enlarge / Intel's flagship desktop CPU, the Core i9-13900K. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Intel has released its financial results for the first quarter of 2023, and the numbers aren't good: The company brought in…

Sensitive data is being leaked from servers running Salesforce software

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Servers running software sold by Salesforce are leaking sensitive data managed by government agencies, banks, and other organizations, according to a post published Friday by KrebsOnSecurity. At least five…

ChatGPT now allows disabling chat history, declining training, and exporting data

Enlarge (credit: OpenAI / Stable Diffusion) On Tuesday, OpenAI announced new controls for ChatGPT users that allow them to turn off chat history, simultaneously opting out of providing that conversation history as data…