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Generative AI set to affect 300 million jobs across major economies

Enlarge (credit: Thomas Barwick via Getty) The latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence could lead to the automation of a quarter of the work done in the US and eurozone, according to research by…

Ransomware crooks are exploiting IBM file exchange bug with a 9.8 severity

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Threat actors are exploiting a critical vulnerability in an IBM file-exchange application in hacks that install ransomware on servers, security researchers have warned. The IBM Aspera Faspex is a…

Android app from China executed 0-day exploit on millions of devices

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Android apps digitally signed by China’s third-biggest e-commerce company exploited a zero-day vulnerability that allowed them to surreptitiously take control of millions of end-user devices to steal personal data…

Twitter source code was leaked on GitHub shortly after Musk’s layoff spree

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Future Publishing) Portions of Twitter's source code recently appeared on GitHub, and Twitter is trying to force GitHub to identify the user or users who posted the code.…

Hobbyist builds ChatGPT client for MS-DOS

Enlarge / A photo of an IBM PC 5155 portable computer running a ChatGPT client written by Yeo Kheng Meng. (credit: Yeo Kheng Meng) On Sunday, Singapore-based retrocomputing enthusiast Yeo Kheng Meng released…

Biden’s executive order limits government’s use of commercial spyware

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) President Joe Biden on Monday signed an executive order barring many uses by the federal government of commercial spyware, which has been increasingly used by other countries in recent…

Immaculate AI images of Pope Francis trick the masses

Enlarge / An AI-generated photo of Pope Francis wearing a puffy white coat that went viral on social media. (credit: @skyferrori on Twitter) Over the weekend, an AI-generated image of Pope Francis wearing…

Huge collection of vintage Apple computers goes to auction next week

Enlarge / I mostly recognize this early laptop from its resemblance to a similar-looking computer in the film 2010. It's up for auction along with hundreds of other old Apple computers. (credit: Julien's…

ChatGPT gets “eyes and ears” with plugins that can interface AI with the world

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) On Thursday, OpenAI announced a plugin system for its ChatGPT AI assistant. The plugins give ChatGPT the ability to interact with the wider world through the…

“Acropalypse” Android screenshot bug turns into a 0-day Windows vulnerability

Enlarge / Windows 10 and 11 have their own version of the Acropalypse screenshot editing bug. (credit: acropalypse.app/Andrew Cunningham) Earlier this week, programmer and "accidental security researcher" Simon Aarons disclosed a bug in…