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Still using authenticators for MFA? Software for sale can hack you anyway

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft on Tuesday profiled software for sale in online forums that makes it easy for criminals to deploy phishing campaigns that successfully compromise accounts, even when they’re protected by…

Microsoft Teams is adding 3D avatars for people who want to turn their webcams off

Enlarge / Customizing a Mesh for Teams avatar. Like many people on real-life video calls, the avatars only feature business attire from the waist up. (credit: Microsoft) There are plenty of reasons to…

GM plans to let you talk to your car with ChatGPT, Knight Rider-style

Enlarge / The 1982 TV series Knight Rider featured a car called KITT that a character played by David Hasselhoff (pictured) could talk to. (credit: Getty Images) In the 1982 TV series Knight…

Botnet that knows your name and quotes your email is back with new tricks

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Widely regarded as one of the Internet’s top threats, the Emotet botnet has returned after a months-long hiatus—and it has some new tricks. Last week, Emotet appeared for the…

You can now run a GPT-3 level AI model on your laptop, phone, and Raspberry Pi

Enlarge (credit: Ars Technica) Things are moving at lightning speed in AI Land. On Friday, a software developer named Georgi Gerganov created a tool called "llama.cpp" that can run Meta's new GPT-3-class AI…

Get ready to meet the Chat GPT clones

Enlarge (credit: Edward Olive/Getty Images) ChatGPT might well be the most famous, and potentially valuable, algorithm of the moment, but the artificial intelligence techniques used by OpenAI to provide its smarts are neither…

Apple, Atari, and Commodore, oh my! Explore a deluxe home vintage computer den

Enlarge / A view of Brian Green's home computer lab, full of vintage treasures. (credit: Brian Green) In a world where millions of people carry a 1990s-grade supercomputer in their pockets, it's fun…

cURL, the omnipresent data tool, is getting a 25th birthday party this month

Enlarge / Curling, like the cURL project, requires precision and is underappreciated. When you first start messing with the command line, it can feel like there's an impermeable wall between the local space…

North Korean hackers target security researchers with a new backdoor

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Threat actors connected to the North Korean government have been targeting security researchers in a hacking campaign that uses new techniques and malware in hopes of gaining a foothold…

Discord hops the generative AI train with ChatGPT-style tools

Enlarge (credit: Discord) Joining a recent parade of companies adopting generative AI technology, Discord announced on Thursday that it is rolling out a suite of AI-powered features, such as a ChatGPT-style chatbot, an…