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Go ahead and unplug this door device before reading. You’ll thank us later.

Enlarge / The Akuvox E11 (credit: Akuvox) The Akuvox E11 is billed as a video door phone, but it’s actually much more than that. The network-connected device opens building doors, provides live video…

Malware infecting widely used security appliance survives firmware updates

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Threat actors with a connection to the Chinese government are infecting a widely used security appliance from SonicWall with malware that remains active even after the device receives firmware…

Wikipedia + AI = truth? DuckDuckGo hopes so with new answerbot

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a cyborg duck. (credit: Ars Technica) Not to be left out of the rush to integrate generative AI into search, on Wednesday DuckDuckGo announced DuckAssist, an AI-powered…

Microsoft makes Outlook for Mac free, no Office or Microsoft 365 required [Updated]

Enlarge / The current Outlook for Mac email client. (credit: Microsoft) Update, 4:36pm: Microsoft has updated its post to indicate that the "ground up" redesign coming for the Mac version of Outlook will continue…

Google’s PaLM-E is a generalist robot brain that takes commands

Enlarge / A robotic arm controlled by PaLM-E reaches for a bag of chips in a demonstration video. (credit: Google Research) On Monday, a group of AI researchers from Google and the Technical…

Stealthy UEFI malware bypassing Secure Boot enabled by unpatchable Windows flaw

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Researchers on Wednesday announced a major cybersecurity find—the world’s first-known instance of real-world malware that can hijack a computer’s boot process even when Secure Boot and…

Twitter revenue, earnings reportedly fell 40% shortly after Musk buyout

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto ) Twitter's revenue and adjusted earnings reportedly fell about 40 percent year over year in December 2022 amid an advertiser exodus following Elon Musk's takeover. Twitter no…

Twitter API error broke the site today as Musk blames “brittle” platform

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto ) Twitter suffered an embarrassing technology failure today that temporarily broke links to outside websites and even to Twitter's own webpages. The problem lasted for about 45…

Microsoft aims to reduce “tedious” business tasks with new AI tools

Enlarge / An AI-generated illustration of a GPT-powered robot worker. (credit: Ars Technica) On Monday, Microsoft bundled ChatGPT-style AI technology into its Power Platform developer tool and Dynamics 365, Reuters reports. Affected tools…

Threat actors are using advanced malware to backdoor business-grade routers

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have uncovered advanced malware that’s turning business-grade routers into attacker-controlled listening posts that can sniff email and steal files in an ongoing campaign hitting North and South America…