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Valve waited 15 months to patch high-severity flaw. A hacker pounced

(credit: Valve) Researchers have unearthed four game modes that could successfully exploit a critical vulnerability that remained unpatched in the popular Dota 2 video game for 15 months after a fix had become…

ChatGPT is a data privacy nightmare, and we ought to be concerned

Enlarge ChatGPT has taken the world by storm. Within two months of its release it reached 100 million active users, making it the fastest-growing consumer application ever launched. Users are attracted to the…

Mysterious leak of Booking.com reservation data is being used to scam customers

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) For almost five years, Booking.com customers have been on the receiving end of a continuous series of scams that clearly demonstrate that criminals have obtained travel plans and other…

Hackers are selling a service that bypasses ChatGPT restrictions on malware

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Carol Yepes) Hackers have devised a way to bypass ChatGPT’s restrictions and are using it to sell services that allow people to create malware and phishing emails, researchers…

Grim Reaper starts coming for fax machines, pagers, landlines

Enlarge (credit: Getty) The end is near for a bunch of old telecommunications tech in China. On Monday, the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced that as of March 1,…

In Paris demo, Google scrambles to counter ChatGPT but ends up embarrassing itself

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) On Wednesday, Google held a highly anticipated press conference from Paris that did not deliver the decisive move against ChatGPT and the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership that many pundits expected. Instead,…

Google and Mozilla are working on iOS browsers that break current App Store rules

Enlarge / Mozilla's current logo for Firefox. (credit: Mozilla) Companies like Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft have versions of their web browsers on Apple's iOS and iPadOS App Stores, but these versions come with…

Microsoft announces AI-powered Bing search and Edge browser

Enlarge / Yusuf Mehdi, vice president of Microsoft's modern life and devices group, speaks during an event at the company's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on Tuesday. (credit: Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Fresh…

Big Tech companies use cloud computing arms to pursue alliances with AI groups

Enlarge (credit: zhengshun tang via Getty Images) Big Tech companies are aggressively pursuing investments and alliances with artificial intelligence startups through their cloud computing arms, raising regulatory questions over their role as both…

Endless Seinfeld episode grinds to a halt after AI comic violates Twitch guidelines

Enlarge / A screenshot of Nothing, Forever showing faux-Seinfeld character Larry Feinberg performing a stand-up act. (credit: Nothing Forever) Since December 14, a Twitch channel called Nothing, Forever has been streaming a live,…