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Ars Archivum: Top cloud backup services worth your money

We tested iDrive with its free Basic tier, which offers 10GB of storage. [credit: Jim Salter ] If there's one rule of computing every system administrator preaches, it's to always back up important…

Hackers are mass infecting servers worldwide by exploiting a patched hole

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) An explosion of cyberattacks is infecting servers around the world with crippling ransomware by exploiting a vulnerability that was patched two years ago, it was widely reported on Monday.…

Microsoft alleges attacks on French magazine came from Iranian-backed group

Enlarge Microsoft said on Friday that an Iranian nation-state group already sanctioned by the US government was behind an attack last month that targeted the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo and thousands of…

Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Searching Google for downloads of popular software has always come with risks, but over the past few months, it has been downright dangerous, according to researchers and a pseudorandom…

The newest feature in the Microsoft Store is more ads

Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) If your main problem with the Microsoft Store is that you get too many relevant results when you search for apps, good news: Microsoft is officially launching Microsoft Store Ads,…

ChatGPT sets record for fastest-growing user base in history, report says

Enlarge / A realistic artist's depiction of an encounter with ChatGPT Plus. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica / OpenAI) On Wednesday, Reuters reported that AI bot ChatGPT reached an estimated 100 million…

Pig-butchering scam apps sneak into Apple’s App Store and Google Play

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) In the past year, a new term has arisen to describe an online scam raking in millions, if not billions, of dollars per year. It’s called…

Paper: Stable Diffusion “memorizes” some images, sparking privacy concerns

Enlarge / An image from Stable Diffusion’s training set compared (left) to a similar Stable Diffusion generation (right) when prompted with "Ann Graham Lotz." (credit: Carlini et al., 2023) On Monday, a group…

New data illustrates time’s effect on hard drive failure rates

Enlarge (credit: Getty) SSDs have usurped hard disk drives (HDDs) when it comes to performance, but whether building a network-attached storage (NAS) or having high-capacity needs on a budget, plenty of people still…

Netflix stirs fears by using AI-assisted background art in short anime film

Enlarge / A still image from the short film Dog and Boy,, which uses image synthesis to help generate background artwork. (credit: Netflix) Over the past year, generative AI has kicked off a…