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Big ambitions, tiny LEDs: Apple said to be developing Micro LED displays for 2024

Enlarge / This is the front of the Apple Watch Ultra. (credit: Samuel Axon) We learned earlier this week that Apple is trying to make its own in-house Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chips, and…

Hackers discover that vulnerabilities are rife in the auto industry

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) If you purchased a new car in the past few years, chances are good that it contains at least one embedded modem, which it uses to…

Microsoft’s new AI can simulate anyone’s voice with 3 seconds of audio

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a person's silhouette. (credit: Ars Technica) On Thursday, Microsoft researchers announced a new text-to-speech AI model called VALL-E that can closely simulate a person's voice when given…

Messenger billed as better than Signal is riddled with vulnerabilities

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Academic researchers have discovered serious vulnerabilities in the core of Threema, an instant messenger that its Switzerland-based developer says provides a level of security and privacy “no other chat…

ChatGPT is enabling script kiddies to write functional malware

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Since its beta launch in November, AI chatbot ChatGPT has been used for a wide range of tasks, including writing poetry, technical papers, novels, and essays, planning parties, and…

What Twitter’s 200 million email leak really means

Enlarge (credit: Rosie Struve; Getty Images) After reports at the end of 2022 that hackers were selling data stolen from 400 million Twitter users, researchers now say that a widely circulated trove of…

First LastPass, now Slack and CircleCI. The hacks go on (and will likely worsen)

Enlarge In the past 24 hours, the world has learned of serious breaches hitting chat service Slack and software testing and delivery company CircleCI, though giving the companies' opaque wording—“security issue” and “security…

NYC schools block ChatGPT, fearing negative impact on learning

Enlarge / AI-generated image of a kid using a computer. (credit: Ars Technica) New York City Public Schools have blocked access to OpenAI's ChatGPT AI model on its network and devices, reports educational…

Hundreds of WordPress sites infected by recently discovered backdoor

Enlarge Malware that exploits unpatched vulnerabilities in 30 different WordPress plugins has infected hundreds if not thousands of sites and may have been in active use for years, according to a writeup published…

Key bitcoin developer calls on FBI to recover $3.6M in digital coin

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) One of the prominent developers behind the bitcoin blockchain said he has asked the FBI to assist him in recovering $3.6 million worth of the digital coin that was…