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“Please slow down”—The 7 biggest AI stories of 2022

Enlarge / AI image synthesis advances in 2022 have made images like this one possible, which was created using Stable Diffusion, enhanced with GFPGAN, expanded with DALL-E, and then manually composited together. (credit:…

Meta to pay $725 million to settle Cambridge Analytica lawsuit

Enlarge (credit: Daniel Leal / Getty Images) Meta, the parent company of Facebook, will pay $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in 2018. The lawsuit came in the wake of Facebook's…

Compromised dispatch system helped move taxis to front of the line

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Two men have been charged with participating in a scheme that raked in big money by using a compromised dispatch system at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport…

LastPass users: Your info and password vault data are now in hackers’ hands

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) LastPass, one of the leading password managers, said that hackers obtained a wealth of personal information belonging to its customers as well as encrypted and cryptographically hashed passwords and…

Eufy publicly acknowledges some parts of its “No clouds” controversy

Enlarge / Eufy's security arm has publicly addressed some of the most important claims about the company's local-focused systems, but those who bought into the "no clouds" claims may not be fully assured.…

Okta says source code for Workforce Identity Cloud service was copied

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Single sign-on provider Okta said on Wednesday that software code for its Okta Workforce Identity Cloud service was copied after intruders gained access to the company’s private repository on…

Raspberry Pi 5 not arriving in 2023 as company hopes for a “recovery year”

Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton said in a recent interview that next year is a time for Raspberry Pi, and the whole industry, to recover from the supply chain problems of the past…

Kremlin-backed hackers targeted a “large” petroleum refinery in a NATO nation

Enlarge / Fawley Oil Refinery on a bright day. (credit: Getty Images) One of the Kremlin’s most active hacking groups targeting Ukraine recently tried to hack a large petroleum refining company located in…

Man simulates time travel thanks to Stable Diffusion image synthesis

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a fictional time traveler named Stelfie during the construction of the pyramids. (credit: StelfieTT) Throughout December, a social media user known as Stelfie the Time Traveller has…

Critical Windows code-execution vulnerability went undetected until now

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers recently discovered a Windows code-execution vulnerability that has the potential to rival EternalBlue, the name of a different Windows security flaw used to detonate WannaCry, the ransomware that…