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LockBit ransomware suspect nabbed in Canada, faces charges in the US

Enlarge (credit: manley099) Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged a dual Russian and Canadian national for his alleged participation in a global campaign to spread ransomware known as LockBit. Mikhail Vasiliev, 33, of Bradford,…

Stable Diffusion in your pocket? “Draw Things” brings AI images to iPhone

Enlarge / Generating AI images using "Draw Things" on the iPhone. (credit: Benj Edwards / Apple) On Wednesday, a San Francisco-based developer named Liu Liu released Draw Things: AI Generation, a free app…

A search bar is among the Task Manager improvements in new Windows 11 build

Enlarge / Microsoft is testing a search bar for Windows 11's new Task Manager. (credit: Microsoft) One of the Windows 11 22H2 update's improvements was a redesigned Task Manager with a reorganized user…

Microsoft links Russia’s military to cyberattacks in Poland and Ukraine

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft on Thursday fingered Russia’s military intelligence arm as the likely culprit behind ransomware attacks last month that targeted Polish and Ukrainian transportation and logistics organizations. If the assessment…

The sign-in menu is the latest frontier for Microsoft ads in Windows 11

Microsoft Account sign-up prompts, now in the sign-in menu. (credit: @thebookisclosed on Twitter) Microsoft is always adding new stuff to Windows 11, but some of those changes are more positive than others. Case…

IBM pushes qubit count over 400 with new processor

Enlarge (credit: IBM) Today, IBM announced the latest generation of its family of avian-themed quantum processors, the Osprey. With more than three times the qubit count of its previous-generation Eagle processor, Osprey is…

Lenovo driver goof poses security risk for users of 25 notebook models

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) More than two dozen Lenovo notebook models are vulnerable to malicious hacks that disable the UEFI secure boot process and then run unsigned UEFI apps or load bootloaders that…

“Too easy“—Midjourney tests dramatic new version of its AI image generator

Enlarge / Eight images we generated with the alpha version of Midjourney v4. (credit: Ars Technica) On Saturday, AI image service Midjourney began alpha testing version 4 ("v4") of its text-to-image synthesis model,…

Starlink announces 1TB monthly cap, users who go over will get slower speeds

Enlarge / The new version of Dishy McFlatface. (credit: Starlink) Starlink is imposing new data-usage limits on its Internet customers, slowing speeds after a customer uses 1TB in any given month unless they…

Redditor discovers legendary 1956 computer in grandparents’ basement

Enlarge / The LGP-30 computer, from 1956, that a Redditor found in a basement. (credit: c-wizz) On Monday, a German Redditor named c-wizz announced that they had found a very rare 66-year-old Librascope…