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Hurricane Ian destroyed their homes. Algorithms sent them money

Enlarge (credit: Joe Raedle / Getty) When Hurricane Ian churned over Florida in late September, it left a trail of destruction from high winds and flooding. But a week after the storm passed,…

VirtualBox 7.0 adds first ARM Mac client, full encryption, Windows 11 TPM

Enlarge / Unsurprisingly, getting a standard amd64-based Linux image installed as a virtual machine on an ARM-based Mac results in sadness. (credit: Kevin Purdy) Nearly four years after its last major release, VirtualBox…

Fake Joe Rogan interviews fake Steve Jobs in an AI-powered podcast

Enlarge / Which Steve Jobs is the real one? (credit: Ars Technica) A voice synthesis company based in Dubai published a fictional podcast interview between Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs using realistic voices…

The fight to cut off the crypto funding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Enlarge As Russian troops have flooded into Ukraine’s borders for the past eight months—and with an ongoing mobilization of hundreds of thousands more underway—the Western world has taken drastic measures to cut the…

Binance blockchain suffers $570 million hack

Enlarge / CHINA - 2022/07/25: In this photo illustration, the cryptocurrency exchange trading platform Binance logo is displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) (credit: SOPA…

Unpatched Zimbra flaw under attack is letting hackers backdoor servers

Enlarge (credit: Jeremy Brooks / Flickr) An unpatched code-execution vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration software is under active exploitation by attackers using the attacks to backdoor servers. The attacks began no later than…

After 23 years, Weather Channel’s iconic computerized channel is shutting down

Enlarge / An on-air capture of Weatherscan in 2020. Weatherscan shows 24/7 weather forecasts controlled by computer. (credit: TWC Archive) In the early 2000s, Americans who wanted to catch the local weather forecast…

Google’s newest AI generator creates HD video from text prompts

Still from "A teddy bear washing dishes," as generated by Google Imagen Video. (credit: Google) Today, Google announced the development of Imagen Video, a text-to-video AI mode capable of producing 1280×768 videos at…

No fix in sight for mile-wide loophole plaguing a key Windows defense for years

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Over the past 15 years, Microsoft has made huge progress fortifying the Windows kernel, the core of the OS that hackers must control to successfully take control of a…

IoT harmony? What Matter and Thread really mean for your smart home

Enlarge / Matter promises to make smart home devices work with any control system you want to use, securely. This marketing image also seems to promise an intriguing future involving smart mid-century modern…