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Deepfake Bruce Willis may be the next Hollywood star, and he’s OK with that

Enlarge / Deepfake Bruce Willis as he appeared in a 2021 commercial for Russian mobile company MegaFon. (credit: MegaFon) Bruce Willis has sold the "digital twin" rights to his likeness for commercial video…

High-severity Microsoft Exchange 0-day under attack threatens 220,000 servers

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft late Thursday confirmed the existence of two critical vulnerabilities in its Exchange application that have already compromised multiple servers and pose a serious risk to an estimated 220,000…

Never-before-seen malware has infected hundreds of Linux and Windows devices

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have revealed a never-before-seen piece of cross-platform malware that has infected a wide range of Linux and Windows devices, including small office routers, FreeBSD boxes, and large enterprise…

Numerous orgs hacked after installing weaponized open source apps

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers backed by the North Korean government are weaponizing well-known pieces of open source software in an ongoing campaign that has already succeeded in compromising "numerous" organizations in the…

Meta announces Make-A-Video, which generates video from text

Enlarge / Still image from an AI-generated video of a teddy bear painting a portrait. (credit: Meta) Today, Meta announced Make-A-Video, an AI-powered video generator that can create novel video content from text…

We interviewed Linux OS through an AI bot to discover its secrets

Enlarge / A world-exclusive interview between man and machine. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Millions of people use Linux every day, but we rarely stop to think about how the operating system…

Serious vulnerabilities in Matrix’s end-to-end encryption have been patched

Enlarge (credit: matrix.org) Developers of the open source Matrix messenger protocol released an update on Wednesday to fix critical end-to-end encryption vulnerabilities that subvert the confidentiality and authentication guarantees that have been key…

DALL-E image generator is now open to everyone

Enlarge / An artwork created with OpenAI's DALL-E image generator. (credit: OpenAI) If you've been itching to try OpenAI's image synthesis tool but have been stymied by the lack of an invitation, now's…

Google Fiber touts 20Gbps download speed in test, promises eventual 100Gbps

Enlarge / Illustration of fiber-optic cables. (credit: Getty Images | Tetra Images) Google Fiber is touting a test that delivered 20Gbps download speeds to a house in Kansas City, calling it a milestone…

Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement lacks crosswalks, checkboxes, Google

Enlarge / CAPTCHAs are meant to prevent these kinds of browsing scenarios, not train us all to better recognize vehicles and infrastructure in grainy photos. (credit: Getty Images) Cloudflare has recently made an…