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$35M fine for Morgan Stanley after unencrypted, unwiped hard drives are auctioned

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Morgan Stanley on Tuesday agreed to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a $35 million penalty for data security lapses that included unencrypted hard drives from decommissioned data…

Artist finds private medical record photos in popular AI training data set

Enlarge / Censored medical images found in the LAION-5B data set used to train AI. The black bars and distortion have been added. (credit: Ars Technica) Late last week, a California-based AI artist who…

The record-setting DDoSes keep coming, with no end in sight

Enlarge / Drowning in a sea of data. (credit: Getty Images) The record-vying distributed denial-of-service attacks keep coming, with two mitigation services reporting they encountered some of the biggest data bombardments ever by…

Deepfake audio has a tell and researchers can spot it

Enlarge (credit: Knk Phl Prasan Kha Phibuly / EyeEm via Getty) Imagine the following scenario. A phone rings. An office worker answers it and hears his boss, in a panic, tell him that…

Comcast promises huge boost to cable upload speeds by end of 2023

Enlarge / Comcast's xFi Advanced Gateway. (credit: Getty Images | Jeff Fusco ) Comcast announced today that it has tested "the final technical component necessary to deliver multi-gigabit symmetrical speeds" and said it's…

Nvidia’s powerful H100 GPU will ship in October

Enlarge / A press handout showing the Nvidia H100 Hopper GPU and its applications. (credit: Nvidia) At today's GTC conference keynote, Nvidia announced that its H100 Tensor Core GPU is in full production…

Kiwi Farms has been breached; assume passwords and emails have been leaked

(credit: xxdigipxx) The head of Kiwi Farms, the Internet forum best known for organizing harassment campaigns against trans and non-binary people, said the site experienced a breach that allowed hackers to access his…

AI software helps bust image fraud in academic papers

Enlarge / Colorized photo image of a Western blot test result. (credit: Getty Images) Scientific publishers such as the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and Taylor & Francis have begun attempting to…

Have AI image generators assimilated your art? New tool lets you check

Enlarge / An image of the "Have I Been Trained?" website featuring a search for one of its creators, Holly Herndon. (credit: Holly Herndon) In response to controversy over image synthesis models learning…

Uber was breached to its core, purportedly by an 18-year-old. Here’s what’s known

Enlarge / The Uber ride-sharing app is seen on a mobile phone. (credit: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Uber employees on Thursday discovered that huge swaths of their internal network had been accessed…