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OpenAI plans tectonic shift from nonprofit to for-profit, giving Altman equity

On Wednesday, Reuters reported that OpenAI is working on a plan to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation, moving away from control by its nonprofit board. The shift marks a…

Meta pays the price for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext

Officials in Ireland have fined Meta $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext and making them broadly available to company employees. Meta disclosed the lapse in early 2019.…

Man tricks OpenAI’s voice bot into duet of The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby”

OpenAI's new Advanced Voice Mode (AVM) of its ChatGPT AI assistant rolled out to subscribers on Tuesday, and people are already finding novel ways to use it, even against OpenAI's wishes. On Thursday,…

Microsoft details security/privacy overhaul for Windows Recall ahead of relaunch

Microsoft is having another whack at its controversial Recall feature for Copilot+ Windows PCs, after the original version crashed and burned amid scrutiny from security researchers and testers over the summer. The former…

Ars in San Jose recap: Infrastructure, sustainability, AI, cocktails

Last week, Ars Technica Editor-in-Chief Ken Fisher and I made the westerly trek to sunny San Jose, California, to kick off an event titled "Beyond the Buzz: An Infrastructure Future with GenAI and…

Systems used by courts and governments across the US riddled with vulnerabilities

Public records systems that courts and governments rely on to manage voter registrations and legal filings have been riddled with vulnerabilities that made it possible for attackers to falsify registration databases and add,…

Meta’s new “Movie Gen” AI system can deepfake video from a single photo

On Friday, Meta announced a preview of Movie Gen, a new suite of AI models designed to create and manipulate video, audio, and images, including creating a realistic video from a single photo…

Thousands of Linux systems infected by stealthy malware since 2021

Thousands of machines running Linux have been infected by a malware strain that’s notable for its stealth, the number of misconfigurations it can exploit, and the breadth of malicious activities it can perform,…

Microsoft’s new “Copilot Vision” AI experiment can see what you browse

On Monday, Microsoft unveiled updates to its consumer AI assistant Copilot, introducing two new experimental features for a limited group of $20/month Copilot Pro subscribers: Copilot Labs and Copilot Vision. Labs integrates OpenAI's…