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FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist

Enlarge (credit: anilyanik via Getty Images) On Wednesday, federal prosecutors charged a North Carolina musician with defrauding streaming services of $10 million through an elaborate scheme involving AI, as reported by The New…

AT&T sues Broadcom for refusing to renew perpetual license support

Enlarge AT&T filed a lawsuit against Broadcom on August 29 accusing it of seeking to “retroactively change existing VMware contracts to match its new corporate strategy.” The lawsuit, spotted by Channel Futures, concerns…

US charges Russian military officers for unleashing wiper malware on Ukraine

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Federal prosecutors on Thursday unsealed an indictment charging six Russian nationals with conspiracy to hack into the computer networks of the Ukrainian government and its allies and steal or…

Sutskever strikes AI gold with billion-dollar backing for superintelligent AI

Enlarge / Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI Chief Scientist, speaks at Tel Aviv University on June 5, 2023. (credit: JACK GUEZ via Getty Images) On Wednesday, Reuters reported that Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a new AI…

Zyxel warns of vulnerabilities in a wide range of its products

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Networking hardware-maker Zyxel is warning of nearly a dozen vulnerabilities in a wide array of its products. If left unpatched, some of them could enable the complete takeover of…

Generative AI backlash hits annual writing event, prompting resignations

Enlarge (credit: Jorg Greuel via Getty Images) Over the weekend, the nonprofit National Novel Writing Month organization (NaNoWriMo) published an FAQ outlining its position on AI, calling categorical rejection of AI writing technology…

YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel

Enlarge (credit: Yubico) The YubiKey 5, the most widely used hardware token for two-factor authentication based on the FIDO standard, contains a cryptographic flaw that makes the finger-size device vulnerable to cloning when…

Rust in Linux lead retires rather than deal with more “nontechnical nonsense”

Enlarge / Rust never sleeps. But Rust, the programming language, can be held at bay if enough kernel programmers aren't interested in seeing it implemented. (credit: Getty Images) The Linux kernel is not…

Oprah’s upcoming AI television special sparks outrage among tech critics

Enlarge / An ABC handout promotional image for "AI and the Future of Us: An Oprah Winfrey Special." (credit: ABC) On Thursday, ABC announced an upcoming TV special titled, "AI and the Future…

ChatGPT hits 200 million active weekly users, but how many will admit using it?

Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Getty Images) On Thursday, OpenAI said that ChatGPT has attracted over 200 million weekly active users, according to a report from Axios, doubling the AI assistant's user base…