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Rite Aid says breach exposes sensitive details of 2.2 million customers

Enlarge / Rite Aid logo displayed at one of its stores. (credit: Getty Images) Rite Aid, the third biggest US drug store chain, said that more than 2.2 million of its customers have…

Here’s how carefully concealed backdoor in fake AWS files escaped mainstream notice

Enlarge (credit: BeeBright / Getty Images / iStockphoto) Researchers have determined that two fake AWS packages downloaded hundreds of times from the open source NPM JavaScript repository contained carefully concealed code that backdoored…

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott thinks LLM “scaling laws” will hold despite criticism

Enlarge / Kevin Scott, CTO and EVP of AI at Microsoft speaks onstage during Vox Media's 2023 Code Conference at The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel on September 27, 2023 in Dana Point, California. (credit:…

OpenAI reportedly nears breakthrough with “reasoning” AI, reveals progress framework

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) OpenAI recently unveiled a five-tier system to gauge its advancement toward developing artificial general intelligence (AGI), according to an OpenAI spokesperson who spoke with Bloomberg. The company shared this…

Google makes it easier for users to switch on advanced account protection

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Google is making it easier for people to lock down their accounts with strong multifactor authentication by adding the option to store secure cryptographic keys in the form of…

Intuit’s AI gamble: Mass layoff of 1,800 paired with hiring spree

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Wednesday, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi announced in a letter to the company that it would be laying off 1,800 employees—about 10 percent of its workforce of around 18,000—while…

Exim vulnerability affecting 1.5 million servers lets attackers attach malicious files

Enlarge More than 1.5 million email servers are vulnerable to attacks that can deliver executable attachments to user accounts, security researchers said. The servers run versions of the Exim mail transfer agent that…

First “Miss AI” contest sparks ire for pushing unrealistic beauty standards

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of "Miss AI" award winner "Kenza Layli" (left) and an unidentified AI-generated woman beside her. (credit: Kenza.Layli / Instagram) An influencer platform called Fanvue recently announced the results…

How disinformation from a Russian AI spam farm ended up on top of Google search results

Enlarge / Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to the media at the 2024 Ukraine Recovery Conference on June 11, 2024 in Berlin. (credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images) In the space of 24 hours, a…

OpenAI board shake-up: Microsoft out, Apple backs away amid AI partnership scrutiny

Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / OpenAI / Microsoft) Microsoft has withdrawn from its non-voting observer role on OpenAI's board, while Apple has opted not to take a similar position, reports Axios and Financial…