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Anthropic introduces Claude 3.5 Sonnet, matching GPT-4o on benchmarks

Enlarge (credit: Anthropic / Benj Edwards) On Thursday, Anthropic announced Claude 3.5 Sonnet, its latest AI language model and the first in a new series of "3.5" models that build upon Claude 3,…

Softbank plans to cancel out angry customer voices using AI

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards) Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank recently announced that it has been developing "emotion-canceling" technology powered by AI that will alter the voices of angry customers to sound…

Men plead guilty to aggravated ID theft after pilfering police database

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Two men have pleaded guilty to charges of computer intrusion and aggravated identity theft tied to their theft of records from a law enforcement database for use in doxxing…

Runway’s latest AI video generator brings giant cotton candy monsters to life

Enlarge / Screen capture of a Runway Gen-3 Alpha video generated with the prompt "A giant humanoid, made of fluffy blue cotton candy, stomping on the ground, and roaring to the sky, clear…

High-severity vulnerabilities affect a wide range of Asus router models

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hardware manufacturer Asus has released updates patching multiple critical vulnerabilities that allow hackers to remotely take control of a range of router models with no authentication or interaction required…

Proton is taking its privacy-first apps to a nonprofit foundation model

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Proton, the secure-minded email and productivity suite, is becoming a nonprofit foundation, but it doesn't want you to think about it in the way you think about other notable…

Retired engineer discovers 55-year-old bug in Lunar Lander computer game code

Enlarge / Illustration of the Apollo lunar lander Eagle over the Moon. (credit: Getty Images) On Friday, a retired software engineer named Martin C. Martin announced that he recently discovered a bug in…

Ransomware attackers quickly weaponize PHP vulnerability with 9.8 severity rating

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Ransomware criminals have quickly weaponized an easy-to-exploit vulnerability in the PHP programming language that executes malicious code on web servers, security researchers said. As of Thursday, Internet scans performed…

New Stable Diffusion 3 release excels at AI-generated body horror

Enlarge / An AI-generated image created using Stable Diffusion 3 of a girl lying in the grass. (credit: HorneyMetalBeing) On Wednesday, Stability AI released weights for Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, an AI image-synthesis…

One of the major sellers of detailed driver behavioral data is shutting down

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) One of the major data brokers engaged in the deeply alienating practice of selling detailed driver behavior data to insurers has shut down that business. Verisk, which had collected…