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“Disabling cyberattacks” are hitting critical US water systems, White House warns

Enlarge / Aerial view of a sewage treatment plant. (credit: Getty Images) The Biden administration on Tuesday warned the nation’s governors that drinking water and wastewater utilities in their states are facing “disabling…

Elon Musk’s xAI releases Grok source and weights, taunting OpenAI

Enlarge / An AI-generated image released by xAI during the open-weights launch of Grok-1. (credit: xAI) On Sunday, Elon Musk's AI firm xAI released the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1,…

Dell tells remote workers that they won’t be eligible for promotion

Enlarge (credit: Getty) Starting in May, Dell employees who are fully remote will not be eligible for promotion, Business Insider (BI) reported Saturday. The upcoming policy update represents a dramatic reversal from Dell's…

Fujitsu says it found malware on its corporate network, warns of possible data breach

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Japan-based IT behemoth Fujitsu said it has discovered malware on its corporate network that may have allowed the people responsible to steal personal information from customers or other parties.…

Apple may hire Google to power new iPhone AI features using Gemini—report

Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards) On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Apple is in talks to license Google's Gemini model to power AI features like Siri in a future iPhone software update coming later in…

After 114 days of change, Broadcom CEO acknowledges VMware-related “unease”

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Justin Sullivan ) Broadcom CEO and President Hock Tan has acknowledged the discomfort VMware customers and partners have experienced after the sweeping changes that Broadcom has instituted since…

Banish OEM self-signed certs forever and roll your own private LetsEncrypt

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Previously, on "Weekend Projects for Homelab Admins With Control Issues," we created our own dynamically updating DNS and DHCP setup with bind and dhcpd. We laughed.…

Cut submarine cables cause web outages across Africa; 6 countries still affected

Enlarge / View of Le Plateau and Ebrie Lagoon from the top of the Cathedrale St-Paul in Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), one of the affected countries. (credit: Getty) Thirteen countries across Africa experienced…

Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) It seems like AI large language models (LLMs) are everywhere these days due to the rise of ChatGPT. Now, a software developer named Ishan Anand has managed to cram…

ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots

Enlarge / Some ASCII art of our favorite visual cliche for a hacker. (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have discovered a new way to hack AI assistants that uses a surprisingly old-school method: ASCII…