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Hackers can read private AI-assistant chats even though they’re encrypted

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) AI assistants have been widely available for a little more than a year, and they already have access to our most private thoughts and business secrets.…

Member of LockBit ransomware group sentenced to 4 years in prison

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Charles O'Rear) A dual Canadian-Russian national has been sentenced to four years in prison for his role in infecting more than 1,000 victims with the LockBit ransomware and…

OpenAI CEO Altman wasn’t fired because of scary new tech, just internal politics

Enlarge / OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the OpenAI DevDay event on November 6, 2023, in San Francisco. (credit: Getty Images) On Friday afternoon Pacific Time, OpenAI announced the appointment of three…

Image-scraping Midjourney bans rival AI firm for scraping images

Enlarge / A burglar with a flashlight and papers in a business office—exactly like scraping files from Discord. (credit: Getty Images) On Wednesday, Midjourney banned all employees from image synthesis rival Stability AI…

Never-before-seen Linux malware gets installed using 1-day exploits

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have unearthed Linux malware that circulated in the wild for at least two years before being identified as a credential stealer that’s installed by the exploitation of recently…

Microsoft says Kremlin-backed hackers accessed its source and internal systems

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft said that Kremlin-backed hackers who breached its corporate network in January have expanded their access since then in follow-on attacks that are targeting customers and have compromised the…

Matrix multiplication breakthrough could lead to faster, more efficient AI models

Enlarge / When you do math on a computer, you fly through a numerical tunnel like this—figuratively, of course. (credit: Getty Images) Computer scientists have discovered a new way to multiply large matrices…

US gov’t announces arrest of former Google engineer for alleged AI trade secret theft

Enlarge / A Google sign stands in front of the building on the sidelines of the opening of the new Google Cloud data center in Hesse, Hanau, opened in October 2023. (credit: Getty…

Attack wrangles thousands of web users into a password-cracking botnet

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Attackers have transformed hundreds of hacked sites running WordPress software into command-and-control servers that force visitors’ browsers to perform password-cracking attacks. A web search for the JavaScript that performs…

OpenAI responds to Elon Musk lawsuit by clarifying its “open“ nature

Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Getty Images) On Tuesday, OpenAI published a blog post titled "OpenAI and Elon Musk" in response to a lawsuit Musk filed last week. The ChatGPT maker shared several…