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VMware sandbox escape bugs are so critical, patches are released for end-of-life products

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) VMware is urging customers to patch critical vulnerabilities that make it possible for hackers to break out of sandbox and hypervisor protections in all versions, including out-of-support ones, of…

Some teachers are now using ChatGPT to grade papers

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) In a notable shift toward sanctioned use of AI in schools, some educators in grades 3–12 are now using a ChatGPT-powered grading tool called Writable, reports Axios. The tool,…

After collecting $22 million, AlphV ransomware group stages FBI takedown

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The ransomware group responsible for hamstringing the prescription drug market for two weeks has suddenly gone dark, just days after receiving a $22 million payment and standing accused of…

Anthropic’s Claude 3 causes stir by seeming to realize when it was being tested

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Monday, Anthropic prompt engineer Alex Albert caused a small stir in the AI community when he tweeted about a scenario related to Claude 3 Opus, the largest version…

The AI wars heat up with Claude 3, claimed to have “near-human” abilities

Enlarge / The Anthropic Claude 3 logo. (credit: Anthropic) On Monday, Anthropic released Claude 3, a family of three AI language models similar to those that power ChatGPT. Anthropic claims the models set…

Hackers exploited Windows 0-day for 6 months after Microsoft knew of it

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers backed by the North Korean government gained a major win when Microsoft left a Windows zero-day unpatched for six months after learning it was under active exploitation. Even…

Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, hosted code that backdoored user devices

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Code uploaded to AI developer platform Hugging Face covertly installed backdoors and other types of malware on end-user machines, researchers from security firm JFrog said Thursday in a report…

US prescription market hamstrung for 9 days (so far) by ransomware attack

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Nine days after a Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate took down the biggest US health care payment processor, pharmacies, health care providers, and patients were still scrambling to fill prescriptions for…

HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Any Linux user trying to send the highest-resolution images to a display at the fastest frame rate is out of luck for the foreseeable future, at least when it…

Self-pay gas station pumps break across NZ as software can’t handle Leap Day

Enlarge / A gas station displays an out-of-order sign on February 29, 2024 in New Zealand. (credit: Mark Coote/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Today is Leap Day, meaning that for the first time in…