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Raspberry Pi is planning a London IPO, but its CEO expects “no change” in focus

Enlarge / Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing! (credit: Andrew Cunningham) The business arm of…

OpenAI and Common Sense Media partner to protect teens from AI harms and misuse

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Monday, OpenAI announced a partnership with the nonprofit Common Sense Media to create AI guidelines and educational materials targeted at parents, educators, and teens. It includes the curation…

Rhyming AI-powered clock sometimes lies about the time, makes up words

Enlarge / A CAD render of the Poem/1 sitting on a bookshelf. (credit: Matt Webb) On Tuesday, product developer Matt Webb launched a Kickstarter funding project for a whimsical e-paper clock called the…

OpenAI says mysterious chat histories resulted from account takeover

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) OpenAI officials say that the ChatGPT histories a user reported result from his ChatGPT account being compromised. The unauthorized logins came from Sri Lanka, an Open AI representative said.…

Ars Technica used in malware campaign with never-before-seen obfuscation

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Ars Technica was recently used to serve second-stage malware in a campaign that used a never-before-seen attack chain to cleverly cover its tracks, researchers from security firm Mandiant reported…

In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges

Enlarge The hackers who recently broke into Microsoft’s network and monitored top executives’ email for two months did so by gaining access to an aging test account with administrative privileges, a major gaffe…

The life and times of Cozy Bear, the Russian hackers who just hit Microsoft and HPE

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) said Wednesday that Kremlin-backed actors hacked into the email accounts of its security personnel and other employees last May—and maintained surreptitious access until December. The…

OpenAI updates ChatGPT-4 model with potential fix for AI “laziness” problem

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Thursday, OpenAI announced updates to the AI models that power its ChatGPT assistant. Amid less noteworthy updates, OpenAI tucked in a mention of a potential fix to a…

AI will increase the number and impact of cyberattacks, intel officers say

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Threats from malicious cyberactivity are likely to increase as nation-states, financially motivated criminals, and novices increasingly incorporate artificial intelligence into their routines, the UK’s top intelligence agency said. The…

Google’s latest AI video generator can render cute animals in implausible situations

Enlarge / Still images of AI-generated video examples provided by Google for its Lumiere video synthesis model. (credit: Google) On Tuesday, Google announced Lumiere, an AI video generator that it calls "a space-time…