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Researcher uncovers one of the biggest password dumps in recent history

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Nearly 71 million unique credentials stolen for logging into websites such as Facebook, Roblox, eBay, and Yahoo have been circulating on the Internet for at least four months, a…

New UEFI vulnerabilities send firmware devs industry wide scrambling

Enlarge (credit: Nadezhda Kozhedub) UEFI firmware from five of the leading suppliers contains vulnerabilities that allow attackers with a toehold in a user's network to infect connected devices with malware that runs at…

As 2024 election looms, OpenAI says it is taking steps to prevent AI abuse

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Benj Edwards) On Monday, ChatGPT maker OpenAI detailed its plans to prevent the misuse of its AI technologies during the upcoming elections in 2024, promising transparency in AI-generated…

AI poisoning could turn open models into destructive “sleeper agents,” says Anthropic

Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards | Getty Images) Imagine downloading an open source AI language model, and all seems good at first, but it later turns malicious. On Friday, Anthropic—the maker of ChatGPT competitor…

Famous xkcd comic comes full circle with AI bird-identifying binoculars

Enlarge / The Swarovski Optik Visio binoculars, with an excerpt of a 2014 xkcd comic strip called "Tasks" in the corner. (credit: xckd / Swarovski) Last week, Austria-based Swarovski Optik introduced the AX…

Apple AirDrop leaks user data like a sieve. Chinese authorities say they’re scooping it up.

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Chinese authorities recently said they're using an advanced encryption attack to de-anonymize users of AirDrop in an effort to crack down on citizens who use the…

Actively exploited 0-days in Ivanti VPN are letting hackers backdoor networks

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Unknown threat actors are actively targeting two critical zero-day vulnerabilities that allow them to bypass two-factor authentication and execute malicious code inside networks that use a widely used virtual…

OpenAI’s GPT Store lets ChatGPT users discover popular user-made chatbot roles

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards) On Wednesday, OpenAI announced the launch of its GPT Store—a way for ChatGPT users to share and discover custom chatbot roles called "GPTs"—and ChatGPT Team, a…

VMware customers face uncertain future as Broadcom ends VMware partner programs

Enlarge (credit: Getty) VMware's new owner is ending the virtualization and cloud computing company's partner programs. It's unclear who or how many current partners will be able to sell VMware-related offerings after April…

At Senate AI hearing, news executives fight against “fair use” claims for AI training data

Enlarge / Danielle Coffey, president and CEO of News Media Alliance; Professor Jeff Jarvis, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism; Curtis LeGeyt, president and CEO of National Association of Broadcasters; and Roger Lynch, CEO…