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Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Wednesday, news quickly spread on social media about a new enabled-by-default Dropbox setting that shares Dropbox data with OpenAI for an experimental AI-powered search feature, but Dropbox says…

Ukrainian cellular and Internet still out, 1 day after suspected Russian cyberattack

Enlarge / A service center for "Kyivstar", a Ukrainian telecommunications company, that provides communication services and data transmission based on a broad range of fixed and mobile technologies. (credit: Getty Images) Ukrainian civilians…

A New Essential Guide to Electronics by Naomi Wu details a different Shenzhen

Enlarge / The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzen is made to be pointed at, rapidly, in a crowded environment. (credit: Machinery Enchantress / Crowd Supply) "Hong Kong has better food, Shanghai…

Everybody’s talking about Mistral, an upstart French challenger to OpenAI

Enlarge / An illustration of a robot holding a French flag, figuratively reflecting the rise of AI in France due to Mistral. It's hard to draw a picture of an LLM, so a…

Broadcom ends VMware perpetual license sales, testing customers and partners

Enlarge (credit: Getty) Broadcom has moved forward with plans to transition VMware, a virtualization and cloud computing company, into a subscription-based business. As of December 11, it no longer sells perpetual licenses with…

Elon Musk’s new AI bot, Grok, causes stir by citing OpenAI usage policy

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Grok, the AI language model created by Elon Musk's xAI, went into wide release last week, and people have begun spotting glitches. On Friday, security tester Jax Winterbourne tweeted…

The growing abuse of QR codes in malware and payment scams prompts FTC warning

Enlarge / A woman scans a QR code in a café to see the menu online. The US Federal Trade Commission has become the latest organization to warn against the growing use of…

As ChatGPT gets “lazy,” people test “winter break hypothesis” as the cause

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Benj Edwards) In late November, some ChatGPT users began to notice that ChatGPT-4 was becoming more "lazy," reportedly refusing to do some tasks or returning simplified results. Since…

Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years

Enlarge Stealthy and multifunctional Linux malware that has been infecting telecommunications companies went largely unnoticed for two years until being documented for the first time by researchers on Thursday. Researchers from security firm…

Google’s best Gemini AI demo video was fabricated

Enlarge / A still from Google's misleading Gemini AI promotional video, released Wednesday. (credit: Google) Google is facing controversy among AI experts for a deceptive Gemini promotional video released Wednesday that appears to…