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Actively exploited Cisco 0-day with maximum 10 severity gives full network control

Enlarge / Cables run into a Cisco data switch. (credit: Getty Images) Cisco is urging customers to protect their devices following the discovery of a critical, actively exploited zero-day vulnerability that’s giving threat…

Biggest DDoSes of all time generated by protocol 0-day in HTTP/2

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty) In August and September, threat actors unleashed the biggest distributed denial-of-service attacks in Internet history by exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in a key technical protocol. Unlike…

Google will shield AI users from copyright challenges, within limits

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards) On Thursday, Google announced that it plans to defend users of its generative AI systems on Google Cloud and Workspace platforms against intellectual property violation claims,…

CD-indexing cue files are the core of a serious Linux remote code exploit

Enlarge / Cue files used to be much better-known, back when we all used CD-Rs to make legal backup copies of material that we owned outright. (credit: Getty Images) It has been a…

Adobe launches new symbol to tag AI-generated content—but will anyone use it?

Enlarge / The Content Credentials "CR" logo presented in front of an AI-generated image provided by Adobe. (credit: Adobe) On Tuesday, Adobe announced a new symbol designed to indicate when content has been…

So far, AI hasn’t been profitable for Big Tech

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Big Tech companies like Microsoft and Google are grappling with the challenge of turning AI products like ChatGPT into a profitable enterprise, reports The Wall Street Journal. While companies…

Adobe’s AI image generators get beefy updates, including vector graphics

Enlarge / An AI-generated vector graphic of a barbarian and a landscape generated with Adobe Illustrator. (credit: Benj Edwards / Adobe) On Tuesday, Adobe announced major updates to AI image synthesis features across…

Thousands of WordPress sites have been hacked through tagDiv plugin vulnerability

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Thousands of sites running the WordPress content management system have been hacked by a prolific threat actor that exploited a recently patched vulnerability in a widely used plugin. The…

Tired of shortages, OpenAI considers making its own AI chips

Enlarge (credit: OpenAI / Benj Edwards) OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT and DALL-E 3 generative AI products, is exploring the possibility of manufacturing its own AI accelerator chips, according to Reuters. Citing anonymous…

AI firms working on “constitutions” to keep AI from spewing toxic content

Enlarge (credit: FT montage/Dreamstime) Two of the world’s biggest artificial intelligence companies announced major advances in consumer AI products last week. Microsoft-backed OpenAI said that its ChatGPT software could now “see, hear, and…