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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…

23andMe says private user data is up for sale after being scraped

Enlarge / The 23andMe logo displayed on a smartphone screen. Genetic profiling service 23andMe has confirmed that private user data is circulating for sale online after being scraped off its website. Friday’s confirmation…

Facebook’s new AI stickers can generate Elmo with a knife

Enlarge / A selection of AI-generated stickers created in Facebook Messenger and shared on social media site X. (credit: Meta) Less than a week after Meta unveiled AI-generated stickers in its Facebook Messenger…

Vulnerabilities in Supermicro BMCs could allow for unkillable server rootkits

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) If your organization uses servers that are equipped with baseboard management controllers from Supermicro, it’s time, once again, to patch seven high-severity vulnerabilities that attackers could exploit to gain…

Researchers show how easy it is to defeat AI watermarks

Enlarge (credit: James Marshall/Getty Images) Soheil Feizi considers himself an optimistic person. But the University of Maryland computer science professor is blunt when he sums up the current state of watermarking AI images.…

Deepfake celebrities begin shilling products on social media, causing alarm

Enlarge / A cropped portion of the unauthorized AI-generated version of Hanks that the actor warned about on his Instagram feed. (credit: Tom Hanks) News of AI deepfakes spread quickly when you're Tom…

They’ve begun: Attacks exploiting vulnerability with maximum 10 severity rating

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Ransomware hackers have started exploiting one or more recently fixed vulnerabilities that pose a grave threat to enterprise networks around the world, researchers said. One of the vulnerabilities has…

Vulnerable Arm GPU drivers under active exploitation. Patches may not be available

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Arm warned on Monday of active ongoing attacks targeting a vulnerability in device drivers for its Mali line of GPUs, which run on a host of devices, including Google…

Dead grandma locket request tricks Bing Chat’s AI into solving security puzzle

Enlarge / The image a Bing Chat user shared to trick its AI model into solving a CAPTCHA. (credit: Denis Shiryaev / Ars Technica) Bing Chat, an AI chatbot from Microsoft similar to…

Critical vulnerabilities in Exim threaten over 250k email servers worldwide

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Thousands of servers running the Exim mail transfer agent are vulnerable to potential attacks that exploit critical vulnerabilities, allowing remote execution of malicious code with little or no user…