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Panos Panay, leader of the Surface and Windows teams, is leaving Microsoft

Enlarge / Microsoft's Surface Pro 9. Panos Panay has been in charge of the Surface line since its inception. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Microsoft's Panos Panay, who has been in charge of the Surface…

Funky AI-generated spiraling medieval village captivates social media

Enlarge / The original AI-generated spiral village that captivated social media, created using Stable Diffusion and ControlNet. (credit: Ugleh / Stable Diffusion) On Sunday, a Reddit user named "Ugleh" posted an AI-generated image…

Private AI summit with senators, titans of tech garners controversy

Enlarge / Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrive to the Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2023. (credit: Getty…

How Google Authenticator made one company’s network breach much, much worse

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A security company is calling out a feature in Google’s authenticator app that it says made a recent internal network breach much worse. Retool, which helps customers secure their…

With 0-days hitting Chrome, iOS, and dozens more this month, is no software safe?

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) End users, admins, and researchers better brace yourselves: The number of apps being patched for zero-day vulnerabilities has skyrocketed this month and is likely to get worse in the…

AI now generates music with CD-quality audio from text, and it’s only getting better

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Imagine typing "dramatic intro music" and hearing a soaring symphony or writing "creepy footsteps" and getting high-quality sound effects. That's the promise of Stable Audio, a text-to-audio AI model…

A phone call to helpdesk was likely all it took to hack MGM

Enlarge / Gamblers and hotel guests at MGM casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, including the Bellagio, were affected by the security breach. (credit: Ethan Miller/Getty Images) A cyber criminal gang proficient in…

Coca-Cola embraces controversial AI image generator with new “Y3000” flavor

Enlarge (credit: Coca-Cola) Coca-Cola has taken a fizzy leap into the future of AI hype with the release of Coca‑Cola Y3000 Zero Sugar, a "limited-edition" beverage reportedly co-created with artificial intelligence. Its futuristic…

SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million

Enlarge / SpaceX Starlink satellite dish at Pelican Beach on Willard Bay Reservoir in Willard, Utah, in October 2022. (credit: Tony Webster (CC BY-SA 2.0)) SpaceX's Starlink division hasn't come close to meeting…

Password-stealing Linux malware served for 3 years and no one noticed

Enlarge / A digital Trojan horse. (credit: Getty Images | posteriori) A download site surreptitiously served Linux users malware that stole passwords and other sensitive information for more than three years until it…