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California deploys AI-powered wildfire detection systems

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) California's main firefighting agency, Cal Fire, is training AI models to detect visual signs of wildfires using a network of 1,039 high-definition cameras, reports The New York Times and…

Microsoft signing keys keep getting hijacked, to the delight of Chinese threat actors

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) In July, security researchers revealed a sobering discovery: hundreds of pieces of malware used by multiple hacker groups to infect Windows devices had been digitally signed and validated as…

WinRAR 0-day that uses poisoned JPG and TXT files under exploit since April

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A newly discovered zero-day in the widely used WinRAR file-compression program has been exploited for four months by unknown attackers who are using it to install malware when targets…

IBM’s generative AI tool aims to refactor ancient COBOL code for its mainframes

Enlarge / COBOL 73, as seen (inside Windows) in the IRS's Austin, Texas, offices in 2022. (credit: Washington Post / Getty Images) There are hundreds of billions of lines of COBOL code running…

You can now train ChatGPT on your own documents via API

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, OpenAI announced fine-tuning for GPT-3.5 Turbo—the AI model that powers the free version of ChatGPT—through its API. It allows training the model with custom data, such as…

Excel gets containerized, cloud-based Python analytics and visualization powers

Enlarge / If this kind of thing raises your eyebrows, there's a whole lot more inside a ribbon bar for you. (credit: Anaconda) If you’re decent in Python (or aspire to be) but…

Meta’s “massively multilingual” AI model translates up to 100 languages, speech or text

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, Meta announced SeamlessM4T, a multimodal AI model for speech and text translations. As a neural network that can process both text and audio, it can perform text-to-speech,…

T-Mobile unveils $100 phone plan, topping AT&T and Verizon’s highest prices

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images) T-Mobile yesterday announced a phone plan called "Go5G Next" that costs $100 a month for a single line, more expensive than the highest-tier wireless plans offered…

Crypto botnet on X is powered by ChatGPT

Enlarge (credit: sakchai vongsasiripat/Getty Image) ChatGPT may well revolutionize web search, streamline office chores, and remake education, but the smooth-talking chatbot has also found work as a social media crypto huckster. Researchers at…

Google announces new algorithm that makes FIDO encryption safe from quantum computers

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The FIDO2 industry standard adopted five years ago provides the most secure known way to log in to websites because it doesn’t rely on passwords and has the most…