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Zoom updates terms of service to clarify that it won’t use your calls to train AI

Enlarge (credit: Zoom) Earlier this week, videoconferencing company Zoom made headlines for a recent terms of service update that implied that its customers' video calls could be used to train AI models. Those…

Microsoft finds vulnerabilities it says could be used to shut down power plants

Enlarge (credit: Rockwell Automation) On Friday, Microsoft disclosed 15 high-severity vulnerabilities in a widely used collection of tools used to program operational devices inside industrial facilities such as plants for power generation, factory…

Sites scramble to block ChatGPT web crawler after instructions emerge

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Without announcement, OpenAI recently added details about its web crawler, GPTBot, to its online documentation site. GPTBot is the name of the user agent that the company uses to…

The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) CNET, one of the great-granddaddies of tech news on the web, has been having a rough year. First, its AI-written articles sparked drama, then layoffs rocked the publication. And…

Using AI to find antibodies is fast and produces unimagined molecules

Enlarge / Researchers use CyBio FeliX workstations to extract and purify DNA samples for testing (credit: LabGenius) At an old biscuit factory in South London, giant mixers and industrial ovens have been replaced…

How fame-seeking teenagers hacked some of the world’s biggest targets

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A ragtag bunch of amateur hackers, many of them teenagers with little technical training, have been so adept at breaching large targets, including Microsoft, Okta, Nvidia, and Globant, that…

AI-powered grocery bot suggests recipe for toxic gas, “poison bread sandwich”

Enlarge (credit: PAK'nSAVE) When given a list of harmful ingredients, an AI-powered recipe suggestion bot called the Savey Meal-Bot returned ridiculously titled dangerous recipe suggestions, reports The Guardian. The bot is a product…

Next-gen OSDP was supposed to make it harder to break in to secure facilities. It failed.

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have discovered a suite of vulnerabilities that largely break a next-generation protocol that was designed to prevent the hacking of access control systems used at secure facilities on…

How an unpatched Microsoft Exchange 0-day likely caused one of the UK’s biggest hacks ever

Enlarge / Building with Microsoft logo. (credit: Getty Images) It’s looking more and more likely that a critical zero-day vulnerability that went unfixed for more than a month in Microsoft Exchange was the…

“Downfall” bug affects years of Intel CPUs, can leak encryption keys and more

Enlarge / An 8th-generation Intel Core desktop CPU, one of several CPU generations affected by the Downfall bug. (credit: Mark Walton) It's a big week for CPU security vulnerabilities. Yesterday, different security researchers…