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Canon warns printer users to manually wipe Wi-Fi settings before discarding

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Printer manufacturer Canon is warning that sensitive Wi-Fi settings don’t automatically get wiped during resets, so customers should manually delete them before selling, discarding, or getting them repaired to…

Dissolving circuit boards in water sounds better than shredding and burning

Enlarge / 30 minutes in near-boiling water, and those soldered chips come right off, leaving you with something that's non-toxic, compostable, and looking like something from your grandparent's attic. (credit: Infineon) Right now,…

Arizona law school embraces ChatGPT use in student applications

Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Arizona State University) On Friday, Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law announced that prospective students would be allowed to use AI tools, such as OpenAI's…

Android malware steals user credentials using optical character recognition

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Security researchers have unearthed a rare malware find: malicious Android apps that use optical character recognition to steal credentials displayed on phone screens. The malware, dubbed CherryBlos by researchers…

Most of the 100 million people who signed up for Threads stopped using it

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto) Meta's new Twitter competitor, Threads, is looking for ways to keep users interested after more than half of the people who signed up for the text-based platform…

Google’s RT-2 AI model brings us one step closer to WALL-E

Enlarge / A Google robot controlled by RT-2. (credit: Google) On Friday, Google DeepMind announced Robotic Transformer 2 (RT-2), a "first-of-its-kind" vision-language-action (VLA) model that uses data scraped from the Internet to enable…

US senator blasts Microsoft for “negligent cybersecurity practices”

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A US senator is calling on the Justice Department to hold Microsoft responsible for “negligent cybersecurity practices” that enabled Chinese espionage hackers to steal hundreds of thousands of emails…

Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion XL, its next-gen image synthesis model

Enlarge / Several examples of images generated using Stable Diffusion XL 1.0. (credit: Stable Diffusion) On Wednesday, Stability AI released Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 (SDXL), its next-generation open weights AI image synthesis model.…

How we host Ars Technica in the cloud, part two: The software

Enlarge / Welcome aboard the orbital HQ, readers! (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Welcome back to our series on how Ars Technica is hosted and run! Last week, in part one, we…

Pocket assistant: ChatGPT comes to Android

Enlarge (credit: OpenAI) On Tuesday, OpenAI released an official ChatGPT app for Android, now available in the Google Play Store in four countries: the US, India, Bangladesh, and Brazil, with more coming soon.…