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OpenAI helps spammers plaster 80,000 sites with messages that bypassed filters
“AkiraBot’s use of LLM-generated spam message content demonstrates the emerging challenges that AI poses to…
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After months of user complaints, Anthropic debuts new $200/month AI plan
A screenshot of various Claude pricing plans captured on April 9, 2025. Credit: Benj Edwards…
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“The girl should be calling men.” Leak exposes Black Basta’s influence tactics.
A leak of 190,000 chat messages traded among members of the Black Basta ransomware group…
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Carmack defends AI tools after Quake fan calls Microsoft AI demo “disgusting”
The current generative Quake II demo represents a slight advancement from Microsoft's previous generative AI…
Meta’s surprise Llama 4 drop exposes the gap between AI ambition and reality
Meta constructed the Llama 4 models using a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, which is one way…
NSA warns “fast flux” threatens national security. What is fast flux anyway?
A technique that hostile nation-states and financially motivated ransomware groups are using to hide their…
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Google unveils end-to-end messages for Gmail. Only thing is: It’s not true E2EE.
“The idea is that no matter what, at no time and in no way does…
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AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%
Crawlers that evade detection Making the situation more difficult, many AI-focused crawlers do not play…
MCP: The new “USB-C for AI” that’s bringing fierce rivals together
What does it take to get OpenAI and Anthropic—two competitors in the AI assistant market—to…
What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.
Like many legacy government IT systems, SSA systems contain code written in COBOL, a programming…