Threat posed by new VMware hyperjacking vulnerabilities is hard to overstate
Three critical vulnerabilities in multiple virtual-machine products from VMware can give hackers unusually broad access…
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Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster
Corporate and diplomatic trends in AI writing According to the researchers, all sectors they analyzed…
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Serbian student’s Android phone compromised by exploit from Cellebrite
Amnesty International on Friday said it determined that a zero-day exploit sold by controversial exploit…
“It’s a lemon”—OpenAI’s largest AI model ever arrives to mixed reviews
Perhaps because of the disappointing results, Altman had previously written that GPT-4.5 will be the…
Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft
Screenshot showing Copilot continues to serve tools Microsoft took action to have removed from GitHub.…
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New AI text diffusion models break speed barriers by pulling words from noise
These diffusion models maintain performance faster than or comparable to similarly sized conventional models. LLaDA's…
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The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office
Under-desk sensors, in particular, have received high-profile backlash, perhaps because they are such an obvious…
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Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code
The researchers observed this "emergent misalignment" phenomenon most prominently in GPT-4o and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct models, though…
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Google Password Manager finally syncs to iOS—here’s how
Late last year, I published a long post that criticized the user unfriendliness of passkeys,…
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How North Korea pulled off a $1.5 billion crypto heist—the biggest in history
The cryptocurrency industry and those responsible for securing it are still in shock following Friday’s…