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  1. 384,000 sites pull code from sketchy code library recently bought by Chinese firm

    Many website admins, it seems, have yet to get memo to remove Polyfill[.]io links.

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  2. “RegreSSHion” vulnerability in OpenSSH gives attackers root on Linux

    Full system compromise possible by peppering servers with thousands of connection requests.

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  3. 3 million iOS and macOS apps were exposed to potent supply-chain attacks

    Apps that used code libraries hosted on CocoaPods were vulnerable for about 10 years.

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  4. Inside a violent gang’s ruthless crypto-stealing home invasion spree

    More than a dozen men threatened, assaulted, tortured, or kidnapped 11 victims.

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  5. Researchers craft smiling robot face from living human skin cells

    Human cells isolated from juvenile foreskin are flexible enough to grin when moved.

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  6. OpenAI’s new “CriticGPT” model is trained to criticize GPT-4 outputs

    Research model catches bugs in AI-generated code, improving human oversight of AI.

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  7. Mac users served info-stealer malware through Google ads

    Full-service Poseidon info stealer pushed by "advertiser identity verified by Google."

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  8. AI-generated Al Michaels to provide daily recaps during 2024 Summer Olympics

    AI voice clone will narrate daily Olympics video recaps; critics call it a "code-generated ghoul."

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  9. Critical MOVEit vulnerability puts huge swaths of the Internet at severe risk

    A similar flaw last year left 1,800 networks breached. Will the latest one be as potent?

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  10. Toys “R” Us riles critics with “first-ever” AI-generated commercial using Sora

    AI-generated commercials are here, and critics are displeased—but human work is still key.

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  11. Researchers upend AI status quo by eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs

    Running AI models without floating point matrix math could mean far less power consumption.

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  12. Backdoor slipped into multiple WordPress plugins in ongoing supply-chain attack

    Malicious updates available from WordPress.org create attacker-controlled admin account.

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  1. Music industry giants allege mass copyright violation by AI firms

    Suno and Udio could face damages of up to $150,000 per song allegedly infringed.

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  2. Anthropic introduces Claude 3.5 Sonnet, matching GPT-4o on benchmarks

    Claude 3.5 Sonnet is a speedy mid-sized entry in a new family of AI models.

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  3. Single point of software failure could hamstring 15K car dealerships for days

    "Cyber incident" affecting 15K dealers could mean outages "for several days."

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  4. Ex-OpenAI star Sutskever shoots for superintelligent AI with new company

    Safe Superintelligence, Inc. seeks to build hypothetical AI far beyond human capability.

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  5. Runway’s latest AI video generator brings giant cotton candy monsters to life

    New Gen-3 Alpha AI video generator can create detailed humans and surreal situations.

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  6. Men plead guilty to aggravated ID theft after pilfering police database

    Members of group called ViLE face a minimum of two years in prison.

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  7. Softbank plans to cancel out angry customer voices using AI

    Real-time voice modification tech seeks to reduce stress in call center staff.

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  8. High-severity vulnerabilities affect a wide range of Asus router models

    Many models receive patches; others will need to be replaced.

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  9. Proton is taking its privacy-first apps to a nonprofit foundation model

    Because of Swiss laws, there are no shareholders, and only one mission.

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  10. Ransomware attackers quickly weaponize PHP vulnerability with 9.8 severity rating

    TellYouThePass group opportunistically infects servers that have yet to update.

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  11. Retired engineer discovers 55-year-old bug in Lunar Lander computer game code

    A physics simulation flaw in text-based 1969 computer game went unnoticed until today.

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  12. “Simulation of keyboard activity” leads to firing of Wells Fargo employees

    With worker surveillance on the rise, vendors sell devices to fake keyboard and mouse movement.

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  1. Report: Apple isn’t paying OpenAI for ChatGPT integration into OSes

    Apple thinks pushing OpenAI’s brand to hundreds of millions is worth more than money.

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  2. Turkish student creates custom AI device for cheating university exam, gets arrested

    Elaborate scheme involved hidden camera and an earpiece to hear answers.

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  3. New Stable Diffusion 3 release excels at AI-generated body horror

    Users react to mangled SD3 generations and ask, "Is this release supposed to be a joke?"

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  4. One of the major sellers of detailed driver behavioral data is shutting down

    Selling "hard braking event" data seems less lucrative after public outcry.

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  5. China state hackers infected 20,000 Fortinet VPNs, Dutch spy service says

    Critical code-execution flaw was under exploitation 2 months before company disclosed it.

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  6. Apple and OpenAI currently have the most misunderstood partnership in tech

    Apple's AI moves are nothing new for a company that has integrated outside tech for decades.

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  7. Hackers steal “significant volume” of data from hundreds of Snowflake customers

    Given shortcomings of Snowflake and its customers, there's plenty of blame to go around.

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  8. Apple unveils “Apple Intelligence” AI features for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS

    Apple debuts new catchall AI branding, generative features during WWDC 2024 keynote.

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  9. Nasty bug with very simple exploit hits PHP just in time for the weekend

    With PoC code available and active Internet scans, speed is of the essence.

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  10. VMware customers may stay, but Broadcom could face backlash “for years to come”

    300 director-level IT workers making VMware decisions were questioned.

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  11. 7,000 LockBit decryption keys now in the hands of the FBI, offering victims hope

    The announcement could be good news for those whose data has been inaccessible.

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  12. DuckDuckGo offers “anonymous” access to AI chatbots through new service

    DDG offers LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Mistral for factually-iffy conversations.

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