General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Anti-AI users who change or delete answers in protest are being punished.
Publish Date: 5/9/2024
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Notification follows claim of compromised database with 49M Dell customers' data.
Publish Date: 5/9/2024
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Hackers can exploit them to gain full administrative control of internal devices.
Publish Date: 5/8/2024
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Report claims new tracking starts May 13 with unclear consequences.
Publish Date: 5/8/2024
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Quadrupeds being reviewed have automatic targeting systems but require human oversight to fire.
Publish Date: 5/8/2024
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The US places a $10 million bounty for the arrest of Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.
Publish Date: 5/7/2024
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Air-gapping GPT-4 model on secure network won't prevent it from potentially making things up.
Publish Date: 5/7/2024
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TunnelVision vulnerability has existed since 2002 and may already be known to attackers.
Publish Date: 5/6/2024
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In project headed by former Inflection chief, MAI-1 may have 500B parameters.
Publish Date: 5/6/2024
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Cybercriminals openly run dozens of scams across social media and messaging apps.
Publish Date: 5/4/2024
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ZTDNS brings the best of both worlds to DNS: encryption and fine-grained control.
Publish Date: 5/3/2024
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"One of the largest counterfeit-trafficking operations ever."
Publish Date: 5/3/2024
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Microsoft has been criticized for "preventable" failures and poor communication.
Publish Date: 5/3/2024
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Andrej Karpathy muses about sending a LLM binary that could "wake up" and answer questions.
Publish Date: 5/3/2024
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The threat is potentially grave because it could be used in supply-chain attacks.
Publish Date: 5/2/2024
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How and why nation-state hackers and cybercriminals coexist in the same router botnet.
Publish Date: 5/2/2024
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Anthropic finally comes to mobile, launches plan for teams that includes 200K context window.
Publish Date: 5/1/2024
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Easy-to-use language that drove Apple, TRS-80, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964.
Publish Date: 5/1/2024
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145,152-core Cheyenne supercomputer was 20th most powerful in the world in 2016.
Publish Date: 4/30/2024
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Ransomware attack on the $371 billion company hamstrung US prescription market.
Publish Date: 4/30/2024
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