General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Despite total lack of specifics, rumored collaboration has everyone guessing.
Publish Date: 9/27/2023
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The modified firmware used by BlackTech is hard to detect.
Publish Date: 9/27/2023
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Feature hopes to remove language barriers, but will speakers know if translations are faulty?
Publish Date: 9/27/2023
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Previous CVE submission failed to mention that thousands of apps were affected.
Publish Date: 9/27/2023
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A previously unknown compression side channel in GPUs can expose images thought to be private.
Publish Date: 9/26/2023
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Incorrect AI-generated answers are forming a feedback loop of misinformation online.
Publish Date: 9/26/2023
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Image recognition and voice features aim to make the AI bot's interface more intuitive.
Publish Date: 9/25/2023
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Getty will indemnify customers against lawsuits and pay artists on "recurring basis."
Publish Date: 9/25/2023
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Apple patches 3 zero-days after they were used in a sophisticated attack.
Publish Date: 9/23/2023
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No one mentioned that libwebp, a library found in millions of apps, was a 0-day origin.
Publish Date: 9/21/2023
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Amazon: "To help protect against abuse, we are lowering the volume limits we have in place."
Publish Date: 9/21/2023
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With better response to details and text, DALL-E 3 hopes to make prompt engineering obsolete.
Publish Date: 9/20/2023
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Update prepares for the inevitable fall of today's cryptographic protocols.
Publish Date: 9/20/2023
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DeepMind used AI models to optimize their own prompts, with surprising results.
Publish Date: 9/19/2023
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Google admits that Bard isn't always accurate; ropes in Gmail through new Extensions.
Publish Date: 9/19/2023
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SprySOCKS borrows from open source Windows malware and adds new tricks.
Publish Date: 9/18/2023
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Will be replaced by Yusuf Mehdi, who has been leading the way on AI efforts.
Publish Date: 9/18/2023
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Graham: "This was the point where AI-generated art passed the Turing Test for me."
Publish Date: 9/15/2023
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Google's app for generating MFA codes syncs to user accounts by default. Who knew?
Publish Date: 9/15/2023
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With 14 of 22 attendees being CEOs, some experts say key voices were missing.
Publish Date: 9/14/2023
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