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  1. Tesla shows off unfinished humanoid robot prototypes at AI Day 2022

    First Optimus prototype walked onto stage, waved. Another one needed support and slumped over.

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  2. High-severity Microsoft Exchange 0-day under attack threatens 220,000 servers

    Microsoft said it's working on an accelerated schedule to roll out a patch.

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  3. Deepfake Bruce Willis may be the next Hollywood star, and he’s OK with that [Updated]

    Tech will allow Willis' doppelgänger to continue working despite language disorder diagnosis.

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  4. Mystery hackers are “hyperjacking” targets for insidious spying

    After decades of warnings, group figured out how to hijack virtualization software.

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  5. Numerous orgs hacked after installing weaponized open source apps

    PuTTY, KiTTY, TightVNC, Sumatra PDF Reader, and muPDF/Subliminal Recording all targeted.

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  6. Meta announces Make-A-Video, which generates video from text [Updated]

    Using a text description or an existing image, Make-A-Video can render video on demand.

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  7. Never-before-seen malware has infected hundreds of Linux and Windows devices

    Small office routers? FreeBSD machines? Enterprise servers? Chaos infects them all.

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  8. Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement lacks crosswalks, checkboxes, Google

    Cloud giant says its verification tool doesn't challenge or profile users.

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  9. DALL-E image generator is now open to everyone

    DALL-E launched frenzy of image synthesis development but was invitation-only until now.

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  10. Google Fiber touts 20Gbps download speed in test, promises eventual 100Gbps

    Google Fiber test delivered 20.2Gbps downloads to exec's home in Kansas City.

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  11. Serious vulnerabilities in Matrix’s end-to-end encryption have been patched

    Previously overlooked flaws allow malicious homeservers to decrypt and spoof messages.

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  12. We interviewed Linux OS through an AI bot to discover its secrets

    In the world's first operating system interview, Linux tells all about Windows, Torvalds, and its favorite distro.

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  1. Better than JPEG? Researcher discovers that Stable Diffusion can compress images

    Lossy compression bypasses text-to-image portions of Stable Diffusion with interesting results.

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  2. Apps can pose bigger security, privacy threat based on where you download them

    Same app, different risks if you download it in, say, Tunisia rather than in Germany.

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  3. Russia plans “massive cyberattacks” on critical infrastructure, Ukraine warns

    Distributed denial-of-service attacks are also likely to increase, advisory says.

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  4. Darth Vader’s voice will be AI-generated from now on

    Using Respeecher, Vader will live on as a cloned voice effect performed by another actor.

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  5. How 3 hours of inaction from Amazon cost cryptocurrency holders $235,000

    For 2nd time in 4 years, Amazon loses control of its IP space in BGP hijacking.

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  6. Starlink is getting a lot slower as more people use it, speed tests show

    Starlink capacity limits hit users—SpaceX says more satellites will make it faster.

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  7. Artist receives first known US copyright registration for latent diffusion AI art

    Registration of AI-assisted comic comes amid fierce online debate about AI art ethics.

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  8. Whisper AI model automatically recognizes speech and translates it to English

    OpenAI's open source model may become a building block in future speech-to-text apps.

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  9. Fearing copyright issues, Getty Images bans AI-generated artwork

    Getty sidesteps potential legal problems from unresolved rights and ethics issues.

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  10. The record-setting DDoSes keep coming, with no end in sight

    As DDoSes continue to innovate, their attacks grow ever bigger.

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  11. Artist finds private medical record photos in popular AI training data set

    LAION scraped medical photos for AI research use. Who's responsible for taking them down?

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  12. $35M fine for Morgan Stanley after unencrypted, unwiped hard drives are auctioned

    "Astonishing failures" over a 5-year span.

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  1. Comcast promises huge boost to cable upload speeds by end of 2023

    Full Duplex DOCSIS expected in 2023 but won't be available to everyone at first.

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  2. Nvidia’s powerful H100 GPU will ship in October

    Nvidia's "Hopper" AI chip is in full production, eight major vendors shipping products soon.

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  3. Deepfake audio has a tell and researchers can spot it

    With deepfake audio, that familiar voice on the other end of the line might not even be human.

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  4. AI software helps bust image fraud in academic papers

    Proofig and ImageTwin software help detect fudged "Western blot" image data in academic papers.

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  5. Kiwi Farms has been breached; assume passwords and emails have been leaked

    Harassment site is down for now after hacker gains access to admin account.

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  6. Artists begin selling AI-generated artwork on stock photography websites

    Using software that creates art on demand, some artists attempt to cash in on AI-generated content.

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  7. Twitter pranksters derail GPT-3 bot with newly discovered “prompt injection” hack

    By telling AI bot to ignore its previous instructions, vulnerabilities emerge.

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  8. Uber was breached to its core, purportedly by an 18-year-old. Here’s what’s known

    “I announce I am a hacker and Uber has suffered a data breach,” intruder says on Slack.

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  9. Trojanized versions of PuTTY utility being used to spread backdoor

    Threat actor has connections to hackers backed by North Korean government.

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  10. Have AI image generators assimilated your art? New tool lets you check

    New search engine combs through harvested images used to train Stable Diffusion, others.

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  11. Microsoft Teams stores cleartext auth tokens, won’t be quickly patched

    Electron-based Teams apps can be easily mined for tokens and used for phishing.

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  12. New AI assistant can browse, search, and use web apps like a human

    Adept's ACT-1 has learned how to automate complex UI tasks in web apps using an AI model.

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