“This step is necessary to prove I’m not a bot,” wrote the bot as it passed an anti-AI screening step. [[{“value”:” Maybe they should change the button to say, “I am a robot”? On Friday, OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent, which can perform multistep tasks for users, proved it can pass through one of the Internet’s …
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State-owned Aeroflot cancels dozens of flights, stranding travelers throughout Russia. [[{“value”:” Russia’s biggest airline cancelled dozens of flights on Monday following a failure of the state-owned company’s IT systems and, according to a Russian lawmaker and pro-Ukrainian hackers, was the result of a cyberattack, it was widely reported. The airline, Aeroflot, said it cancelled about …
Pro-Ukrainian hackers take credit for attack that snarls Russian flight travel Read More »
As BlackSuit’s dark web site goes dark, Chaos is already around to pick up the slack. [[{“value”:” Hot on the heels of a major ransomware group being taken down through an international law enforcement operation comes a new development that highlights the whack-a-mole nature of such actions: A new group, likely comprised of some of …
After BlackSuit is taken down, new ransomware group Chaos emerges Read More »
Sources say new model combines o3 reasoning with general GPT capabilities. [[{“value”:” On Thursday, The Verge reported that OpenAI is preparing to launch GPT-5 as early as August, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans. The report comes five months after CEO Sam Altman first laid out a roadmap for the next-generation AI model …
OpenAI’s most capable AI model, GPT-5, may be coming in August Read More »
Attacks affected packages, including one with ~2.8 million weekly downloads. [[{“value”:” It has been a busy week for supply-chain attacks targeting open source software available in public repositories, with successful breaches of multiple developer accounts that resulted in malicious packages being pushed to unsuspecting users. The latest target, according to security firm Socket, is JavaScript …
Supply-chain attacks on open source software are getting out of hand Read More »
“I have failed you completely and catastrophically,” wrote Gemini. [[{“value”:” New types of AI coding assistants promise to let anyone build software by typing commands in plain English. But when these tools generate incorrect internal representations of what’s happening on your computer, the results can be catastrophic. Two recent incidents involving AI coding assistants put …
Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes Read More »
Black market for US semiconductors operates despite efforts to curb Beijing’s high-tech ambitions. [[{“value”:” At least $1 billion worth of Nvidia’s advanced artificial intelligence processors were shipped to China in the three months after Donald Trump tightened chip export controls, exposing the limits of Washington’s efforts to restrain Beijing’s high-tech ambitions. A Financial Times analysis of …
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Trump’s “AI Action Plan” reverses regulations, sparks critical pushback. [[{“value”:” On Wednesday, the White House released “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan,” a 25-page document that outlines the Trump administration’s strategy to “maintain unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance” in AI through deregulation, infrastructure investment, and international partnerships. But critics are already taking aim …
White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation Read More »
[[{“value”:” On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a partnership with Oracle to develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity for its Stargate AI infrastructure platform in the US. The expansion, which TechCrunch reports is part of a $30 billion per year deal between OpenAI and Oracle, will reportedly bring OpenAI’s total Stargate capacity under development …
OpenAI and partners are building a massive AI data center in Texas Read More »
Easy to exploit. Unauthenticated access. Massive reach. ToolShell has it all. [[{“value”:” Government agencies and private industry have been under siege over the past four days following the discovery that a critical vulnerability in SharePoint, the widely used document-sharing app made by Microsoft, is under mass exploitation. Since that revelation, the fallout and the ever-increasing …
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