Software Development

 Midjourney pins blame for 24-hour outage on “bot-net like” activity from Stability AI employee.  [[{“value”:” Enlarge / A burglar with a flashlight and papers in a business office—exactly like scraping files from Discord. (credit: Getty Images) On Wednesday, Midjourney banned all employees from image synthesis rival Stability AI from its service indefinitely after it detected …

In ironic twist, Midjourney bans rival AI firm employees for scraping its image data Read More »

 As Altman cements power, OpenAI announces three new board members—and a returning one.  [[{“value”:” Enlarge / OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the OpenAI DevDay event on November 6, 2023, in San Francisco. (credit: Getty Images) On Friday afternoon Pacific Time, OpenAI announced the appointment of three new members to the company’s board of directors …

OpenAI CEO Altman wasn’t fired because of scary new tech, just internal politics Read More »

 At the heart of AI, matrix math has just seen its biggest boost “in more than a decade.”   Enlarge / When you do math on a computer, you fly through a numerical tunnel like this—figuratively, of course. (credit: Getty Images)   Computer scientists have discovered a new way to multiply large matrices faster than …

Matrix multiplication breakthrough could lead to faster, more efficient AI models Read More »

 Midnight Blizzard is now using stolen secrets in follow-on attacks against customers.   Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)   Microsoft said that Kremlin-backed hackers stole its proprietary source code during a January breach of its corporate network and is now using it and other secrets in follow-on attacks against customers. The intrusion, which the software company …

Microsoft says Kremlin-backed hackers accessed its source and internal systems Read More »

 Ongoing attack targeting thousands of sites, continues to grow.   Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)   Attackers have transformed hundreds of hacked sites running WordPress software into command-and-control servers that force visitors’ browsers to perform password-cracking attacks. A web search for the JavaScript that performs the attack showed it was hosted on 708 sites at the …

Attack wrangles thousands of web users into a password-cracking botnet Read More »

 “LassPass” mimicked the name and logo of real LastPass password manager.   Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)   As Apple has stepped up its promotion of its App Store as a safer and more trustworthy source of apps, its operators scrambled Thursday to correct a major threat to that narrative: a listing that password manager maker …

A password manager LastPass calls “fraudulent” booted from App Store Read More »

 Confusing name shuffles aside, “Gemini Advanced” vies to catch up with ChatGPT-4.   Enlarge (credit: Google)   On Thursday, Google announced that its ChatGPT-like AI assistant, previously called Bard, is now called “Gemini,” renamed to reflect the underlying AI language model Google launched in December. Additionally, Google has launched its most capable AI model, Ultra …

Google debuts more powerful “Ultra 1.0” AI model in rebranded “Gemini” chatbot Read More »

 Buffer overflow in bootloader shim allows attackers to run code each time devices boot up.   Enlarge   Linux developers are in the process of patching a high-severity vulnerability that, in certain cases, allows the installation of malware that runs at the firmware level, giving infections access to the deepest parts of a device where …

Critical vulnerability affecting most Linux distros allows for bootkits Read More »

 In a big election year, Meta details plans to label AI-generated media on its social media sites.   Enlarge (credit: Meta / Getty Images) On Tuesday, Meta announced its plan to start labeling AI-generated images from other companies like OpenAI and Google, as reported by Reuters. The move aims to enhance transparency on platforms such …

Meta will label AI-generated content from OpenAI and Google on Facebook, Instagram Read More »

 Hackers looking to diversify, began mass exploiting a new vulnerability over the weekend.   Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Mass exploitation began over the weekend for yet another critical vulnerability in widely used VPN software sold by Ivanti, as hackers already targeting two previous vulnerabilities diversified, researchers said Monday. The new vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-21893, is …

As if two Ivanti vulnerabilities under explot wasn’t bad enough, now there are 3 Read More »