Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a “wall of fake images.” Stable Diffusion reader comments 24 with On Thursday, Microsoft President Brad Smith announced that his biggest apprehension about AI revolves around the growing concern for deepfakes and synthetic media designed to deceive, Reuters reports. Smith made his remarks while revealing his “blueprint for public […]

Getty Images reader comments 7 with Researchers have uncovered malware designed to disrupt electric power transmission and may have been used by the Russian government in training exercises for creating or responding to cyberattacks on electric grids. Known as CosmicEnergy, the malware has capabilities that are comparable to those found in malware known as Industroyer […]

Enlarge / Worldcoin’s “Orb,” a device that scans your eyeballs to verify that you’re a real human. reader comments 35 with A company co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has raised $115 million for Worldcoin, a crypto coin project that scans users’ eyeballs in order “to establish an individual’s unique personhood.” In addition to leading the […]

Enlarge / Minnesota’s right-to-repair bill is the first to pass in the US that demands broad access to most electronics’ repair manuals, tools, and diagnostic software. Game consoles, medical devices, and other specific gear, however, are exempted. Getty Images reader comments 15 with It doesn’t cover video game consoles, medical gear, farm or construction equipment, […]

Enlarge / On May 22, Benj Edwards (left) moderated a panel featuring Paige Bailey (center), Haiyan Zhang (right) for the Ars Frontiers 2023 session titled, “The Lightning Onset of AI — What Suddenly Changed?” Ars Technica reader comments 17 with On Monday, Ars Technica hosted our Ars Frontiers virtual conference. In our fifth panel, we […]

peterschreiber.media | Getty Images reader comments 19 with A Chinese government hacking group has acquired a significant foothold inside critical infrastructure environments throughout the US and Guam and is stealing network credentials and sensitive data while remaining largely undetectable, Microsoft and governments from the US and four other countries said on Wednesday. The group, tracked […]

Getty Images reader comments 19 with An app that had more than 50,000 downloads from Google Play surreptitiously recorded nearby audio every 15 minutes and sent it to the app developer, a researcher from security firm ESET said. The app, titled iRecorder Screen Recorder, started life on Google Play in September 2021 as a benign […]

Enlarge / A fake AI-generated image of an “explosion” near the Pentagon that went viral on Twitter. reader comments 41 with On Monday, a tweeted AI-generated image suggesting a large explosion at the Pentagon led to brief confusion, which included a reported small drop in the stock market. It originated from a verified Twitter account […]

Enlarge / An example of a 1983 file photo of the Apple Lisa computer that has been significantly enhanced by the new “Generative Fill” AI tool in the Adobe Photoshop beta. Apple / Benj Edwards / Adobe reader comments 27 with On Tuesday, Adobe added a new tool to its Photoshop beta called “Generative Fill,” […]