reader comments 40 with Microsoft cloud services are scanning for malware by peeking inside users’ zip files, even when they’re protected by a password, several users reported on Mastodon on Monday. Compressing file contents into archived zip files has long been a tactic threat actors use to conceal malware spreading through email or downloads. Eventually, […]

Enlarge / Photorealistic AI-generated images like this one may distort our sense of history. Google wants to fix that. Midjourney reader comments 53 with On Wednesday at Google I/O 2023, Google announced three new features designed to help people spot AI-generated fake images in search results, reports Bloomberg. The features will identify the known origins […]

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 44 with My recent feature on passkeys attracted significant interest, and a number of the 1,100-plus comments raised questions about how the passkey system actually works and if it can be trusted. In response, I’ve put together this list of frequently asked questions to dispel a few myths […]

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a robot reading a book. Benj Edwards / Stable Diffusion reader comments 18 with On Thursday, AI company Anthropic announced it has given its ChatGPT-like Claude AI language model the ability to analyze an entire book’s worth of material in under a minute. This new ability comes from expanding […]

reader comments 21 with Earlier this week, Microsoft released a patch to fix a Secure Boot bypass bug used by the BlackLotus bootkit we reported on in March. The original vulnerability, CVE-2022-21894, was patched in January, but the new patch for CVE-2023-24932 addresses another actively exploited workaround for systems running Windows 10 and 11 and […]

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of robots looking inside an artificial brain. Stable Diffusion reader comments 25 with On Tuesday, OpenAI published a new research paper detailing a technique that uses its GPT-4 language model to write explanations for the behavior of neurons in its older GPT-2 model, albeit imperfectly. It’s a step forward for […]

reader comments 8 with On Wednesday, Google introduced PaLM 2, a family of foundational language models comparable to OpenAI’s GPT-4. At its Google I/O event in Mountain View, California, Google revealed that it already uses PaLM 2 to power 25 products, including its Bard conversational AI assistant. As a family of large language models (LLMs), […]

Aurich Lawson reader comments 17 with A ransomware intrusion on hardware manufacturer Micro-Star International, better known as MSI, is stoking concerns of devastating supply chain attacks that could inject malicious updates that have been signed with company signing keys that are trusted by a huge base of end-user devices, a researcher said. “​​It’s kind of […]

reader comments 36 with At Wednesday’s Google I/O conference, Google announced wide availability of its ChatGPT-like AI assistant, Bard, in over 180 countries with no waitlist. It also announced updates such as support for Japanese and Korean, visual responses to queries, integration with Google services, and add-ons that will extend Bard’s capabilities. Similar to how […]

Getty Images reader comments 18 with FBI officials on Tuesday dropped a major bombshell: After spending years monitoring exceptionally stealthy malware that one of the Kremlin’s most advanced hacker units had installed on hundreds of computers around the world, agents unloaded a payload that caused the malware to disable itself. The counter hack took aim […]