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LastPass says employee’s home computer was hacked and corporate vault taken

Enlarge (credit: Leon Neal | Getty Images) Already smarting from a breach that put partially encrypted login data into a threat actor’s hands, LastPass on Monday said that the same attacker hacked an employee’s home computer and obtained a decrypted vault available to only a handful of company developers. Although an initial intrusion into LastPass...

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SpaceX unveils “V2 Mini” Starlink satellites with quadruple the capacity

Enlarge / SpaceX’s V2 Mini Starlink satellites. (credit: SpaceX) With Starlink speeds slowing due to a growing capacity crunch, SpaceX said a launch happening as soon as today will deploy the first “V2 Mini” satellites that provide four times more per-satellite capacity than earlier versions. Starlink’s second-generation satellites include the V2 Minis and the larger...

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“Sorry in advance!” Snapchat warns of hallucinations with new AI conversation bot

Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Snap, Inc.) On Monday, Snapchat announced an experimental AI-powered conversational chatbot called “My AI,” powered by ChatGPT-style technology from OpenAI. My AI will be available for $3.99 a month for Snapchat+ subscribers and is rolling out “this week,” according to a news post from Snap, Inc. Users will be able...

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Conservative News Corp. empire says hackers were inside its network for 2 years

Enlarge / Entrance to Fox News headquarters at NewsCorp Building in New York. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images) (credit: Getty Images) News Corp., the parent company of The Wall Street Journal and several other news outlets, said that hackers were inside its network for nearly two years and made off with private documents...

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Signal CEO: We “1,000% won’t participate” in UK law to weaken encryption

Enlarge / Signal app on a phone. (credit: Getty Images) The nonprofit responsible for the Signal messenger app is prepared to exit the UK if the country requires providers of encrypted communications to alter their products to ensure user messages are free of material that’s harmful to children. “We would absolutely exit any country if...

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Meta unveils a new large language model that can run on a single GPU

Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) On Friday, Meta announced a new AI-powered large language model (LLM) called LLaMA-13B that it claims can outperform OpenAI’s GPT-3 model despite being “10x smaller.” Smaller-sized AI models could lead to running ChatGPT-style language assistants locally on devices such as PCs and smartphones. It’s part of a new...