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#GermanyRIP. Kremlin-loyal hacktivists wage DDoSes to retaliate for tank aid

Enlarge / An iteration of what happens when your site gets shut down by a DDoS attack. Threat actors loyal to the Kremlin have stepped up attacks in support of its invasion of Ukraine, with denial-of-service attacks hitting German banks and other organizations and the unleashing of a new destructive data wiper on Ukraine. Germany’s...

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Pivot to ChatGPT? BuzzFeed preps for AI-written content while CNET fumbles

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a robot typewriter-journalist hard at work. (credit: Ars Technica) On Thursday, an internal memo obtained by The Wall Street Journal revealed that BuzzFeed is planning to use ChatGPT-style text synthesis technology from OpenAI to create individualized quizzes and potentially other content in the future. After the news hit, BuzzFeed’s...

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Deepfakes for scrawl: With handwriting synthesis, no pen is necessary

Enlarge / An example of computer-synthesized handwriting generated by Calligrapher.ai. (credit: Ars Technica) Thanks to a free web app called calligrapher.ai, anyone can simulate handwriting with a neural network that runs in a browser via JavaScript. After typing a sentence, the site renders it as handwriting in nine different styles, each of which is adjustable...