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Prosecutors charge 6 people for allegedly waging massive DDoS attacks

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged six people for allegedly operating websites that launched millions of powerful distributed denial-of-service attacks on a wide array of victims on behalf of millions of paying customers. The sites promoted themselves as booter or stressor services designed to test the bandwidth and performance of customers’ networks....

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Meet Ghostwriter, a haunted AI-powered typewriter that talks to you

Enlarge / Ghostwriter understands what you type and can automatically write responses using OpenAI’s GPT-3. (credit: Arvind Sanjeev / Ars Technica) On Wednesday, a designer and engineer named Arvind Sanjeev revealed his process for creating Ghostwriter, a one-of-a-kind repurposed Brother typewriter that uses AI to chat with a person typing on the keyboard. The “ghost”...

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Lensa AI app causes a stir with sexy “Magic Avatar” images no one wanted

Enlarge / A selection of male and female “Magic Avatars” generated by the Lensa AI app, including a beard cannot be contained. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) Over the past week, the smartphone app Lensa AI has become a popular topic on social media because it can generate stylized AI avatars based on selfie...

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Only iPhones that can’t run iOS 16 are getting new iOS 15 updates

Enlarge / iPhones running iOS 15. (credit: Apple) As part of the barrage of operating system updates released earlier today, Apple published new iOS and iPadOS 15.7.2 updates that bring most of the iOS 16.2 security patches to the previous version of the operating system. Both 15.7 and 15.7.1 were released after iOS 16 became...

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Microsoft digital certificates have once again been abused to sign malware

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft has once again been caught allowing its legitimate digital certificates to sign malware in the wild, a lapse that allows the malicious files to pass strict security checks designed to prevent them from running on the Windows operating system. Multiple threat actors were involved in the misuse of Microsoft’s digital...