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Enlarge / An AI-generated illustration of an AI-hallucinated computer. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) Over the weekend, experimenters discovered that OpenAI’s new chatbot, ChatGPT, can hallucinate simulations of Linux shells and role-play dialing into a bulletin board system (BBS). The chatbot, based on a deep learning AI model, uses its stored knowledge to simulate...

A detective relied on flawed information provided by the Find My app for a warrant that led the police to raid the home of a 77-year-old Denver woman, a lawsuit says.

A release of internal documents from Twitter set off intense debates in the intersecting worlds of media, politics and tech.

Enlarge / If you’re going to come at port 443, you best not miss (or forget to put a space between URL and port). (credit: Getty Images) KmsdBot, a cryptomining botnet that could also be used for denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks, broke into systems through weak secure shell credentials. It could remotely control a system, it...

Enlarge (credit: Peach_istock via Getty Images) It is common to hear news reports about large data breaches, but what happens once your personal data is stolen? Our research shows that, like most legal commodities, stolen data products flow through a supply chain consisting of producers, wholesalers, and consumers. But this supply chain involves the interconnection...

Musk takes on tech’s fight against the Apple “tax.”

Problematic content and formerly barred accounts have increased sharply in the short time since Elon Musk took over, researchers said.

Under Elon Musk, the company has cut its financial expectations as some advertisers request discounts and are offered incentives.

Enlarge / Two examples of Stable Diffusion-generated artwork provided by Apple. (credit: Apple) On Wednesday, Apple released optimizations that allow the Stable Diffusion AI image generator to run on Apple Silicon using Core ML, Apple’s proprietary framework for machine learning models. The optimizations will allow app developers to use Apple Neural Engine hardware to run...

Enlarge Mayors’ offices and courts in Russia are under attack by never-before-seen malware that poses as ransomware but is actually a wiper that permanently destroys data on an infected system, according to security company Kaspersky and the Izvestia news service. Kaspersky researchers have named the wiper CryWiper, a nod to the extension .cry that gets...