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Critical MOVEit vulnerability puts huge swaths of the Internet at severe risk

Enlarge A critical vulnerability recently discovered in a widely used piece of software is putting huge swaths of the Internet at risk of devastating hacks, and attackers have already begun actively trying to exploit it in real-world attacks, researchers warn. The software, known as MOVEit and sold by Progress Software, allows enterprises to transfer and...

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Toys “R” Us riles critics with “first-ever” AI-generated commercial using Sora

Enlarge / A screen capture from the partially AI-generated Toys “R” Us brand film created using Sora. (credit: Toys R Us) On Monday, Toys “R” Us announced that it had partnered with an ad agency called Native Foreign to create what it calls “the first-ever brand film using OpenAI’s new text-to-video tool, Sora.” OpenAI debuted...

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Researchers upend AI status quo by eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs

Enlarge / Illustration of a brain inside of a light bulb. (credit: Getty Images) Researchers claim to have developed a new way to run AI language models more efficiently by eliminating matrix multiplication from the process. This fundamentally redesigns neural network operations that are currently accelerated by GPU chips. The findings, detailed in a recent...

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Backdoor slipped into multiple WordPress plugins in ongoing supply-chain attack

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) WordPress plugins running on as many as 36,000 websites have been backdoored in a supply-chain attack with unknown origins, security researchers said on Monday. So far, five plugins are known to be affected in the campaign, which was active as recently as Monday morning, researchers from security firm Wordfence reported. Over...