Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) More than 1,000 Ubiquiti routers in homes and small businesses were infected with malware used by Russian-backed agents to coordinate them into a botnet for crime and spy operations, according to the Justice Department. That malware, which worked as a botnet for the Russian hacking group Fancy Bear, was removed in...
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Doing DNS and DHCP for your LAN the old way—the way that works
Enlarge / All shall tremble before your fully functional forward and reverse lookups! (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Here’s a short summary of the next 7,000-ish words for folks who hate the thing recipe sites do where the authors babble about their personal lives for pages and pages before getting to the cooking: This...
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(BPRW) Georgia State University, Comcast and CodePath Announce Launch of New Computer Science Education and Career Readiness Program
(Black PR Wire) ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Georgia State University (GSU) and CodePath announced today a partnership that will the launch of the CodePath E3 Program. This new program, which will be run by GSU and CodePath, provides students with…
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OpenAI Unveils Sora, an A.I. That Generates Eye-Popping Videos
The start-up is sharing the new technology, called Sora, with a small group of early testers as it tries to understand the potential dangers.
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Chinese Influence Campaign Pushes Disunity Before U.S. Election, Study Says
A long-running network of accounts, known as Spamouflage, is using A.I.-generated images to amplify negative narratives involving the presidential race.
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Elon Musk Says SpaceX Has Switched Incorporation to Texas
The billionaire said his private rocket company was reincorporating from Delaware, where he recently lost a case over his pay package as head of Tesla.
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Tesla’s Board Chair Under Scrutiny for Oversight of Elon Musk
Robyn Denholm, who has led the electric car company’s board for more than five years, has been criticized for not serving as a check on Mr. Musk.
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U.S. Disrupts Hacking Operation Led by Russian Intelligence
The disruption is part of a broader effort to stymie Russia’s cybercampaigns against the United States and its allies, including Ukraine.
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VMware admits sweeping Broadcom changes are worrying customers
Enlarge (credit: Getty) Broadcom has made a lot of changes to VMware since closing its acquisition of the company in November. On Wednesday, VMware admitted that these changes are worrying customers. With customers mulling alternatives and partners complaining, VMware is trying to do damage control and convince people that change is good. Not surprisingly, the...
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Google upstages itself with Gemini 1.5 AI launch, one week after Ultra 1.0
Enlarge / The Gemini 1.5 logo, released by Google. (credit: Google) One week after its last major AI announcement, Google appears to have upstaged itself. Last Thursday, Google launched Gemini Ultra 1.0, which supposedly represented the best AI language model Google could muster—available as part of the renamed “Gemini” AI assistant (formerly Bard). Today, Google...