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Firmware vulnerabilities in millions of computers could give hackers superuser status

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Two years ago, ransomware crooks breached hardware-maker Gigabyte and dumped more than 112 gigabytes of data that included information from some of its most important supply-chain partners, including Intel and AMD. Now researchers are warning that the leaked information revealed what could amount to critical zero-day vulnerabilities that could imperil huge...

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Microsoft to stop locking vital security logs behind $57-per-user monthly plan

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images ) Microsoft will expand access to important security log data after being criticized for locking detailed audit logs behind a Microsoft 365 enterprise plan that costs $57 per user per month. The logging updates will start rolling out “in September 2023 to all government and commercial customers,” the...

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Google demos “unsettling” tool to help journalists write the news

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a “robot journalist.” (credit: Midjourney) Google has been developing tools aimed at helping journalists write news articles, reports The New York Times and Reuters. It has demonstrated one tool, dubbed “Genesis,” to the Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Reportedly, Google is positioning the tool as...

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Study claims ChatGPT is losing capability, but some experts aren’t convinced

Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Getty Images) On Tuesday, researchers from Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley published a research paper that purports to show changes in GPT-4‘s outputs over time. The paper fuels a common-but-unproven belief that the AI language model has grown worse at coding and compositional tasks over the past few...

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Attackers find new ways to deliver DDoSes with “alarming” sophistication

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty) The protracted arms race between criminals who wage distributed denial-of-service attacks and the defenders who attempt to stop them continues, as the former embraces “alarming” new methods to make their online offensives more powerful and destructive, researchers from content-delivery network Cloudflare reported Wednesday. With a global network spanning more...