Scammers have been abusing unsecured cellular routers used in industrial settings to blast SMS-based phishing messages in campaigns that have been ongoing since 2023, researchers said. The routers, manufactured by China-based Milesight IoT Co., Ltd., are rugged Internet of Things devices that use cellular networks to connect traffic lights, electric power meters, and other sorts...
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OpenAI’s Sora 2 lets users insert themselves into AI videos with sound
On Tuesday, OpenAI announced Sora 2, its second-generation video-synthesis AI model that can now generate videos in various styles with synchronized dialogue and sound effects, which is a first for the company. OpenAI also launched a new iOS social app that allows users to insert themselves into AI-generated videos through what OpenAI calls “cameos.” OpenAI...
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Top A.I. Researchers Leave OpenAI, Google and Meta for New Start-Up
Founded by a co-creator of ChatGPT, Periodic Labs aims to build artificial intelligence that can accelerate discoveries in physics, chemistry and other fields.
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What We Know About ChatGPT’s New Parental Controls
OpenAI said parents can set time and content limits on accounts and receive notifications if ChatGPT detects signs of potential self-harm.
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YouTube Settles Trump Lawsuit Over Account Suspension for $24.5 Million
Mr. Trump had sued Alphabet, the parent of YouTube and Google, and other social media companies after the platforms suspended his accounts following the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.
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California’s Gavin Newsom Signs Major AI Safety Law
Gavin Newsom signed a major safety law on artificial intelligence, creating one of the strongest sets of rules about the technology in the nation.
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Uber Not Responsible for Sex Assault, Jury Finds, as More Cases Follow
The company is facing similar lawsuits in federal and state courts from people who claim their drivers sexually assaulted or harassed them.
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Intel and AMD trusted enclaves, the backbone of network security, fall to physical attacks
In the age of cloud computing, protections baked into chips from Intel, AMD, and others are essential for ensuring confidential data and sensitive operations can’t be viewed or manipulated by attackers who manage to compromise servers running inside a data center. In many cases, these protections—which work by storing certain data and processes inside encrypted...
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DeepSeek tests “sparse attention” to slash AI processing costs
Ever wonder why ChatGPT slows down during long conversations? The culprit is a fundamental mathematical challenge: Processing long sequences of text requires massive computational resources, even with the efficiency tricks that companies have already deployed. While US tech giants can afford to throw more hardware at the problem, Chinese AI company DeepSeek, which is cut...
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California’s newly signed AI law just gave Big Tech exactly what it wanted
On Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act into law, requiring AI companies to disclose their safety practices while stopping short of mandating actual safety testing. The law requires companies with annual revenues of at least $500 million to publish safety protocols on their websites and report incidents to...