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They’ve begun: Attacks exploiting vulnerability with maximum 10 severity rating

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Ransomware hackers have started exploiting one or more recently fixed vulnerabilities that pose a grave threat to enterprise networks around the world, researchers said. One of the vulnerabilities has a severity rating of 10 out of a possible 10 and another 9.9. They reside in WS_FTP Server, a file-sharing app made...

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Deepfake celebrities begin shilling products on social media, causing alarm

Enlarge / A cropped portion of the unauthorized AI-generated version of Hanks that the actor warned about on his Instagram feed. (credit: Tom Hanks) News of AI deepfakes spread quickly when you’re Tom Hanks. On Sunday, the actor posted a warning on Instagram about an unauthorized AI-generated version of himself being used to sell a...

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Researchers show how easy it is to defeat AI watermarks

Enlarge (credit: James Marshall/Getty Images) Soheil Feizi considers himself an optimistic person. But the University of Maryland computer science professor is blunt when he sums up the current state of watermarking AI images. “We don’t have any reliable watermarking at this point,” he says. “We broke all of them.” For one of the two types...

Five people were wounded in a shooting after a homecoming event at Morgan State
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Five people were wounded in a shooting after a homecoming event at Morgan State

Five people were wounded, none critically, in a shooting that interrupted a homecoming week celebration at Morgan State University in Baltimore on Tuesday and prompted an hourslong lockdown of the historically Black college. Students sheltered in place for about four hours, as police went room to room looking for suspects. Classes were canceled for Wednesday....

Randy Arozarena’s mom’s opening pitch was straight gas
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Randy Arozarena’s mom’s opening pitch was straight gas

A player’s mom throwing the first pitch at an MLB game, what a sweet story. Add to it the fact that her day at the mound is the first time that she has seen her son play in the big leagues, the story is worthy of a tissue dab to the corner of both eyes....

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Laphonza Butler becomes the only Black woman in the U.S. Senate

Laphonza Butler, a prominent Democratic strategist who served as an adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris, will fill the seat vacated by  longtime U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who passed Friday at the age of 90. California Gov. Gavin Newsom made the pick in fulfillment of a promise he’d made three years ago, when he...

How to Stop Being a Financial Procrastinator
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How to Stop Being a Financial Procrastinator

Do you chronically put off mundane financial tasks like tracking expenses, paying bills, and filing taxes? Does even checking your bank account balance fill you with dread? If so, you may be a financial procrastinator. Read more…