Authorities in the Netherlands said they dismantled a botnet that comprised more than 17 million devices and were managed by 200 servers in a joint operation by the police and the National Cyber Security Center. The action, announced Thursday, came about after a security researcher reported the sprawling network to authorities. The host infrastructure was...
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I Tried to Sell My House With A.I.
Over five frantic days, I gambled my family’s life savings on a hunch that A.I. could outperform a real estate agent.
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Anthropic Tops OpenAI to Become the World’s Most Valuable A.I. Start-Up
Anthropic raised $65 billion in new fund-raising that put its value at $900 billion, ahead of OpenAI’s last valuation of $730 billion, as the companies duel for A.I. dominance.
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A.I. Is Making Scams Hard to Spot. Here’s How to Protect Yourself.
A criminal could be masquerading as a celebrity, web store or family member asking for your money. Detecting scams requires a new approach.
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In Argentina, U.S. Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel Finds An Escape
The billionaire’s new roots in Argentina are said to be partly motivated by concerns about the future of the United States and shared beliefs with Argentina’s right-wing leader.
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Teachers Union Urges Schools to Curb A.I. Chatbots and Screen Time
The American Federation of Teachers recommended “no screens” at all for those in second grade or younger, and no A.I. chatbots for students in elementary school.
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Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code
The controversy over vibe coding reached a new high this week after a developer added hidden instructions to his open source Java testing app to sabotage projects performed by AI coding agents. The instructions were added to jqwik, a test engine for JUnit 5, a platform for testing Java virtual machine frameworks. On Monday, jqwik...
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Go Ask Alice Why Tech Start-Ups Are Spending Big on Hype Videos
A Mad Hatter and a giant rabbit sit around a table discussing an A.I. start-up. This is normal behavior around the Bay Area these days.
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Teachers Union Urges Schools to Curb A.I. Chatbots and Screen Time
The American Federation of Teachers recommended “no screens” at all for those in second grade or younger, and no A.I. chatbots for students in elementary school.
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Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity
Over the decades, there has been no shortage of sites using clever techniques to covertly track visitors’ browsing histories, device fingerprints, and log keystrokes and mouse movements in real time. Even Meta and Yandex were recently caught joining in the privacy-invasive free-for-all. Now sites have a new way to spy on their visitors: measuring subtle...