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  1. Financial institutions have 30 days to disclose breaches under new rules

    Amendments contain loopholes that may blunt their effectiveness.

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  2. Arizona woman accused of helping North Koreans get remote IT jobs at 300 companies

    Alleged $6.8M conspiracy involved "laptop farm," identity theft, and résumé coaching.

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  3. Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running

    A journey through busted tapes, the Internet Old Farts Club, and SPARCstations.

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  4. BreachForums, an online bazaar for stolen data, seized by FBI

    An earlier iteration of the site was taken down last year; now its reincarnation is gone.

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  5. Google unveils Veo, a high-definition AI video generator that may rival Sora

    Google's video-synthesis model creates minute-long 1080p videos from written prompts.

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  6. Linux maintainers were infected for 2 years by SSH-dwelling backdoor with huge reach

    Ebury backdoors SSH servers in hosting providers, giving the malware extraordinary reach.

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  7. Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever leaves OpenAI six months after Altman ouster

    CEO Altman: "OpenAI would not be what it is without him."

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  8. Google strikes back at OpenAI with “Project Astra” AI agent prototype

    AI model updates galore at Google I/O, including 2M context window, Imagen 3, Veo, and more.

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  9. Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away

    "It’s easier to manage a team that’s happy.”

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  10. The hunt for rare bitcoin is nearing an end

    Rare bitcoin fragments are worth many times their face value.

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  11. Before launching, GPT-4o broke records on chatbot leaderboard under a secret name

    Anonymous chatbot that mystified and frustrated experts was OpenAI's latest model.

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  12. Black Basta ransomware group is imperiling critical infrastructure, groups warn

    Threat group has targeted 500 organizations. One is currently struggling to cope.

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  1. Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot

    New GPT-4o model can sing a bedtime story, detect facial expressions, read emotions.

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  2. Google patches its fifth zero-day vulnerability of the year in Chrome

    Exploit code for critical "use-after-free" bug is circulating in the wild.

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  3. Stack Overflow users sabotage their posts after OpenAI deal

    Anti-AI users who change or delete answers in protest are being punished.

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  4. Dell warns of “incident” that may have leaked customers’ personal info

    Notification follows claim of compromised database with 49M Dell customers' data.

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  5. Critical vulnerabilities in BIG-IP appliances leave big networks open to intrusion

    Hackers can exploit them to gain full administrative control of internal devices.

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  6. Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking

    Report claims new tracking starts May 13 with unclear consequences.

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  7. Robot dogs armed with AI-aimed rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation

    Quadrupeds being reviewed have automatic targeting systems but require human oversight to fire.

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  8. Ransomware mastermind LockBitSupp reveled in his anonymity—now he’s been ID’d

    The US places a $10 million bounty for the arrest of Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

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  9. Microsoft launches AI chatbot for spies

    Air-gapping GPT-4 model on secure network won't prevent it from potentially making things up.

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  10. Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose

    TunnelVision vulnerability has existed since 2002 and may already be known to attackers.

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  11. New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini

    In project headed by former Inflection chief, MAI-1 may have 500B parameters.

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  12. These dangerous scammers don’t even bother to hide their crimes

    Cybercriminals openly run dozens of scams across social media and messaging apps.

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  1. Microsoft plans to lock down Windows DNS like never before. Here’s how.

    ZTDNS brings the best of both worlds to DNS: encryption and fine-grained control.

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  2. Counterfeit Cisco gear ended up in US military bases, used in combat operations

    "One of the largest counterfeit-trafficking operations ever."

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  3. Microsoft ties executive pay to security following multiple failures and breaches

    Microsoft has been criticized for "preventable" failures and poor communication.

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  4. AI in space: Karpathy suggests AI chatbots as interstellar messengers to alien civilizations

    Andrej Karpathy muses about sending a LLM binary that could "wake up" and answer questions.

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  5. Maximum-severity GitLab flaw allowing account hijacking under active exploitation

    The threat is potentially grave because it could be used in supply-chain attacks.

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  6. Hacker free-for-all fights for control of home and office routers everywhere

    How and why nation-state hackers and cybercriminals coexist in the same router botnet.

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  7. Anthropic releases Claude AI chatbot iOS app

    Anthropic finally comes to mobile, launches plan for teams that includes 200K context window.

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  8. The BASIC programming language turns 60

    Easy-to-use language that drove Apple, TRS-80, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964.

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  9. Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer

    145,152-core Cheyenne supercomputer was 20th most powerful in the world in 2016.

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  10. Health care giant comes clean about recent hack and paid ransom

    Ransomware attack on the $371 billion company hamstrung US prescription market.

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  11. AWS S3 storage bucket with unlucky name nearly cost developer $1,300

    Amazon says it's working on stopping others from "making your AWS bill explode."

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  12. Mysterious “gpt2-chatbot” AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts

    Mystery LLM highlights transparency issues in AI testing.

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