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  1. Microsoft comes under blistering criticism for “grossly irresponsible” security

    Azure looks like a house of cards collapsing under the weight of exploits and vulnerabilities.

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  2. Meta releases open source AI audio tools, AudioCraft

    Meta's suite of three AI models can create sound effects and music from descriptions.

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  3. Researchers figure out how to make AI misbehave, serve up prohibited content

    Adversarial attack involves using text strings and may be unstoppable.

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  4. Hosting Ars, part three: CI/CD, or how I learned to stop worrying and love DevOps

    This time we discuss how we manage, update, and deploy the code that makes Ars work.

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  5. Canon warns printer users to manually wipe Wi-Fi settings before discarding

    If you thought a factory reset wipes Wi-Fi passwords, you'd be wrong.

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  6. Western Digital HDD capacity hits 28TB as Seagate looks to 30TB and beyond

    WD believes it can wring a bit more capacity out of existing PMR and SMR tech.

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  7. Meta plans AI-powered chatbots to boost social media numbers

    Amid competition from TikTok, Meta looks to the next frontier of user engagement.

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  8. It’s a hot 0-day summer for Apple, Google, and Microsoft security fixes

    July saw two high-severity bugs in Firefox, while Oracle patched over 500 vulnerabilities.

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  9. Multiple Chinese APTs establish major beachheads inside sensitive infrastructure

    Three major campaigns from 3 different Chinese groups are keeping defenders busy.

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  10. Dissolving circuit boards in water sounds better than shredding and burning

    They're easier to recycle, and chips come right off. Will they take off?

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  11. Arizona law school embraces ChatGPT use in student applications

    School's embrace of AI comes as others clamp down on tech-assisted applications.

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  12. Google’s RT-2 AI model brings us one step closer to WALL-E

    "First-of-its-kind" robot AI model can recognize trash and perform complex actions.

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  1. Android malware steals user credentials using optical character recognition

    OCR isn't the only advanced technique used by "CherryBlos" apps.

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  2. Most of the 100 million people who signed up for Threads stopped using it

    "We're seeing more people coming back daily than I'd expected," Zuckerberg said.

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  3. Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion XL, its next-gen image synthesis model

    New SDXL 1.0 release allows hi-res AI image synthesis that can run on a local machine.

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  4. US senator blasts Microsoft for “negligent cybersecurity practices”

    Rebuke follows recent breach that exposed email accounts of US federal officials.

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  5. OpenAI discontinues its AI writing detector due to “low rate of accuracy”

    Research shows that any AI writing detector can be defeated—and false positives abound.

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  6. Windows, hardware, Xbox sales are dim spots in a solid Microsoft earnings report

    Company also expects to spend ever more money to support its ongoing AI efforts.

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  7. Twitter commandeers @X username from man who had it since 2007

    Twitter took Gene X Hwang's username and only offered him "some merch."

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  8. Pocket assistant: ChatGPT comes to Android

    OpenAI brings the popular AI language model to an official Android client app.

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  9. Major AI companies form group to research, keep control of AI

    Skeptics say Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI hope to avoid regulation.

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  10. How we host Ars Technica in the cloud, part two: The software

    A deep dive into the applications and functions that keep Ars humming along in the cloud.

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  11. Encryption-breaking, password-leaking bug in many AMD CPUs could take months to fix

    "Zenbleed" bug affects all Zen 2-based Ryzen, Threadripper, and EPYC CPUs.

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  12. Researchers find deliberate backdoor in police radio encryption algorithm

    Vendors knew all about it, but most customers were clueless.

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  1. ChatGPT’s new personalization feature could save users a lot of time

    Beta feature allows ChatGPT to remember key details with less prompt repetition.

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  2. AlmaLinux says Red Hat source changes won’t kill its RHEL-compatible distro

    Red Hat made being a 1:1 clone hard. So AlmaLinux is pivoting and speeding up.

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  3. The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives

    In this deep-dive explainer, we look at a big-business mainstay.

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  4. Zyxel users still getting hacked by DDoS botnet emerge as public nuisance No. 1

    12 weeks after critical vulnerability was patched, devices are still being wrangled.

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  5. Redditors prank AI-powered news mill with “Glorbo” in World of Warcraft

    "Glorbo" isn't real, but a news-writing AI model didn't know it—and then it wrote about itself.

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  6. The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president

    1998 plea for restraint reveals a lost world where the 'Net was an opt-in experience.

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  7. Firmware vulnerabilities in millions of computers could give hackers superuser status

    BMCs give near-total control over entire fleets of servers. What happens when they're hacked?

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

    US agency urged Microsoft to expand access to logs that can identify cyberattacks.

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

    "Genesis" will seek to assist journalists, not replace them—yet.

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

    Either way, experts think OpenAI should be less opaque about its AI model architecture.

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

    Once crude and unsophisticated, DDoSes are now on par with those by nation-states.

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  12. The Cyber Trust Mark is a voluntary IoT label coming in 2024. What does it mean?

    The FCC and other agencies have their hands full trying to simplify a big topic.

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