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AI-enabled cheating has surged, particularly in virtual technical job interviews. Would-be job candidates increasingly use AI tools off-camera to feed them answers, such as responses to coding challenges, and in some cases turning to deepfake technology to impersonate...
Amazon is facing a proposed class action lawsuit alleging it misleads customers by advertising digital movies and TV shows as 'purchases,' when in reality buyers only receive revocable licenses that can disappear if Amazon loses distribution rights. From the Hollywood...
Changes in US government support for electric vehicles have led to a buying bonanza—and a darker long-term future for the US auto industry.
Phone lines also down as officials rely on social media to issue updates The state of Nevada is now two days into a cyberattack that has brought down many of its digital services.…
As cyber threats become more frequent and complex, CISOs are increasingly concerned about their organization’s ability to withstand a material attack. 76 percent feel at risk of experiencing a material cyberattack in the next 12 months, yet 58 percent say they are...
The Reddit cofounder joins WIRED’s “Uncanny Valley” podcast and opens up about his early days in tech, his plans for Digg, the future of women’s sports, and what his immigrant mom taught him about America.
In a recent poll of technology executives, 92% said they expected to increase AI spending over the next year. Half expected more than 50% of their organization’s AI deployments to be autonomous within the next 24 months. These AI investments include machine learning,...
Drawing on key insights from the paper “AI Risk Atlas: Taxonomy and Tools for Navigating AI Risks,” it’s clear the industry faces a crucial challenge. The authors provide a comprehensive framework for understanding, classifying, and mitigating the risks tied to...
In early 2025, GitHub lit up with confusion and more than a little panic. Thousands of developers found suspicious issues posted in their public repositories, flagged with a GitHub-style “Security Alert: Unusual Access Attempt” warning. The problem? It wasn’t GitHub....
Chatbots ignore their guardrails when your grammar sucks, researchers find Updated Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have discovered the key to getting large language model (LLM) chatbots to ignore their guardrails, and it's quite simple.…
Downloading apps from an official app store helps to avoid dodgy software. The obstacles that can stand in the way of developers getting their apps into the likes of the Google Play Store, however, means that sideloading remains incredibly popular. Sideloaded apps –...
Everything's fine, the ad slinger assures us Cloud security vendor Zscaler says customers of Google’s Play Store have downloaded more than 19 million instances of malware-laden apps that evaded the web giant’s security scans.…
Elon Musk ‘s xAI startup is suing both OpenAI and Apple for alleged anticompetitive behavior relating to artificial intelligence. Musk is focusing on these two firms because of the partnership and collaborative arrangements that exist between them. OpenAI has an agreement...
Shadow stacks are a control-flow-integrity feature designed to defend against exploits that manipulate a thread's call stack. The kernel first gained support for hardware-implemented shadow stacks, for the x86 architecture, in the 6.6 release; 64-bit Arm support followed in...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ffmpeg, firebird3.0, and luajit), Fedora (chromium, python3-docs, and python3.13), Oracle (aide, firefox, glibc, libxml2, and tomcat), Red Hat (aide, git, kernel, kernel-rt, libarchive, pam, python-cryptography, python3,...
Russia's new Soyuz-5 rocket is set for a December debut as Moscow seeks to end reliance on Ukrainian technology and replace its aging Proton-M fleet. Ars Technica reports: According to the report, translated for Ars by Rob Mitchell, the debut launch of Soyuz-5 will mark the...
New research from Stanford provides the clearest available evidence that AI is reshaping the workforce—but it’s complicated.
Many people turn to AI to improve their writing, their photos, or their videos. YouTube has been doing the same, quietly enhancing the look of users’ uploaded videos through the use of artificial intelligence. So, what is the problem? Many creators are upset not so much...
What the Dickens is going on in Germany? Opinion Let’s talk law and let’s talk donkey. Or. in the British vernacular, ass. In particular, let’s go back to Charles Dickens, a pungent critic of the law, who had one of his characters in Oliver Twist say of a legal...
Two of Japan's largest media groups are suing AI search engine Perplexity over alleged copyright infringement, joining a growing list of news publishers taking legal action against AI companies using their content. FT: Japanese media group Nikkei, which owns the Financial...
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