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T-Mobile on Monday said it experienced a hack that exposed account PINs and other customer data in the company’s second network intrusion this year and the ninth since 2018.
The intrusion, which started on February 24 and lasted until March 30, affected 836 customers, according to a notification on the website of Maine
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On Wednesday, researchers from DeepMind released a paper ostensibly about using deep reinforcement learning to train miniature humanoid robots in complex movement skills and strategic understanding, resulting in efficient performance in a simulated one-on-one soccer game.
But few
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When it announced iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura at its Worldwide Developers Conference last summer, one of the features Apple introduced was something called “Rapid Security Response.” The feature is meant to enable quicker and more frequent security patches for Apple’s newest operating systems, especially for WebKit-related flaws that affect
Enlarge / Geoffrey Hinton, chief scientific adviser at the Vector Institute, speaks during The International Economic Forum of the Americas (IEFA) Toronto Global Forum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards)
According to the New York Times, AI pioneer Dr. Geoffrey Hinton has resigned from Google so he can “speak freely”
Invoking another user’s privileges to execute a command. (credit: Cavan Images/Getty)
Two of the most fundamental tools of the modern Unix-like command line, sudo and su, are being rewritten in the modern language Rust as part of a wider effort to get critical but aging infrastructure pieces replaced by memory-safe counterparts.
As detailed at Prossimo, a joint team
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Federal authorities, tech pundits, and news outlets want you to be on the lookout for a scary cyberattack that can hack your phone when you do nothing more than plug it into a public charging station. These warnings of “juice jacking,” as the threat has come to be known, have been circulating for
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Servers running software sold by Salesforce are leaking sensitive data managed by government agencies, banks, and other organizations, according to a post published Friday by KrebsOnSecurity.
At least five separate sites run by the state of Vermont permitted access to sensitive data to anyone, Brian Krebs reported. The state’s Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program was among
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On Wednesday, US Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Representatives Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), Don Beyer (D-Va.), and Ken Buck (R-Colo.) announced bipartisan legislation that seeks to prevent an artificial intelligence system from making nuclear launch decisions. The Block Nuclear Launch by Autonomous Artificial Intelligence Act would prohibit the use
Enlarge / Intel’s flagship desktop CPU, the Core i9-13900K. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)
Intel has released its financial results for the first quarter of 2023, and the numbers aren’t good: The company brought in $11.7 billion, a drop of 36 percent from Q1 of 2022. Because of the decline in revenue, Intel lost $2.8 billion, the biggest loss in the
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On Tuesday, OpenAI announced new controls for ChatGPT users that allow them to turn off chat history, simultaneously opting out of providing that conversation history as data for training AI models. Also, users can now export chat history for local storage.
The new controls, which rolled out to all ChatGPT users today, can be
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Exploit code for a critical printer software vulnerability became publicly available on Monday in a release that may exacerbate the threat of malware attacks that have already been underway for the past five days.
The vulnerability resides in print management software known as PaperCut, which the company’s website says has more than 100 million users
