That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows
Snapshotting and AI processing a screen every 3 seconds. What could possibly go wrong?
Dan Goodin
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Biz & IT // Informed technology
Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs
Even weirder: Why would Google give so many the "Featured" stamp for trustworthiness?
Dan Goodin
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Researchers concerned to find AI models misrepresenting their “reasoning” processes
New Anthropic research shows AI models often fail to disclose reasoning shortcuts.
Benj Edwards
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OpenAI helps spammers plaster 80,000 sites with messages that bypassed filters
Company didn't notice its chatbot was being abused for (at least) 4 months.
Dan Goodin
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After months of user complaints, Anthropic debuts new $200/month AI plan
Two-tiered "Claude Max" expands rate limits and offers traffic priority to subscribers.
Benj Edwards
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“The girl should be calling men.” Leak exposes Black Basta’s influence tactics.
Disclosure of tactics, techniques, and procedures provides rare glimpse into secretive group.
Dan Goodin
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Carmack defends AI tools after Quake fan calls Microsoft AI demo “disgusting”
Carmack: "Power tools" like AI are "central to all the progress in computers."
Benj Edwards
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Meta’s surprise Llama 4 drop exposes the gap between AI ambition and reality
Touted 10M token context proves elusive, while early performance tests disappoint experts.
Benj Edwards
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Most Read
NSA warns “fast flux” threatens national security. What is fast flux anyway?
Used by nation-states and crime groups, fast flux bypasses many common defenses.
Dan Goodin
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Gmail unveils end-to-end encrypted messages. Only thing is: It’s not true E2EE.
Yes, encryption/decryption occurs on end-user devices, but there's a catch.
Dan Goodin
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AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%
Automated AI bots seeking training data threaten Wikipedia project stability, foundation says.
Benj Edwards
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MCP: The new “USB-C for AI” that’s bringing fierce rivals together
Model context protocol standardizes how AI uses data sources, supported by OpenAI and Anthropic.
Benj Edwards
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What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.
A safe and proper rewrite should take years not months.
WIRED
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Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data
New Spectral JPEG XL compression reduces file sizes, making spectral imaging more practical.
Benj Edwards
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Oracle has reportedly suffered 2 separate breaches exposing thousands of customers‘ PII
Alleged breaches affect Oracle Cloud and Oracle Health.
Dan Goodin
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Gemini hackers can deliver more potent attacks with a helping hand from… Gemini
Hacking LLMs has always been more art than science. A new attack on Gemini could change that.
Dan Goodin
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OpenAI’s new AI image generator is potent and bound to provoke
The visual apocalypse is probably nigh, but perhaps seeing was never believing.
Benj Edwards
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Broadcom’s VMware says Siemens pirated “thousands” of copies of its software
VMware claims Siemens showed it a list of the VMware products it's using unlicensed.
Scharon Harding
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Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
AI bots hungry for data are taking down FOSS sites by accident, but humans are fighting back.
Benj Edwards
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Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers
Some European cloud companies have seen an increase in business.
WIRED
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You can now download the source code that sparked the AI boom
CHM releases code for 2012 AlexNet breakthrough that proved "deep learning" could work.
Benj Edwards
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Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts
New approach punishes AI companies that ignore "no crawl" directives.
Benj Edwards
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Anthropic’s new AI search feature digs through the web for answers
Anthropic Claude just caught up with a ChatGPT feature from 2023—but will it be accurate?
Benj Edwards
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Study finds AI-generated meme captions funnier than human ones on average
Mollick proclaims "the meme Turing Test has been passed," but a new study offers a key caveat.
Benj Edwards
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Nvidia announces DGX desktop “personal AI supercomputers”
Asus, Dell, HP, and others to produce powerful desktop machines that run AI models locally.
Benj Edwards
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Nvidia announces “Rubin Ultra” and “Feynman” AI chips for 2027 and 2028
CEO Jensen Huang says new chips will power robots and billions of AI agents.
Benj Edwards
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Farewell Photoshop? Google’s new AI lets you edit images by asking.
New experimental AI allows no-skill photo editing, including removing watermarks. But it's not perfect.
Benj Edwards
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Large enterprises scramble after supply-chain attack spills their secrets
tj-actions/changed-files corrupted to run credential-stealing memory scraper.
Dan Goodin
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Researchers astonished by tool’s apparent success at revealing AI’s “hidden objectives”
Anthropic trains custom AI to hide objectives, but different "personas" spill their secrets.
Benj Edwards
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AI search engines cite incorrect news sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
Benj Edwards
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AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead
Cursor AI tells user, "I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work."
Benj Edwards
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Anthropic CEO floats idea of giving AI a “quit job” button, sparking skepticism
"Probably the craziest thing I've said so far," he admitted during an interview.
Benj Edwards
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New Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan will pick up where Pat Gelsinger left off
Tan will start as CEO on March 18, taking over from interim co-CEOs.
Andrew Cunningham
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Android apps laced with North Korean spyware found in Google Play
Google's Firebase platform also hosted configuration settings used by the apps.
Dan Goodin
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Google’s new robot AI can fold delicate origami, close zipper bags without damage
Google Gemini Robotics AI model gives robots fine motor skills and adaptability for general world use.
Benj Edwards
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OpenAI pushes AI agent capabilities with new developer API
New tools may help fulfill CEO's claim that agents will "join the workforce" in 2025.
Benj Edwards
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