Software Development

 Collaboration comes as tech giant faces multibillion-dollar lawsuit from The New York Times.   Enlarge / Cube with Microsoft logo on top of their office building on 8th Avenue and 42nd Street near Times Square in New York City. (credit: Deb Cohn-Orbach/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Microsoft is working with media startup Semafor to …

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 Hong Kong firm tricked by simulation of multiple real people in video chat, including voices.   Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards) On Sunday, a report from the South China Morning Post revealed a significant financial loss suffered by a multinational company’s Hong Kong office, amounting to HK$200 million (US$25.6 million), due to a …

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 Anti-censorship voices are working to highlight reports of one Indian company’s hacker past.   Enlarge (credit: WIRED staff/Getty Images) Hacker-for-hire firms like NSO Group and Hacking Team have become notorious for enabling their customers to spy on vulnerable members of civil society. But as far back as a decade ago in India, a startup called …

A startup allegedly “hacked the world.” Then came the censorship—and now the backlash. Read More »

 Things were already bad with two critical zero-days. Then Ivanti disclosed a new one.   Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Federal civilian agencies have until midnight Saturday morning to sever all network connections to Ivanti VPN software, which is currently under mass exploitation by multiple threat groups. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency mandated the …

Agencies using vulnerable Ivanti products have until Saturday to disconnect them Read More »

 Routers were being used to conceal attacks on critical infrastructure.   Enlarge / A Wi-Fi router. (credit: Getty Images | deepblue4you) The US Justice Department said Wednesday that the FBI surreptitiously sent commands to hundreds of infected small office and home office routers to remove malware China state-sponsored hackers were using to wage attacks on …

Chinese malware removed from SOHO routers after FBI issues covert commands Read More »

 Bring different AI roles into the same chatbot conversation history.   Enlarge / With so many choices, selecting the perfect GPT can be confusing. (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a new feature in ChatGPT that allows users to pull custom personalities called “GPTs” into any ChatGPT conversation with the @ symbol. It allows …

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 Vimeo also used by legitimate user who posted booby-trapped content.   Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Ars Technica was recently used to serve second-stage malware in a campaign that used a never-before-seen attack chain to cleverly cover its tracks, researchers from security firm Mandiant reported Tuesday. A benign image of a pizza was uploaded to a …

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 Poem/1 Kickstarter seeks $103K for fun ChatGPT-fed clock that may hallucinate the time.   Enlarge / A CAD render of the Poem/1 sitting on a bookshelf. (credit: Matt Webb) On Tuesday, product developer Matt Webb launched a Kickstarter funding project for a whimsical e-paper clock called the “Poem/1” that tells the current time using AI …

Rhyming AI-powered clock sometimes lies about the time, makes up words Read More »

 CEO says firm will “keep doing the same stuff,” at least “while I’m in charge.”   Enlarge / Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing! (credit: Andrew Cunningham) The business arm of Raspberry Pi is preparing to make …

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 Names of unpublished research papers, presentations, and PHP scripts also leaked.   Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) ChatGPT is leaking private conversations that include login credentials and other personal details of unrelated users, screenshots submitted by an Ars reader on Monday indicated. Two of the seven screenshots the reader submitted stood out in particular. Both contained …

Ars reader reports ChatGPT is sending him conversations from unrelated AI users Read More »