Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Searching Google for downloads of popular software has always come with risks, but over the past few months, it has been downright dangerous, according to researchers and a pseudorandom collection of Read more…
Enlarge / A realistic artist’s depiction of an encounter with ChatGPT Plus. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica / OpenAI) On Wednesday, Reuters reported that AI bot ChatGPT reached an estimated 100 million active monthly Read more…
As many as 29,000 network storage devices manufactured by Taiwan-based QNAP are vulnerable to hacks that are easy to carry out and give unauthenticated users on the Internet complete control, a security firm has warned. Read more…
Enlarge / A still image from the short film Dog and Boy,, which uses image synthesis to help generate background artwork. (credit: Netflix) Over the past year, generative AI has kicked off a wave of Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty) SSDs have usurped hard disk drives (HDDs) when it comes to performance, but whether building a network-attached storage (NAS) or having high-capacity needs on a budget, plenty of people still rely on Read more…
Enlarge / An image from Stable Diffusion’s training set compared (left) to a similar Stable Diffusion generation (right) when prompted with “Ann Graham Lotz.” (credit: Carlini et al., 2023) On Monday, a group of AI Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) In the past year, a new term has arisen to describe an online scam raking in millions, if not billions, of dollars per year. It’s called “pig butchering,” Read more…
Enlarge GitHub said unknown intruders gained unauthorized access to some of its code repositories and stole code-signing certificates for two of its desktop applications: Desktop and Atom. Code-signing certificates place a cryptographic stamp on code Read more…
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of an exploding ball of music. (credit: Ars Technica) On Thursday, researchers from Google announced a new generative AI model called MusicLM that can create 24 KHz musical audio from Read more…
Enlarge / The Russian logo of Yandex, the country’s largest search engine and a tech company with many divisions, inside the company’s headquarters. (credit: SOPA Images / Getty Images) Nearly 45GB of source code files, Read more…