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25  avril     20h55
Apple releases eight small AI language models aimed at on-device use
Benj Edwards    OpenELM mirrors efforts by Microsoft to make useful small AI language models that run locally.
    18h49
Millions of IPs remain infected by USB worm years after its creators left it for dead
Dan Goodin    Ability of PlugX worm to live on presents a vexing dilemma: Delete it or leave it be.
    15h30
School athletic director arrested for framing principal using AI voice synthesis
Benj Edwards    Police uncover plot to defame principal with AI generated racist and antisemitic comments.
24  avril     20h55
Nation-state hackers exploit Cisco firewall 0-days to backdoor government networks
Dan Goodin    Perimeter devices ought to prevent network hacks. Why are so many devices allowing attacks
    20h14
Deepfakes in the courtroom: US judicial panel debates new AI evidence rules
Benj Edwards    Panel of eight judges confronts deep faking AI tech that may undermine legal trials.
23  avril     21h03
Hackers infect users of antivirus service that delivered updates over HTTP
Dan Goodin    eScan AV updates were delivered over HTTP for five years.
    20h47
Microsoft’s Phi-3 shows the surprising power of small, locally run AI language models
Benj Edwards    Microsoft’s . B parameter Phi may rival GPT . , signaling a new era of small language models.
22  avril     20h36
Windows vulnerability reported by the NSA exploited to install Russian malware
Dan Goodin    Microsoft didn’t disclose the in the wild exploits by Kremlin backed group until now.
19  avril     13h07
Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track
Benj Edwards    YouTube videos of K celebrities helped train AI model to animate photos in real time.
18  avril     21h04
LLMs keep leaping with Llama 3, Meta’s newest open-weights AI model
Benj Edwards    Zuckerberg says new AI model was still learning when Meta stopped training.
    18h42
LastPass users targeted in phishing attacks good enough to trick even the savvy
Dan Goodin    Campaign used email, SMS, and voice calls to trick targets into divulging master passwords.
    11h00
OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022
Benj Edwards    How a group of friends found themselves at the center of a fierce debate about the future of art.
17  avril     21h55
Kremlin-backed actors spread disinformation ahead of US elections
Dan Goodin    To a lesser extent, China and Iran also peddle disinfo in hopes of influencing voters.
    16h44
Broadcom says many VMware perpetual licenses got support extensions
Scharon Harding    Broadcom reportedly accused of changing VMware licensing and support conditions.
16  avril     21h51
Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap
Kevin Purdy    One does not simply suggest changing a kernel line to help out a parsing tool.
    21h31
Attackers are pummeling networks around the world with millions of login attempts
Dan Goodin    Attacks coming from nearly, IP addresses take aim at VPNs, SSH and web apps.
    14h51
New UK law targets despicable individuals who create AI sex deepfakes
Benj Edwards    Under new law, those who create the images would face a fine and possible jail time.
    13h55
Why the US government’s overreliance on Microsoft is a big problem
WIRED    Microsoft continues to get a free pass after series of cybersecurity failures.
15  avril     19h46
Alleged cryptojacking scheme consumed 3.5M of stolen computing to make just 1M
Dan Goodin    Indictment says man tricked cloud providers into giving him services he never paid for.
    11h00
Framework’s software and firmware have been a mess, but it’s working on them
Andrew Cunningham    New features, security updates, and Linux support are all on a long to do list.