Developers joke about “coding like cavemen” as AI service suffers major outage
Growing dependency on AI coding tools The speed at which news of the outage spread shows…
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Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978
On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the…
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Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked
Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked…
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In search of riches, hackers plant 4G-enabled Raspberry Pi in bank network
“One of the most unusual elements of this case was the attacker’s use of physical access…
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AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state’s human residents
Wyoming’s data center boom Cheyenne is no stranger to data centers, having attracted facilities from Microsoft…
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Pro-Ukrainian hackers take credit for attack that snarls Russian flight travel
Russia’s biggest airline cancelled dozens of flights on Monday following a failure of the state-owned company’s…
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After BlackSuit is taken down, new ransomware group Chaos emerges
Talos said Chaos is likely either a rebranding of the BlackSuit ransomware or is operated by…
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Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes
But unlike the Gemini incident where the AI model confabulated phantom directories, Replit’s failures took a…
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Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps
Starting today, Google is implementing a change that will enable its Gemini AI engine to interact…
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Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps of junk traffic
Large-scale attacks designed to bring down Internet services by sending them more traffic than they can…
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Israel-tied Predatory Sparrow hackers are waging cyberwar on Iran’s financial system
Elliptic also confirmed in its blog post about the attack that crypto tracing shows Nobitex does…
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In landmark suit, Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for AI character theft
The legal action follows similar moves in other creative industries, with more than a dozen major…
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Found in the wild: 2 Secure Boot exploits. Microsoft is patching only 1 of them.
Researchers have unearthed two publicly available exploits that completely evade protections offered by Secure Boot, the…
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Ransomware kingpin “Stern” apparently IDed by German law enforcement
Stern’s eminence within Russian cybercrime has been widely documented. The cryptocurrency-tracing firm Chainalysis does not publicly…
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Where hyperscale hardware goes to retire: Ars visits a very big ITAD site
Inside the laptop/desktop examination bay at SK TES’s Fredericksburg, Va. site. Credit: SK tes Inside the…
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What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.
Like many legacy government IT systems, SSA systems contain code written in COBOL, a programming language…
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Cutting-edge Chinese “reasoning” model rivals OpenAI o1—and it’s free to download
Unlike conventional LLMs, these SR models take extra time to produce responses, and this extra time…
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Here’s how hucksters are manipulating Google to promote shady Chrome extensions
The people overseeing the security of Google’s Chrome browser explicitly forbid third-party extension developers from trying…
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Arm and Qualcomm fight in court over the future of Snapdragon X Elite chips
Arm and Qualcomm’s dispute over Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips is continuing in court this week,…
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Code found online exploits LogoFAIL to install Bootkitty Linux backdoor
Normally, Secure Boot prevents the UEFI from running all subsequent files unless they bear a digital…
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A year after ditching waitlist, Starlink says it is “sold out” in parts of US
The Starlink waitlist is back in certain parts of the US, including several large cities on…
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AI-generated shows could replace lost DVD revenue, Ben Affleck says
Last week, actor and director Ben Affleck shared his views on AI’s role in filmmaking during…
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IBM boosts the amount of computation you can get done on quantum hardware
By making small adjustments to the frequency that the qubits are operating at, it’s possible to…
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Archive.org, a repository of the history of the Internet, has a data breach
Archive.org, possibly one of the only entities to attempt to preserve the entire history of the…
