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Torrent of image-based phishing emails are harder to detect and more convincing

The arms race between scammers and defenders continues. https://bit.ly/46tTRm8

Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn’t quite pan out

The flight from Musk's Twitter to the "free" fediverse never really took off. https://bit.ly/43koEiJ

Brave aims to curb practice of websites that port scan visitors

Brave will allow users to choose which sites can access local network resources. https://bit.ly/3qWE5Qn

Fears grow of deepfake ID scams following Progress hack

Hackers might seek to do more than extort companies. https://bit.ly/3NRIxce

Casualties keep growing in this month’s mass exploitation of MOVEit 0-day

The dramatic fallout continues, with as many as 122 organizations now breached. https://bit.ly/3CPGpeJ

Prominent cryptocurrency exchange infected with previously unseen Mac malware

It's not yet clear how the full-featured JokerSpy backdoor gets installed. https://bit.ly/3PzqJ78

“Stunning”—Midjourney update wows AI artists with camera-like feature

Midjourney v5.2 features camera-like zoom control over framing, more realism. https://bit.ly/3r2dh1m

AI-generated Secret Invasion intro angers Marvel artists and fans alike

Marvel artist: "Unethical, dangerous, and designed solely to eliminate artists' careers." https://bit.ly/43PlGnp

Camera review site DPReview finds a buyer, avoids shutdown by Amazon

Amazon layoffs were supposed to shut down the 25-year-old site back in April. https://bit.ly/449ghHf

Purely AI-generated songs declared ineligible for Grammy Awards

"A work that contains no human authorship is not eligible in any categories." https://bit.ly/44cbwN5

Millions of Americans’ personal DMV data exposed in massive MOVEit hack

Over 6.5 million residents of two states affected, impact may potentially widen. https://bit.ly/3CEVr6R

EU votes to ban AI in biometric surveillance, require disclosure from AI systems

Nonbinding EU draft AI law gets tougher, but it's still open to negotiation. https://bit.ly/3X7juF7

Russia-backed hackers unleash new USB-based malware on Ukraine’s military

Shuckworm's relentless attacks seek intel for use in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. https://bit.ly/443ecg0

OpenAI rolls out big chatbot API upgrades for developers

API updates include 4x larger conversation memory for GPT-3.5 and function calling. https://bit.ly/3CrM9uZ

Paul McCartney: AI has enabled a “final” Beatles song

AI voice-separation tech pioneered for "Get Back" will bring Lennon demo to life. https://bit.ly/3Pbju50

Hackers can steal cryptographic keys by video-recording power LEDs 60 feet away

Key-leaking side channels are a fact of life. Now they can be done by video-recording power LEDs. https://bit.ly/3Pd2Amv

Nature bans AI-generated art from its 153-year-old science journal

"The process of publishing ... is underpinned by a shared commitment to integrity." https://bit.ly/3Cru2VW

AI-powered church service in Germany draws a large crowd

"I was positively surprised how well it worked," said one attendee. https://bit.ly/3N68SBR

Researchers discover that ChatGPT prefers repeating 25 jokes over and over

When tested, "Over 90% of 1,008 generated jokes were the same 25 jokes." https://bit.ly/45WgXBt

UK’s plans for “first global summit” on AI safety draw criticism

Announcement does not include "a single voice from civil society or academia," says critic. https://bit.ly/45RYKoN

Nvidia’s new monster CPU+GPU chip may power the next gen of AI chatbots

It takes a lot of computing power to pretend to be human. https://bit.ly/42AW9wt

Dozens of popular Minecraft mods found infected with Fracturiser malware

Stop downloading or updating Minecraft mods for now, investigators say. https://bit.ly/3IZHuUR

FBI warns of increasing use of AI-generated deepfakes in sextortion schemes

Deepfake videos show real people engaged in fake sex. https://bit.ly/43NyNVo

Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion

Image-synthesis technique relies upon QR's natural error-correction properties. https://bit.ly/3MRTQzq

Mass exploitation of critical MOVEit flaw is ransacking orgs big and small

SQL injection attacks on MOVEit file transfer service likely to get worse. https://bit.ly/3Nc0q5g

Apple avoids “AI” hype at WWDC keynote by baking ML into products

Apple prefers using "machine learning," or just having AI work in the background. https://bit.ly/3NdeETh

They plugged GPT-4 into Minecraft—and unearthed new potential for AI

A bot plays the video game by tapping the text generator to pick up new skills. https://bit.ly/3OVny9o

Air Force denies running simulation where AI drone “killed” its operator

"We've never run that experiment," says original source, who "misspoke." https://bit.ly/42kwCb4

Millions of PC motherboards were sold with a firmware backdoor

Hidden code in many Gigabyte motherboards invisibly and insecurely downloads programs. https://bit.ly/3N85ibo

AI-expanded album cover artworks go viral thanks to Photoshop’s Generative Fill

Generative Fill uses AI to dream up larger versions of famous artwork. https://bit.ly/3qmm7qp