The Cloud Secure

Routers were being used to conceal attacks on critical infrastructure. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2000376&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Bring different AI roles into the same chatbot conversation history. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2000179&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Vimeo also used by legitimate user who posted booby-trapped content. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2000017&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Poem/1 Kickstarter seeks $103K for fun ChatGPT-fed clock that may hallucinate the time. https://arstechnica.com/?p=1999895&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

CEO says firm will "keep doing the same stuff," at least "while I'm in charge." https://arstechnica.com/?p=1999893&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Names of unpublished research papers, presentations, and PHP scripts also leaked. https://arstechnica.com/?p=1999872&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Site gave ChatGPT 3 stars and 48% privacy score: "Best used for creativity, not facts." https://arstechnica.com/?p=1999788&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

How does a legacy test account grant access to read every Office 365 account? https://arstechnica.com/?p=1999478&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

GPT-4 wasn't putting in the work. Also, lower prices for GPT 3.5 Turbo, other model updates. https://arstechnica.com/?p=1999209&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Hacks by Kremlin-backed group continue to hit hard. https://arstechnica.com/?p=1999178&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Job cuts hit Xbox, ZeniMax businesses, too, reports say. https://arstechnica.com/?p=1999036&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Ransomware is likely to be the biggest beneficiary in the next 2 years, UK's GCHQ says. https://arstechnica.com/?p=1998885&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Lumiere generates five-second videos that "portray realistic, diverse and coherent motion." https://arstechnica.com/?p=1998725&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Francis fears "the creation and diffusion of images that appear perfectly plausible but false." https://arstechnica.com/?p=1998573&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Orgs that haven't acted yet should, even if it means suspending VPN services. https://bit.ly/3u8t1BJ

Čapek: "The world needed mechanical robots, for it believes in machines more than it believes in life." https://bit.ly/47Mcykj

There are, as you might expect, a few disagreements about what's most important. https://bit.ly/497IJf5

For now, there's no reason for concern, but that could change in coming years. https://bit.ly/3u6KL0s

Senior execs' emails accessed in network breach that wasn't caught for 2 months. https://bit.ly/3tZXRwl

"The man I am now would do things very differently," Reiser says in long letter. https://bit.ly/424jbgS

Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985. https://bit.ly/3U7IFI1

Stablecoins like Tether also used for scams and sanctions evasion. https://bit.ly/3tYjyNm

Zuckeberg and Altman both tamp down fear and hype with casual statements about AGI. https://bit.ly/3tXFsQQ

Roughly 25 million of the passwords have never been seen before by widely used service. https://bit.ly/3vBoZSF

Despite new Pentagon collab, OpenAI won't allow customers to "develop or use weapons" with its tools. https://bit.ly/3SkLuV2

ChatGPT maker plans transparency for gen AI content and improved access to voting info. https://bit.ly/48OgLVM

PixieFail is a huge deal for cloud and data centers. For the rest, less so. https://bit.ly/3vExX1P

Trained LLMs that seem normal can generate vulnerable code given different triggers. https://bit.ly/3U2PkDA

Swarovski AX Visio, billed as first "smart binoculars," names species and tracks location. https://bit.ly/4b15zqP

Chinese authorities are exploiting a weakness Apple has allowed to go unfixed for 5 years. https://bit.ly/3HfpMv4

Media orgs want AI firms to license content for training, and Congress is sympathetic. https://bit.ly/3TUNRPq

Only Broadcom's favorites will be able to sell VMware-related offerings. https://bit.ly/3RSjVB4

Organizations using Ivanti Connect Secure should take action at once. https://bit.ly/47pSpAw

Like an app store, people can find novel ChatGPT personalities—and some creators will get paid. https://bit.ly/3tRcXUP

Based on Mirai malware, self-replicating NoaBot installs cryptomining app on infected devices. https://bit.ly/48uWMvu

"Copyright today covers virtually every sort of human expression" and cannot be avoided. https://bit.ly/3tO90Ad

Researchers identify 23 vulnerabilities, some of which can exploited with no authentication. https://bit.ly/41OwiCF

More streams, bonded connections, and speeds you can't possibly achieve at home. https://bit.ly/3H9DfVt

Customers of the Ivanti Endpoint Protection Manager should patch or mitigate ASAP. https://bit.ly/3vwlYmA

As Midjourney rolls out new features, it continues to make some artists furious. https://bit.ly/3H6B2Ka

BGP tampering caused by poor security hygiene causes major outage for Orange España. https://bit.ly/3TPthQz

Scammer impersonates legitimate cryptocurrency wallet, then pivots to trolling Mandiant. https://bit.ly/41PwJfV

Terrapin isn't likely to be mass-exploited, but there's little reason not to patch. https://bit.ly/3NPFAbG

Experimental AI image generator trained on Disney's 1928 cartoons can make eldritch horrors. https://bit.ly/4aDWnIH