Use of "Lenna" image in computer image processing research stretches back to the 1970s. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2013640&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2013674&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Voice Engine can clone voices with 15 seconds of audio, but OpenAI is warning of potential harms. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2008632&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Researchers say it's the first known in-the-wild attack targeting AI workloads. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2013046&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Rapid-fire prompts sometimes followed with spoofed calls from "Apple support." https://arstechnica.com/?p=2012822&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Anthropic's Claude 3 is first to unseat GPT-4 since launch of Chatbot Arena in May '23. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2012778&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Two new reports show criminals may be using your device to cover their online tracks. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2012682&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Hacks allegedly targeted US officials and politicians, their spouses and dozens of companies. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2012482&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
AcidRain, discovered in 2022, is tied to AcidPour. Both are attributed to Russia. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2012093&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Nonbinding agreement seeks to protect personal data and safeguard human rights. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2012004&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Fixing newly discovered side channel will likely take a major toll on performance. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2011812&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Sources say to expect OpenAI's next major AI model mid-2024, according to a new report. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2011612&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
As companies race to pair AI with general-purpose humanoid robots, Nvidia's GR00T emerges. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2011260&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
208B transistor chip can reportedly reduce AI cost and energy consumption by up to 25x. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2011117&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
With Apple's own AI tech lagging behind, the firm looks for a fallback solution. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2010935&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Amid criticism of OpenAI's closed models, Musk makes the Grok-1 AI model free to download. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2010763&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Parts of Africa were already seeing web disruptions from damaged Red Sea cables. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2010677&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
OpenAI's GPT-2 running locally in Microsoft Excel teaches the basics of how LLMs work. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2010453&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
All non-Google chat GPTs affected by side channel that leaks responses sent to users. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2010039&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Discovery means that NerbianRAT is cross-platform used by for-profit threat group. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2009493&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Midjourney pins blame for 24-hour outage on "bot-net like" activity from Stability AI employee. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2009244&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
As Altman cements power, OpenAI announces three new board members—and a returning one. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2009160&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
At the heart of AI, matrix math has just seen its biggest boost "in more than a decade.” https://arstechnica.com/?p=2008905&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Midnight Blizzard is now using stolen secrets in follow-on attacks against customers. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2008953&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Linwei Ding faces four counts of trade secret theft, each with a potential 10-year prison term. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2008627&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
New AI tools aim to help with grading and lesson plans—but they may have serious drawbacks. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2008453&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
"The open in OpenAI means that everyone should benefit from the fruits of AI after it's built." https://arstechnica.com/?p=2008231&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Affiliate claims payment came from AlphV victim, and AlphV took the money and ran. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2008120&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Claude: "This pizza topping 'fact' may have been inserted as a joke or to test if I was paying attention." https://arstechnica.com/?p=2007736&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Technically, Microsoft doesn't consider such bugs as vulnerabilities. It patched it anyway. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2007765&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Willison: "No model has beaten GPT-4 on a range of widely used benchmarks like this." https://arstechnica.com/?p=2007511&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Patients having trouble getting lifesaving meds have the AlphV crime group to thank. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2007373&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Malicious submissions have been a fact of life for code repositories. AI is no different. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2007291&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger