Critics question tech-heavy lineup of new Homeland Security AI safety board

reader comments 22 On Friday, the US Department of Homeland Security announced the formation of an…

School athletic director arrested for framing principal using AI voice synthesis

reader comments 211 On Thursday, Baltimore County Police arrested Pikesville High School’s former athletic director, Dazhon…

Apple releases eight small AI language models aimed at on-device use

Getty Images reader comments 68 In the world of AI, what might be called “small language…

Hackers try to exploit WordPress plugin vulnerability that’s as severe as it gets

Getty Images reader comments 11 Hackers are assailing websites using a prominent WordPress plugin with millions…

Millions of IPs remain infected by USB worm years after its creators left it for dead

Getty Images reader comments 20 A now-abandoned USB worm that backdoors connected devices has continued to…

Hackers infect users of antivirus service that delivered updates over HTTP

Getty Images reader comments 26 Hackers abused an antivirus service for five years in order to…

Windows vulnerability reported by the NSA exploited to install Russian malware

Getty Images reader comments 47 Kremlin-backed hackers have been exploiting a critical Microsoft vulnerability for four…

Kremlin-backed actors spread disinformation ahead of US elections

reader comments 141 Kremlin-backed actors have stepped up efforts to interfere with the US presidential election…

OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022

Enlarge / An AI-generated image from DALL-E 2 created with the prompt “A painting by Grant…

LLMs keep leaping with Llama 3, Meta’s newest open-weights AI model

reader comments 36 On Thursday, Meta unveiled early versions of its Llama 3 open-weights AI model…