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…

Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track

Enlarge / A sample image from Microsoft for “VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces Generated in Real…

LastPass users targeted in phishing attacks good enough to trick even the savvy

Getty Images reader comments 33 Password-manager LastPass users were recently targeted by a convincing phishing campaign…

Broadcom says “many” VMware perpetual licenses got support extensions

reader comments 37 Broadcom CEO Hock Tan this week publicized some concessions aimed at helping customers…

New UK law targets “despicable individuals” who create AI sex deepfakes

reader comments 81 On Tuesday, the UK government announced a new law targeting the creation of…

Framework’s software and firmware have been a mess, but it’s working on them

Enlarge / The Framework Laptop 13. Andrew Cunningham reader comments 84 Since Framework showed off its…