New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering
Grok 4's "reasoning" shows cases where the chatbot consults Musk posts to answer divisive questions.
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Nvidia chips become the first GPUs to fall to Rowhammer bit-flip attacks
GPUhammer is the first to flip bits in onboard GPU memory. It likely won't be the last.
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AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds
Popular chatbots serve as poor replacements for human therapists, but study authors call for nuance.
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Musk’s Grok 4 launches one day after chatbot generated Hitler praise on X
xAI claims new multi-agent model hits top benchmarks as Nazi controversy lingers.
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Pro basketball player and 4 youths arrested in connection to ransomware crimes
Suspects were allegedly involved in a string of ransomware breaches.
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AI mania pushes Nvidia to record $4 trillion valuation
AI craze makes Nvidia the most valuable publicly traded company in history.
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Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots
Extensions load unknown sites into invisible Windows. What could go wrong?
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ChatGPT made up a product feature out of thin air, so this company created it
Soundslice caught OpenAI's bot telling users about a fake music notation feature—then built it.
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Critical CitrixBleed 2 vulnerability has been under active exploit for weeks
Exploits allow hackers to bypass 2FA and commandeer vulnerable devices.
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What is AGI? Nobody agrees, and it’s tearing Microsoft and OpenAI apart.
Several definitions make measuring "human-level" AI an exercise in moving goalposts.
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“No honor among thieves”: M&S hacking group starts turf war
A clash between criminal ransomware groups could result in victims being extorted twice.
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Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps
Important changes to Android devices took effect starting Monday.
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Provider of covert surveillance app spills passwords for 62,000 users
Creators say app is intended for parental monitoring. So why the emphasis on stealth?
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AT&T rolls out Wireless Account Lock protection to curb the SIM-swap scourge
Move is aimed at curbing a form of abuse that costs subscribers dearly.
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Drug cartel hacked FBI official’s phone to track and kill informants, report says
Official was connected to FBI probe of cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
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VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom
"Our management thought it was a bluff..."
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Anthropic summons the spirit of Flash games for the AI age
AI chatbot codes browser-based apps from plain English with classic web vibes.
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Actively exploited vulnerability gives extraordinary control over server fleets
AMI MegaRAC used in servers from AMD, ARM, Fujitsu, Gigabyte, and Qualcomm.
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Ubuntu disables Intel GPU security mitigations, promises 20% performance boost
Overtime defenses for Spectre-based attacks have taken their toll.
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Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."
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The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun
As thousands of applications flood job posts, 'hiring slop' is kicking off an AI arms race.
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Canadian telecom hacked by suspected China state group
Maximum-security Cisco vulnerability was patched Oct. 2023 and exploited Feb. 2025.
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Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps of junk traffic
Attacker rained down the equivalent of 9,300 full-length HD movies in just 45 seconds.
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Israel-tied Predatory Sparrow hackers are waging cyberwar on Iran’s financial system
The hacker group has destroyed more than $90 million held at an Iranian crypto exchange.
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Address bar shows hp.com. Browser displays scammers’ malicious text anyway.
Microsoft, Apple, Bank of America, and many more sites all targeted.
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Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content
Newly announced catalog collects pre-2022 sources untouched by ChatGPT and AI contamination.
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OpenAI weighs “nuclear option” of antitrust complaint against Microsoft
WSJ report says OpenAI mulling federal complaint as Microsoft stalls restructuring plan.
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