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WaveCore runs right through a concrete wall with gigabit-speed network signal

Core drilling is tricky. Getting a 6 GHz signal through concrete is now easier.

Nvidia’s AI chips are cheaper to rent in China than US

Supply of processors helps Chinese startups advance AI technology despite US restrictions.

Found: 280 Android apps that use OCR to steal cryptocurrency credentials

Optical Character Recognition converts passwords shown in images to machine-readable text.

AT&T sues Broadcom for refusing to renew perpetual license support

Ars cited in lawsuit AT&T recently filed against Broadcom.

US charges Russian military officers for unleashing wiper malware on Ukraine

WhisperGate campaign targeted Ukrainian critical infrastructure and allies worldwide.

FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist

Feds say it's the first US criminal case involving artificially inflated music streaming.

Sutskever strikes AI gold with billion-dollar backing for superintelligent AI

Top venture firms back SSI to develop "safe" AI with teams in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv.

Zyxel warns of vulnerabilities in a wide range of its products

Most serious vulnerabilities carry severity ratings of 9.8 and 8.1 out of a possible 10.

Generative AI backlash hits annual writing event, prompting resignations

NaNoWriMo refuses to condemn AI as accessibility tool, faces criticism from writers.

YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel

Sophisticated attack breaks security assurances of the most popular FIDO key.

Rust in Linux lead retires rather than deal with more “nontechnical nonsense”

How long can the C languages maintain their primacy in the kernel?

Oprah’s upcoming AI television special sparks outrage among tech critics

AI opponents say Gates, Altman, and others will guide Oprah through an AI "sales pitch."

ChatGPT hits 200 million active weekly users, but how many will admit using it?

Despite corporate prohibitions on AI use, people flock to the chatbot in record numbers.

City of Columbus sues man after he discloses severity of ransomware attack

Mayor said data was unusable to criminals; researcher proved otherwise.

Commercial spyware vendor exploits used by Kremlin-backed hackers, Google says

Findings undercut pledges of NSO Group and Intellexa their wares won't be abused.

New AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s Doom in real time

Dobos: "Why write rules for software by hand when AI can just think every pixel for you?"

A long, weird FOSS circle ends as Microsoft donates Mono to Wine project

Mono had many homes over 23 years, but Wine's repos might be its final stop.

Unpatchable 0-day in surveillance cam is being exploited to install Mirai

Vulnerability is easy to exploit and allows attackers to remotely execute commands.

Debate over “open source AI” term brings new push to formalize definition

Restrictive AI model licenses claimed as "open source" spark for clear standard.

“Exploitative” IT firm has been delaying 2,000 recruits’ onboarding for years

India's Infosys recruits reportedly subjected to repeated unpaid "pre-training."

Hackers infect ISPs with malware that steals customers’ credentials

Zero-day that was exploited since June to infect ISPs finally gets fixed.

Hobbyists discover how to insert custom fonts into AI-generated images

Like adding custom art styles or characters, in-world typefaces come to Flux.

Android malware steals payment card data using previously unseen technique

Attacker then emulates the card and makes withdrawals or payments from victim's account.

Ars Technica content is now available in OpenAI services

Condé Nast joins other publishers in allowing OpenAI to access its content.

Novel technique allows malicious apps to escape iOS and Android guardrails

Web-based apps escape iOS "Walled Garden" and Android side-loading protections.

CrowdStrike unhappy with “shady commentary” from competitors after outage

Botched update leads to claims that competitors are "ambulance chasing."

Procreate defies AI trend, pledges “no generative AI” in its illustration app

Procreate CEO: "I really f—ing hate generative AI."