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This AI company releases deepfakes into the world. Can it control them? Riparbelli, now 31, explains that Synthesia wasn’t considered at the sharp end of the generative AI industry back in 2017, when he was first hearing about it. Back then, there weren’t a lot of investors who thought that was very interesting. He joins…

Grimes Wants to Be Less Famous (and Replaced by AI) Grimes: I think it’s possible that generative music–fully generative Music could be really bad. Like, I kind of want to do dangerous art things and see where it’s actually damaging. When Pitch asks what he’s doing, Grimes says he’s approaching it amorally and approaching it…

AI is building powerful antibodies that humans can’t even imagine. Field and his company are working on a new approach to creating medical antibodies. In nature, antibodies are the body’s response to disease and serve as the immune system’s front-line troops. They’re strands of protein that are specially shaped to stick to foreign invaders so…

Report Exposes Vice Society’s Role in Rhysida Ransomware Attack Check Point has uncovered many ties between the group and the infamous Vice Society, but it also reveals a grim truth – the TTPs of prolific ransomware actors remain largely unchanged. According to the company, both Rhysida ransomware and Vice Society have disproportionately targeted the education…

40 Million Britons’ Voter Data Exposed in U.K. Electoral Commission Breach The U.K.Electoral Commission on Tuesday disclosed a complex cyber attack on its systems that went undetected for over a year. The breach allowed threat actors to access years worth of voter data belonging to 40 million people. The incident was identified in October 2022…

Crypto Mining Maliciously Exploits Weak Kubernetes Clusters Aqua reports that more than 350 publicly-accessible Kubernetes clusters have been discovered, with 60% of them being the target of an active crypto-mining campaign. The attackers exploit two different kinds of misconfiguration — allowing anonymous access with high privileges and running a proxy with the flags ‘accept-hosts`. A…

Android 14 security feature: IT admins can now disable 2G networks In Android 14, Google introduces a new security feature that allows IT administrators to disable support for 2G cellular networks in their managed device fleet. Previously, the company had offered only one option to do so. The company explains that 2G networks use weak…

Microsoft releases patches for 74 new vulnerabilities in its August update Microsoft patches several vulnerabilities, including the remote code execution bug that led to the earlier warning. Also released by the tech giant are two updates for Microsoft Office suite that stop the attack chain leading to the Remote Code Execution bug. Other vendors have…

A New Attack on ChatGPT—and No One Knows How to Stop It Adversarial attacks exploit the way that machine learning picks up on patterns in data to produce aberrant behaviors. These language models are also prone to fabricating information, repeating social biases, and producing strange responses as answers prove more difficult to predict. Armando Solar-Lezama,…

Do any of the AI-enhanced apps released recently actually offer any benefits to users ChatGPT has been around for a while now, and companies have been trying to make their products smarter by adding in AI capabilities. We’ve seen this a lot in email clients, as well as in apps like Spark and Canary. It’s…