Monthly Archives: September 2024

Meta pays the price for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext

Getty Images reader comments 90 Officials in Ireland have fined Meta $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext and making them broadly available to company employees. Meta disclosed the lapse in early 2019. The company said that apps for connecting to various Meta-owned social networks had logged user passwords in… Read More »

Man tricks OpenAI’s voice bot into duet of The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby”

Enlarge / A screen capture of AJ Smith doing his Eleanor Rigby duet with OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode through the ChatGPT app. reader comments 43 OpenAI’s new Advanced Voice Mode (AVM) of its ChatGPT AI assistant rolled out to subscribers on Tuesday, and people are already finding novel ways to use it, even against OpenAI’s… Read More »

Microsoft details security/privacy overhaul for Windows Recall ahead of relaunch

Enlarge / An updated onboarding screen for Recall, with clearly visible buttons for opting in or out; Microsoft says Recall will be opt-in by default and can even be removed from PCs entirely. reader comments 65 Microsoft is having another whack at its controversial Recall feature for Copilot+ Windows PCs, after the original version crashed… Read More »

Why Was Ken Klippenstein ‘Banned’ From X (Twitter)? JD Vance Dossier Explained

Ken Klippenstein’s recent ban from X (formerly Twitter) has drawn significant attention. This comes after he published a link to a document related to JD Vance, raising concerns about journalistic freedom and platform policies ever since Elon Musk’s acquirement of X. The controversial nature of the information shared has sparked considerable debate. Here’s a closer… Read More »

Ars in San Jose recap: Infrastructure, sustainability, AI, cocktails

Enlarge / Dr. John Timmer, Jeff Ball, Joanna Wong, and Lee Hutchinson discussing infrastructure and the environment. Kimberly White/Getty Images reader comments 6 Last week, Ars Technica Editor-in-Chief Ken Fisher and I made the westerly trek to sunny San Jose, California, to kick off an event titled “Beyond the Buzz: An Infrastructure Future with GenAI… Read More »