reader comments 13 On Saturday, a YouTube creator called “ChromaLock” published a video detailing how he modified a Texas Instruments TI-84 graphing calculator to connect to the Internet and access OpenAI’s ChatGPT, potentially enabling students to cheat on tests. The video, titled “I Made The Ultimate Cheating Device,” demonstrates a custom hardware modification that allows… Read More »
reader comments 56 OpenAI truly does not want you to know what its latest AI model is “thinking.” Since the company launched its “Strawberry” AI model family last week, touting so-called reasoning abilities with o1-preview and o1-mini, OpenAI has been sending out warning emails and threats of bans to any user who tries to probe… Read More »
Max has announced the guest-star lineup for Hacks Season 3, which is slated to make premiere sometime this spring. The Hacks Season 3 cast welcomes that addition of Helen Hunt (Blindspotting), Christina Hendricks (Mad Men), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future), Dan Bucatinsky (Air), George Wallace (Clean Slate), and Tony Goldwyn (Scandal). Further details about… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 40 with As part of a massive ongoing cyberattack that exploits flaws in MOVEit file transfer software, the personal data of millions of US citizens, including those residing in Louisiana and Oregon, have been exposed to criminal organizations, according to CNN. In the wider attack, hackers targeted government agencies as well… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 26 with Share this story Multiple threat actors—one working on behalf of a nation-state—gained access to the network of a US federal agency by exploiting a four-year-old vulnerability that remained unpatched, the US government warned. Exploit activities by one group likely began in August 2021 and last August by the other,… Read More »
Enlarge / An on-air capture of Weatherscan in 2020. Weatherscan shows 24/7 weather forecasts controlled by computer. reader comments 24 with 20 posters participating Share this story In the early 2000s, Americans who wanted to catch the local weather forecast at any time might turn on their TV and switch over to Weatherscan, a 24-hour… Read More »
reader comments 174 with 96 posters participating Share this story The head of Kiwi Farms, the Internet forum best known for organizing harassment campaigns against trans and non-binary people, said the site experienced a breach that allowed hackers to access his administrator account and possibly the accounts of all other users. On the site, creator… Read More »
Enlarge / A tin toy robot lying on its side. reader comments 35 with 31 posters participating Share this story On Thursday, a few Twitter users discovered how to hijack an automated tweet bot, dedicated to remote jobs, running on the GPT-3 language model by OpenAI. Using a newly discovered technique called a “prompt injection… Read More »
Enlarge / A pigeon rests on a T-Mobile logo outside a mobile phone store, operated by Deutsche Telekom AG, in Munich, Germany, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. reader comments 52 with 47 posters participating Share this story T-Mobile said on Monday that hackers breached its internal servers and that company investigators are in the process… Read More »
The full list of nominees for the upcoming 73rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards was announced this morning, with Netflix’s The Crown and Disney+’s The Mandalorian both receiving a total of 24 nominations including Outstanding Drama Series. The major categories were announced by Emmy-winning father-daughter duo Ron Cephas Jones (This Is Us) and Jasmine Cephas Jones… Read More »