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U.S. conducted cyberattack on suspected Iranian spy ship

posted onFebruary 16, 2024
by l33tdawg
Credit: NBC

The U.S. recently conducted a cyberattack against an Iranian military ship that had been collecting intelligence on cargo vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, according to three U.S. officials.

The cyberattack, which occurred more than a week ago, was part of the Biden administration’s response to the drone attack by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq that killed three U.S. service members in Jordan and wounded dozens of others late last month, the officials said.

OpenAI’s Sora Turns AI Prompts Into Photorealistic Videos

posted onFebruary 16, 2024
by l33tdawg
Credit: Wired

We already know that OpenAI’s chatbots can pass the bar exam without going to law school. Now, just in time for the Oscars, a new OpenAI app called Sora hopes to master cinema without going to film school. For now a research product, Sora is going out to a few select creators and a number of security experts who will red-team it for safety vulnerabilities. OpenAI plans to make it available to all wannabe auteurs at some unspecified date, but it decided to preview it in advance.

Google upstages itself with Gemini 1.5 AI launch, one week after Ultra 1.0

posted onFebruary 16, 2024
by l33tdawg
Credit: Arstechnica

One week after its last major AI announcement, Google appears to have upstaged itself. Last Thursday, Google launched Gemini Ultra 1.0, which supposedly represented the best AI language model Google could muster—available as part of the renamed "Gemini" AI assistant (formerly Bard). Today, Google announced Gemini Pro 1.5, which it says "achieves comparable quality to 1.0 Ultra, while using less compute."

Sam Altman seeking trillions for AI chip fabrication from UAE, others

posted onFebruary 12, 2024
by l33tdawg
Credit: Arstechnica

On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with investors to raise as much as $5 trillion to $7 trillion for AI chip manufacturing, according to people familiar with the matter. The funding seeks to address the scarcity of graphics processing units (GPUs) crucial for training and running large language models like those that power ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini.

Singapore police recommend hardware wallets against crypto drainers

posted onFebruary 1, 2024
by l33tdawg

ingapore authorities issued a cybersecurity warning to citizens after taking notice of the rising use of cryptocurrency drainers or wallet drainers for stealing funds from investors across the ecosystem.

The Singapore Police Force (SPF) and the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) issued a joint advisory to raise awareness against cyberattacks involving crypto drainers, a type of malware that targets crypto wallets. Phishing attacks make use of crypto drainers to extract funds from users’ wallets without authorization.

Could our Universe be a simulation? How would we even tell?

posted onFebruary 1, 2024
by l33tdawg
Credit: Arstechnica

Ever since Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed his simulation argument in 2001, the nerdiverse has attempted to assess the possibility that reality is not really real, that what we experience as our Universe is instead the product of a computer simulation. Popular figures such as Elon Musk and Neil deGrasse Tyson have offered their own conclusions, but taking a firm stance was not the point of Bostrom’s argument. Instead, Bostrom’s position is nuanced and careful, and it doesn’t arrive at fixed answers.