Photo by Zulfugar Karimov on Unsplash You know that little string of text you copied and pasted into your terminal because a website told you to? That’s all it takes for your computer to be completely compromised. It sounds almost too simple — and that’s exactly the problem. Over the past year, scammers have pulled […]
New research shows memorization and reasoning use separate circuits in AI brains. That could open the door to safer, smarter, and more selective AI tools. Image by Jo Lin on Unsplash What if we could tell an AI model to forget only the stuff we don’t want it to remember—say, copyrighted text or leaked private
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Image by Philip Oroni on Unsplash This isn’t your average tech handshake. Microsoft and OpenAI just rewrote the rules of one of the biggest partnerships in artificial intelligence. And this time, they’re bringing in outside experts to call the biggest shot of all: when (or if) AGI—Artificial General Intelligence—actually arrives. Let’s unpack what changed, what’s
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Photo by Teena Lalawat on Unsplash When AI becomes your confidant, what happens next? That’s the question lingering after OpenAI quietly dropped a report this week showing something both surprising and unsettling: over one million people have said something to ChatGPT that indicates suicidal thoughts—in just a single week. Let that sink in. Out of
Image by BoliviaInteligente on Unsplash Imagine trusting a high-security vault to keep your most sensitive data safe, only to find out someone can pick the lock with tools that fit in a briefcase — and a $1,000 budget. That’s basically what just happened to the secure enclaves used in today’s most critical computing systems. A
Image by BoliviaInteligente on Unsplash It’s official: Nvidia is now worth more than the entire cryptocurrency market—combined. On Wednesday, the chipmaker crossed the $5 trillion mark in market valuation, a first in history. That’s just three months after it hit $4 trillion. To put it bluntly, Nvidia is on a run like no other, and
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Image by Glen Carrie on Unsplash A sneaky malware campaign called PhantomRaven has quietly slid more than 100 malicious packages into NPM, and the scary part is—most developers never saw it coming. If you’ve installed packages from NPM since August, there’s a small but real chance your system might be compromised. Security firm Koi just
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Photo by Zulfugar Karimov on Unsplash It turns out being polite isn’t a good disguise. According to a surprising new study by researchers across four major universities, AI can fake intelligence better than it can fake human vibes—and that “overly nice tone” might be the biggest giveaway. In a cross-platform study testing how well AI
Photo by Weichao Deng on Unsplash What do giant red crabs and Google have in common? Right now, they both have their eyes (or sensors) on Christmas Island. You might’ve seen headlines recently claiming Google is planning a powerful AI data center on the tiny, crab-covered Australian territory in the Indian Ocean. The suggestion: maybe
Photo by SCARECROW artworks on Unsplash For years, cyberwarfare has been a silent front in global conflicts—but what’s happening behind Ukraine’s digital walls right now is anything but quiet. Russian state-backed hacking group Sandworm, widely feared and highly sophisticated, has ramped up a wave of destructive cyberattacks in Ukraine this year. The attacks don’t just
