Flight tracking site FlightAware has blamed a “configuration error” for exposing a raft of personal information of its customers, including some of their Social Security numbers. The company, which claims to be one of the…
A ransomware attack earlier this year on UnitedHealth-owned health tech company Change Healthcare likely stands as one of the largest data breaches of U.S. health and medical data in history. Months after the February data…
OpenAI has banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts linked to an Iranian influence operation that was generating content about the U.S. presidential election, according to a blog post on Friday. The company says the operation…
Enlarge / Still from a Chinese social media video featuring two people imitating imperfect AI-generated video outputs. It’s no secret that despite significant investment from companies like OpenAI and Runway, AI-generated videos still struggle to…
Enlarge / Roger Stone, former adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, center, during the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee on July 17, 2024. Getty Images Google’s Threat Analysis Group confirmed Wednesday that they observed…
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of Donald Trump and catgirls created with Grok, which uses the Flux image synthesis model. On Tuesday, Elon Musk’s AI company xAI announced the beta release of two new language…
On Tuesday, Tokyo-based AI research firm Sakana AI announced a new AI system called “The AI Scientist” that attempts to conduct scientific research autonomously using AI language models (LLMs) similar to what powers ChatGPT. During…
This weekend, Politico dropped a news bombshell: A person who only goes by “Robert” had shared with the news organization documents allegedly stolen from the Donald Trump presidential campaign. Since then, we have learned that…
Texas-headquartered carbon black company Orion informed investors that it lost $60 million after falling victim to a criminal scheme that resulted in “multiple fraudulently induced outbound wire transfers to accounts controlled by unknown third parties.” …
Mark up another unicorn and large funding round for the cybersecurity industry: Kiteworks, a company that builds tools to secure email communications, file sharing, and other situations where people are working with sensitive or proprietary…