2+ week, 4+ day ago   (564+ words) Hackers launched a wave of sophisticated attacks on Wall Street firms in recent days, targeting information systems at major money managers, according to people familiar with the matter. Point72 Asset Management informed investors on Wednesday that it had been attacked, though…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (245+ words) “I know,” Stykas wrote back. “Millions of kids are being exposed and vulnerable to exploitation. It’s just catastrophic. It’s really low-hanging fruit for a lot of bad actors,” Stykas says. “Your criminal mind is the only limitation in exploiting those…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (540+ words) What if an artificial intelligence agent could behave like a malevolent computer worm? One researcher has seen it happen. In several recent experiments, Xudong Pan, a computer scientist at Fudan University in Shanghai, found that with a little bit of…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (137+ words) It’s unclear what kind of site the OpenAI agent hacked, or what “operating” it might entail. Irregular did not respond to a request for comment. Gaby Raila, an OpenAI spokesperson, says the incidents announced on Tuesday “occurred during cyber evaluations…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1570+ words) Our conversation stuck with me, but I, too, didn’t write about it afterward. Other issues seemed more pressing: the risk that A.I. could cause mass unemployment, or the shifting politics of data centers. Writing about A.I. as an existential threat…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (510+ words) Clean up on aisle Phia. The shopping startup cofounded by Bill Gates’ 23-year-old daughter, Phoebe, is doing damage control after a bombshell Bloomberg report revealed it had been earning commissions on sales it didn’t help drive. Phia is working with…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (1000+ words) The notification startled Camille Hanson awake one night this March. Her Facebook and Instagram accounts, where she had nearly one million followers running a business with her husband teaching English to nonnative speakers, had been flagged for deletion. Meta said…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (524+ words) Meta on Friday paused a new artificial intelligence feature on Instagram that allowed users to generate images based on people’s public accounts, citing widespread criticism. The feature, which Meta unveiled on Tuesday, automatically opted in any Instagram user with a…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (195+ words) Meta’s new Muse Image model, unveiled Tuesday, lets users generate AI images using public Instagram posts by tagging another person’s account in a prompt. The controls are only available in the Instagram app, under the “Sharing and reuse” tab in…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (303+ words) Content creators have filed millions of requests under copyright laws, with successful requests under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act resulting in pages hosting stolen pictures and videos being removed from search results. “If you are not running a DMCA service,…...