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Fake face. Real money.
Deepfake software can put someone else's face on a live Zoom or Teams call in real time, and it is sold openly. How these impersonation scams work, and the check that still catches them.
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What changed in technology this week, and what it means for you.
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A third of new websites are AI-generated. A Stanford study explains what changed.
Stanford, Imperial College London, and the Internet Archive sampled the web for 33 months. They tested six common fears about what AI writing is doing to it, and only two held up.
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I Can’t Let You Save That, Dave: The AI Hard Drive Hostage Crisis
AI data centers bought up so much storage that hard drive and SSD prices climbed hard. Why a 2 TB SSD went from $159 to around $575, and what to do before your next upgrade.
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The big ChatGPT-in-education study just got retracted.
Springer Nature pulled a meta-analysis claiming ChatGPT helps students learn, a year and hundreds of citations after publication. What broke in the numbers, and what it means for schools.
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Canvas got breached. Again.
Instructure confirmed a breach of Canvas, the learning platform used by roughly 7,000 universities and thousands of K-12 districts. What was taken, and what the phrase no passwords hides.
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Friendly AI is less accurate. A new Oxford study explains why.
An Oxford study found chatbots tuned to sound warm are 10 to 30 percent more likely to get facts wrong, and about 40 percent likelier to agree with you when you are wrong.
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A critical Linux vulnerability called CopyFail just went public
CopyFail gives an attacker full administrator access to almost any Linux system with a single script, no malware required. What it reaches, and how to confirm your servers are patched.