AI news from Ars Technica

• news
• newsfeed
• artificial intelligence

Tweets by arstechnica

1. Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back.

   Unique IDs assigned to Android and iOS devices threaten your privacy. Who knew?

2. At TED AI 2024, experts grapple with AI’s growing pains

   A year later, a compelling group of TED speakers move from "what's this?" to "what now?"

3. FortiGate admins report active exploitation 0-day. Vendor isn’t talking.

   Vulnerability allowing remote code execution has been discussed since at least 9 days ago.

4. Basecamp-maker 37Signals says its “cloud exit” will save it $10M over 5 years

   Co-founder thinks other companies should consider a "swim against the stream."

5. OpenAI releases ChatGPT app for Windows

   New Alt+Space shortcut puts OpenAI's assistant a key press away at all times.

6. Finally upgrading from isc-dhcp-server to isc-kea for my homelab

   Migrating didn’t hurt as much as I thought it would—and dynamic DNS still works!

7. Cheap AI “video scraping” can now extract data from any screen recording

   Researcher feeds screen recordings into Gemini to extract accurate information with ease.

8. Two accused of DDoSing some of the world’s biggest tech companies

   Hospitals, government agencies, and a large roster of tech companies all targeted.

9. Amazon joins Google in investing in small modular nuclear power

   What's with the sudden interest in nuclear power among tech titans?

10. Deepfake lovers swindle victims out of $46M in Hong Kong AI scam

    Scammers used AI deepfake tools to create fake online personas, tricking victims in video calls.