Mercedes Pay turns vehicles into payment devices
Mercedes-Benz has introduced Mercedes Pay to enable customers in the US to use their vehicles as a device for booking and paying for off-street parking. US vehicles equipped with...
Mass exploitation of critical MOVEit flaw is ransacking orgs big and small
Getty Images Organizations big and small are falling prey to the mass exploitation of a critical vulnerability in a widely used file-transfer program. The exploitation started over the Memorial Day...
Apple avoids “AI” hype at WWDC keynote by baking ML into products
Enlarge / Someone scans their face using Apple's "most advanced machine learning techniques" with the Apple Vision Pro during a WWDC 2023 keynote demo reel.Apple Amid notable new products like...
They plugged GPT-4 into Minecraft—and unearthed new potential for AI
Microsoft The technology that underpins ChatGPT has the potential to do much more than just talk. Linxi “Jim” Fan, an AI researcher at the chipmaker Nvidia, worked with some colleagues...
Google’s Android and Chrome extensions are a very sad place. Here’s why
Photo Illustration by Miguel Candela/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images No wonder Google is having trouble keeping up with policing its app store. Since Monday, researchers have reported that hundreds of...
Air Force denies running simulation where AI drone “killed” its operator
Enlarge / An armed unmanned aerial vehicle on runway, but orange.Getty Images Over the past 24 hours, several news outlets reported a now-retracted story claiming that the US Air Force...
“Clickless” iOS exploits infect Kaspersky iPhones with never-before-seen malware
Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky has been hit by an advanced cyberattack that used clickless exploits to infect the iPhones of several dozen employees. The phones were infected with malware that...
Asus will offer local ChatGPT-style AI servers for office use
Enlarge / The ASUS logo in front of an AI-generated background.ASUS / Stable Diffusion Taiwan's Asustek Computer (known popularly as "Asus") plans to introduce a rental business AI server that...
Millions of PC motherboards were sold with a firmware backdoor
BeeBright/Getty Images Hiding malicious programs in a computer’s UEFI firmware, the deep-seated code that tells a PC how to load its operating system, has become an insidious trick in the...
DE-CIX switches on Internet Exchange in Finland
Having worked with the Finnish comms tech provider Nokia for over a decade to drive global expansion and create what it says is the largest carrier and datacentre neutral...