Over the weekend, AI-generated audio of vice president JD Vance saying Elon Musk is “cosplaying as a great American leader” who is making the administration “look bad” circulated widely on social media. On Sunday, Vance’s communications director William Martin said on X that “This audio is 100% fake and most certainly not the Vice President.”…
Debates over the effectiveness of phishing simulations are widespread. Sophos X-Ops looks at the arguments for and against – and our own phishing philosophy
How to make the most of the new features in Sophos Firewall v21.5.
A pseudonymous coder has created and released an open source “tar pit” to indefinitely trap AI training web crawlers in an infinitely, randomly-generating series of pages to waste their time and computing power. The program, called Nepenthes after the genus of carnivorous pitcher plants which trap and consume their prey, can be deployed by webpage…
Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that searched for life in the dark, stood up for hedgehogs, dropped some wisdom, and died in an inexplicably epic explosion. First, aliens might be riding around interstellar space on exomoons, just in case that’s of interest to you. Then: an ultrasonic solution to…
An app that purports to help people stop consuming pornography has exposed highly sensitive data, including its users’ masturbation habits. Some of the data exposed includes the users’ age, how often they masturbate, and how viewing pornography makes them feel. According to the data, many of them are minors. An example of the personal data…
Something very strange is happening inside Super Nintendo (SNES) consoles as they age: a component you’ve probably never heard of is running ever so slightly faster as we get further and further away from the time the consoles first hit the market in the early ‘90s. The discovery started a mild panic in the speedrunning…
HARRISBURG — Child support disbursements totaling millions of dollars faltered in Pennsylvania last week due to a systems error on the part of a third-party contractor, the Department of Human
Hugging Face, a company with a multi-billion dollar valuation and one of the most commonly used platforms for sharing AI tools and resources, is hosting over 5,000 AI image generation models that are designed to recreate the likeness of real people. These models were all previously hosted on Civitai, an AI model sharing platform 404…
Outgoing Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Jen Easterly sits down with WIRED Senior Writer Lily Newman to discuss the challenges on the horizon for U.S. cyberdefense, the successes of her time at the helm of the crucial agency, and the business left unfinished as CISA’s entire fate hangs in the balance…
