Die Oktober-Updates für Windows 10 und 11 sperren einige Nutzer aus ihren Systemen aus. Nur mit Bitlocker-Schlüssel geht es weiter. (Windows, Microsoft)
Microsofts Deal mit OpenAI hat die Börsen nervös gemacht. Die Anleger fürchten, dass die geplanten KI-Investitionen die Renditen ruinieren werden. Von Erich Moechel (Wirtschaft, Microsoft)
Microsofts Deal mit OpenAI hat die Börsen nervös gemacht. Die Anleger fürchten, dass die geplanten KI-Investitionen die Renditen ruinieren werden. Von Erich Moechel (Wirtschaft, Microsoft) Autofahrer können ihren Führerschein künftig digital auf dem Smartphone vorzeigen. Der Kartenführerschein bleibt aber weiter gültig. (Digitalisierung, Auto)
Autofahrer können ihren Führerschein künftig digital auf dem Smartphone vorzeigen. Der Kartenführerschein bleibt aber weiter gültig. (Digitalisierung, Auto) Amazons derzeit meistgekaufter HiFi-Verstärker mit Bluetooth geht für kurze Zeit schon für 34 Euro aus dem Lager. (Technik/Hardware)
Amazons derzeit meistgekaufter HiFi-Verstärker mit Bluetooth geht für kurze Zeit schon für 34 Euro aus dem Lager. (Technik/Hardware) Autonome Taxis gehören in China längst zum Straßenbild. Nun wollen die Unternehmen nach Europa. (Autonomes Fahren, Auto)
Autonome Taxis gehören in China längst zum Straßenbild. Nun wollen die Unternehmen nach Europa. (Autonomes Fahren, Auto) Frankreich hat ein Sperrverfahren gegen Shein eingeleitet – ausgerechnet am Tag der Eröffnung des ersten physischen Stores in Paris. (Shein, Politik)
Google wird in der kommenden Woche eine wichtige Ankündigung zu Infrastruktur und Rechenzentren machen. Zuvor scheiterten zwei Projekte in Deutschland. (Google, Wirtschaft)
Google wird in der kommenden Woche eine wichtige Ankündigung zu Infrastruktur und Rechenzentren machen. Zuvor scheiterten zwei Projekte in Deutschland. (Google, Wirtschaft) Social engineering strikes again.
The University of Pennsylvania has a somewhat unusual distinction: It is the alma mater of two of the planet’s most polarizing figures, Elon Musk and Donald Trump. As the political power of both men rose over the last year, the US government began to pressure Penn, first by pulling its research funding and then by targeting the school for past actions related to a transgender swimmer.
After the “sticks” were deployed, a “carrot” was offered. Penn became one of just nine schools nationally to be offered a special “compact” with the federal government, which would give the feds broad control over the school and its speech in return for preferential access to federal funds. Penn declined to sign the deal. (Making the whole surreal situation stranger was the fact that one of Penn’s own wealthy boosters apparently helped the Trump administration write the compact.)
In other words, Penn has become an obvious target of the Trump administration; now it has been targeted by a hacker claiming to share Trump and Musk’s grievances over affirmative action and “wokeness.”
Man said he was in a monogamous 50-year marriage, but doctors aren’t so sure now.
Syphilis can be a tricky disease to diagnose—especially when a patient may not be sharing the whole story.
Doctors in Belgium met with a real head-scratcher when an 83-year-old married man came in with a rare form of secondary syphilis—the second of four stages of the sexually transmitted bacterial infection that has been called a “master of disguise.”
The man told doctors up front that he was in a monogamous 50-year-long marriage and had been sexually inactive in recent years following treatment for cancer. In a Clinical Problem-Solving report published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors laid out the step-by-step tests and reasoning they used to get to the right diagnosis, which still didn’t answer all their questions.
You wouldn’t know it from the hype, but the results fail to impress.
Google on Wednesday revealed five recent malware samples that were built using generative AI. The end results of each one were far below par with professional malware development, a finding that shows that vibe coding of malicious wares lags behind more traditional forms of development, which means it still has a long way to go before it poses a real-world threat.
One of the samples, for instance, tracked under the name PromptLock, was part of an academic study analyzing how effective the use of large language models can be “to autonomously plan, adapt, and execute the ransomware attack lifecycle.” The researchers, however, reported the malware had “clear limitations: it omits persistence, lateral movement, and advanced evasion tactics” and served as little more than a demonstration of the feasibility of AI for such purposes. Prior to the paper’s release, security firm ESET said it had discovered the sample and hailed it as “the first AI-powered ransomware.”
Like the other four samples Google analyzed—FruitShell, PromptFlux, PromptSteal, and QuietVault—PromptLock was easy to detect, even by less-sophisticated endpoint protections that rely on static signatures. All samples also employed previously seen methods in malware samples, making them easy to counteract. They also had no operational impact, meaning they didn’t require defenders to adopt new defenses.
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Frankreich hat ein Sperrverfahren gegen Shein eingeleitet - ausgerechnet am Tag der Eröffnung des ersten physischen Stores in Paris. (