Month: May 2025

Startup Boost soll das Office-Programm schneller starten lassen. Dafür werden PCs mit 8 GByte RAM und 5 GByte Massenspeicher gebraucht. (Microsoft 365, Powerpoint)

Nickel, das sich in Batterien, Magneten und Stahl findet, wird wie die meisten Metalle aufwendig verhüttet. Im Lichtbogenofen genügt ein Schritt. (Energiewende, Brennstoffzelle)

Per Wsus initiierte Windows-11-Upgrades schlagen fehl. Ursache ist laut Microsoft das April-Update. Bisher gibt es nur inoffizielle Workarounds. (Windows 11, Microsoft)

Microsoft erhöht weltweit die Preise für Xbox-Hardware - als Reaktion auf gestiegene Kosten und veränderte Marktbedingungen. (Xbox, Microsoft)

Nachts noch lange KI-Datei-Generatoren ausprobiert und aus Ungeduld ein Jahresabo abgeschlossen - und nun? Ein Bericht von Achim Sawall (DIY-KI, KI)

Im mAI dreht sich in der Golem Karrierewelt alles um künstliche Intelligenz. Neben einem neuen kostenfreien Einstiegskurs und neuen Formaten mit den Digitalen Profis sind alle KI-Kurse zu 15 Prozent rabattiert. (Golem Karrierewelt, KI)

A new study analyzing the Danish labor market in 2023 and 2024 suggests that generative AI models like ChatGPT have had almost no significant impact on overall wages or employment yet, despite rapid adoption in some workplaces. The findings, detailed in a working paper by economists from the University of Chicago and the University of Copenhagen, provide an early, large-scale empirical look at AI's transformative potential.

In "Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects," economists Anders Humlum and Emilie Vestergaard focused specifically on the impact of AI chatbots across 11 occupations often considered vulnerable to automation, including accountants, software developers, and customer support specialists. Their analysis covered data from 25,000 workers and 7,000 workplaces in Denmark.

Despite finding widespread and often employer-encouraged adoption of these tools, the study concluded that "AI chatbots have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation" during the period studied. The confidence intervals in their statistical analysis ruled out average effects larger than 1 percent.

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An entire cottage industry has formed around phishing attacks that bypass some of the most common forms of multifactor authentication (MFA) and allow even non-technical users to quickly create sites that defeat the protections against account takeovers.

MFA works by requiring an additional factor of authentication besides a password, for instance, a fingerprint, face scan, or the possession of a digital key. In theory, this prevents attackers from accessing an account even after they phish a victim’s username and password. Most often, the second form of authentication comes in the form of a one-time passcode that is sent to the user by text message or email or is generated by an authentication app that the user has already set up.

Adversary in the middle

As detailed on Thursday by Cisco Talos, an entire ecosystem has cropped up to help criminals defeat these forms of MFA. They employ an attack technique known as an adversary in the middle. The tools provide phishing-as-a-service toolkits that are marketed in online crime forums using names including Tycoon 2FA, Rockstar 2FA, Evilproxy, Greatness, and Mamba 2FA.

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An entire cottage industry has formed around phishing attacks that bypass some of the most common forms of multifactor authentication (MFA) and allow even non-technical users to quickly create sites that defeat the protections against account takeovers.

MFA works by requiring an additional factor of authentication besides a password, for instance, a fingerprint, face scan, or the possession of a digital key. In theory, this prevents attackers from accessing an account even after they phish a victim’s username and password. Most often, the second form of authentication comes in the form of a one-time passcode that is sent to the user by text message or email or is generated by an authentication app that the user has already set up.

Adversary in the middle

As detailed on Thursday by Cisco Talos, an entire ecosystem has cropped up to help criminals defeat these forms of MFA. They employ an attack technique known as an adversary in the middle. The tools provide phishing-as-a-service toolkits that are marketed in online crime forums using names including Tycoon 2FA, Rockstar 2FA, Evilproxy, Greatness, and Mamba 2FA.

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The rapid proliferation of AI chatbots has made it difficult to know which models are actually improving and which are falling behind. Traditional academic benchmarks only tell you so much, which has led many to lean on vibes-based analysis from LM Arena. However, a new study claims this popular AI ranking platform is rife with unfair practices, favoring large companies that just so happen to rank near the top of the index. The site's operators, however, say the study draws the wrong conclusions.

LM Arena was created in 2023 as a research project at UC Berkeley. The pitch is simple—users feed a prompt into two unidentified AI models in the "Chatbot Arena" and evaluate the outputs to vote on the one they like more. This data is aggregated in the LM Arena leaderboard that shows which models people like the most, which can help track improvements in AI models.

Companies are paying more attention to this ranking as the AI market heats up. Google noted when it released Gemini 2.5 Pro that the model debuted at the top of the LM Arena leaderboard, where it remains to this day. Meanwhile, DeepSeek's strong performance in the Chatbot Arena earlier this year helped to catapult it to the upper echelons of the LLM race.

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