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U.S. antitrust enforcers are opening an investigation into the relationships between leading artificial intelligence startups such as ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Anthropic and the tech giants that have invested billions of dollars into them.

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This study assesses the actual measured quantities of melatonin and cannabidiol (CBD) in products marketed and sold in the US as melatonin gummies compared with the quantities declared on their labels.

On Monday, a bill advanced in Utah that would charge transgender people with a crime if they use the bathroom of their gender identity. It now goes to the full Utah Senate for final passage.

The Orca Research Pod has discovered a risk in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that would allow an attacker with any Google account to take over a Kubernetes cluster. Learn about this risk dubbed Sys:All and the recommended actions to take.

Sometimes, you need to share private information—a password, financial details, a confidential document—over the Internet. Adam Engst looks at eight popular methods of transmitting your secrets securely to others.

British intelligence analysts said advancements in artificial intelligence will be used to make ransomware attacks more powerful and pervasive.

While militaries across the world are investing heavily in laser weapons, they are still not widely deployed.

Sonatype identified two npm packages that typosquat open source packages like Discord modules, in an attempt to infect Windows users with a Trojan

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise said its cloud-based email system was compromised by the state-sponsored actor known as Cozy Bear, which also hacked Microsoft.

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'Substantial increase in AWS calls' triggers takedown notice

Fedora 40 is looking at bpfman for serving as the default eBPF program manager to simplify the deployment and administration of said eBPF programs.

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Apple fixes first "in-the-wild" zero-day of 2024. Update iPhones, iPads, and Macs NOW!

"Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription."

“Access to the phone number occurred via the telecom carrier, not via SEC systems," the federal agency said about the January 9 incident involving the social media account.

The supermassive leak contains data from numerous previous breaches, comprising an astounding 12 terabytes of information, spanning over a mind-boggling 26 billion records. The leak is almost certainly the largest ever discovered.

Two attacks in an AWS environment that led to crypto mining and data exfiltration.

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