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🤖 OpenAI disrupts cyber threats
🐜 Ants in your ... PC!
📱 Secret cost of adding AI to phones
🚀 SpaceX sends lander to the moon

Generative AI specialist OpenAI said on Wednesday that it worked with Microsoft to disrupt five state-affiliated actors that attempted to use its AI services to upgrade their malicious cyber activities.

The revelation highlights the growing challenge governments face in their battle to prevent adversaries from using powerful generative AI tools for nefarious activities such as creating more persuasive spear-phishing hacking campaigns, troubleshooting software errors for more efficient malware creation, and studying how they can evade detection in a compromised network.

"Over the last year, the speed, scale, and sophistication of attacks has increased alongside the rapid development and adoption of AI," Microsoft said.

The situation also raises concerns over increasingly deceptive misinformation impacting elections, including this year's U.S. presidential vote ...

While ants setting up home in your PC is certainly nothing new, that doesn’t make it any less shocking when it happens.

The issue has come to the fore again after a PC owner shared his recent experience on Reddit. In this case, fire ants made their way through the dense componentry of the graphics card, ending up at the GPU itself.

The ants then started eating the thermal paste on the GPU core and the thermal pads on the VRAM, causing temperatures to spike. This is usually the first indication of a problem.

The user said: “I noticed that my max GPU temps were rising a bit. When I checked if the fans were spinning correctly, I saw ants marching on my GPU and on top of my case” ...

The smartphone industry is in a state of flux where we can see all the benefits of generative AI knocking at the doors, but the various brands apparently have conflicting ideas on how to push them on smartphones despite bold promises.

Qualcomm, for example, introduced the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset , praising its futuristic generative AI features and describing it as the “first mobile platform designed with Generative AI in mind.” The company touted a faster virtual assistant using Meta’s Llama 2 language model, the world’s fastest text-to-image generation courtesy of Stable Diffusion, the ability to manipulate images using AI, and more.

Interestingly, we now have multiple phones powered by the same chipset on the market, yet they don’t seem to offer those perks in the same way that Qualcomm showed off ...

SpaceX successfully launched a commercial mission to the moon from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the early hours of Thursday morning.

A Falcon 9 rocket carried Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander to orbit, setting it on course for a rendezvous with the lunar surface next week.

As recent attempts to reach the moon have shown , it’s no easy task, and if Texas-based Intuitive Machines succeeds with Odysseus, it will become the first private company to achieve the feat. It would also mark the first soft lunar landing by a U.S. spacecraft since the final Apollo mission more than five decades ago.

Following a successful touchdown near the lunar South Pole, the lander will deploy 12 payloads — six for  NASA and the other six for commercial entities ...

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