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The open-source AI debate: Why selective transparency poses a serious risk
It is misleading to call AI open source when no one can look at, experiment with and understand each element that went into creating it. Read More...
Swedish Film 'Watch the Skies' Set for US Release With AI 'Visual Dubbing'
The actors’ on-screen performances are matched to re-recorded English-language dialogue using lip-syncing powered by generative AI....
Less is more: UC Berkeley and Google unlock LLM potential through simple sampling
With multiple sampling and self-verification, Gemini 1.5 Pro can outperform o1-preview in reasoning tasks. Read More...
Nvidia Turns Its AI Eye To The Enterprise
If you are going to be the full-stack, hardware-to-software-to-developer tools leader in the brave new world of AI, as Nvidia most certainly is, then you have to be able to adapt to the myriad environments that the emerging technology is threading itself through. … Nvidia Turns Its AI Eye To The Enterprise was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform ....
Small models as paralegals: LexisNexis distills models to build AI assistant
LexisNexis fine-tuned Mistral models to build its Protege AI assistant, relying on distilled and small models for its AI platform. Read More...
ClickFix: How to Infect Your PC in Three Easy Steps
A clever malware deployment scheme first spotted in targeted attacks last year has now gone mainstream. In this scam, dubbed “ ClickFix ,” the visitor to a hacked or malicious website is asked to distinguish themselves from bots by pressing a combination of keyboard keys that causes Microsoft Windows to download password-stealing malware. ClickFix attacks mimic the “Verify You are a Human” tests that many websites use to separate real visitors from content-scraping bots. This particular scam usually starts with a website popup that looks something like this: This malware attack pretends to be a CAPTCHA intended to separate humans from bots. Clicking the “I’m not a robot” button generates a pop-up message asking the user to take three sequential steps to prove their humanity. Executing this series of keypresses prompts Windows to download password-stealing malware. Step 1 involves simultaneously pressing the keyboard key with the Windows icon and the letter “R,” which opens a Windows “Run” prompt that will execute any specified program that is already installed on the system. Step 2 asks the user to press the “CTRL” key and the letter “V” at the same time, which pastes malicious code from the site’s virtual clipboard. Step 3 — pressing the “Enter” key — causes Windows to download and launch malicious code through “ mshta. exe ,” a Windows program designed to run Microsoft HTML application files.