Alarmingly powerful new AI models could disrupt the world's digital infrastructure. Major tech firms have been granted early access to the upcoming releases, while U.S. officials are holding closed-door meetings with heads of banks about vulnerable legacy systems. Cyber criminal activity is expected to balloon with AI-enabled operations.

Hackers can exploit old routers to steal Microsoft sign-in information. Hundreds of networks in 23 states — primarily those of government, law enforcement and third-party email providers — were targeted in recent months. The U.S. response included sending remote commands to compromised devices after court approval.

U.S. researchers are giving crime labs a better way to screen, rank, and study fingerprints before an examiner spends time on them.

A Flock camera in Georgia was allegedly used to ticket a distracted driver.

A Texas man tried to kill the creator of ChatGPT with a Molotov cocktail, authorities allege.

Passware says its latest software update expands recovery capabilities for several older but still widely used Samsung models.

Lawsuits over the U.S.’s use of ChatGPT to cancel government grants could be a novel window into how prompts were used to take official action.

Criminal deepfakes are starting to include consumer-fraud material alongside nonconsensual-image cases.

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